Death in ER Ruled Homicide
The coroner of Lake County, Illinois has ruled that the death of a woman of a heart attack while she waited for care in an emergency room was homocide.
ABC News reports that "'the definition of homicide that I give to the jury is either a willful and wanton act or recklessness on the part of someone, whether that's by their actions or by their inactions,' [the coroner] Keller said. "Certainly, by that definition, this is a homicide."
She apparently waited two hours for care after complaining of nausea, shortness of breath and chest pains, but was found dead in a chair in the waiting area.