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The hospital doesn't get to keep the baby as collateral like a title loan place.

Nah, this looks like CPS took the baby away from the mother right after he was born, and so the parents took the baby back and ran.

CPS loves to take White babies because they can sell them. Nobody will buy the black or brown ones.
It happened to my wife and I two out of three deliveries. They threatened to call cps. In one instance when I went lawyer, they isolated my wife to ask her if I was abusive. She told them to fuck off. (I'm nice af to my wife btw).

I then went lawyer about their tactics and got my child and wife discharged immediately. I'm just glad my wife is savvy enough to play the game. I acquired discharge in the other case as well.

Nonetheless, this is common. I feel bad for laymen who don't know how to bait the doctors into fucking up, so you can make them sweat. Doctors are deathly afraid of malpractice, losing their licenses, etc as covid showed.

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It doesn't matter. They'd just say that without discharge, the child wasn't cleared to leave. That's why I pushed in both cases.... "what's the medical reason the child can't be discharged." They usually say "were waiting to see...." in which case you ask "see what? Name a specific condition which requires current hospitalization or is likely to result in a life threatening emergency requiring immediate care in the next few hours (and in the first case... if it's so important, why isn't anyone on staff to provide care in such an emergency).

Like I said, in most cases they're trying to increase billing and can't give real justifications.

In the end you say, so you can't give me any medical justification for refusing discharge, so you must discharge. If you don't, there are remedies and you're not going to like them.
Doctors and lawyers approach matter completely differently.

The lawyer can think his clients an idiot, but the job is to find every rule and argument and tactic that facilitates the client's goal. The client chooses what he wants, the lawyer is a means.

A doctor chooses the ends and the means. He thinks you're an idiot and he knows best. So yeah... he's just an administrator, and you're not human. You're just a chart and tests.
The whole "no more secrets" thing re the other thread is going to eventually ๐Ÿ’€ the medical profession.

That and also the fact that ChatGPT can already do what they do, but better, and the only reason they're still here is institutional / cultural momentum.
I've been using Gemini AI regularly just to get a handle on how it works and how it's going to integrate into daily life.

One of the funny details is that it will tell you something, with absolute confidence, that is completely untrue. Either an AI hallucination or it was simply trained on false information.

One such instance was I didn't feel like walking to my car to look at the sill plate to see what the GVWR is. It's a 2400lb car. Gemini told me with absolute confidence that the GVWR is 5900lbs. I asked it to verify that and it told me again, yes, the GWWR is 5900lbs.

Luckily for me I'm not stupid enough to believe that and was expecting a number around 3400lbs, so I didn't go to Home Depot and put 1.5 tons of bricks in my tiny sedan and end up driving down the road with sparks shooting out from under my completely bottomed-out car.

But if people stop using their critical thinking skills (or never develop them in the first place) and let AI make stupid decisions with absolute confidence in them, then Idiocracy here we come.
It's easy to legally involve law enforcement. You call them and say "Something happened." They show up and get involved.

It pays to at least know your rights whenever you are going to interact with any sort of authority. I'm not a lawyer, but I've dealt with cops and had to hire lawyers to navigate the system, and picked up a few things that you'll also see on Youtube. It can be hard to actually do the things if you don't have a lawyer who is YOUR lawyer telling you not to, because we get trained from an early age to be susceptible to the very manipulations they use.

One thing to know about CPS involvement is that they are generally not "officers" and can't simply take your child away from you in a lot of instances, but they'll act official and say "I'm going to take your child," and people will say "oh, okay" and let them, instead of saying, "Get off my property."

You'll notice in that picture it says the parents were "detained." That simply means that the police took them into temporary custody (not arrest) while figuring out if a crime had been committed. Since it doesn't say "arrested," it sounds like the cops took them into investigative custody long enough to decide that a crime had NOT been committed and let them go.

I would like to know if they maintained custody of their child after that happened or if the government thugs took the baby again.

Another thing to pay close attention to is "Hospital policy" is not "law." There may be laws that you and the hospital both need to follow regarding how and when a patient under care is allowed to leave, but the hospital can't just make up their own "law" and have it enforced by the government. They can make policy and then say, "this is how we do things here," and you can say, "I'm not going to do that."

I just find it kind of telling that it's not illegal to have a child at home and no hospitalization is required by law, but if you deliver at a hospital, you can't just walk out with the baby. Why? It can't be about child safety or we would have outlawed home birth, plus the result is not any different. In both cases someone had a baby and it is at home at some point in time. It can only be about billing.

I think it might be a broader issue in that hospitals generally want to claim some "custody" of any person who falls under their care, and those people are often unable to speak for themselves. Either it's an unconscious or altered adult, or a child who doesn't have legal standing to make their own decisions.

It makes sense in a way to give hospitals some leeway here, because you get somebody who'd got six broken bones and is knocked out from an accident, you can't really wake them up and have them direct their own care in sound mind. So the staff has to make executive decisions on their behalf.

The problem arises when they've built up such a bureaucracy around that idea that they hospital staff start to think they're in a little kingdom where what they say goes.