Person arrested for refusing to leave hospital bedside of loved one.

[MRT144]

If he truly had power of attorney, the hospital had no legal right to ask him to leave as he's the one empowered to make decisions for the patient. So the question is, Are you telling the truth here?

Go **** yourself.

[MrFun]

If things are as they appear in the OP then this is crap.

Doesn't matter if you call it civil union or marriage, but something needs to be done to protect the rights of same sex couples. Whoever the "family" member was that had them booted needs an asswhoopin'

[Sava]

plato

[DinoDoc]

Go **** yourself.

U MAD BRO?

[MrFun]

U MAD BRO?

Did you have to mentally strain yourself to come up with that "clever" response?

[MRT144]

U MAD BRO?

SO MAD!

[MrFun]

Here is another news article with a little more information.

Missouri man arrested at hospital for refusing to leave gay partner

By David Edwards
Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:50 EDT

A gay man was arrested at a hospital in Missouri this week when he refused to leave the bedside of his partner, and now a restraining order is preventing him from any type of visitation.

Roger Gorley told WDAF that even though he has power of attorney to handle his partner’s affairs, a family member asked him to leave when he visited Research Medical Center in Kansas City on Tuesday.

Gorley said he refused to leave his partner Allen’s bedside, and that’s when security put him in handcuffs and escorted him from the building.

“I was not recognized as being the husband, I wasn’t recognized as being the partner,” Gorley explained.

He said the nurse refused to confirm that the couple shared power of attorney and made medical decision for each other.

“She didn’t even bother to look it up, to check in to it,” the Lee’s Summit resident recalled.

In a 2010 memorandum, President Barack Obama ordered hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding to allow visitation rights for gay and lesbian partners.

For its part, Research Medical Center insisted that it does not discriminate based on sexual orientation.

“We believe involving the family is an important part of the patient care process,” the hospital said in a statement. “And, the patient`s needs are always our first priority. When anyone becomes disruptive to providing the necessary patient care, we involve our security team to help calm the situation and to protect our patients and staff. If the situation continues to escalate, we have no choice but to request police assistance.”

Gorley cannot currently visit his partner at all due to a restraining order issued after his arrest on Tuesday.

Watch this video from WDAF, broadcast April 11, 2013.

[Dinner]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/gay-man-arrested-missouri-hospital_n_3060488.html

[Dinner]

Okay, it's just bizarre that this would happen in KCMO.

Speaking of KC, did you hear about the tunnels the homeless people dug? I'm not sure exactly what they were for but I suspect they were a combination of a place to live as well as a place to stash stuff out of sight where no one would see them.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/police-discover-hidden-underground-tunnels-used-homeless-221637268.html

[The Mad Monk]

I heard about it, but haven't looked into it.

[MrFun]

I'm going to talk with my partner, Neal, about getting us a Medical Power of Attorney contract drawn up by a lawyer.

And then I'm going to make sure we both have a copy on-hand, in each of our vehicles.

[MrFun]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3060488.html

I read the article, and then I read some of the commentary posts by readers. Some of them have made claims such as that it was the blood brother who started the confrontation, and was the one who demanded the partner be removed. Couple other readers posted comments claiming more direct knowledge of the incident, saying that the daughter (whose daughter?) stated that the partner was not behaving wrongly. There are other claims being made as well. But none of them are providing links to any sources where they've gotten their information from.

Also, from the article, the patient is in some kind psychiatric care; didn't know about that until reading this.

[MrFun]

After I asked, a reader who commented about the daughter provided the relevant linked article.

[Sava]

in each of our vehicles.

what if you are in a car accident

[Dinner]

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/04/12/1857741/what-actually-happened-to-that-same-sex-couple-in-the-missouri-hospital/

Now that more details are out it is sounding even worse than the OP suggested.