Man's Gay Partner Handcuffed/Expelled from Missouri Hospital: Hospital PR Team Addresses Facebook

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Gay man handcuffed, forcibly removed from partner’s bedside at Missouri hospital
4/11/2013 11:58am by John Aravosis

UPDATE: I just interviewed the daughter of Roger Gorley, the man arrested at his husband’s hospital bed. Her eyewitness account directly contradict’s hospital’s official statement. She also alleges HIV discrimination by the police.

Research Medical Center in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, forcibly removed a gay man, Roger Gorley, from his partner Allen’s bedside in handcuffs, even though the men had a joint power of attorney in order to make medical decisions for each other.

The men say the hospital refused to check for their medical power of attorney, even though they have one, and told the hospital they have one.

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http://americablog.com/2013/04/missouri-gay-hospital-visitation-remove-research-medical-center.html

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https://www.facebook.com/ResearchMedicalCenter

Gotta Love Missouri!

[LonePirate]

1. Wow! They are catching all kinds of hell and deservedly so due to their bigotry.

The communications\PR staff for the hospital or corporate owner has their hands full right now. I certainly would not want to have that job for the next few days.

[Demo_Chris]

2. They deserve it. nt

[rdharma]

3. "refused to check for their medical power of attorney"

Do I understand this correctly?!!!

"The men say the hospital refused to check for their medical power of attorney, even though they have one, and told the hospital they have one."

Would they do this if it were his" live-in girlfriend with a medical power of attorney"? Hell no!

This has national attention...... the wrongdoers are going to pay! As it should be.

[backscatter712]

5. Was this the nurse at that hospital?

[backscatter712]

4. Check out the daughter's story.

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http://americablog.com/2013/04/interview-daughter-gay-man-handcuffed-husbands-hospital-bed.html

The pigs acted like fucking thugs - no attempts to deescalate, no attempts to figure out the law and determined who actually belonged there and who didn't, they just barked orders, and when the person they barked orders at didn't hop to, they beat the shit out of him.

Fuck the pigs.

[stevenleser]

6. I'm going to cover this on my radio show on Sunday/Monday

I'm trying to interview Roger Gorley or his daughter Amanda

[rdharma]

7. I'll give it a listen!

Better be good!

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Jesus.

Unbelievable.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. I'd recommend reserving judgement until the facts are in.

Unless you have evidence that the version of events presented by the couple and the daughter is accurate and the version presented by the hospital isn't, I wouldn't assume that.