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"Patient dumping" is the unholy combination of for-profit hospitals and homelessness. In the worst cases, a patient is dumped like garbage on the street, just outside of hospital grounds, sometimes still wearing soiled hospital gown and slippers. Or sometimes the patient is dumped in the form of being dropped off at a shelter that is known not to be able to take the person. Homeless people who seek care at hospitals do so sometimes to escape searing heat or freezing cold. But sometimes they have legitimate medical needs that are ignored or undetected. And sometimes they die of these untreated issues not too long after they were dumped. Like garbage.
