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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
(110,301 posts)handcuffed, when her health status suddenly changed. She was able to walk out of the hospital and across the parking lot. It was his job when she collapsed -- and stayed unconscious -- to get a doctor to see her.
That voice you heard (which was probably the aunt who was with her) was telling the policeman that she WAS bad -- even though he was insisting Barbara was fine. There was no reason to infer from that that Barbara had been treated for "fairly imaginary complaints " or that she was a hypochondriac. Why didn't the policeman listen to that woman who was telling him that she'd never seen Barbara "so bad" when he was trying to get Barbara to stand up? Clearly that woman was arguing (repeatedly) that he should take her collapse more seriously.
Barbara Dawson did have a lot of health problems. That didn't make them imaginary. She had an oxygen tank due to these medical problems.
That officer made her wait for 18 minutes before CPR. He gets at least partial blame. If she'd still been in the hospital when this happened, she would have been treated when she collapsed.
http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/health/2016/01/06/dash-cam-video-barbara-dawson-case-released/78373064/
She repeatedly asked for her oxygen tank before she collapsed in the parking lot and was brought back inside the hospital, where she died a half-hour later due to a blood clot in her lung, an autopsy found.