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    김치전!Enid Shaw
    8/18/14 8:41pm

    The article mentions multiple prior issues with costochondritis, which causes chest wall pain and is generally unserious — the jail physician probably assumed it was just that and didn't see any call for a more sophisticated/expensive workup. It may well still be malpractice, but it probably wasn't as callous and awful as this story seems without that detail.

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      Salmonfighterrr김치전!
      8/18/14 8:43pm

      Did you miss the part where he was screaming in agony?

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      김치전!Salmonfighterrr
      8/18/14 8:54pm

      I didn't, and it's terrible. It must be tremendously difficult for jail staff and COs to distinguish between legitimate health problems and false reports.

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    SalmonfighterrrEnid Shaw
    8/18/14 8:31pm

    "Henriquez was still awaiting trial three years later"

    It happens all the time, but I'm glad you mentioned this. People literally rot in jail FOR YEARS for crimes for which they haven't been convicted. The system is broken.

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      DangerBadgerEnid Shaw
      8/18/14 8:36pm

      Rikers Island is where you work if you're too much of an asshole to be a low-level street meathead for the NYPD.

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        psybabEnid Shaw
        8/19/14 1:32am

        Meanwhile, I just got a job listing today from Corizon, looking for psychiatrists and psychologists to be contracted out to the psych prison wards at Bellevue and Elmhurst hospitals, offering a ridiculous starting salary. New York City HHC almost never hires psych doctors anymore (they're mostly psychiatric nurses now), and I didn't know until today that it was because they contract it all out to a third party.

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          iusedtobesomeonepsybab
          9/16/14 11:11pm

          You'd get hella on the job experience...

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        RedWriterEnid Shaw
        8/18/14 8:37pm

        In their own depositions, several Rikers guards admitted that while they were supposed to check on him every 15 minutes, the checks didn't usually happen on schedule. All of them denied hearing Henriquez screaming for help.

        Of course they didn't. Fucking fuck. Sometimes I just want to stop reading the news.

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