Women dies after being dragged from Hospital...

[MADem]

113. You probably would not have called the police and said "Get this malingering drug seeker out of my

ER" then, would you have?

The police had that woman less than a half hour. The doctor said she was a lying druggie, and they believed the doctor.

I'll bet a ton of people are dragged into that holding facility every year and left in their cells on the floor--probably because they don't want the people who were drunk or drugged rolling off the bunk and hitting their heads on the hard floor. The woman wasn't in a room with "beds"--she was in a crappy holding cell with metal bunks and a crapper and a sink. The metal bunk was probably no more comfortable than the floor. She was under arrest for trespassing (thanks to that DOCTOR), not on holiday and not under any kind of police medical care.

It might not be a pleasant situation, but the police were told--by a doctor, an authority figure who provided the police with a "fit for confinement" order--that the woman was a liar and a druggie.

I blame the doctor. He should have believed her when she said she was hurting.