Hospital Horror Stories: Treatment for Diarrhea leads to Emergency Surgery

A middle age woman was admitted to the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital with diarrhea. After five days she was discharged against her wishes. She was told she no longer met the criteria for admission. She repeatedly told the hospital she was not feeling well and was told she would be sent to collection for the extra days if she did not agree to be discharged. The Hospital had put a small camera in her stomach that was to take pictures as it went down her bowels. The patient was crying and in pain but the threat form the administration scared her and she was discharged.
She went to the San Fernando Valley the same day and was re-admitted to a different hospital. What the other hospital found was the camera lodged in her bowels and she needed emergency surgery to remove the camera. This is another case of poor patient treatment by Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital.
Keep the stories coming folks, our valley community needs to know what is going on at the local hospital!!!