>King/Drew spent $20.1 million on malpractice payouts from 1999-2004. Adjusting for the number of patients it saw, this was the worst figure of any hospital in the entire state of California ... >Patients would come in with minor medical issues and end up dead. >Locals would run away from ambulances in order not to be brought to Killer King. >Police officers had an understanding that if their colleagues were shot, they would not allow them to be taken there. ... >LA Times in 2004: "Some employees habitually fail to show up, logging weeks, even months, of unexcused absences each year. And those who do come to work often don't do their jobs, causing one consultant in 2002 to remark that they had 'retired in place.'" ... >In the hallways of Killer King, employees would sell peanuts and bootleg DVD. >Patients would sit in their hospital beds, being ignored as hospital staff sat out in the hallways talking about parties they'd been to and the movies they'd seen. ... >One resident, Warren Lemons, was fired when he couldn't get licensed in California >Later, he was found barricaded in a room with a deaf-mute patient. Lemons had baby oil and soft restraints >When he was later arrested for killing a man, police found videos of naked male patients