Sarah - This almost happened to me when I went to the emergency room with a high temperature for the FLU. I was coughing incessantly, with a temperature of 102 degrees and no insurance. I was very upset and distraught at the out-of-pocket cost and yelling. After three hours, I was told that I couldn't leave and I was being held till morning for evaluation by the Staff Psychologist. There was nothing I could do. I only escaped by discretely putting on my street clothes UNDERNEATH my hospital gown (in the bathroom during the nurse's shift change). Then I got back into bed and pulled up the covers. -- THEN a half hour after night shift, when the night nurse was making her rounds, I leaped out of bed and tore off my hospital gown (revealing my street clothes AND shoes) and challenged the night nurse with my legal rights and demanded to be let go. This happened at the Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles on Vermont St. a couple years ago.
The other interesting thing about this story, is that when the Doctor saw me, they gave me an injection and I immediately felt better and my fever went down. However, they put me in a hall way with another fellow who regularly got committed for a week at a time and saw it as a good thing -- a good way to have a warm place to sleep and regular meals. It was by pleasantly talking to him in the hall way between the ER Nurses rounds that I found out how the system worked. We had a few hours to chat affably. True story
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