Chilling Report Shows Asthma Sufferer Died in Custody After Cops Ignored His Pleas for Medical Attention | AlterNet Being an asthma patient since a horrific toxic fume exposure on 1.10.89, I have learned that there is a lot of misinformation out there by those who have nether medical school training nor have been a patient or family member of one who has learned some things about their medical condition.
I can emphasize with what occurred here although I am not an eyewitness as to the events, nor have seen his medical records.. I have been one discriminated by those who either did not understand nor wanted to care to know. Thankfully, I have never been in police custody But do know, what its like to not have ones medical conditions understood very well by co workers being misled by management as occurred that resulted in EEOC SANCTIONS AGAINST THE SEC OF HHS due to her treatment of me her employee.
Our society is where one is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. If one applies that same principle to one who says they are ill, this man might be alive. Let the doctors decide if he is 'faking' being ill by all the diagnostic tests, etc. Plus , he obviously must have already been under treatment and a check of his possessions might have discovered some inhalers or other medications.
If one is placed in a high stress situation , like being held by police, which for most of us would be very physically stressful. If not plain scared.
What occurs when any one is in that situation? Ones adrenal gland does the human survival instinct things and goes on over drive. if one is a heart, or lung, etc. patient, one might be put in a very dangerous situation as this man was and died. The adrenalin 'rush' can make it seem that the person is OK, as one is not doing lab work , nor running an EKG strip on the heart, nor any of the other many diagnostic tests doctors run to prove that the patient is in serious medical need. The body is in overdrive and if one already has weakened organs, they can fail. And if one is scared due to real danger from any kind of predator, its is magnified. We have some basic 'animal' instincts just like other mammals and out bodies can use these mechanism for our survival. even though we also have a brain to think with. THE MESSAGE OF THIS ARTICLE IS DO NOT PLAY DOCTOR UNLESS YOU HAVE GONE TO MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND EVEN THEN, THE FIRST IMPRESSION MIGHT NOT BE ACCURATE FOR THE BEST OF DOCTORS WHO WILL USE THEIR TRAINING TO LISTEN TO THE HEART, CHECK PULSE AND ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS EVEN ONE WITH BASIC FIRST AID TRAINING COULD DO.
No matter what one member of society may or may not have done, they do not deserve to die with out due process. AND even then mistakes have been made, maybe more than one might wish to know and understand.
There are many 'invisible' disabilities one might have. And asthma an other related conditions can be one of them, especially if they have had good medical care and have been taught how best to manage their breathing and ' not panic' when in an ' episode.' BUT ADD BEING IN CUSTODY FOR MOST OF US IS GOING TO PUT ONES BODY INS SURVIVAL MODE OF FEAR AND PANIC AND THEN ONES ADRENAL GLANDS TAKE OVER.
There is the regular gland one can find in any picture of the anatomy of the human body, but there are other body parts that react also. Ever notice a cat 'hissing' in fear or survival mode? We may not 'hiss' but our bodies do a lot other things. much like any other member of the animal kingdom.
WHEN ONE IGNORES ONES PLEA THAT THEY ARE ILL, ONE IS ENGAGING IN DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ONES DISABILITY OR HANDICAP, EVEN ITS A TEMPORARY SITUATION. And do not forget the basics of our founding dominate the US Constitution, that one is innocent until proven otherwise or a medical cause is or is not found.
I have never had a pain in my life that did not have a cause. Sometimes, it may be something temporary, like eating the wrong food or a temporary illness that one recovers from soon. BUT IT CAN MEAN SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS. ND IT TAKES A DOCTOR WITH ALL THE TRAINING TO FIGURE IT OUT AND KNOW WHAT BEST TO DO.
When Federal workers comp sent me back to work with promises made to accommodate my disability from 1/10/89; why was doctor after doctor with medical tests after medically tests proving the seriousness of the situation they had placed me in was ignored? The worse kind of discrimination took place and still is by a few that seem to have no regard for human life or human suffering and only add to it. How can such uncaring persons exist among the rest of us who do basically care for others?
Too often those who act like this, seem to have no concept of self worth , that YAHUSHA WHOM WE CHRISTIANS CALL CHRIST JESUS SAYS ALL OF US ARE LOVED BY OUR CREATOR AND EACH OF US IS TO CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER. Even if the person in custody, seems to be one that society does not like very much and may need to be separated from society for society's own good.. EVEN THE PRISONER IS LOVED EQUALLY BY 'HIM.'
Went to near Dallas today for a medical appt. Just ahead of us was a terrible crash and we got caught in traffic for an hour with no way off the highway. My asthma flared up and I am still dealing with it.
And pray that some newer medical problems might be understood and resolved. I do not mention my doctors' names, but understand that many good doctors are around us and should be in charge of health care in this nation as they are the ones with training and knowledge and somehow we have turned the whole health care system up side down and the doctors are on the bottom of the heap with profit making CEO's running things and in the govt run programs which all are now, a lot of real skimming and scamming and theft is blatantly going on with no govt entity to stop it.
Maybe the AMA or some other group might share some info as to just how much ones doctor actually takes home in their pay check at the end of the day after having to pay for their staff and billing services and malpractice insurance and all the other costs they must spend must to 'hang out their shingle' and be open for business. \
MOST IS BEING CAUSED BY THE GOVT CORRUPTION THAT IT ON GOING AS THEY HAVE TO STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE WITH ALL OF IT GOING ON. Considering their expertise in contrast to the profit making CEO, most are not doing that well in a realistic comparison. Our medical professionals are not the cause of much of the high costs of health care in this nation. Its the profit motive of those surrounding those and providing equipment and medicines, etc and the layers of beaucracy created by govt contractors to skim and scam the public they would not need to hire or have or report to if the govt was doing the real over sight they did at one time, instead of letting the international cabal run our health care in to the pit of third world quality care, and the GOVERNMENT ITSELF AND THEIR UNACCOUNTABLE CONTRACTORS IS WHERE THE HIGH COSTS ARE AND TOO MUCH HAS GONE MISSING SINCE NO REAL INTERNAL AUDIT CONTROLS OF A GOVT CONTRACTOR IS DONE FOR A COUPLE OF DECADES.
Of Course , there are a few that are not the best doctors, but most are really struggling against great odds to keep us all as healthy as possible and save our lives and health at the times we really need them to be there for us.
My prayers for the ones in the accident today that they may get good medical care and make as full a recovery as possible. we could not see well all that had occurred as a big truck was in front of us, but hopefully no one was killed. If so , condolences to their family, as we are all your family as part of the human family on this planet called Earth. I got home and was very ill, but rested and feeling a little better to share with you some deep concerns of too much of what is wrong in our society and we can fix this I we all work together to do so. VOTE, ITS YOUR RIGHT TO LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD AT STAKE.
Linda Joy Adams 8/26/14
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