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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)defiance or whatever I don't know. I have researched the info (which is very hard to find btw) and both staff at the hospital the taxi van driver questioned the guy's health. He made a request that the guy be re-evaluated which was denied, and so on. It's also important to note that the hospital had been put on medicare's immediate danger list three times during that year. They almost lost medicare funding. Another patient died a month before so it was already under investigation.
It's bad all the way around. Even if the goal was for the child to die at home, not being able to judge that a person can't make it home is suspect. He had pneumonia so it would be curious to know if he had any kind of oxygen with him.
The whole thing sounds bad, sorry. I've investigated as much as possible and while there is more to it i'm sure, the bottom line is this was still horrible.