There is more stories on the web page.

I feel for the family of the dead woman, but there is much more to the story.

She was a meth addict and had been in this same emergency room every day for 3 days trying to get narcotics. When she fell on the floor and claimed she was dying, the staff must have assumed that she was just making a last ditch effort to get free morphine.

Drug-seeking behavior by drug addicts is a serious problem in every ER.

Yes, and she probably had no medical insurance--so even more reason to not even look at her. We had a 28 year old man die here from hospital non-treatment because of no medical insurance. They sent him home the first time after letting him breath some oxygen & giving him a prescription, he died of a heart attack from struggling to breath when he went back two hours later. Drug addicts are a problem for ERs but they will and do turn away people with no medical insurance or ignore them.

I've been chronically ill with a disease that causes, among other things, partial bowel obstructions. Incredibly painful and very very difficult to 'visualize'. I can't tell you how many times I've heard that 'drug seeker' bs used to refuse me medication...I worked in an inpatient pharmacy opposite the ER for over 15 years. I know for a fact that drug seekers aren't nearly the problem that dr's make them out to be - and about ten years ago the AMA released a study that whole-heartedly agreed.
I'd like to also say that, regardless of that ER staff's experience with that woman, they have an obligation to treat every patient as if they are as sick as they say they are - their job is to prove they aren't, not assume it.