Woman forcibly removed from hospital lays in parking lot for 18 minutes and later dies

[Lee-Lee]

13. Cops are not medical professionals, so when a medical professional says the person is faking

that is what they have to go with.

PD will be cleared- they had doctors and nurses saying there was nothing wrong with her and that they ordered her off the premises. The police can't force a doctor to examine a patient, and if they say she is trespassing then they have to remove her. Standard practice is if someone claims a medical issue you call EMS and let them check and maybe transport them to the ER, but this woman was at the ER and already cleared. You can't hold the PD responsible for not knowing more than the doctors about medical conditions.

I am curious how well know the woman was to the ER and if she had a long history of coming in. I did security in an ER off duty and the only times you saw them want someone removed from the facility was when it was a person with a known long history of faking symptoms for drug seeking who was getting belligerent when turned down. Otherwise seeing someone tossed out never happened- family members behaving badly yes, but not patients. But when the known problem drug seekers came in everyone in the ER was suspicious due to past history and I can see how that could impact judgement.

Gonna be interesting to see this play out in court.