Discussion for article #244079
This did not end well.
And will not end well again.
jw1
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Her tombstone will read: “I told you I was sick!”
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No, it won’t. Sounds like she did exactly what they tell you to do-she tried to advocate for herself when the hospital wouldn’t listen. Well, now she’s dead either because of the hospital’s negligence, the cop’s, or both. I’m sure the 7th circle of hell her family is suffering through and the settlements/charges will all be worth the time they could’ve taken to calm her down or simply entertain her by allowing her to stick around.
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“They did their best trying to save her,” Attaway said. “Our staff was very aggressive with her treatment.”
Also very aggressive with her eviction, apparently. Treatment was a little late in the day.
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Fox: Yet another Obamacare victim.
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what is it about Florida?
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There’s a memorial bench at the San Diego Wild Animal Park with a plaque that says something like, “No, no, I’m just fine.”
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Actually, this is more likely a victim of the old GOP health care policy–they can always go to the Emergency Room. (Problem is, they apparently can’t stay there.)
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The profit motive at work. God bless markets!
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Yet another less-than-Casper-the-Ghost-white person whose “failure to comply” triggered an aggressive response from an LEO. Our police departments seem to be staffed by an awful lot of immature people with anger management issues.
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Indeed. The Florida Morgue refused to accept her Florida body, and she was re-arrested by Florida police and transported to Florida jail. Very Floridian.
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This is such a tiny hospital, I had to look up Blountsville to check its size:
Blountstown is a city in Calhoun County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,514 at the 2010 census. This was an increase from 2,444 in 2000. It is the county seat of Calhoun County.
Chances are good that everyone knows everyone in this little place and all the parties in this incident knew each other. If the doctor thought she was good to go, why didn’t they just call her family? Chances are good she wasn’t one of the “in crowd” there in Blountsville. I’ll bet it’s a cold day in hell before the local cops haul anyone else out of that emergency room. Popular kid or not, having someone protesting they need to stay then die in handcuffs while being forcibly removed should give those guys nightmares. Merry Christmas.
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Hospital staff and police took her behavior as aggression and belligerence – but when a person’s brain is being deprived of oxygen, they become desperate. She was fighting for her life. Why are these so called professionals so ill-trained that they did not recognize a person in the throws of asphyxia? And they didn’t believe her when she told them she could not breath – what kind of bias is that I wonder? Thinking about Eric Garner.
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From what I have read, this falls entirely upon the hospital. The cops were just responding to what the hospital was describing as someone causing a scene. After she collapsed outside, the hospital was still refusing to readmit her, while the cops seem to be pretty much insisting that they do.
Basically, they have a 270 lb. woman passed out on the pavement and the cops were saying “I think there is a problem here” while the hospital staff was saying “Naa, she is faking it…she is fine”.
So fine that she died 6 hours later.
Hope their insurance is paid up, because they are about to get a doozy of a claim.
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Less and less do I wish to travel outside of the northeast…
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Without listening to the audio, I agree with you. The police aren’t the people I expect to know who is causing a disturbance vs. having a medical emergency in a hospital. They called the cops, said she was a problem. He was going by what he was told and when she collapsed realized that they were wrong.
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Sooner or later the African-American citizens of this nation will get it through their heads that breathing while black is frowned upon.
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“Flaw-duh – it just gets better!” ™
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In their strategic plan they do a SWOT analysis. One of their weaknesses was:
We don’t turn patients away(medical screenings)
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It’s kind of sad that they would think that not turning patients away is a weakness rather than a strength.
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