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[CousinIT]

Man captures video of "patient dumping" outside Baltimore hospital (in freezing weather)

BALTIMORE -- Overnight, Imamu Baraka was walking past a Baltimore hospital when he noticed something he says he'll never forget.

The hospital's security guards had just wheeled a patient to a bus stop, and in the freezing temperatures they left her there. The only thing she had on was a hospital gown.

"It's about 30 degrees out here right now," Baraka says in a recording of the encounter. "Are you OK, ma'am? Do you need me to call the police?" he asks.

It's called "patient dumping" and it doesn't just happen in Baltimore. In 2007, "60 Minutes" investigated the practice of removing homeless patients from Los Angeles hospitals and leaving them downtown.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-captures-video-of-patient-dumping-outside-baltimore-hospital/

[SummerSnow]

1. I saw this, how cold and hateful :(

[ExciteBike66]

2. "Pro-Life Healthcare" in action!

That patient should have gotten a job if she wanted to afford a coat, dad-gummit...

[Frustratedlady]

3. Remember when they did that to mental patients during Reagan's era?

They'd put them on a bus or in a taxi with enough fare for a one-way trip out of town. That was right before they started closing the mental hospitals.

[procon]

5. Yeah, and the whole country has been paying for that mess ever since. nt

[procon]

4. Profits over people.

The only way to stop the insanity is to get the corporate money interests out of healthcare and implement a universal system for all.

[pansypoo53219]

6. EXCEPTIONAL!

craven. only the rich win.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. You also have to wonder about security guards who

actual do that.

[lindysalsagal]

8. But what matters is that the shareholders get their returns, and the administrators their salaries.

in 6 figures.

[Dustlawyer]

9. My brother was on Medicaid and Medicare when I brought him to the hospital

ER. He was disoriented, had acute pancreatitis, and weighed 89 pounds at age 48. They tried to discharge him instead of admitting him, a big mistake on their part as I explained how I would sue them for patient dumping and run to the media. I explained this to the doctor and showed her my Bar license. She claimed she was not the one who made the call that it was the admissions board. I told her to communicate my message and she came back and said he would stay only one night. My brother could not even remember his birthday at the time or who was President.

After his admission the doctor on his floor was shocked they were going to dump him. He stayed 11 days before he passed away from his illness.

These hospital administrators should be charged with a crime for doing this!!!

[Frustratedlady]

10. How awful for your brother.

My mother died of pancreatic cancer and it was tough for her. I can't imagine what I would have done if they had tried to kick her out like that. To show the contrast, she was on Medicare and was hospitalized in May and continued as a patient in the HOSPITAL, not a nursing home, until she died in September. Try that now.