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“I went through a series of CT scans,” she said, but the hospital said its results weren’t clear enough, so she was transferred to another hospital, Robert Packer, in Sayre, Pa., where she stayed from March 15-17. The early diagnosis was an eating disorder, but it then changed after a new doctor arrived the next morning. She has always been petite, she said, weighing 100 pounds, but had dropped to 92 pounds. The hospital she went to, Barnes-Kasson in Susquehannah, Pa., decided to treat her initially for an eating disorder. She was uninsured, she said, which factored into her decision to wait it out for almost a week before she went to the emergency room. I never thought of it as appendicitis, I thought of it as the flu.” In the center of my stomach, a horrible pain. I woke up later that evening and it was excruciating. On March 8 of last year, she said: “I started to have a stomachache. So her switching coverage was a big issue. She was uninsured at the beginning of her journey, then was insured by Tricare (which covers military personnel) via her father, and then finally covered by Aetna through work.
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At her request, I agreed not to use her full name in writing about her, because if I did, her health history would follow her around the web forever. She sent me her bills and told her story, to help others. We reached out for the story behind the data. We met her because entered her information into our PriceCheck form as part of the WHYY The Pulse partnership with. It turned out that she had appendicitis – and ultimately the result would be not just an appendectomy, but also months of treatment, several hospitalizations, and piles of bills, and long-lasting regrets - multiple applications for financial aid, lunch hours lost to endless attempts to resolve insurance problems and an errant Social Security number that caused multiple rejected claims. Then her mom took her to the hospital, and that was the beginning of a rough ride through the health care system. While in the police vehicle, the subject began to yell that he had an infectious disease, which the subject did have blood on himself, and several officers.She had spent a week in pain on the floor, curled up in a ball and crying, willing herself to believe her stomach hurt because she had the flu and unwilling to go to the hospital, partly because she was uninsured.
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The subject continued to yell obscenities and create a scene until he was able to be placed in a police vehicle where he attempted to kick out the windows of the vehicle. Even after being tasered the subject continued to fight and resisted officers, and during this time it is alleged that the subject attempted to grab one of the officer’s tasers, but was unsuccessful and was subsequently tased again, and subsequently placed in handcuffs.
Utilizing the damage that was already in place, an officer was able to position their TASER into the damaged area of the light receptacle and was able to activate it which cause the subject to be electrified which allowed another officer to TASER the subject to gain compliance. During the time of attempting to de-escalate the situation, officers and hospital staff were covered in small glass shards, resulting in minor injuries. During the time for additional resources to arrive, Bump allegedly continued to punch holes into the drywall and tore out a light switch receptacle along with a badge access device, all of which were damaged or destroyed. Woman charged with arson following Monday night fireĪdditional officers were called to the scene for safety concerns. At this time he was advised that he was under arrest and advised to start complying with the requests of the officers.
After being asked to put down the piece of wood that was sharpened on one end, he allegedly told officers that if they opened the door, he was going to hit the officer in the head and kill all the officers that were there. When officers found the patient, he was locked in the room and had broken a wooden chair, and was smashing the window out of the door and windows in the room causing severe damage as described by the officer. The subject was identified as 34-year-old Walter Bump III, of Towanda, Pa. When law enforcement arrived, they were advised that the patient was locked in a secure holding room and refusing to comply with any of their requests. Yesterday morning around 10 AM the Sayre Borough Police Department was called to the Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital for a patient that was out of control. ( WETM) – One man has been arrested for terroristic threats among other charges after an incident at Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital yesterday.
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