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What is the name of your state? IL
My mother, in her 70s, had a heart attack. She was taken to the hospital, they put a stent in the clogged artery. I visited her the next day and she was doing remarkably well. She hadn't slept much, but was awake and talking - quite coherent considering what happened the day before.
The next day went by without incident. The following morning, she had started hallucinating, we're not sure if it was due to the drugs, lack of sleep, stress, etc. She managed to get out of her bed, walk down three flights of stairs, walked right out the front door, through the parking lot, and into the middle of the road (a busy 4-lane road) where she was trying to flag down somebody (she was having paranoid hallucinations / delusions at this point that she was in mortal danger). Fortunately somebody stopped and helped her, called the police who took her back to the hospital.
Later that day (12 hours) they said she was OK and let her go home with my father.
Personally I'm pretty outraged at this, that the hospital allowed a woman who was wearing hospital gown to just walk right out, past any non-existent security, into the sub-zero temperature. Fortunately she wasn't injured, but the lack of any security to see who is coming into or leaving the hospital concerns me. My father thinks since she wasn't hurt (no damages) there's no point talking to a lawyer. I think otherwise. I'm happy she wasn't hurt but I'm concerned this displays a serious problem at that hospital and somebody, next time, will get killed due to their negligence.
Can someone elaborate a bit if this is worth speaking to a lawyer to take action on?
My mother, in her 70s, had a heart attack. She was taken to the hospital, they put a stent in the clogged artery. I visited her the next day and she was doing remarkably well. She hadn't slept much, but was awake and talking - quite coherent considering what happened the day before.
The next day went by without incident. The following morning, she had started hallucinating, we're not sure if it was due to the drugs, lack of sleep, stress, etc. She managed to get out of her bed, walk down three flights of stairs, walked right out the front door, through the parking lot, and into the middle of the road (a busy 4-lane road) where she was trying to flag down somebody (she was having paranoid hallucinations / delusions at this point that she was in mortal danger). Fortunately somebody stopped and helped her, called the police who took her back to the hospital.
Later that day (12 hours) they said she was OK and let her go home with my father.
Personally I'm pretty outraged at this, that the hospital allowed a woman who was wearing hospital gown to just walk right out, past any non-existent security, into the sub-zero temperature. Fortunately she wasn't injured, but the lack of any security to see who is coming into or leaving the hospital concerns me. My father thinks since she wasn't hurt (no damages) there's no point talking to a lawyer. I think otherwise. I'm happy she wasn't hurt but I'm concerned this displays a serious problem at that hospital and somebody, next time, will get killed due to their negligence.
Can someone elaborate a bit if this is worth speaking to a lawyer to take action on?