Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside

Any hospital, anyone, who does this deserves a space in the lowest ring of Hell.

When a loved one is in the hospital, you naturally want to be at the bedside. But what if the staff won’t allow it?

That’s what Janice Langbehn, a social worker in Lacey, Wash., says she experienced when her partner of 18 years, Lisa Pond, collapsed with an aneurysm during a Florida vacation and was taken to a Miami trauma center. She died there, at age 39, as Ms. Langbehn tried in vain to persuade hospital officials to let her visit, along with the couple’s adopted children....

...same-sex partners often report being excluded from a patient’s room because they aren’t “real” family members.

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