Student is ‘locked in a psychiatric ward for six days’ after going to campus health center with flu-like symptoms.
Kaitlin Taylor went to the Syracuse University health center as a sophomore in September 2013
- She had flu-like symptoms, including a fever, cough, phlegm and congestion
- While waiting for medication, she told a counselor that she wanted to change her major and take a leave of absence from school
- She was sent to St Joseph’s Hospital’s emergency room with no medication
- After speaking to a psychiatrist and not being treated she was sent to an ‘observation room’ for six days and given antipsychotic medications
- Taylor is now suing university and hospital for improper treatment
- University attorney claims school ‘denies that it acted inappropriately’