Women dies after being dragged from Hospital...

[MADem]

119. I would be suing that hospital if she were my child or sister.

Read everything I have written in this thread.

Who didn't treat the woman for her illness? The hospital.

Who said she was a drug seeking malingerer? The doctor.

Who called the police and said "Arrest this woman?" The doctor.

Who provided the police with documentation that said the woman was "fit for confinement?" The doctor.

Why was the woman in the jail in the first place? Because the DOCTOR said she was TRESPASSING and called for her arrest.

There aren't beds and fluffy pillows in holding cells. There are cold metal bunks and cold concrete floors. Drunks and druggies are routinely left on the floor because that way they don't fall off the bunk and hit their heads. The police were told by a medical professional that this woman was a lying druggie. They didn't know her, or like her, or not like her. They were just transporting her because she was a trespasser in the ER, a drug seeker, a malingerer--as far as they knew, and that's what they were told by a DOCTOR. You're suggesting that the police should have more diagnostic expertise than a doctor who told them that she was fine to be taken into custody and placed in that holding cell.

Whatever.

When the police are assholes I do not hesitate to call them on it. In this case, though, a failure to diagnose and treat by a medical professional, an insistence by a doctor that he or she didn't want this woman in the ER, and a call by the doctor to the police to come and arrest the woman is what landed her on that floor in that cell. If the doctor had not done any of this, and even allowed her to stay in the waiting room of the ER, she would have been in the ER when she went into extremis.