What happens when a patient leaves the hospital?!
Question: without signing discharge papers? My dad was stubborn and didnt want to stay at the hospital after the doctors told him that he had to stay there for 3 days. This was after I called an ambulance for him for severe chest pain..He said i was stupid for calling...But since it has been going on for the past 6 months or so, i decided to call anyway...I just want to know what happens when a patient leaves the hospital without hospital consent
Answers: without signing discharge papers? My dad was stubborn and didnt want to stay at the hospital after the doctors told him that he had to stay there for 3 days. This was after I called an ambulance for him for severe chest pain..He said i was stupid for calling...But since it has been going on for the past 6 months or so, i decided to call anyway...I just want to know what happens when a patient leaves the hospital without hospital consent
Nothing happens really. In hospital terms it is called " Leaving against medical advice", usually the have the patient sign a form stating they are leaving again medical advice
If not the staff will document his chart so show that this is what he decided to do. No one can make anyone have term they do not want to have!
R.N.
....nothing
well take care of themselfs
I'm not really for sure, but I don't think that they can do anything to him for leaving....
They go home or somewhere else.
Nothing will happen other than your dad will continue to experience severe chest pain and may end up with an MI. That's his responsibility though. You've done your best. The rest is up to him.
then he is responsible for himself should any harm come to him.
nothingelse.
Nothing, they just make note that the patient left against medical advice.
The hospital staff will chart that the patient left against medical advice so they're not in the hot seat if something goes wrong when the patient gets home.
He's probably responsible for himself in case something happens, money wise.
You made the right decision to call an ambulance.
I left the hospital without consent; they really can't do much but bill you for the time you were there, if you were treated in emergency or were in an inpatient for a time.
sorry to say but they usually comit suicide
I know here in Canada that same hospital can refuse to treat him should he come back and also would not be responsible if anything were to happen after he left
Well first they are admitted to the morgue, then the relatives find a funeral home, then they get buried and then religion kick's in... And then the stork comes and drops a baby into a chimney and then the circle of life goes on :D
nothing much but if he ends up back in the hospital, expect a long lecture from the doctor. I'm guessing that the reason he needed to be in hospital for 3 days was so that they could monitor his heart. But because he left, they will have no record of his heart activity.
Hopital authorities cnnot do any thing.Thereis no compulsion to ensure that the patient need be there,
If patint goes nothing hapens .no consent is needed.
It will just go on his record that he left against the doctors advice. He may have a problem with his insurance, maybe not. That is all. I left the hospital once when the doctor wanted to induce my labor, and I said see ya later when I go in labor on my own, thanks......the nurse said that she would have to put down in my records that I was non-compliant. I said go for it, wont be the first time I was "non-compliant", doctors are not God, they don't always get to decide the best treatment for you. I felt no repercussions in any way, and came back two weeks later, barely making it to the hospital before my son was born, lol.