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> A patient discharged in the middle of the night is not going to be literally kicked to the curb in the middle of the night.

This does, very literally, happen. It should not happen, and may even be directly against hospital rules, but it does happen.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-filmed-on-street-in-hos...




As the sibling commented, here is another sad example.

https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-woman-died-hospital-pol...

> Edwards was “rolled by hospital security guards into the freezing cold wearing only paper scrubs, placed under physical arrest, and forcibly removed by police officers from the hospital property,” according to the lawsuit, which says it was 29 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1.7 Celsius) at the time.


This quote is not complete and materially changes the context.

This women was transferred directly to the police where she was being put in a squad car. She was not "tossed to the curb".

It's a shitty situation, but it seems plausible that she was medically clear but suffered a stroke during the incident. Security staff and police officers handled it extremely poorly, but this woman was not just left alone on the streets.


Like the family member of the parent post, she was discharged against her will into a public area in the freezing cold. The police involvement came after negligence by the hospital staff.

That she quickly died of complications is potentially different from the op, yes, but I don't see why you think it is materially different. Because the police were there? That parallels being discharged into a shady place in a strange downtown at 2am. They made him leave as well. Being alone wasn't what I was referring to, and it wasn't what happened to the op. She most definitely was, "kicked to the curb."

Here is the rest of the context in case it saves anyone a click through:

A video released by police showed officers struggle for about 25 minutes to move Edwards into a police van and finally a cruiser. Edwards repeatedly asks for help. But she is rebuffed by officers and hospital security guards who become frustrated with her inability to step up into the van and tell her she is faking her incapacity.

After she is placed in a police cruiser, video shows Edwards trying to pull herself upright repeatedly, but eventually she slumps over out of sight. Several minutes later, one of the officers performs a traffic stop on another vehicle while Edwards remains in the backseat.

When he opens the rear door, Edwards is unresponsive. He calls dispatch for an ambulance, telling them, “I don’t know if she’s faking it or what, but she’s not answering me.”

Edwards was pronounced dead at the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center the following day.

“This was an emergency medical condition that began and worsened on hospital property and that was unequivocally preventable and treatable,” the lawsuit states.


2018: Feds Investigate After Mentally Confused Patient In Hospital Gown Was Left At Baltimore Bus Stop On Cold January Night




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