Your posts are a great summary.
Just my opinion, but it just seems hard to believe that doctors who suspected a perforated bowel would send him home. More likely, they didn’t take his complaint of poisoning seriously.
Either way, this article doesn’t make the hospital look good and sounds like Cormier was on his own.
A perforated bowel kills.
If he was sent home and the medical record reads something along the lines of ‘possible perforated bowel’ with no documentation of methods to rule it out, the hospital is in a world of hurt.
A perforated bowel is an emergency and requires immediate surgical intervention. The longer the delay, the less likely the patient is to survive.
The article claims the cops are the ones who told the reporters that the hospital suspected perforated bowel but sent him home anyway. I seriously doubt whether anybody in the medical field would be willing to make such a claim because they’d know that would constitute medical malpractice.
Maybe the hospital poo-poohed Cormier’s claims of poisoning and sent him home but if they wanted to cover their behinds they would NOT say they suspected perforated bowel. They’d put something else in the medical record if they wanted to cover their behinds because the perforated bowel story could be a quick way to either be sued or lose a medical license. This story doesn’t make sense from a medical standpoint whatsoever.
Suspecting a perforated bowel but sending him home anyway did not happen. It’s got to be an excuse, and it is not an excuse that the medical people would make up. I suspect that the cops made it up.
If so, what else are they willing to make up?
I’d really like to hear the hospital explain why the cops are saying the hospital sent home somebody they suspected of either being poisoned or having a perforated bowel - 2 fatal conditions if there is no intervention/treatment.