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Waiting Doom How hospitals are killing E.R. patients. By Zachary F. Meisel and Jesse M. Pines Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008, at 6:54 AM ET Video of Esmin Green, who died in an E.R. waiting room Last month, Esmin Green, a 49-year-old mother of six, tumbled off her chair and onto the floor of the Kings County psychiatric E.R. waiting room in New York City. Members of the hospital staff saw her lying there but did nothing for about an hour. When Green was finally brought into the E.R., she was dead. An autopsy revealed that she died from a pulmonary embolism, which occurs w