Society's Child
A woman who was suspect of abusing drugs and arrested for refusing to leave a hospital died of a blood clot shortly after being put in jail, according to St. Louis Today.
Anna Brown, a 29-year-old homeless African American woman, had gone to St. Mary's Health Center in Richmond Heights, Missouri complaining of leg pain after spraining her ankle. Doctors performed an x-ray of her knees and an ultrasound, but detected no blood clots. She was given pain medication and discharged.
About eight hours later she returned to the hospital by ambulance complaining of abdominal pain. The hospital told her she had already been treated and discharged her again, but Brown refused to leave. When police officers arrived on another call, the hospital told them that Brown was claiming she "did not receive adequate medical attention and did not have to leave."
The officers said they waited about three hours before a doctor told them Brown was healthy enough to be arrested.
Brown told the officers she could not stand, so they carried her by her arms and legs. Police suspected Brown was on drugs and left her laying in her cell on the ground.
About fifteen minutes later, a jail worker found her dead. An autopsy did not find any drugs in her system.
St. Mary's Health Center has denied any wrongdoing.
"Our records show that, in this case, everything that should have been done medically was done properly. We found nothing that would have changed this tragic outcome," according to a statement.
Reader Comments
...and an example of why Society is so filled with pain, anger and chaos. I read an article on another website about Anna Brown and chose not to watch the video clip - I knew it would upset me.
This tragic mistreatment and neglect of a fellow human being is an example of so called educated and trained people - they lack sensitivity and conscience. This example of abuse to a suffering fellow human being depicts the reality of psychopaths,sociopaths and narcissists running the planet.
Psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists have no empathy and do not care who they hurt. So just like Beauzy above I can see that the mind control and ego of people in positions of authority - supports my argument. Students of any subject need to be taught how to think - not what to think and more importantly not to forget common sense and sensitivity.
Much Peace...to Anna Brown and her family...
In the U.S. there is not very many people with empathy for their fellow human beings anymore. They have been "ponerized". They have become like those in power - no empathy, no conscience.
You cannot trust the majority of mainstream medical staff,they are so,so full of their own Med school produced ego's that it gets in the way of their objectivity,the epitome of the term patronizing .
The Hippocratic oath does not apply to the homeless one could rightly assume.