This is slightly off on a tangent. Awhile back I had read an article on msn.com (can't find it now
). It was about the differences in men's and women's health and specific things women should be aware of and vigilant about. One of the things they mentioned in the article is that there is still sometimes an old-fashioned tendency to take men's pain more seriously and to dismiss women's pain as "oh she's just being hysterical/whiny/over-dramatic/exagerating/difficult/etc". When I read the first couple sentences of the article about the woman who died, I thought about the msn.com article. Perhaps, the staff thought "oh she's not really in that much pain, she's just complaining for attention or to be difficult". Not saying that the staff ignoring her was right, but this could be a possible explanation for how they could have let her yell for help for 90 minutes without doing anything.