22 Hours in a Chair

I recently wrote a graduate paper on the abuses that occur in some mental health facilities. I say some, because there are psychiatric facilities that are caring and humane with their treatment. Unfortunately there are facilities like this one who abuse and neglect people who often times have difficulty of taking care of themselves.

A psychiatric patient died at a North Carolina mental hospital after
nurses left him in a chair and didn’t give him any food or water for
nearly a day, according to a report cited by the News & Observer.

Steven Sabock, 50, died of a heart problem about 22 hours after someone left him on a chair in the dayroom at Cherry Hospital.

“The hospital’s security video recorded Sabock’s care from April 28,
when he choked on his medicine while a nurse stood by without helping
him, and through his day without food until his death from a heart
problem,” the paper says. “Health care technicians, according to the
report, are seen on the recording watching television through the
night, playing cards, and talking on a cell phone while they were in
the room with Sabock.”