QUESTION
If hospital employees ignored me when I was shot and walked in the hospital on my own, do I have a case?
Asked on Jul 17th, 2013 on Personal Injury - New York
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I was shot and walked into the hospital on my own without receiving any help even after notifying the security guards who was standing out the door.
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Ronald A. Steinberg
Complain to the hospital administrator.
Answered on Jul 22nd, 2013 at 6:33 AM
What are your damages??In what way was your pain and suffering or physical condition made worse by your not being assisted at the hospital entrance?? Yes, they should have helped but you must show negligence and damages from that negligence.
Answered on Jul 19th, 2013 at 2:16 AM
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If your condition was made worse, then you may have a claim against the hospital.
Answered on Jul 19th, 2013 at 2:16 AM
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They have no duty to help you and further, you need to suffer damages or injury as a result of someone's conduct to recover damages from them.
Answered on Jul 18th, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Thomas Edward Gates
You do not have a case.
Answered on Jul 18th, 2013 at 11:13 AM
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Not unless their failure to assist you was negligent, and the failure to assist you caused you to be further inured or made your injury worse.
Answered on Jul 18th, 2013 at 10:19 AM
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Not enough information here. I doubt it though. ER rooms are normally backed up and it is not uncommon to wait 2 to 12 hrs in an ER also you would have to prove that any delay which was negligent in some way caused you additional damage and injury. Apparently it did not.
Answered on Jul 18th, 2013 at 10:19 AM
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Did you suffer any additional harm? No. Then no, you do not have a basis to sue them and win.
Answered on Jul 18th, 2013 at 10:19 AM
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But you had already been shot. There's more to the story than this.
Answered on Jul 18th, 2013 at 10:19 AM