Paraplegic allegedly 'dumped' on skid row
L.A. police say man was dropped off in front of dozens of witnesses by van linked to Hollywood Presbyterian hospital.
A paraplegic man wearing a soiled hospital gown and a broken colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter in skid row.
Witnesses told police that the man propped himself up in the door of the van. He then hurled himself from the vehicle, tumbling to the street. He pulled himself along, dragging a bag of his belongings in his clenched teeth.
These phony churches are disgusting, they claim moral authority when people are looking and dump sick paraplegic people half naked in gutters when you turn you head making them twice the child of hell. What kind of country have we become that turns its back on the sick and the elderly, a sick twisted cold one that is what kind. The state pushes them into hospitals that are all going bankrupt as they waste money on endless wars for greed and profit, eventually it will all come home to collapse the whole civilization, as it well deserves. Who is to blame? all of us who don't speak up and condemn this type of upside down society, a bankrupt cold heartless consumerist land of selfish plastic TV zombies, a hypocritical monstrous country of worthless blindfolded fools, of drugged out empty animals clawing for golden coins to insulate themselves from hell, smashing all the mirrors that might show its own reflection, demonizing all who would speak a shred of truth, no that cannot be allowed, eventually the mirrors catch up with everybody, even an entire nation. Because we are a society that throws its sick into a muddy gutter we too will be thrown into a gutter, and at that point we will deserve it. -Citizen
LA times article-
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dumping9feb09,0,7452706.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Another short article-
http://www.turnto23.com/news/10980960/detail.html
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The only consolation on this subject is "what goes around, comes around".This poor man had a mother and a father. Maybe a brother and sister and maybe at one time a wife and children. This is just too sad to think about. The truly sad thing is he only one of many who are "discarded" by society.
The last time I was unfortunate enough to require hospital care, I stayed for a few hours and the hospital ran some routine tests. The bill ran into the thousands although the tests conducted were simple $75 clinical sample tests.
Private hospitals thrive on massive revenue, city subsidies and tax advantages. How often after all do you see a hospital having a "going out of business" sale? What would a used bed pad be worth anyway?
Hospitals who thrive on it's monopoly of the sick while receiving perks and incentives from public sources should be banned from releasing a patient into a potentially harmful environment that's incompatible with his/her ailments.
The fact that the hospital should be sued in order to compel the hospital into civilized health practices is an outrage. Our government has seen fit to regulate everything else in hospital operations, yet the user of those operations is beholden to the hospitals option of securing their welfare?
Perhaps a private hospital can't be forced to provide treatment, but it should certainly be required to insure that it doesn't release patients into an environment that is likely to make the condition(s) worse.
If it's true that the hospital made a commitment to change their practice and still has not, then I would expect (and hope) that the hospital will be sued senseless to established a precedent in this case that equals the apathy it has shown towards it's customers (patients). We'll be watching this case to see what the legal outcome is.
Danny Vice
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