Hospitals discharging people and dumping them off at homeless shelters
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/. — 1 year ago(August 16, 2024 04:21 AM)
Right? I don't see the problem. Should hospitals just
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treat homeless people because they don't have anywhere to go after? Lol. It's not the hospitals job to sort your housing situation out .
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Pandora — 1 year ago(August 16, 2024 08:55 AM)
Exactly. Hospitals need the beds in order to treat people who require medical attention. Once that person no longer needs to be there then they are no longer the hospital’s responsibility. People are lucky they are getting an Uber as I would imagine a lot of the time they would have to make their own way to a shelter if they were homeless.
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Lilith — 1 year ago(August 17, 2024 08:50 PM)
What really is unfortunate about this is something along the lines of Matthew Perry. Granted, he wasn't homeless, but what if he were "conscious" enough to realize that something had been done to him that he did not anticipate or expect and got himself to an Emergency Department. Would they do a rapid detox and send him on his way (ie: back into the hands of those who abused their positions of privilege, who would now be even more angry and more determined). After all, their only job is to stabilize the patient and then release them. Sometimes, if an OD comes in, a rapid detox can be done, but no form of actual addiction therapy is provided. That's why there are drug rehab centres.
Insurance charges everyone an arm and a leg and then fights everyone tooth and nail when it comes to covering anything.
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Lilith — 1 year ago(August 17, 2024 09:12 PM)
He was receiving ketamine infusions, perfectly legal, under controled supervision. His last official one was one-and-a-half weeks prior to his death. However, his personal assistant admitted to working with two doctors and a dealer known as the "Ketamine Queen" to obtain additional Ketamine (which also leads me to believe that, given this ketamine was being obtained illegally, and administered illegally, there was no way to determine the quality, safety or accurate dosage). Not to mention, why would he be given ketamine at home when he was maintaining physician-supervised infusions at predetermined times/dates as part of his recovery from other substance and alcohol abuse/addiction?
He had been sober for a while and communicating with his mother about how happy he was, and how much he was looking forward to the next chapters in his life. This is so incongruent with him taking his own life. He also was not the one who administered the lethal dose of ketamine; his personal assistant was and confessed as much. There were also texts released where the doctors involved were taunting him (behind his back) debating how much this sucker would fork over for payments.
The whole thing is really disturbing and it's still somewhat confusing.
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