A Florida woman has died after being forcibly removed from a hospital where she was seeking medical treatment.
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The Tallahassee Democrat reports Barbara Dawson, 57, was rushed in an ambulance Sunday night to Calhoun Liberty Hospital in Blountstown, located about an hour away from Tallahassee, because she was complaining of stomach pain. He said that doctors thought Dawson was stable and should be released.
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Authorities in Florida are searching for answers following the death of a Bristol-area woman who was kicked out of a local hospital for demanding medical attention. She was arrested on disorderly conduct and trespassing charges by Blountstown Police. Attorney Daryl Parks says it is still very early on, but future action on their part could include a suit towards the hospital, the police department or both on behalf of the family: “Something happened in course of them taking her to the auto that alerted them that they needed to go back inside”.
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‘The most reasonable thing to do is to let her sit there and be able to settle down until she felt well.
“Even the early facts should cause grave concern for her family”, Darryl Parks, of the law firm Parks and Crump, told the paper, “but also grave concern for the public”.
Doctors tried to readmit Dawson when she collapsed.
Relatives insist that Dawson had pleaded for hospital staff to return her oxygen tank, with administrators responding that she did not need it.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials have been called in to investigate, department spokesman Steve Arthur told AP.
Courtesy of the Dawson family. Autopsy results are scheduled for release Wednesday. During this time the right side handcuff was removed from Mrs. Dawson, while she was being monitored.
Donar was at the hospital with her niece, and said that a doctor couldn’t detect Dawson’s pulse before she was brought back into the hospital, she told the Tallahassee Democrat. The medical staff maintains they did everything they could to save her. Once they were outside, Dawson collapsed, and the officers removed the handcuffs.
He said Dawson collapsed about 5 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 6:24 a.m. The video does not show the incident, he said, but it did pick up audio.
The NAACP held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to consider the incident.
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“If her death was wrongfully determined, then somehow, someway, there needs to be some sort of recompense to the family”, Dale Landry of the Florida NAACP said in a statement.
