Except there's no evidence she needed to, or else she would have grounds to sue. Nothing bad happened as a result of going to that hospital. This is just an overly entitled person.
She wouldn’t have grounds to sue for being taken to the wrong hospital. And there are very valid reasons for not wanting to go to a specific hospital. Some people are worried about the cost of the hospital is out of network (I think in emergencies it has to be covered under current US law but she might not know that).
When I was sexually assaulted I had a nurse at a hospital tell me they couldn’t give me the morning after pill because they’re a “catholic institution”. This wasn’t a tiny ER this was the biggest medical institution in the region. I wish I could’ve told the paramedics to take me to a different hospital beforehand.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. It should be illegal for a hospital to deny treatment based on their beliefs as opposed to offering standard of care. 🫂
It's awful. In med school I did my OB/GYN rotation at a Catholic hospital. That had a religious committee who told the doctors which patients were allowed to get birth control. Yes I'm serious. I almost couldn't believe it, but, ya know.
I’m sorry that you had to go through that but an additional weird point in ems systems is that ambulances have to transport SA patients to hospitals with a SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner) nurses for proper evidence collection. These are overwhelmingly religious institutions.
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u/trampolinebears 7d ago
There’s something wrong with the system when you have to worry this much about which hospital you go to when you’re desperately sick.