Posted on 01/07/2016 4:39:30 AM PST by WhiskeyX
A Florida woman who collapsed and later died after being arrested for refusing to leave a rural hospital emergency room may have lived if medical staff and police had not assumed she was faking illness, her lawyers said on Wednesday.
Barbara Dawson, 57, complained of abdominal pains at Calhoun Liberty Hospital in the Florida Panhandle town of Blountstown five days before Christmas, but medical staff examined and released her.
When she refused to leave, the hospital called the police, who handcuffed her and took her outside, where she collapsed in the hospital driveway. Dawson was returned to the hospital but died of a blood clot in her lungs the next day.
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Well, you know how those middle-aged women can be sometimes. Aren’t they all a little crazy? /sarc
To ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME. Not only that, it can kill you.
drug addicts have jaded ER docs and nurses so bad that this kind of thing happens. some of these malingering losers should get awards for their acting performances.
In the past few years it seems that a lot of doctors and hospitals assume you are OK and send you home unless you have a totally obvious condition. We have experienced it numerous times in my family. Mom had a tumor on her uterus, doctor said it was probably benign and let her go on her cruise. By the time she came back they found it was malignant and doubled in size! She’s doing fine now but the surgery complications were horrible.
A lady I knew in her early sixties was told she had eaten a bad burger and that her pain would pass. Sent home twice on consecutive days. No tests were ever done. She was the wife of a prominent businessman, so money wasn’t an issue and she had no history of health issues. In actuality she had a bowel obstruction and eventual ruptured bowel. She was dead within three days. And she died an unnecessarily excruciating death.
Rural hospitals are the biggest hit from Obamacare . . .
My ex-girlfriend always harped on the ‘golden hour’ (she was once the Head Nurse of the emergency room of a Level One Trauma Hospital), which referred to the probability of surviving a heart attack if you were able to get to a hospital within one hour.
Expect to see even more of these stories . . . and remember to remind your liberal family members and friends to keep that above article on a bookmark.
So they understand they VOTED for that death . . .
concur
If this were Baltimore the police would be arrested.
Liberals so compassionate, she probably didnt meet the 6000 dollar deductable in obamacare. I seen this and it is despicable what they did to this poor woman
A friends 9 year old kid had 2 seizures in the past couple weeks. Cat scan is fine. My wife looked up the drug warning for the ADD medicine his parents feed him. There is a seizure warning and a heart attack warning of some sort which mentions arm pain. The symptoms are exactly like the kid had!
Doctor tells them, there is no way its the medicine, its just a common seizure that kids sometimes get and grow out of. I don’t think the doctor even bothered to look at the medicine warnings and side effects. They plan to keep giving him this poison ‘medicine’ because they are absolutely sure it has nothing to do with the seizures and it helps him focus on his homework.
Doctor tells them, there is no way its the medicine, its just a common seizure that kids sometimes get and grow out of. I don’t think the doctor even bothered to look at the medicine warnings and side effects. They plan to keep giving him this poison ‘medicine’ because they are absolutely sure it has nothing to do with the seizures and it helps him focus on his homework.
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this is the kind of healthcare we are getting nationwide. Third world medicine. I swear that all medicos have been told : thin the herd.
In the past few years it seems that a lot of doctors and hospitals assume you are OK and send you home unless you have a totally obvious condition. We have experienced it numerous times in my family. Mom had a tumor on her uterus, doctor said it was probably benign and let her go on her cruise. By the time she came back they found it was malignant and doubled in size! She’s doing fine now but the surgery complications were horrible.
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because of this sort of attitude I know Five people who have endured septic gallbladders or septic appendix. Very poor diagnostic skills and care in average US ER. Unless the machine shows something that they can use to prove to the insurance company, you are sent home.
They have. The tactic they use on old people, “ You are good for now, we will check you again in another year.”
A lady I knew in her early sixties was told she had eaten a bad burger and that her pain would pass. Sent home twice on consecutive days. No tests were ever done. She was the wife of a prominent businessman, so money wasn’t an issue and she had no history of health issues. In actuality she had a bowel obstruction and eventual ruptured bowel. She was dead within three days. And she died an unnecessarily excruciating death.
This is happening all the time, I am hearing of poor care and diagnosis. Poor examinations, practitioners staring at the computer. I hope these people sue the hell out of the hospital
I wish there was a private medical hospital system in this country.
ER docs are jaded and scared shi#less of the DEA.
“thin the herd”
Thin their wallets.
Reminds me of the story about the elderly room mates. One laid dead on the kitchen floor for two days before the other called for help. The other room mate said, “I thought he was just being stubborn.” ;-)
They have. The tactic they use on old people, “ You are good for now, we will check you again in another year.â€
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My dr of 30 years is swallowing the koolaid. He recently gave me a living will paperwork that doesn’t ask me whether I would want not to have extraordinary means taken if I am unable to make my own decisions, or communicate them, but instead asks WHETHER I WANT TO BE NOT ALIVE, AND WHETHER I WOULD WANT NOT TO BE HYDRATED.
I need to find a doctor who values my lfe.
The qualitative difference betw
The qualitative difference between being allowed to die naturally and in some comfort and being asked whether you want to not be alive, sets up permission for killing, they call in mercy killing but I am afraid I don’t see it that way.
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