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Showing Original Post only (View all)Dying patient, 30, 'was kicked out of hospital for being "uncooperative" and forced into a taxi wher [View all]
Source: Daily Mail
Dying patient, 30, 'was kicked out of hospital for being "uncooperative" and forced into a taxi where he was found dead by his mother when he arrived home'
- A'Darrin Washington was found 'cold to the touch' in the taxi after being discharged from a Fayetteville, North Carolina hospital in 2011
- A nurse ordered Washington, who had cancer and pneumonia, to be discharged after he became 'uncooperative' and 'refused to talk or move'
- Security guards carried him from his wheelchair and strapped him into the taxi - even though other hospital staff expressed concern
- His distraught mother is now suing the hospital's security company
PUBLISHED: 15:03 EST, 18 December 2013 | UPDATED: 15:04 EST, 18 December 2013
A dying patient who was escorted out of a North Carolina hospital for being 'uncooperative' was loaded into a taxi where he was later found dead by his mother, she has claimed.
Deborah Washington has filed a lawsuit against AlliedBurton Security Services claiming their staff at Cumberland County Hospital forcibly removed her adult son even though he was dying or already dead.
She claims that the guards took A'Darrin Washington, 30, from the hospital, carried him from his wheelchair to a waiting taxi, buckled him up and sent him home even though he was gravely ill.
Mr Washington was found dead in the back of the taxi when he arrived home 45 minutes later.
He had been discharged from the hospital on November 22, 2011 after undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and fungal pneumonia - after initially being misdiagnosed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525957/Hospital-guards-escorted-dying-patient-unresponsive-cab-dead-mother-arrived-home.html#ixzz2nrNwinaJ
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Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
OP
I'm glad to hear you were taken care of and I hope things continue to improve for you.
Skeeter Barnes
Dec 2013
#33
So glad things went well for you! My daughter is in hospital now at UCSF in SF, CA...
deurbano
Dec 2013
#49
Short answer: YES! We've been taken over by the Koch brothers, and it started in about 2009.
loudsue
Dec 2013
#72
I've read several articles about it. Some in the hospital questioned his being kicked out. He was
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#41
There was definitely a release order signed. That isn't in question. He didn't go AMA. The hospital
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#53
why are you defending the rapacious hospital? I've had to deal with hospitals with sick relatives
Pretzel_Warrior
Dec 2013
#71
Point taken. I just think victims of malpractice already have deck stacked against them
Pretzel_Warrior
Dec 2013
#86
Someone had to write the discharge orders....either a FNP, PA or Physician....
FarPoint
Dec 2013
#30
More than I'd trust somebody who made up their mind on the basis of such a thin article.
Warpy
Dec 2013
#34
No, the patient wouldn't respond to requests. Whether the physician thought it was an act of
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#46
why do we have to find this in an english newspapers--can't our news outlet cover anything.....
dembotoz
Dec 2013
#11
Well, we wouldn't want to waste the space. After all, the media need to reserve
tblue37
Dec 2013
#50
I believe your belief is entirely well-founded. Someone absolutely despised him for no good reason
Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
#48
A hospital in the Napa Valley turned my (white) mother out to die, and a second almost did.
LeftyMom
Dec 2013
#57
Judging by how hard the hospitalist was trying to convince everybody she was an IV drug user
LeftyMom
Dec 2013
#61
If that white patient was broke I believe the system would treat them like shit........
Burma Jones
Dec 2013
#83
The hospital is Cape Fear Valley Hospital. They had another death a month earlier by a security
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#20
The post that stated 'affluent county" was referring to a similar incident in Marin County
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#59
Yep. You're right. The movie Cape Fear was filmed nearby and the Cape Fear river and cape fear
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#58
He should have had more respect for others after he died. It's so damned sad.
Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
#43
There's that wondrous social network the GOP raves about, where are you, Huckabee? nt
mother earth
Dec 2013
#27