Cop Arrests ER Doctor in Hospital Parking Lot — Patient Dies During Delay, He Warned Him, $31.4M скачать в хорошем качестве

Cop Arrests ER Doctor in Hospital Parking Lot — Patient Dies During Delay, He Warned Him, $31.4M

Cop Arrests ER Doctor in Hospital Parking Lot — Patient Dies During Delay, He Warned Him, $31.4M He told the officer a patient was dying. His hospital ID was clipped to his jacket lapel. His pager had activated four times during the detention. The officer had a description with three matching characteristics and a decision to make. He made it. Dr. Kofi Acheampong was released one hour and forty one minutes later. He drove to St. Augustine Medical Center, parked on the second level of the same parking structure where the handcuffs had gone on, and walked one hundred and forty feet to the eastern entrance. A colleague met him in the hallway outside the operating room at 9:04 PM and told him that Thomas Osei had died eleven minutes earlier. The procedure Dr. Acheampong should have performed had been attempted by a second year surgical resident who did everything she could. The gap between the officer's decision and Thomas Osei's death is one hour and forty one minutes long. It is documented to the minute by the hospital's operating room scheduling system, the parking structure's security cameras, the officer's own arrest report, and a pager log that recorded every activation during the detention. The officer saw the ID. The officer heard the pager. The officer heard the words a patient is dying. The decision is in the record. So is everything the decision cost. #WrongfulArrest #MedicalNegligence #MistakenIdentity #CivilRights #PolicyReform #Justice