Thank you! By the time she's in the back of the patrol car, her breathing is unmistakably compromised.
The cops aren’t the patient disposal unit of last resort...
That was exactly how they acted, that's a good description. They were there to "take the trash out."
It will be interesting to watch this flesh out as other hospital systems and police departments(I assume also politicians)watch how this story develops. I could eventually see local police saying...”The patient states she doesn’t want to go and from looking at her she does appear to be in somemedical distress...without an updated doctor’s certification and without a safe Discharge plan and place for her to go we will not act to remove her without a proper court ordered eviction notice where her medical condition and discharge plans have been vetted by a judge.”
I think that is coming. I chose the term ‘eviction’ quite deliberately as the police use such terms with property owners who are trying get non paying renters and squatters of their properties.