CW ⚠️ medical homicide
Hospital: Treatment, discharge of woman who died appropriate <— that’s the actual headline, WTF AP
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A woman who died after being discharged from a Tennessee hospital and forced to leave despite her pleas for more help received appropriate medical treatment, the hospital said, but changes were being made to security procedures.
The findings from an internal investigation by Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville over its treatment of 60-year-old Lisa Edwards were released Tuesday, news outlets reported.
Security officers at the hospital called police Feb. 5 saying that Edwards had been evaluated and discharged, but was refusing to leave. Four responding police officers were investigated for repeatedly ignoring her pleas for help as they accused her of faking illness.
The Knox County District Attorney’s office said it would not press criminal charges against the officers after an autopsy determined that Edwards died of a stroke and that “at no time did law enforcement interaction cause or contribute to Ms. Edwards’ death.”
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 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.
The hospital said it conducted a thorough internal investigation of Edwards’ care and found that her “medical treatment and hospital discharge were clinically appropriate.”
The hospital also reviewed security procedures and said changes were being made. Several security officers who were working at the facility when Edwards was removed are no longer employed, the hospital said.
“In addition, we are implementing empathy training for security officers serving on behalf of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and Covenant Health,” the statement said.
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This could have been any one of us or our loved ones
This goes doubly for women and queer people. Medical staff are notorious for not taking our complaints seriously. I’ve been at the receiving end of that myself, i’ve seen it happen to trans friends of mine as well. Doctors assume we’re just being overly emotional and whiny. There’s also a well-documented tendency among medical staff to downplay complaints about pain from black people.
There are people, in healthcare, who still believe dixie myths about black people not feeling pain as strongly as white people.
“Native Americans may prefer to receive medication blessed by a tribal shaman”
“Muslims may thank Allah for pain”
This chart is the single most racist thing I’ve seen in my life. And it’s citing things written as recently as 2009. I’m showing this chart to anyone who claims Americans have better healthcare than other countries.
Yeah but our phrenology is light years ahead of the rest of the world
:joker-amerikkklap:
Last week I went to the hospital for ear pain/headache and the doc injected me with fucking “haldol” an anti-psychotic for schizophrenics that causes literal terror and paranoia.
It was a catholic hospital and part of me wonders if it’s because I’m trans. It happened to me before.
I had an ear infection BTW.
how is that not a crime?
I will NEVER go to a Catholic hospital
It’s the only hospital within several hours :')
i suspected as much
Jesus Christ. This actually made me cry. She was dying and no one would listen. She was all alone and confused. That poor woman. What the fuck.
in bad country death panels
Listen fat, you gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette, if we let every sick person stay in the hospital forever, how would we ever turn a profit? :biden-troll:
Isn’t this the definition of a ‘systemic problem’.
empathy training for security officer
What is that even?
Imagine a tortoise, on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun
what’s the point of knowing the signs of a stroke if the hospital’s just going to send you off to die because they apparently can’t recognize the signs of a stroke?
So you can know if someone you can profit from is having a stroke
