Nevada hospital denies same sex couple visitation. (laws, status, medical)
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It said nothing about visitation and they were together except for during surgery. At least know what you are arguing about people. As far as I know anyone can visit anyone in the hospital.
A lawsuit will not turn back time and allow this woman to be there to offer emotional support to her partner during a life changing medical emergency.
This is the reason that marriage needs to be allowed for same sex couples.
The purpose of the lawsuit is to teach the hospital administration a lesson, and award damages. The practice of not allowing a same sex couple to see his/her spouse is usually down vandictively, by hospital personel.
File a lawsuit. Open and shut case based on state law. Next!
What are the damages? Hurt feelings?
Get over this lawsuit crap. It's destroying our economy.
Good God!
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Originally Posted by 9162
The purpose of the lawsuit is to teach the hospital administration a lesson, and award damages. The practice of not allowing a same sex couple to see his/her spouse is usually down vandictively, by hospital personel.
And the result would be higher costs. For everyone.
Good God again!
People are too freaking stupid to figure this out.
A same sex domestic partner was denied visitation with her partner while in the hospital with complications with her pregnancy. She lost the baby while her partner had to wait for hours depending on only occasional updates from the doctor.
Under Nevada law the couple was supposed to have all the same rights as a married couple.
I love it when people say they are all for "civil unions" or "domestic partnerships" with the same rights as marriage, but we repeatedly see examples like this.
Separate but equal NEVER works.
Had the same sex partners taken care of medical powers of attorney and had the documentation on file with the hospital and attending physicians as well as in the patient's chart, is this a scenario which was preventable? I suspect it may have.
It said nothing about visitation and they were together except for during surgery. At least know what you are arguing about people. As far as I know anyone can visit anyone in the hospital.
Nobody can be in surgery. You can allow anyone visitation with a simple swipe of the pen on a consent form. Also Hospitals do not want next of kin calling the shots anymore, they have you feel out forms with your wishes when you are admitted. I've been through this several times.
Had the same sex partners taken care of medical powers of attorney and had the documentation on file with the hospital and attending physicians as well as in the patient's chart, is this a scenario which was preventable? I suspect it may have.
It was an emergency.
And if married couples don't have to have special documentation, and civil unions are supposed to have the same status as marriage by law, then why would civil union partners need special documentation.
As a note, the hospital was perfectly willing to recognize the couple's status on the admitting forms when told that Simonelli's insurance would be paying for Leon's hospital bills.
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