Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Woman sent home by ER dies next day

An overweight, middle-aged woman went to a hospital emergency room in Texas complaining of chest pain, tightness and discomfort in her chest -- apparent symptoms of a heart attack. But triage nurses at Christus St. Mary Hospital in Port Arthur designated Stacy Meaux as a Level 3 patient and a doctor treated her for irregular breathing and discharged the patient. The next day Meaux died of a heart

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