Deaf blind man 'patient dumped'

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Deaf, blind man called example of 'patient dumping'
August 23, 2013

Timothy Martin is deaf, blind and homeless, and in April he stumbled off a one-way ride from a Reno mental hospital onto the streets of San Francisco. He found his way to a bar in the Castro neighborhood where, he says, he was thrown out and wound up crying on the sidewalk until an ambulance took him to San Francisco General Hospital. Since then, the 47-year-old Martin has lost a leg, run up hundreds of thousands of dollars in emergency medical bills . . .

City investigators suspect this is an extreme example of "Greyhound therapy" - the alleged practice by medical officials in Nevada of dumping indigent or homeless patients on the city. Martin's case is part of a city investigation into whether hospitals in Las Vegas and Reno shipped patients incapable of caring for themselves to San Francisco with one-way bus tickets . . . .

"The doctor in Reno wanted me to leave the hospital. ... He told me to come here to San Francisco," Martin, who in addition to being deaf and blind cannot speak, said through an interpreter. "They bought my ticket. . . .

Martin has no severe mental illness, but often ended up in psychiatric care wards - sometimes involuntarily - because of his range of disabilities. . .

Martin's sojourns to and from Nevada constitute a story both of courage and despair. Born deaf in San Jose, he suffered from diabetes and macular degeneration that finally claimed his eyesight two years ago. But even as his vision was failing, he was able to travel and hold down odd jobs in an effort to make his own way. In the 1990s, he moved in with his mother in Carson City, Nev., and for a while his situation was tolerable.

"She was my guardian and helped me manage my money and places to live when I went up to Reno and Sparks to work," Martin said. "We had a good life." When she died of lung cancer in 2010, however, Martin's life began to skid. "I became very scared, very lonely, very depressed . . ." he said. He began going in and out of hospitals on emergency visits for diabetic and high blood pressure difficulties . . .

Gabriel Zitrin, a spokesman for the San Francisco city attorney, said "the investigation is ongoing" into the payment for and timing of Martin's multiple departures from Reno. Public and private medical officials in Nevada have sent nine people by rail or bus from northern Nevada to California - two to San Francisco - since 2008, none of whom could take care of themselves . . .

The Martin case arose as part of Herrera's investigation into hundreds of patients allegedly being shipped one-way to California from a state-run psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas. . . . .

As for Martin: He wants to live in group home. And he has moments of despair. . . . He buried his face in his hands. "I want to see my mom up in heaven. I'm tired of being poor. I want to die," he said.

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Deaf, blind man called example of 'patient dumping'

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Originally posted by moon1969
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Originally posted by whodey
Call me stupid, but I thought this is how the population of San Fran came to be.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
You people brought the homos and homeless, guero. Spain provided the population. That's why it's named San Francisco, pendejo.

Originally posted by utherpendragon
Greenberg reports that :
There was widespread male homosexuality among the Mayans in Central America: “A strong homosexual component pervades close friendships of young married Mayan men as well as bachelors in southern Mexico and among Guatemalan Indians.”

Among the Aztecs, “Sodomy was virtually universal, involving even children as young as six ...[text shortened]... . One of the Aztec gods, Xochipili, was the patron of male homosexuality and male prostitution.”