What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
What is the name of your state, Latverian, and what happened in your hospital room?
Defamation laws vary by state but here is some general information on defamation provided for your benefit.
Defamation is communication which exposes a person to ridicule or contempt, lowers a person in the esteem of others, causes a person to be shunned by others, or injures a person in his/her business or profession.
There are two categories of defamation. Libel is written or broadcast or sometimes pictorial defamation. Slander is oral or spoken defamation.
There are five elements to defamation that must be met for a defamation claim to be successful.
One element is the "publication" or the communication of defamatory material to (at least) a third person - one person other than the person defamed. Another element is "identification." The person claiming defamation must show that the defamatory statement that was made referred to them, through either being identified by name or identifiable by content. A third element that must be shown is the "defamation." The statement that is communicated must be false and harmful to the person's reputation. The fourth element that must be proved is "fault." The person claiming defamation must prove (in most states) that the statement was communicated with either negligence or actual malice. Negligence is the failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in a similar situation. Actual malice is the deliberate intent to commit an injury. The fifth element is the "injury" that was suffered as a result of the defamation.The statement must cause harm. There must be a loss to the reputation, often demonstrated by a corresponding economic loss or a loss of standing in the community.
So ... did the police officers come to your hospital room and somehow cause you severe reputational injury?