Well - this did not happen in Italy - this post is just to show that it could happend even in the United States....

From the Washington Post July 2 2008 -

NEW YORK, July 2 -- It was a nightmare captured on surveillance video. A woman who had waited nearly 24 hours to be seen in a Brooklyn public hospital collapsed, fell face-down on the floor, convulsed and for nearly an hour -- while several hospital staff members looked at her and one staff member even prodded her with her foot -- received no aid. At some point during that time, she died.

The agency that runs the city's public hospitals responded by firing six staff members involved -- including a director of psychiatry and an on-duty physician -- and promising a list of improvements.

But the incident, which ended up on YouTube, has hit a raw nerve.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told reporters he had seen the video and was "disgusted."

In the United States during the twentieth century, death moved out of the home and into medical institutions. Today, more Americans die in hospitals than anywhere else!!!!!!!!!

An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years
2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company.

And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life by ...An excerpt from And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life by ...
The hospital is a place of disconnection. When a death is near, ...
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In prisons in the U.S. medical care has been traditionaly very bad to say the least. Up until 2004 nothing was done about it.

SACRAMENTO / Reports show poor medical care in state's prisons ...Aug 11, 2004 ... Reports show poor medical care in state's prisons. Incompetent doctors called systemwide problem. Mark Martin, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau ...
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When I was in the hospital for my quadruple bypass, they only kept me in for 5 days. They want you out of the hospital as quick as possible to avoid getting infections! You have a better chance at home. Remarkable!

There has been mention of late on the news of these infectious
new type strains of germs in U.S. hospitals that are resistant to current
antibiotics. Suppongo in all fairness that this could happen anywhere forse.