Could the Rehabilitation Center Be in Trouble for Denying Me Medical Care?
Question by Cali~ Braydens Mama: Could the rehabilitation center be in trouble for denying me medical care?
I was sent to a rehab due to drugs, (I don’t need a lecture) however, a day after I got there, I was peeing blood and was in immense pain. I made it clear to the people there that I just wanted to go home, and I didn’t want to be there, but I was clearly in pain. I told a counselor, and the head of the program, and I was told that I was faking it, and I “just wanted to get out of the program”…
2 days later, after the pain had gotten worse, I told them there was a possibility that I was pregnant, and they made me pee in a cup to get tested.. While doing so, they saw the blood in my urine, and rushed me to the ER, MIND YOU, Only after debating with me that I put cranberry juice in my pee to make it that color.
I got to the ER, and was admitted, and diagnosed with an extremely bad kidney infection, They’re keeping me until at least thursday, and I got here on Friday.
Could they be in trouble for denying me medical care while I was in so much pain?
im under the age of 18
Best answer:
Answer by Stuart
Depends. Were you involuntarily committed to the rehab place? I mean, were you there against your will? If so, then they had a duty to act and provide reasonable medical care.
If you were voluntarily committed to the rehab place – that is, you checked yourself in, then you were technically free to leave, and your medical care was your own responsibility.
In either case, they took you to the emergency room, got you admitted, and you are being cared for. Pretty much the end of the story.
– Stuart
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Ruth Rabb on Nancy Reagan. Interviewed by Bruce Logan.
In 1979 Rurh Rabb invited Nancy Reagan to visit Daytop Village, a teenage drug rehabilitation program in New York City. Intrigued, she returned the next year in 1980 when her husband had become the Republican candidate for President. Ruth Rabb was the wife of Maxwell Rabb, former Secretary to the Cabinet (1951-58) under Eisenhower and and an early backer of Ronald Reagan. Subsequently he became America’s longest serving ambassador to Italy (1981-1989). Ruth Rabb believed that teenage drug rehabilitation would be a worthy cause for Nancy Reagan to lend her support should she become First Lady. This led in 1985 to Nancy Reagan, as First Lady, launching her “Just Say No” anti-drug crusade. Nancy Reagan gives credit in her web page on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library website to the Daytop Village experience for inspiring her hugely successful “Just Say No” program. www.reaganlibrary.com