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In reply to the discussion: Dying patient, 30, 'was kicked out of hospital for being "uncooperative" and forced into a taxi wher [View all]okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)non-responsive to requests to move, open his mouth, etc. (while someone may have thought this was defiant behavior, based on what we now know it was likely something physical). he was misdiagnosed to begin with and had been in the hospital sis or eight days. It wasn't a taxi cab per se but a van that the hospital uses as a charter. The van driver questioned the decision and asked that he be re-evaluated. Request denied. (poor taxi van driver now has to live with all of this, especially him dying in the guys van). The facility had been cited one month earlier for having another patient die from a security guard. The state inspectors already had an inspection set up for a few days after this happened. The facility was put on the medicare "probation" three times during that year.