she died!!!
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black_wolf_1970 — 21 years ago(March 20, 2005 12:40 PM)
Every one is yelling at the docotors for not doing there job, I hate to tell you but her death is just as much your fault as their's, or mine. It is our health care sysytem not the workers. You forget that we have gone from the family docotor's of the days past to a coperate machine of HMO's who tell the doctors what to look for and treat in their pateints now days, the patients are given often a very few moments with the doctor's because of the guidelines that the goverment has allowed to be enacted and we did not fight. The MD's are overwhelmed by a pressure from these same HMO's and Goverment heath care guidelines to turn patients into numbers, from individules to just mechandise on a convayer belt. I dont blame the doctors. I blame how we have let our heatlth care ssystem fall into the gutter. I work in EMS, and in both the out patient and inpatient sides of hospitals and in the emergency rooms. If the images of "ER", Chicago Hope", "Emergency", etc come to mind then you are blind to what we face in health care since the late 1990's and it is getting worse.
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ChgoExtra — 21 years ago(March 11, 2005 12:29 PM)
This is just shocking, and tragic. Saw the announcement on Foxnews. Dying from pnuemonia is rare but happens. In 1991 Jim Henson, the Muppet creator, died of pnuemonia. Shortly after he died I got pnuemonia as well, and I was 24 years old. Had a moron doc that putzed around with treatments, and I was sick like that for 3+ weeks. I was fortunate that my pnuemonia, while really bad double pnuemonia, did not hit the bloodstream. If the infection hits the bloodstream, it will kill you in a short amount of time, with organ failure, etc, as in the case with Jim Henson too. Both wonderful talents cut short. RIP Nicole. Meet The Parents is one of my family's all-time favorite movies, we have the DVD and video, and watch it quite often for laughs. Her life will go on in film at least. How sad, so sorry to hear all this, her family is in my prayers.
