Persad v. Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals from the judgment for respondents (Kaiser) in this wrongful death action.1 We affirm.

At 6:10 a.m. on June 4,1987, plaintiff called the Kaiser Hospital emergency room and asked for an ambulance for his wife. She suffered from asthma and was in the midst of a severe attack. Plaintiff spoke with an emergency room nurse, Wood, who told him that an ambulance would be dispatched. After over 30 minutes had passed and no ambulance had arrived, plaintiffs wife asked him to call Kaiser again. He did and spoke with another nurse, Brown. She consulted the other emergency room personnel…