Know the series, Bob - like to watch now and then, myself. Only wish the
folks at the hospital would just go home at the end of the day's
shooting. Have a niece in coma at the same hospital due to motorcycle
accident, that may join little fellow any moment. Small irony, all our
friends there were unavailable at first moment - or I'd never taken
those pics. I was more useful making phone calls outside, and just
stepped into that scene.
Waiting is the worst part.
Cotty, now the anger is under control somewhat, I have to be fair.
People tried to help him. Some tried to make him stand before
understanding that it just was not a good idea, and we made quite a
racket - but there was no staff member capable of doing anything but
talk to other staff member. When I started taking those pics he had no
pulse and had stopped breathing for a while. Our racket clued the news
guy of the problem.
Most brasilian hospitals are plagued by their quality - trauma victims
come from distant places to the one good - and this is really good -
hospital of the big city. Of course there isn't enough hospital for
everyone. Worst, many would be better somewhere else - this place is
specialised in trauma and burns, but gets an avalanche of everything and
then trauma.
Our niece was riding a motorcycle in her home town, some 6 hours away in
the inner part of the state. In that hellhole no one wears helmets. She
and her friend were struck by another motorcycle at high speed, and the
friend may lose a leg. Our niece may not survive and her recovery will
include lots of plastic surgery. Her city has an hospital, usually
without medics, almost always without supplies. City hall keeps a small
fleet of shinning station wagons transformed in ambulances, to cart
people to this particular hospital in Fortaleza. That setup has been a
pain of mine for a long time, but I'm just an old, grumpy fool, in risk
of attending yet another burial. The asshole of a cousin that came with
her to the hospital spent 7 hours calling the wrong persons - when we
knew of the accident and took charge there were more small town
politicians and preachers than medics at her side. Yes, there are lots
of medics in that hospital, but today they just were not enough. Of
course, if the right ears get enough noise, things get better. Until the
good ones overwork themselves, and the creatures behind desks default to
doing just their jobs and nothing more than their jobs.
LF
Luiz Felipe escreveu:
Best trauma hospital of this area - in fact, best of the northeast.
Little fellow walks out the secondary access, slow. Gets on his knees.
Crawls forward some inches. Some try to get him on his feet, he begs
to be left alone. Then dies.
Suppose this is making the news tomorrow - a news photographer is
nearby, takes some pics, then gets in a row with the person behind the
desk. Photographer is angry at the scene, yells about the lack of
respect for a human being lying in the front of the hospital. The
person behind the desk is angry, now - about the words used to address
him, the death is just another death. There were many, there will be
more. The police arrives, then the little fellow is carried back to
the hospital. News photographer takes the pic of the person behind the
desk. They carry on their lives. No one looks at me. All I have in my
hands is cell phone.
I know men and woman that work in that hospital. Didn't know the
person behind the desk today. The men and women I know there are hard
working people, in an impossible challenge to help the needed. Those
men and women often work so hard in that hospital they collapse the
moment they arrive home, until the next fight. They were not nearby.
They would not let the news photographer offend the creature behind
the desk. Not out of respect for the creature, but because that
creature is beyond help, same as the little fellow. There are ones we
can still help.
http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102548-00.jpg
http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102606-00.jpg
http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102638-00.jpg
http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102708-00.jpg
LF
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