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05-21-2007, 10:23 PM
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Woman dies in hospital while being arrested
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05-21-2007, 10:29 PM
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This is sad. She's a human being and for people in a hostpital to react to her in that way is unheard of.
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05-21-2007, 10:38 PM
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The police didn't do anything wrong either by arresting her and taking her out of the emergency room?
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05-21-2007, 10:46 PM
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The police didn't do anything wrong either by arresting her and taking her out of the emergency room?
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I think the police should have known something was wrong with her.
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05-22-2007, 01:41 AM
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That's huge malpractice and wrongful death suit somebody will have to pay to this family.
You can see chick is morbidly obese and had gallstones. That means they were near her hepatic portal vein. So yes, that chit goes back to the heart... Worse yet, if it burst and broke in bagillion microscopic pieces that got into her capillaries that may be damaged due to hypertension, then she probably had a embolism and stroked out.
But, that's pure speculation on my part.
That's just jacked up.
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05-22-2007, 02:15 AM
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The article says she died of a bowel perf., which led to poisening, basically. I can't even imagine how much that must have hurt.
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05-22-2007, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
I think the police should have known something was wrong with her.
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The police aren't medical professionals. When you call 911 you need to realize that we can't all do the same thing.
It looks like it's a shitty hospital anyway and a lot of ED nurses are pretty jaded after working the job for so long. A lot of fakers do come through the ED.
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05-22-2007, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by centaur532
The police aren't medical professionals.
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very true. hell, they were in a hospital...they probably assumed she had been treated and was just acting a fool so she wouldnt have to go to jail.
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05-22-2007, 10:41 AM
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i think people in general just sue entirely too much.
in this case? with all the other problems this hospital had? they need to be sued for every dime they have.
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05-22-2007, 02:34 PM
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i think people in general just sue entirely too much.
in this case? with all the other problems this hospital had? they need to be sued for every dime they have.
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There's legislation on the table in my state which would completely immunize emergency rooms from claims by uninsured parties.
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05-22-2007, 02:38 PM
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There's legislation on the table in my state which would completely immunize emergency rooms from claims by uninsured parties.
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ehhhh...so much for the Hippocratic oath....hehehe...
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05-22-2007, 02:40 PM
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There's legislation on the table in my state which would completely immunize emergency rooms from claims by uninsured parties.
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So, if you don't have health insurace, and you have a heart attack, and they refuse to treat you, and you die in the lobby, your family couldn't sue?
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05-22-2007, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
So, if you don't have health insurace, and you have a heart attack, and they refuse to treat you, and you die in the lobby, your family couldn't sue?
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Simple answer?
NO.
If a hospital sees that u have no visible means to pay for treatment they can refuse treatment, in most cases they will get u to sign a waiver...but that still is dependent on state to state laws as well as the facility itself
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05-22-2007, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
Simple answer?
NO.
If a hospital sees that u have no visible means to pay for treatment they can refuse treatment, in most cases they will get u to sign a waiver...but that still is dependent on state to state laws as well as the facility itself
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Private hospitals can refuse to treat, but public hospitals cannot. And even private hospitals MUST treat in an emergency.
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05-22-2007, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
So, if you don't have health insurace, and you have a heart attack, and they refuse to treat you, and you die in the lobby, your family couldn't sue?
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Nah, I think it's more like if the doctor (who isn't going to get paid to help you) gives you negligent care, you're not going to be able to sue him.
In this case, I don't know just by reading the article whether or not the hospital is even going to be in trouble. The standard of care for a facility of this type is going to be really, really low. As a matter of law, this woman's estate might have no case as crazy as it seems.
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