zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 12, 2018 19:00:36 GMT -5
Is this person 22 with a mother or an old lady? Seems to be two stories.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 12, 2018 19:09:18 GMT -5
I have heard the pros and cons of institutions, and I think we could benefit from having some facilities to help people who aren't mentally capable of regular life functioning.
However, it would have to be government sponsored. Unless we can convince the health care industry to donate the amount they can save by not treating these people, we would have to make room in the collective budget.
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 12, 2018 19:11:11 GMT -5
I vote to stop funding the UN and help our citizens who are mentally ill.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jan 12, 2018 19:14:16 GMT -5
I don't think that this patient had addiction issues. Methinks she was deaf or HOH, but it's hard to tell someone's mental state after they have been put out into thirty degree weather in a hospital gown. The brain shuts down to protect the core of the body really fast. Nobody subjected to that shock makes any kind of sense or appears coherent. I do hope that the ensuing investigations include interviews with the drivers of buses that service this location during low-traffic hours. I find it hard to believe that a half a dozen uniformed security drones would leave a woman that could be their mother out in those temps unless they had some sort of assurance that they were dumping her in a safe place. You just don't see that kind of calm unless folks have some sort of assurance that they aren't killing someone or have been doing this for a long time. My guess is that this has been going on for a long time. According to the website of one of our national news channels, the woman has issues with mental illness (according to her mother). They don't mention whether addiction is part of it. Also, so that nobody misinterprets my argument, I don't believe our social services are so overburdened yet that this kind of thing is inevitable, even in Baltimore.
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Post by haapai on Jan 12, 2018 19:27:05 GMT -5
I don't give a damn about her prior history of mental health issues. Pay attention to her feet.
She isn't wearing shoes. I don't know what is covering her feet or where it came from , but I'm damn sure that if you dumped me out on the sidewalk wearing that kind of footgear and a hospital gown, I'd be incoherent within two minutes.
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Post by dee27 on Jan 12, 2018 19:30:52 GMT -5
Is this person 22 with a mother or an old lady? Seems to be two stories. I thought she (Rebecca) was 22, and her mother is Cheryl who is trying to get legal custody of her to deal with her affairs.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 12, 2018 20:04:01 GMT -5
Sounds like we need a new Mother Teresa to offer comfort to the 'dumped patients'. Mother Teresa would tell her that suffering brings her closer to Christ.
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Post by busymom on Jan 12, 2018 22:07:16 GMT -5
What is wrong with people? Seriously. I mean, it's the middle of Winter, for crying out loud. What if that was your mother? And people wonder why I worry what's going to happen to DS after I'm gone. Some people just have no conscience. I wouldn't do that to a dog, or any other animal, so why is it o.k. to do that to a fellow human being? Doing something about it might entail taking a patient like this into your home and caring for her until she dies. In the future, it will entail this kind of commitment. I'm not saying people shouldn't make such a commitment, but we can't take it lightly. Can you honestly say, in your heart of hearts, that if not walking by ultimately meant taking a homeless stranger (possibly with medical, psychological, and addiction issues) into your home and caring for them for the rest of their lives, you still wouldn't walk by? Only you can answer this, but I think you're fooling yourself if your answer is an unqualified "yes". Maybe I'm different than some, but I do tend to get involved if I see someone in serious trouble. Years ago, I had a job that required me to be at work before 6 am. It was one of those miserably cold Winter mornings, with the temp at -30. I drove past a stalled car where I could see someone was still inside the car, so I called 911 to make sure they'd be able to get somewhere safe. Not every area has a 24 gas station or convenience store to be warm until a tow truck arrives.
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