Injustices~~TAC

Have you ever noticed that crimes committed in cities get far more media coverage than those committed in rural areas? Here's the story... A few weeks ago a man, age 33 was the victim of the police department and area hospital. He was blind, a severe diabetic, and on dialysis. A friend of his had gone to his home to pick him up and take him to receive dialysis. When he got there, this man was having a seizure (brought on by diabetis). He immediately called 911 and asked for an ambulance. With every 911 call the police and fire department have to also be dispatched. When the police arrived at this man's home, rather than listening to the friend that had called for the ambulance, they assumed that the man having a seizure was actually having a bad reaction to amphetamines. In the course of their "restraining" him, he received a punctured lung, as well as some bone fractures. Then, when they took him to the hospital, the doctor on call decided to give the man an injection to counter act the amphetamines, without running any blood tests. His grandmother was physically blocked from going into the treatment area, but could hear him crying and begging the doctor not to give him the injection. He repeated many times that he had not taken any drugs. The doctor then chose to ignore his pleas and gave him the injection anyway. As a result, he went into a coma, was transferred to a metro hospital where he later died. Strangely the story was only aired one time, during the noon hour, on the metro news station and ran in the local paper, on page 2 once. However, they have run the story about a woman in another state who has three children, but was caught throwing rocks from an overpass at oncoming traffic, over and over again. I would think that the story of this poor, disabled man would rate more coverage than that. Unless of course, it is because the police dept. and hospital are on the burner. However, we continually hear of other police brutality cases on a repeated basis. I am really heated over this. By the way, the metro hospital ran a blood test on this man and found that he in fact had NO amphetamines or any other illegal substance in his system.

Side note: This same hospital nearly killed my son a few years ago. I had taken him to the emergency room with a temperature of 103.5. He cried the entire time we were in the waiting room because his neck and back were hurting him terribly. When he finally saw the doctor on call he looked up my son's nose and said "the fever is due to a sinus infection, take him home and call your personal physician in 3 days if he doesn't get better". There was no blood testing ran or anything. I asked him why a sinus infection would cause such incredible pain in his neck and back. He told me that it was nothing to worry about, that he had simply pulled a muscle and gave me a prescription for liquid tylenol with codein, as well as an oral antibiotic. By the next morning he had gotten much worse. His fever had spiked to over 104 degrees. I called the hospital and was told to keep giving him the tylenol with codein. I was not at all comfortable with that, so I called the ER of a nearby "small town" hospital. They told me to get him there immediately. When we arrived they performed a spinal tap, which confirmed that he had bacterial spinal meningitis. Had I taken their advice and waited, my son would have died within the next 48 hours. I complained to deaf ears at the first hospital. I even sent them a letter detailing the mistreatment and let them know that they could have access to his records. I never heard anything from anyone there.

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