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The tragic May 9 death of Edith Isabel Rodriguez in the ED waiting room at Martin Luther King Jr. — Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles, grabbed the nation's attention when it was learned that two calls were made by her family to 911 while she was deteriorating in the ED waiting room.

Woman dies in ED waiting room; experts say this happens too often