Female Patient Discharged, Wheeled To Bus Stop In A Gown On Frigid Night and Left There
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Overnight, Imamu Baraka was walking past a
Baltimore hospital when he noticed something
he says he'll never forget.
The hospital's security guards had just
wheeled a patient to a bus stop, and in the
freezing temperatures they left her there.
The only thing she had on was a hospital
gown.
"It's about 30 degrees out here right now,"
Baraka says in a recording of the encounter.
"Are you OK, ma'am? Do you need me to call
the police?" he asks.
It's called "patient dumping" and it doesn't
just happen in Baltimore. In 2007, "60
Minutes" investigated the practice of
removing homeless patients from Los Angeles
hospitals and leaving them downtown.
Posted January 13, 2017
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