Archives for category: Health

Listen Up Cyclists: Google Adds Cycling Routes to US Maps

March 10, 10 //
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Great news to cyclist across the US! Google has just released a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to view bike lanes and bike friendly roads across 150 US cities. The new feature makes it really easy to navigate busy cities by highlighting low traffic roads, bike lanes and dedicated bike trails. It also tends to target flat roads and avoiding hills. You can even customize your trip by creating your own path along bike lanes. I bought my bike last fall and haven’t been able to use it as much as I want to, now with the spring and summer coming this will be a great addition to my NYC bike adventures.

Patient Dies Unattended in Emergency Room

July 2, 08 //
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This shocking video shows the negligence at a Brooklyn’s hospital as doctors, nurses and guards walk by a dying woman and do nothing to help her.

According to the Daily News:

Green, 49, taken to the unit for “agitation,” keels over out of her chair at 5:32a.m., according to the time stamp on the video. She had been sitting about 3feet from an observation window. Two other patients were in the room.

Green is lying facedown on the floor, her legs splayed, when a security guard strolls by at 5:53 a.m., looks at her for about 20 seconds and then walks away.

She is writhing on the floor, thrashing her legs, about 6 a.m., when her medical chart contends she was “awake, up and about, went to the bathroom.”

Green rolls on her back at 6:04a.m. She stops moving at 6:08 a.m., but two minutes later a security guard pushed his chair into camera view.

He never gets out of the chair, but looks at Green and scoots away. A female patient who was in and out of the room finally brings a clinic staffer to check the woman and a crash cart is summoned.

How can we be world’s super power and yet have the worst health system. Anyone seen Sicko recently?

via Gothamist.