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The doctor had been called several times but was unavailable to personally come and sign the one piece of paper he missed signing but gave a verbal OK to let me take my dad home but that wasn’t good enough. By 4:00 PM we were still waiting and my dad had had enough and started walking out. The nurse screamed at us that we were not allowed to leave, “You’re committing a crime if you take him home.” My dad said “Yea, and you and who’s army going to stop me?” The nurse then said, “Then you have to sign a form saying you are leaving against medical advice.” I calmly and politely told the nurse that his discharged was noted in his chart and he was not leaving against medical advice and she then told me that I wasn’t “supposed” to be reading his chart and that I wasn’t “qualified” to read it assuming that I could even read. At this point, we just left. She threatened to call the police and I said, “Go ahead, I dare you”. If she had tried to physically stop us from leaving, laid a hand on either me or my dad, at that point I might have very well cold cocked her. We got a phone call from the doctor and the hospital administrator apologizing after I filed a written complaint about our treatment.

Wow, sounds like you had an encounter with an alleged nurse on THIS forum! LOL