Missouri Man Dies After Being Denied Emergency Room Care 3 Times

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A Missouri man died in a hospital parking lot after his third attempt to get emergency medical treatment, his wife says.

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According to St. Louis-area CBS affiliate News 4, Sadie Bell took her husband, David, to the emergency room at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Peters the week of Jan. 8 after he complained of chest pains. Both times, Sadie said, medical staff refused to admit him and gave him Ibuprofen instead.

David, who was a director of Central County Fire, was rushed back for a third time to the very hospital he was denied treatment. His wife recounted what happened next.

โ€œI called his fireman, because one of his firemen took him. I said, โ€˜Which hospital did you take him to?โ€™ he said, โ€˜I went on and took him back to Barnes-Jewish because I know thatโ€™s where you all had been going.โ€™ I said, โ€˜Oh, I just wish you wouldnโ€™t have took him there.โ€™ He said, โ€˜Why not?โ€™ and I said, โ€˜Every time that we have taken him, all they did was give him Ibuprofen and sent him home, and Iโ€™m really thinking they missing something,โ€™โ€ Bell recalled.

Here is more on the tragic story, per News 4:

When Bell got to the hospital she said her husband was sitting outside in a wheelchair. After begging doctors to run tests and admit him, she said they refused.

โ€œHe said, โ€˜maโ€™am heโ€™s already been here twice for the same thing and weโ€™ve already diagnosed him,โ€™โ€ Bell said. From there she said she was preparing to take him to another hospital but it was too late.

โ€œWe got halfway to the car and he said, โ€˜Oh Sadie.โ€™ And I said, โ€˜Baby whatโ€™s wrong?โ€™โ€ she said. Bell said her husband took his last breath in the parking lot and a good Samaritan tried giving David CPR.

Bell believes her husband received a lack of treatment because doctors and staff dismissed him. National medical reports state African Americans often have higher mortality rates because they donโ€™t receive the same health care as their white counterparts.

โ€œI donโ€™t know what they thought and I just donโ€™t understand why they wouldnโ€™t help him,โ€ she said.

Numbers from the American Medical Association (AMA) show Black Americansโ€™ mortality rate is 24% higher than white Americans. One of the main contributing factors the AMA points out is that doctors are not addressing pain levels from black patients.

Citing privacy laws, Barnes-Jewish declined to comment to local media.

โ€œWhen people ask you for help and they need help, I shouldnโ€™t have to come 1, 2, 3 times. I shouldnโ€™t have to be sitting here grieving my husband. I shouldnโ€™t have...My children shouldnโ€™t not have a father,โ€ Sadie said.

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