Hospital Was Filmed Dumping Homeless Paraplegic On Street,
Driving Off  In February 2007, the Hollywood Presbyterian
Medical Center in Los Angeles abandoned Gabino Olvera, a
mentally ill paraplegic man, on the street: “[The hospital] took
him across town in a van and left him in a soiled hospital gown
without a wheelchair in the heart of the city’s homeless area.”
Olvera, with the help of an advocacy organization called Public
Counsel, is now suing them for neglect and elder abuse (although
we’re not sure how the second one applies since he’s only 42).
His case is “one of about 50 reported incidents in the past 12
months of sick, confused and homeless patients being left by
ambulances” in downtown LA.  Witnesses who came to Olvera’s aid
said they saw him dragging himself on the ground with hospital
papers and documents clenched in his teeth while the driver sat
in her van and applied makeup before driving off.  The incident
was captured by security cameras at a nearby homeless shelter.
Olvera’s lawyers say t