The report said Sabock sat, unattended, in the room for four work shifts. The report also found that Sabock, formerly of Roanoke Rapids, ate nothing the day he died and had little food in the three days preceding his death. The 47-page report also said workers were supposed to be closely monitoring Sabock's condition and may have forged documents that said they had.

A patient in New York died in June after she waited in a hospital's mental ward waiting area for nearly 24 hours. Security video showed her writhing on the floor. It was nearly an hour before someone else flagged down a staff member who got help for the unresponsive woman.

Lawrence said the Sabock incident is isolated but that officials are concerned.

Isolated or just not reported...

"It's not the kind of thing that we in our wildest dreams would expect to happen in our hospitals — in our wildest nightmares, I guess," Lawrence said.

A nightmare..is that all you are calling it? I call it a down right shame...they aren't even addressing the near death's caused by being overlooked or lack of concern to how long a person waits for treatment.

We need more advocates for better treatment in this country..we can't even afford to get sick