Dump them. Someone asks questions, wave privacy legislation at 'em. I get it. This should not happen ANYWHERE in the world - particularly in developed countries. Someone with the authority to do so should be asking questions of any doctors, nurses or other medical staff who countenanced this. Sounds like a professional oath-breaking to me. I know security guards are people who are paid low wages, to do exactly what they're told. I was one for a bit in the 70s and again in the mid-2000s for a year, when money was tight. I can NOT understand people like the guards shown - people who will do anything - including really bad things that they know are bad, for peanuts-an-hour. I would have walked. These guards didn't. I can't fathom that - people who are so degenerate they will harm others - for a pittance of a wage. They have proven themselves to be dangerous individuals and should not be on the street. This is a mess. Everybody involved in the abandonment (except the abandoned themselves) is culpable.
100% Right. As I said earlier - "Someone with the authority to do so should be asking questions of any doctors, nurses or other medical staff who countenanced this. Sounds like a professional oath-breaking to me." Somebody should remind any professionals who have a part in this, that it's the Oath of Hippocrates, not "Hypocrite-ese."
As someone who has clients that go through this with the hospitals here and the jails... I am surprised more people do not know this happens. People are constantly cycling through these systems. We don't have enough permanent affordable housing not enough transitional housing. I've had clients shot who could barely walk and the hospitals will put them right back out on the streets instead of getting them connected up with a social worker/case manager to find them a place to stay. Sometimes, depending on why the person was in the hospital, I can get funding from the state's crime victims' program and get people into a motel for a month or so. Better systems need to be put in place rather than simply walking/transporting people off property and dumping them.
I've had dumping cases reported to me. I don't really understand the point of having hospital social workers if they're not going to do their job. In my state, hospital staff are supposed to report cases involving people with disabilities and those over the age of 65 who can't care for themselves. Those cases get forwarded to Adult Protective Services.
Sounds like a professional oath-breaking to me." Somebody should remind any professionals who have a part in this, that it's the Oath of Hippocrates, not "Hypocrite-ese.
