#patient-rights

#patient-rights

For days after the East Palo Alto housekeeper with an expired visa was moved from Stanford Medical Center into ICE detention in Bakersfield, she could barely speak to her family trying to connect with her through FaceTime phone calls.

Community members and healthcare workers gathered to call for "care, not complicity" and stand up for East Palo Alto resident Aleyda Rodriguez. Rodriguez was taken to the hospital while in ICE custody. Cellphone video captures the moment she was detained by ICE agents on Monday, August 25. In the video, you can hear Rodriguez's husband, Oscar, yell that she's sick. Rodriguez has a blood condition. Her family says she fainted during the arrest and was taken to Stanford Hospital.

A staggering 80% of medical bills contain errors, most of which are easily preventable.

Under a new law in Tennessee, doctors can refuse treatment based on their moral, ethical, or religious beliefs, leading to a woman being denied prenatal care for being unmarried.

Adrienne Jones-McAllister expressed her grief, saying, "His body went limp in my arms and this is still pulsating in my brain." They were at the MRI center for her knee.

A former GP has been found guilty after conducting unnecessary genital examinations on patients, including teenage boys, under dubious medical justifications.

There was nothing natural about the way my son died. Balram died because of a series of clear, documented, and avoidable clinical failures.

"Paying $3,000 for something that costs $400 ... pretty absurd," she wrote.

Imagine having to bring your two-year-old little girl into that operating table, having to leave her in the hands of the system, only to find out that the surgery, the pain, the learning how to walk again, that scar that she has on her hip, was now never, ever necessary.

Officers rolled up to the home, and Erikson explained she had to use pepper spray on the dementia patient...to de-escalate the situation.