CNN: Tape shows woman dying on waiting room floor

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I don't really see whats so bad about that story, AV. If none of them had any sort of license or Red Cross type certificate, you would just open yourself to lawsuits by trying to help.

Depends; many jurisdictions have Good Samaritan laws, which grant immunity to lawsuits for those attempting to help someone in medical distress.

Correct, but you can still be held liable if you don't have one and you perform something incorrectly. That being said, for the most part you're protected as long as you don't commit an unreasonable act.

Indeed, good samaritan laws protect you from lawsuites if you render aide that you can give. Going outside of your scope of practice and GS laws will not protect you. If you don't have a CPR cert and give it, you can get sued.

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Mental hospitals are modern day gulags, anyway; they have almost no restraints on how they treat their patients in comparison to other aspects of the medical profession, and frankly every single one should be closed down and replaced with entirely new ones, with new employees (who have gone through a much more rigorous screening and hiring process) that operate on a total different plan.

Not saying this situation is golden; but patients have rights and even mentally impaired patients have rights. Sounds easy but when put in practice it makes things look messy. You can't restrain some one without doctors orders and even then a patient has rights about it. So if every T is crossed and I dotted, it is a long process.