Samuel Bardwell, 20, was rushed to the emergency room at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos, Calif., for anxiety attack symptoms after collapsing at basketball practice. After three hours, Dr. Beth Renee Keegstra arrived with a security guard, accused Bardwell of looking for narcotics, mocked and berated him with expletives, yanked his arm and dismissed him with little help.
Watch Video of Keegstra’s verbal attack:
This is how they treat black people in Los Gatos emergency room. SMH Everyone share this video. For the record this is my son.
Posted by Donald Bardwell on Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Keegstra, who was employed by Vituity/California Emergency Physicians, El Camino’s contracted provider, was removed from the list of approved physicians to work at any of the hospitals in their network. El Camino has 14 facilities in the Bay Area.
El Camino’s CEO Dan Woods and his leadership team released this statement with that decision and stated: “We have expressed our sincere apologies and are working directly with the patient on this matter.”
Vituity, a health services provider run by a diverse executive leadership, said through their spokesperson, Allison Kundu, that they are investigating the matter. “We are saddened that a patient in our care was affected by this behavior and are working to ensure this never happens again.”
Keegstra, who studied at UHS/Chicago Medical School and is currently licensed by the state as a physician and surgeon until January 2019, has been practicing medicine for 31 years. Donald Bardwell, Samuel’s father, told ABC News that he believes she shouldn’t be practicing medicine at all. He is considering a lawsuit.
Keegstra, a San Francisco resident, who once said via her Facebook page that she couldn’t wait for the day that she was legally able to marry her partner, doesn’t seem concerned about discriminating against others.
She never introduced herself, never asked for the patient’s name and never really thoroughly examined him. Donald Bardwell later posted on Facebook that he received a comment from someone who works at another hospital advising him that his son’s symptoms were mirroring withdrawal from not taking his prescribed medication appropriately.
Donald Bardwell admitted that neither he nor his son knew the severity of not taking the medication as prescribed.
Perhaps had this been an appropriate hospital examination, the Bardwells would’ve walked out with a better understanding of how Samuel should be taking his prescribed medication, or alternatives.
Tests proved Samuel Bardwell was dehydrated and that there were no drugs in his system. He didn’t stay to find out what other “treatment” Keegstra was going to give him.
