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LEFT HIM ON STOOP TO Die
AN BULANCE TOOK HIM TO HOUSE
AND DEPARTED.
CORONER Sbrsdy investigating case ~ Man
Who Had Been In the Harlem Hospital
with q Broken Leg Friends blame
Hospital for SENDING Him Away.

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VIII . Broken q -Friends BIane
Hospital for SENDING Him Away.
Friends Of Philip Goodstein. who was
employed as q salesman by the National
Looking Glass Company. at i0ist street and
East River. and who died on July II. have
made serious charges to Coroner Shrady
against persons connected with the Harlem
Hospital.
Goodstein had one Of his legs broken
in an elevator accident at the looking glass
factory on July 1 and was taken to the
Harlem Hospital. There was also a cut
about six inches long on the leg. Good
stein was discharged from the hospital on
July IL. At noon on the next day he died
from blood poisoning at his home. 4 East
1O7th street.
Jacob Minowitz, a real estate dealer
with whom Goodstein lived. il one Of the
witnesses against the hospital officials.
He was examined by Coroner Shrady yes
terday. Minowitz said that the first in
timation that the persons in mis- fiat had
that Goodstein had been discharged was
whom a small boy ran up four flights OF
stairs from the street and said that there
was an injured man in front Of the house.
That was about Q o'clock on the evening OF
July IL.
Minowitz said that he and other men,
bers of the family looked out Of a n
and saw Goodstein on the steps supported
by two men. They hurried down and found
him in intense pain. The ambulance was
zone then. Minowitz said it was impoe-
sibte for Goodstein to get upstairs and n
| Of the men carried him on his back. Good
| stein groaned with pain all the way. The
| two men who had come to his aid in the
| street. according to Minowitz. were strang-
ers. They left after the man had been
taken to his room.
Minowitz told the Coroner that Good
stein complained that he had been i'll treated
at the hospital-that he had been COM
PEELED to dress himself when his leg panied
| him 80 he could scarcely sit up and that he
had been left sitting for four hours waiting
for an ambulance. Goodstein said he had
tainted while waiting for the ambulance
and when he asked a nurse for a drink OF
water she told him she had no time to waste
on a di scharged patient. According to
Minowitz the ambulance doctor didn't
even take the trouble to ring the door bell
when he left Goodstein in front OF the
house.
Goodstein was worse in the morning and
shortly before noon Minowitz sent for DIR.
BENJAMIN Fidler of Is Fast l07th street.
DIR. ridler arrived a few minutes after
Goodstein died. Then Coroner's Physician
Weston was notified. DR.. Weston and
DR.. Fiddler agreed hat death was caused
by blood poisoning. DR.. Weston IN re-
reporting the case to Coroner Shrady
| said il was "a hospital case and ought not
to have been discharged DR. Fidler
! said last night that when DR.. Weston re-
moved the plaster cast from the leg he
found the wound in a bad condition. II
had not healed.
Members Of Minowitz's family and Louis
Goblin. a neighbor who helped to carry
the injured man UP the stairs. corrobo-
rated Minowitz. h Coroner has been
investigating the case for some time. He
announced yesterday that he would submit
the case toe %coroners jury and summon
every one OF the doctors in the Harlem
Hospital who had anything to do with
il. An autopsy also will be made on the
body.
Or. John Overton, the house surgeon OF
the Harlem Hospital. said yesterday that
Qoodstein had received the best OF care
in the hospital. One OF the visiting sur
geons had dressed Qoodstein's leg. The
leg was put up in splints at first and then
a plaster cast was put on. Tn cast had
been on for forty-eight hours when the
doctors decided to discharge Goodstein,
who had been sitting up and moving around
on crutches for n day or two. DIR. Overton
said that when Goodstein left the hospital
he showed no symptoms OF blood poisoning.
The doctor said that Goodstein might have
had to wait in hislchair for the ambulance
for some time, but he did not believe he had
tainted or a drink Of water had been de-
MED him.
The ambulance which took Goodstein
home was in c~harge2of DIR. Henry Fischer.
DR.. Fischer denied that Goodstein had asked
for any assistance after the ambulance
had reached the house. He said that q
man stepped out from the house and greeted
Goodstein, and he supposed he was one Of
Goodstein's friends who was waiting for
his return. When the ambulance left the
house Goodstein. according to Or. Fischer,
was walking on the clutches without much
difficulty.