Sunday, August 29, 2010

Allow Us To Treat You or We'll Beat You Up!

I've been saying for years that hospitals are dangerous to your health, but this...

A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misidentified as a cancer patient claims security guards at Prince George's Hospital beat him up when he tried to leave the hospital to avoid chest surgery he didn't need - "to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest." He adds that one guard repeatedly called him "bitch" as he roughed him up.

Joseph Wheeler says a June 23 car accident put him in the hospital, which is owned by Dimensions Health Corporation. When he woke up hungry on June 24 and asked a nurse for food, she told him he couldn't eat because he was scheduled for surgery, Wheeler claims in Prince George's County Court.
Wheeler says the nurse checked his identification bracelet and told him the surgery was "to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest."
Wheeler says his ID bracelet "contained a name that was different from Mr. Wheeler's, appeared to be that of a woman, and had a birth date that was 13 years prior to his own."
The complaint continues: "Mr. Wheeler, still in serious pain from the car accident and subsequent treatment from injuries sustained, was starting to fear for his safety as the hospital had misidentified him and he was being prepped to go into a surgery that he knew nothing about.
"At this point, Mr. Wheeler's wife, Felicia Ann Wheeler, came into the room to see her husband. Mr. Wheeler immediately told Mrs. Wheeler about what was taking place. The Wheelers decided that it was in their best interest to leave Prince George's Hospital Center and seek medical care for Mr. Wheeler elsewhere."
Mrs. Wheeler confirmed with nurses outside her husband's room that he was scheduled for cancer surgery, and when she told the nurses that she and her husband were leaving, "an argument ensued."
According to the increasingly bizarre complaint, Mr. Wheeler, "hearing the argument, took out his I/V, got out of the hospital bed, put his clothes on, and started to walk out of the room. He was bleeding from the spot on his hand where that I/V had been connected.
"Mrs. Wheeler and the nurse met Mr. Wheeler at the door. The nurse told Mr. Wheeler that he was not allowed to leave. She put a bandage on Mr. Wheeler's hand to stop the bleeding from the I/V spot, and then yelled for security.
"Mr. Wheeler, now bandaged and clothed, began to walk toward the exit of the floor while his wife gathered the rest of his belongings. As he moved toward the exit, two large men in security uniforms moved quickly toward Mr. Wheeler."
These men, defendants William Reese and Donovan Scott, worked for the hospital and/or defendant Broadway Services, according to the complaint. The Wheelers say the two security guards were "immediately hostile."-Nightmarish Hospital Visit Capped by Beating, Accident Victim Says



So the "nurse" told the patient he was "not allowed to leave". Hospitals are very scary places, and you should stay away from them if at all possible.

9 comments:

  1. I just recommend staying away from private security. Those guys are always dicks who got fired for abuse as real police.

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  2. What about the nurse? She's the one who told him he couldn't leave and then called for security? So, do you also recommend staying away from nurses?


    At least private security doesn't seem to kill people as often as the police that you love so much.

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  3. I don't love them, I just realize they're better than private security.

    And statistically, nurses are less abusive than rent-a-cops.

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  4. A private, for-profit hospital, what do you expect?

    At least at public 'socialized medicine' hospital, you would have no problem slipping out without paying the bill.

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  5. Can this story be verified anywhere else? If this is true, and the hospital beat a patient and held him captive, they need to be imprisoned, and this hospital needs to be shut down till this investigation is over.

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  6. Sounds like TNB to me. The courthouse News article quotes one of the guards as speaking Ebonics.

    If this story is true, the nurse deserves to be beaten like what this hospital patient endured. This hospital needs to be shut down till an investigation is completed and the appropriate people fired and incarcerated.

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  7. Amen to that. His Lordship. Socialized medicine isn't in a rush to operate on you and then send you a huge bill.

    And yes, if you believe anarchy works, please never go to a hospital...

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  8. And yes, if you believe anarchy works, please never go to a hospital...

    What point are you attempting (poorly) to make?

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