The primary care doctor for the East Palo Alto housekeeper with a chronic medical condition who collapsed when arrested by ICE last week was “catatonic” at Stanford Medical Center Friday morning and questioned her suitability to be discharged into federal custody that night.

During a protest outside the hospital Tuesday evening, Dr. Yusra Hussain, a physician on staff at Stanford for 20 years who was brought on Friday morning by the woman’s family to check on her care, accused Stanford of “caving in” to federal agents. They had stood guard outside her hospital room door since her arrest Aug. 25 and banned visits from family for all but the first day she was admitted. Stanford didn’t inform the family when she was being discharged, Hussain said.

“When I went to see her that morning, she b

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