Bay Pines VA Medical CenterEmergency Room Refuse Critically Ill Man
Mark A. Surette a 25-year VA employee, collapsed of a heart attack in Building 24, perhaps 200 feet from the hospital emergency room. Since he wasn't a veteran, confused paramedics asked Bay Pines if its emergency room would treat Surette. Paramedics were directed to take him to St. Petersburg General Hospital, three miles away. A doctor who made the decision did not realize the man, a Bay Pines employee who later died, had collapsed on the Bay Pines campus......more
"In a life-and-death situation it appears to me that any medical professional would be willing and able to help save a life."........Rep. C.W. Bill Young
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