Reply #26: Add me to the list of racist jackbooted nazi cop apologists

[Robb]

Who would also like to know what's up. So far only a PR person has described his condition.

Trouble is, a hospital can't tell reporters anything about his treatment (HIPAA laws) beyond whether or not he's still under their care.

If you know the name of a patient, presumably from a police accident report or similar agency not bound by HIPAA constraints, hospital spokespeople are allowed to give you the critical-guarded-stable-good condition thing. But nothing more.

Unfortunately, there is little chance of an objective report on details of a patient's care, unless things go to court and medical records are subpoenaed. And that's assuming his injury is critical to making the case he was treated unfairly, which it may or may not be. It certainly would help the claim.

So unless there's a solid argument his rights were broadly violated by being denied entry in the first place -- an unlikely legal argument given the setting inside a federal building -- all that's left for us spectators is the inference test: if it heads to court, I promise you Rev was seriously injured. If it doesn't, he probably wasn't.