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In reply to the discussion: Remember the FL woman who was kicked out of the hospital and died? The video was released [View all]pnwmom
(110,254 posts)This was a small town without a choice of hospitals, and she understood that she was dying, even if they didn't.
I think both the hospital and the police were negligent. The hospital while they had her under their care, and discharged her without doing proper testing. And the police, because she was walking when she left the hospital -- and then collapsed in the parking lot. That should have been the signal for the police to immediately call in a doctor, and they didn't. When police have a suspect in their custody, it is their job to keep that suspect alive -- and to immediately summon for help if that person goes unconscious. Which she did.
I think the nurse barely looked at her. The police report said they had her sitting on the ground, handcuffed, propped against the car. It also claimed that the nurse took her pulse and blood oxygen in that position -- and everything was normal. And then they decided they wanted a more accurate result, so they un-handcuffed her.
But how could they have gotten that first blood oxygen count they claimed the nurse had taken while she was sitting against the car in handcuffs? It uses a device that goes on a finger.
And the description of what the nurse said afterwards didn't match what the police officer said. He claimed that the nurse had checked her vitals several times, but that's not what the nurse says. And you can't hear it on the audio either, except at the very beginning and the very end . . . when someone says she has a pulse of 7.