Samuels v. Southern Baptist Hospital Doris Harsh Rasmussen College Authors note This research is being submitted on January 10th for Felicia Stokes, Medical Law and Ethics. On July 4th 1988 a young women named Rachelle Harris age 16 was admitted into the psychiatric unit at Baptist hospital after trying to commit suicide. After midnight on the twelve day after being admitted, Rachelle Harris was raped by a nursing assistant named Raymond Steward. She had testified that he was touching her inappropriately as she was waking up and told him she was a virgin. She tried to run away from him into the bathroom but was unable to lock the door because the psychiatric ward, for the patients’ safety, does not have locks.
After the assault was finished Ms. Harris went to the nurse’s station in order to try and use the phone. When she wasn’t allowed to she went into another patient’s room and told her what had happened. This patient described Ms. Harris as being emotional and very upset. The nursing assistant tried to get the patient to calm Ms. Harris down, while trying to say he didn’t do anything. He later left the unit and was terminated the same day because he left without any notice (Richards, 2002).
Upon arrival, the staff were horrified with the news of an at home delivery. They insisted on placing the baby on isolation in the nursery for three days (the child was born outside the hospital) without parental visitation. After a lengthy argument, the staff allowed parental visitation but still placed the child in isolation. Three days later, the woman left the hospital with her baby boy. She stated that her experience with the hospital staff showed her that the hospital had some procedures that needed to be changed.
She has her GED and lives with her two children and boyfriend. She was referred to the outpatient clinic by her in-patient psychiatrist for continued psychiatric evaluation and treatment. K states that: “ no matter what medications they put me on I end up in the hospital twice a year. My highs are my lows. I fly so fast that I end up paranoid and out of it.” As per K; she was sexually abused by an uncle at age 15.
24th July 1999: Victoria is taken to North Middlesex Hospital's casualty department with scalding to her head and face which the doctors immediately suspect have been deliberately inflicted. Kouao presents another story as to how the injuries were sustained to Lisa Arthurworrey and PC Jones. 6th August 1999: Victoria is discharged from the hospital and is collected by Kouao after her explanation for the injuries is accepted by child protection authorities. October 1999: Trial evidence reveals that from October 1999 until the following January, Carl Manning forces Victoria to sleep in a bin liner
After two weeks in the hospital, Kate developed an infection that placed her in a coma on a respirator, which is “saving” her for the time being. Another part of this chapter that I found extremely interesting was the reaction of Anna when, after much argument about hockey camp, Sara said, “Anna, don’t make me do this” (269). Anna hotly responds, “Do what, Mom? I don’t make you do anything,” (269) hinting on how, throughout her
Andrea Yates, the Houston mom who in 2001 drowned her five young children one-by-one in the bathtub (Moisse, 2013). Andrea Yates was a mother of Mary, 6 months, Luke, 2, Paul, 3, John, 5, and Noah, 7. Andrea Yates defense claim had been that God told her to drown all her children. During her first trial she was found guilty on 3 counts of murder however, it was overturned due to erroneous testimony during an appeal. Following that Andrea Yates submitted a plea of guilty for reason of insanity.
After the birth of her fifth child and the death of her father, she went into a severe depression and was forcefully admitted to Devereux-Texas Treatment Network. There, Dr. Mohammed Saeed prescribed a series of psychotropic drug treatments. He also abruptly tapered off the antipsychotic Haldol, a medication that helped Andrea recover in 1999. On June 20, 2001, during the hour between her husband leaving for work and her mother-in-law arriving, Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children in the bathtub. Debra M. Osterman, a psychiatrist with the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County, Tex., said
Marian said she felt fortunate to have found refuge. On the other hand, Nadia was 17 years old, her husband cut off her nose and ear while she was sleeping, she has undergone six operations and need more. Nadia said "I don't know anything about happiness". Another girl Gulsum, was kidnapped by her father, who was estranged from her mother, was forced to marry the son of her father's lover. Her husband and her mother- in- law beat her and threatened to kill
On the way to the hospital we gotten lost and went around in circles of like 15 minutes. When we finally arrived to the hospital they gave me a room and a nurse came in to check me, while getting checked my water broke. Excited that my water broke I was unaware of the pain that was to come as I gotten closer to delivery. After they gave me some meds and hooked me up to all of these