Lincoln Hospital patient paralyzed after ER blunder leaves him waiting two hours for treatment

On a cool September evening in 2014, 54-year-old Anthony Medlin arrived by ambulance at Lincoln Hospital and was deemed mobile and low risk, so the staff told him to wait. Then came the two-hour delay in the busy Bronx emergency room. By the time a doctor got around to examining Medlin, he was paralyzed from the waist down. He was rushed to surgery, but it was too late.