Watch ER Doctor Mock Sick Patient

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by Michael John Scott

If an ER doctor says you’re one of the “least sick of all the people” you should be happy right? In the case of Samuel Bardwell, however, it was an uncaring statement made while he was suffering a full-blown anxiety attack.

The doctor’s comment would cost her as Beth Keegstra, 57, the contracted physician who tended to the 20-year-old last week at El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos, Calif., has been permanently taken out of the rotation of ER doctors at all of the health system’s locations, according to an official release.

The Mercury News reports Bardwell was hospitalized Monday after he had an anxiety attack during basketball practice at West Valley College. His dad, Donald Bardwell, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that Samuel has a history of anxiety attacks and takes Klonopin, a benzodiazepine, to treat that, but that he’d been busy over the previous few days and hadn’t had a chance to pick up his new prescription.

The father and son say Keegstra started right off the bat by accusing Samuel of using drugs, and that’s when the elder Bardwell started taping video, which he uploaded to Facebook.

In the video, Keegstra scoffs at Donald Bardwell’s assertion that his son was drifting “in and out of consciousness,” and at one point she answers “Mm-hmm” when Samuel Bardwell asks her, “[So] I’m full of s—?” Samuel Bardwell also mentions he can’t breathe in, to which Keegstra replies:

“He can’t inhale, wow! He must be dead! Are you dead, sir?”

In the release, the hospital apologized for “a physician whose demeanor was unprofessional.” Donald Bardwell doesn’t think that’s enough. He told Good Morning America:

“In my mind, I don’t think she should be practicing medicine at all,”

State records show Keegstra has never before faced disciplinary action, but, as they say, there’s a first for everything.

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