This story saddens me and makes me sick. I’m glad her death was declared a homicide. Because it was.

The Associated Press
Posted September 16 2006

WAUKEGAN, Ill. · A coroner’s jury has declared the death of a heart attack victim who spent almost two hours in a hospital waiting room to be a homicide.

Beatrice Vance, 49, died of a heart attack, but the jury at a coroner’s inquest ruled Thursday that her death also was “a result of gross deviations from the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in this situation.”

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