Patient
Summary: Police will threaten you to leave and make you drive home intoxicated even if you tell them you are not safe to drive. The other day I was there and had been given a heavy dose of medication. This included narcotics and barbiturates. I had also been prescribed something that I couldn't take so I informed the nurse this. She didn't want to listen to me so I asked for a patient advocate. She also didn't want to listen to me so she brought a doctor in to yell at me. I was forced out of there but as I said I was on heavy meds and disoriented so I wasn't very stable on my feet. I had stopped to get my balance only to be threatened by police to leave. They said I was trespassing. I informed them I did not feel safe to drive, because I didn't. One of the officers said he didn't care and he'd drag me out of there kicking and screaming if he had to. I got out my phone to start recording this because I didn't think that was an appropriate response to what I had said. Which I had said calmly, keep in mind I was very "out of it" due to the med combination I was on. The second officer there warned the first officer who had just threatened me that I was now recording so he changed his answer to sound less violent. I repeated again, calmly, that I did not feel safe to drive. They kept on harassing me telling me I had to leave because I was "trespassing" and discharged. Eventually I became agitated because, I wasn't in my right mind, and started to yell at them as they forced me out of there but I could hardly walk and had to stop at least once to get my balance the whole time the police are harassing me to leave. In the end I was forced to leave, by car, not in any condition to drive because of these two officers and the doctors apparently not giving a crap that the medication combination they had given me was dangerous to drive under. How is this legal? Why is this legal? This hospital is a lawsuit waiting to happen.