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A North Carolina mother is suing AlliedBarton Security Services after she says they put her son in a taxi and sent him home even though he was already dead.

Hospital security guards sent, A'Darrin Washington, who they claimed was "uncooperative" and "refusing to talk or move," home from Cumberland County Hospital on Nov. 22, 2011.

A'Darrin had been going to the hospital for 10 years for treatment for recurrent pneumonia associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. On Nov. 14, A'Darrin was admitted to the hospital and misdiagnosed with bacterial pneumonia.

After he was correctly diagnosed with fungal pneumonia and given the proper medication, the hospital said he was ready to be discharged on Nov. 21 even though he was still feeling weak and ill.

When hospital called a taxi service to take A'Darrin home the next day, AlliedBarton Security guards moved him from a wheelchair and into the cab, according to his mother.

"(A) nurse called for security to escort Mr. Washington from his hospital bed to the lobby for discharge because Mr. Washington was allegedly 'uncooperative' and 'refusing to talk or move,'" the complaint states. "Mr. Washington was unresponsive due to the fact that he was dying."

Deborah Washington claims that the guards put her son in the taxi and even crossed his legs. When he arrived at home after a 45-minute trip, he was "unresponsive and cold to the touch."
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/Blog/20...e-from-hospital-dead-in-a-taxi/7731386972109/
The complaint goes on to claim that at least two hospital staff members expressed concern over her son's treatment and that even the taxi driver was worried that his new passenger was dead.

Washington claims that after her son was put into the taxi for the ride home, he remained unconscious for the entire trip and when he arrived at his destination he was found to be 'unresponsive and cold to the touch'.

To make matters even worse, Deborah Washington is claiming her son's body was then "left in the taxi in the front yard for for hours while police investigated."
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/lawsuit-dying-or-possibly-already-dead-man-forcibl/ncNxg/
 
For real? The hospital didn't even look into WHY he wasn't cooperating and wasn't moving/talking? Brutal. And un-fucking believable!!
 
My question is why the hell isn't she suing the hospital for malpractice? He was clearly not ready to be discharged and perhaps could've been saved.
 
Wait hold up he must have been uninsured or had Medicaid that's why the treatment. It is times like this that it is brutally visible that our health care system has lost it's humanity and is too fucking much like corporate America dead on the inside just like the young man they sent home because they needed the bed for an insured patient.
 
Well, what's the problem exactly. The hospital says he was unresponsive which he clearly was, dead folks tend to not talk much.
 
I knew a girl who was kicked out of a reform school when they didn't believe she contracted TB and she flatlined, then came back and they didn't accept her for being a "liability"
 
Wait hold up he must have been uninsured or had Medicaid that's why the treatment. It is times like this that it is brutally visible that our health care system has lost it's humanity and is too fucking much like corporate America dead on the inside just like the young man they sent home because they needed the bed for an insured patient.

It's insane. Makes me appreciate my country's medical system a little bit more. (Just a little bit).
 
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