Imamu Baraka
A few days ago (as I write this) Imamu Baraka was heading home from work one evening when he saw something he could hardly believe. Four people in hospital uniforms had just dropped off a young woman at the bus stop across the street from his office, right near the hospital’s emergency entrance.
The woman was wearing only a hospital gown and a pair of socks.
It was about 30 degrees out.
Her clothes and personal belongings had been packed into plastic bags and dropped at the bus stop, too.
The woman was wandering around, and stumbling as she went.
Baraka knew what he had to do.
He started taking video with his cell phone, and followed the four security guards back to the hospital, asking them why they were doing this, and how they could possibly leave this woman out there half naked in the cold. They kept right on walking into the hospital, giving unsatisfactory answers.
Then Baraka realized there was something more important to attend to. The woman at the bus stop needed his help.
You see, Imamu Baraka is an experienced psychotherapist. And he could see that the woman who had just been dumped on the street was struggling with mental health issues that were clearly not being addressed. So he went back to give her whatever aid he could.
The hospital that had summarily dumped the woman was the University of Maryland Medical Center, at its midtown campus located between Linden and N. Howard Streets at Armory Place in Baltimore, Maryland—which just happens to be across the street from Baraka’s psychotherapy office.
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