When Sargent arrived at the jail, a jail nurse was alarmed at her condition and said she had to go back to the hospital. Three guards took Sargent to the Civic Campus, but she was never seen by a triage nurse and was back at jail barely an hour later. She died that night.
“All of these factors that we used to just think about as genetic differences, I think we’re learning more and more that they do impact a patient’s health risk.”Article content“Implicit bias, by definition, is something we’re not aware of. We may feel that we’re treating this person exactly the same as everyone else, and we may really believe that.
Why Sargent wasn’t seen by medical staff on her return to the hospital is one of the key questions of the inquest. Coroner co-counsel Mike Boyce asked Verma what would have happened if Sargent had been seen by a nurse during her second trip to hospital.Article content