N.C. Patient Dies While Staff Plays Cards
Health Related
Investigators say a North Carolina mental patient died after nurses at
a state mental hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours and failed to
feed him or help him to the bathroom, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire
I would be suing this hospital. Sounds to me from reading this article that the staff starved the man to death. Keeping him a chair through four shifts? That is almost torture. How many of us can sit in a chair for 22 hours straight? try it sometime and see how long you can last. I bet most will not last more than 5 or 6 hours. Now this means no bathroom breaks or anything else just sitting there. I wonder if the US military should use this as a form of torture?