Getting bad, disrespectful and errant medical treatment can happen to anyone. Take a look at this example from my home town newspaper. How A Head Injury Turned Into A Test Of A Woman's Sanity 

    A healthy young woman slips and falls on the ice and hits her head. Over the next 3 days she is not herself. Her sister and mother finally insist she go to the ER to get some help. At the front desk something seems to go awry when she and her sister attempt to explain the problem. (Maybe the front desk protocol for a patient with delusions is to call a psychiatric nurse ?) This interaction doesn't go well and before she knows it she is confronted by a team of "overwhelming force" and whisked off to the psych ward. There, she is stripped, catheterized, blood drawn, sedatives administered and left alone in a padded cell. It's not clear from the story that anyone yet knows about the head injury or whether the "protocol" just calls for eliminating drugs and psychosis.

     Three days later the hospital evidently realizes that "mistakes have been made" and they release her without explanation. It is not clear what has been ruled out in terms of head trauma or whether her discharge instructions included a diagnosis or follow-up.

    The hospital has sued her over the $3000 bill but I don't think that is the problem. Legally, it is not at all clear the hospital did anything wrong and I'm sure their position is that all medical protocols were followed. Purely from the patient's point of view a lot of damage was done that continues to this day.