Left to Die
Esther Grant holds a painting of Brian Sinclair, the man who died of a treatable urinary tract infection after waiting in a Winnipeg emergency room for 34 hours. Why was Sinclair ignored, even after various people in the emergency room approached hospital staff to voice their concern (Kubinec, 2013, September 5)? Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that Sinclair was a homeless, disabled ethnic minority (Fries, 2011, September 23). Using limited information to make assumptions about people can be very risky in a medical setting.
Esther Grant holds a painting of Brian Sinclair, the man who died of a treatable urinary tract infection after waiting in a Winnipeg emergency room for 34 hours. Why was Sinclair ignored, even after various people in the emergency room approached hospital staff to voice their concern (Kubinec, 2013, September 5)? Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that Sinclair was a homeless, disabled ethnic minority (Fries, 2011, September 23). Using limited information to make assumptions about people can be very risky in a medical setting.
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