Now the city will have to pay her a $500,000 settlement.
  • snooggumsEnglish
    66·
    10 months ago

    When a drug expert can’t tell the difference between a stroke and drugs they aren’t much of an expert.

    • ShepherdPie
      10·
      10 months ago

      Especially when they think she’s drunk but later change it to being high on weed.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Especially when almost everyone’s entry into the legal system begins with an armed and armored gang of low-IQ bullies with delusions of grandeur, and are trained to see every interaction as an opportunity to humiliate, beat, imprison, and/or kill everyone and everything they encounter.

  • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
    7·
    10 months ago

    Did she represent herself or what? How did she only end up getting 800000 (500 from PD and 300 from EMS. What I suspect, and none of the articles I looked up clarify, is that she missed the treatment window. Which means she likely ended up having permanent disability, at least in part, if not entirely due to the negligence of the Police and EMS involved.

    Strokes come in two flavours - ischemic (clot has blocked blood to some area and hemmorhagic - blood has leaked into some area of the brain (or around it)

    An ichemic stroke needs to be treated within 4 hours (there are some ways to extend this window, in some patients) of symptom onset. Within this timeframe it is possible to dissolve the clot that caused it and restore blood flow to the damaged area. As we usually say time = brain cells, the longer the delay, the more permanent damage is done, the end of the window means likely all of the involved brain cells are permanently dead.

    Some cell death occurs also in hemmorhagic stroke, because the blood flow is compromised due to the damaged blood vessel but also due to pressure the leaking blood exerts on tissues surrounding it. And it is still important to treat it promptly, delays will result in more permanent damage.

    What is also fucked is that she had reportedly memory issues and trouble speaking, there was EMS on scene, who examined her and wanted to take her to the hospital but she refused. I doubt she had capacity to refuse, she was likely disoriented and not critical of her condition, I would have taken against her against her will at this point, if unable to convince her to go on her own, stroke victims often themselves do not realise/comprehend their condition at the time.