Avoid this ER if you're alone and single when you need to go to an ER! Glen Cove Hospital has a barbarian shrink named James Thompson screening all ER patients for their Medicaid-eligibility and whether they are alone or with someone that is a recent immigrant unfamiliar with our laws. When he finds a patient fitting this description, sometimes the patient is able to secure medical treatment for the reason they entered the ER, and more often they're denied medical treatment (felony) and he just orders they be incapacitated with an injection of Haldol (powerful antipsychotic) and locked into the psyche ward. Those that receive medical attention first on a medical floor still simultaneously become required to take antipsychotics as a condition to gain their freedom. When the clock is run-out on the medical condition the patient is forced into the psyche ward. Medicaid-eligibility isn't a diagnosis permitting the administration of controlled substances. It also doesn't make a patient a danger to themselves or others to permit the psyche hold. Thompson is engaging in felony abduction!
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