1. I did tell them to take her cuffs off, and once they were in my ambulance I made the guard take them off. The jail policy is whenever an inmate is being transported they get cuffs.

    They left her in her cell miscarrying for like 8 hours before they called 911. The original lawsuit was aimed at the jails and Arpaio, then that scumfuck Arpaio dragged us into it by denying fault and claiming it was our care that caused the baby to die. Oh and they also made us wait 35-45 minutes after we got into the jail to see her because they were moving inmates between cells. We got locked in a 2 way security room that could only be opened by a guy in another part of the complex. This was part of their claim that we “delayed care that caused the negligent death of the child”. Had to defend my fucking license against revocation because of this bullshit.

    Other fun calls I’ve gotten from the jail:

    Non-english speaking citizen who was forced to sign voluntary deportation papers and refused until they broke her arm trying to force her to sign something she couldn’t understand.

    Man who had a blood pressure of 210~/150 who kept losing consciousness that the jail medical staff had refused to give his BP meds to because “he’s faking it and he just wants the drugs to sell to other inmates.”

    Gang member that wouldn’t speak to anyone in the jail or us until I got him alone at the hospital and he broke down crying and hugging me thanking me for treating him like a human being.

    Refusing to give a blanket to an inmate at 3~ am in the Arizona winter, which not as cold as most places is still 35~ degrees with high winds. I got into a screaming argument with the guards and put a blanket on him anyway because he’s my patient now and not their inmate.

    Demanding we be searched before entering the jail which I only tolerated because we had a patient inside in status epilepticus that the guards said was faking it for attention.

    As well as numerous accounts of racial slurs, randomly beating the christ out of inmates, making them strip and walk naked down hallways cuffed together, withholding meds nonstop that are necessary for normal functioning and not dying from diseases.

    This is just from my single unit while I’m on it, everyone has stories like this from going to the jails.

    I honestly wish a meteor would crush Arpaio while he was driving home.

    On the upside I got to meet DMX at the jail complex, he’s a really nice guy. Until they withheld his anti-psych meds and he attacked a guard with a lunch tray.

    Tales from a medical professional in Phoenix, Arizona. Just so you know the human rights abuses in our own country.

    (Source: forums.something awful.com)

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