Tue Oct 19, 2021 – 8:18 am EDT
(American Thinker) – COVID has taught us what all of us knew but have too often forgotten: if you give petty bureaucrats a taste of unrestricted power, there’s a good chance that they will become morally corrupt and abusive. Exhibit A for today is what happened to Lynn Savage. Her disabled, non-verbal daughter was frightened and near death after brain surgery — and the hospital had Ms. Savage arrested for insisting on staying with her child.
Lynn Savage is a retired deputy sheriff whose daughter was hospitalized at the University of Florida Health North hospital in Jacksonville. Her daughter, Amber, had suffered a massive stroke some years before, becoming partially paralyzed and non-verbal. Ms. Savage is her caretaker.
Amber had several surgeries to help deal with fallout from the stroke. She was in the hospital for yet another surgery, and Ms. Savage, who is 70 years old, had been at the hospital since 6:30 A.M., helping her daughter communicate. After the surgery, Amber was terrified, and a doctor asked Ms. Savage to go into the ICU to see if she could calm her — and indeed, she could.
However, at 7 P.M., a nurse
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