QUESTION
Held on hospital baker act family wanted to release me since day 1 what to do?
Asked on Dec 06th, 2019 on Medical Malpractice - Florida
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I was arrested at Fort Lauder dale int aiport back on April 2019, (877.03(1): DISORD CONDUCT-BRWL FIGHT CRPT PUBLIC MORAL DECNCY), they book me and got me to emergency them back to jail for 24 hours, the whole time my family wanted me to be release to them, they transferred to broward health baker act and i was held there for a week, the whole time my family wanted me to be released but they would not release me and they were going to send me to a shelter, they had to get a doctor to get me release to them, now im getting hospital bills for almost 20K when i was held there against my will and my family too Im not a FL resident i was just visiting.
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If you want to spend the money you can hire a lawyer to review the situation and determine what if anyting can be done. The issue may well be younot being a resident and also that family does not control Baker Act institutionalization issues, its a medical decison.
Answered on Dec 27th, 2019 at 1:43 PM
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