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- Title: Medical Repatriation: Examining the Legal and Ethical Implications of an Emerging Practice
- Author : Emily R. Zoellner
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 120 KB
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INTRODUCTION On July 10, 2003, Luis Alberto Jimenez was taken from the hospital that was treating him in Stuart, Florida, to an airport, where he was placed on a private plane and transported to Guatemala. (1) Mr. Jimenez had been hospitalized since 2000, when he sustained traumatic brain injuries as a result of a collision with an intoxicated Florida driver. (2) His brain injury rendered him completely incapacitated, and for three years he received twenty-four hour nursing care. (3) Since arriving in Guatemala, though, Mr. Jimenez has not received medical treatment. (4) His sole caregiver is his seventy-two year-old mother. (5) He routinely suffers violent seizures, vomits blood, and falls into bouts of unconsciousness. (6) United States immigration procedures played no role in Mr. Jimenez's deportation. Instead, the Florida hospital that previously treated him obtained a court order that allowed it to privately "repatriate" him. (7) The timing of this trip was not incidental. The hospital transported Mr. Jimenez on a plane it had chartered a mere three hours before it was required to file a response to Mr. Jimenez's guardian's motion to stay the court order allowing for his repatriation. (8) Mr. Jimenez's case is not unique. To be sure, he has received a level of media attention that few other patients in his position have attained. (9) However, the underlying factual scenario--a United States hospital privately deporting a critically ill patient--is increasingly common. (10)