Imamu Baraka didn't stand silently by. He pushed back.
@PhilipKennicott asks: Will you pass that fundamental moral test?
Our Senators and Fox News faced that test w Trump's blatant racism in his s***hole moment on immigration. And they mostly failed.http://wapo.st/2Dt4Jni
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While two Senators "didn't remember,"
@LindseyGrahamSC spoke up: "'America is an idea, not a race.' ... And by the way, the senator added, he himself was a descendant of immigrants who came to the United States from "shithole countries with no skills."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/us/politics/trump-immigration-congress.html?_r=0 …Show this thread
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And this is happening in addition to children in Baltimore schools with no heat & an LA educator being removed from a School Board meeting for questioning why the board prez got a raise ($400k) & no one else had in a decade. Something is desperately wrong here in our country.
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Something is desperately wrong. Well said.
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Where does the blame lie? This is not a hospital problem; it’s a social and public health one.
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How is it also not a hospital problem? "First, do no harm." Discharging a scantily-clothed, mentally-unwell person into the cold weather without ensuring she had someone to get her to a safe place is DOING HARM. (Note, I use "also" to acknowledge PH and society play a role.)
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If we want to define hospitals and EDs as the place to solve all societal problems, I’m fine with that. But then give hospitals access to shelter beds, food, etc.
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How should this be handled when the patient is violent/aggressive or refuses offers for shelter or care?
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A new height in utter shameful lack of empathy. Not surprising. I was devastated by suburb of homeless poverty in
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My mentally ill nephew was just let out of jail in Phoenix and put back on the streets. Staying at a friend's house for a few days but what about after that? The mentally ill have nowhere to go .
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In medicine we care about people. This is not caring. This is (as you put it,
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Of course the apology came only after video surfaced! If video not existed, the hospital would continue to be comfortable with their actions. Kinda like the GOP and developing tRump drama.
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Unfortunately this is common practice. Many homeless patients w/ adv. chronic disx. are regularly discharged to shelters, when available, or into the streets. Hospitals with high readmissions should be required to provide respite/transitional medical housing for homeless pts.
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...and did anyone bother to ask *her* if she was good with posting this? No. Didn't think so.
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THAT'S what you have a problem with? The hospital literally wheeled a mentally ill women out of the hospital & dumped her in 30 degree weather. A good Samaritan filmed it & called an ambulance for her. W/O him, this story wouldn't have hit national news. He deserves a reward.
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No, that is not what I am concerned about. I do and have applaud him for calling this out. It's not "this OR that". It's "this AND that."
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Son couldn’t understand why we (adults) were upset over this story. I said “it’s like if your bus driver stopped halfway and said walk the rest of the way home.” It’s wrong! Where is the care in
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Unbelievable..NHS far from perfect BUT this would would never happen in UK
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Bad news for the University of MD. Never should happen. End of story
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