Video of woman left at bus stop by UMMC staff goes viral
BALTIMORE (WBFF) - It's an incredibly disturbing video that's gone viral.
The video shows a woman left at a bus stop outside of a Baltimore hospital Tuesday night wearing just a hospital gown and socks.
The woman appears to have trouble communicating.
The man who recorded the video, Imamu Baraka, says he witnessed the woman being left at the bus stop, dropped off by University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus staff.
He posted the exchange to Facebook, where it's gone viral and is upsetting many people.
"So you all are just going to leave this lady out here like this?" Baraka says to four hospital employees seen leaving the bus stop and going back inside the emergency department. One is pushing an empty wheelchair.
Baraka posted the video Tuesday night. Since then, it's been viewed thousands of times.
"Are you unable to speak?" he asks the woman who's seen stumbling on the sidewalk. "Why don't you sit down, ma'am? You don't look well. Come and sit down."
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9 comments:
Baltimore in itself is a hole. Just another example of Liberalism and its failures to humanity. Credit the young man who helped this person !!!Ray!!!
This was on the CBS news last night, it was a shocking reality to me. Thank God this man helped her. There are good people out there. Doctors take a Hippocratic oath to "do no harm." I know there are variations of this, but these nurses knew better also. If this was their mother or grandmother they would be livid.
It ain't "doctors".
It's the money grubbing administrators who have no problem leaving a woman dressed in socks and a open back gown out in 25 degree weather.
Entropy.
Think things are going to get better??
Think again.
Buy guns and carry one all the time.
The breakdown of civilization (no matter how advanced) follows the same pattern that we are following.
Leaving a woman to die outside?? THAT is "civilization"??? Nope. THAT is the BREAKDOWN of civilization.
Keep cheering.
It’s not the hospitals responsibility to get you home after you’ve been discharged. Obviously this woman had issues and needed further intervention and should have been dealt with accordingly though
No, it's not the hospital's responsibility to "get you home", but if there was no one to pick up the patient from the hospital or no address to send her to in a taxi, then they should have had a social worker help her. That's what they are for.
Having been in a few hospitals including that one,I know the nursing staff and their helpers are supposd to wheel someone in a wheel chair even if they can walk alright. They are NEVER supposed to just leave someone unattendedThey stay with the patiant until someone picks them up.Whoever took that patient out should be charged with abuse and fired and put in jail in a cell with no heat.
Actually, the hospital's social service staff should have been all over this. Secondly, the physician who discharged her should have ensured her post-discharge welfare. A look at the doctor's and nurse's notes will reveal what went down.
If the patient refused further care and was discharged against doctor's orders, it's on the patient, unless mental health was an issue, which would have required more steps to be taken to ensure her safety.
Actually, the hospital's social service staff should have been all over this. Secondly, the physician who discharged her should have ensured her post-discharge welfare. A look at the doctor's and nurse's notes will reveal what went down.
If the patient refused further care and was discharged against doctor's orders, it's on the patient, unless mental health was an issue, which would have required more steps to be taken to ensure her safety.
January 11, 2018 at 6:08 PM
why don't some of you read the freaking article(s) before opening your pieholes?
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