Monday, December 06, 2004

Deadly errors and politics betray a hospital's promise
Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2004
Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center - Over the last year, reports by journalists and regulators have offered stark glimpses of failings at King/Drew: Nurses neglecting patients as they lay dying. Staff failing to give patients crucial drugs or giving them toxic ones by mistake. Guards using Taser stun guns on psychiatric patients, despite an earlier warning to stop.