Talk of the Sound: New Rochelle School Refuses Emergency Medical Care for Student with Multiple Fractures

[Robert Cox]

New Rochelle Community Pulse, one of our star contributors on Talk of the Sound has a "must read" story of the terrible mistreatment of a 7th grade student at Isaac E. Young Middle School.  Shocking, sad and disgraceful are words that come to mind.

New Rochelle School Refuses Emergency Medical Care for Student with Multiple Fractures

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/node/355

On October 29th, 2008, a Latino student in evident pain was brought to the nurse’s office by a fellow seventh grader at Isaac E. Young Middle School in New Rochelle, NY. “Joseph” (not his real name) told the school nurse, Carla Murphy, he had been playing outside during recess, slipped on the wet grass and fell with his arms outstretched onto a concrete surface. He told Nurse Murphy that “both arms hurt” and - indicating his wrists and forearms - that he was in extreme pain. Nurse Murphy, interrupted from eating her lunch, handed the boy a bag of ice and called the boy’s mother to come pick him up from school. The mother, Maritza Rodriguez, asked the nurse to call for an ambulance. Murphy refused and hung up the phone on the mother. More than six hours later, an emergency room doctor told Rodriguez, that both her son’s arms were severely fractured between the wrists and the elbows. Joseph was absent from school for more than two months and only recently returned. [read he rest here:http://www.newrochelletalk.com/node/355}