I’m shocked that hospital named for Martin Luther King would have competency issues.
Some critics of the old medical center have long-held memories of its failures, even as they hold out hope for the new MLK Community Hospital. Robert Winter, 54, of Downey said he was treated twice at King/Drew and he couldn’t wait to get out. Doctors left a bullet hole wound open when he was rushed there by ambulance in the 1986, he said, and he was overmedicated when he arrived there with chest pain in 1995.
“It was a madhouse,” Winter said. “The hospital was a cesspool because of the people who ran it.”
