My friend had some kind of medical emergency. When paramedics came and took her to the hospital, she had an autistic meltdown. They then called the police, who put her into restraint for 9 hours. She's now being sent home on a bus without treatment. Normal for the UK, apparently.
They tasered the patient.
9 hours, strapped down in pain during all that time, no medical treatment.
She has foetal alcohol syndrome and a brain injury from being assaulted by an adult at age 14. She's deaf, blind, has a seizure disorder, migraines from the brain injury, and has a movement disorder and difficulty eating, and that's just a partial list.
But this is the UK, so she should consider herself lucky that she was discharged without treatment instead of being sent to an ATU to be abused indefinitely.
Based on the symptoms for which she sought treatment, it was probably a Transient Ischaemic Attack, but since they discharged her without checking it out, we don't know. She slept most of yesterday.
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