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A group of doctors, nurses and other staff of Hennepin Healthcare say the hospital system too often resorts to sedating, secluding and physically restraining patients - especially patients of color - who are deemed uncooperative.
Calling these practices dangerous and overused, the coalition of medical workers published a petition demanding hospital leadership audit how often they use "medical force."
They also asked the hospital to stop training law enforcement on "excited delirium" - a controversial diagnosis used to describe dangerously agitated people - which they say is exploited to justify police force.
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