I think in her case she had no other option since her landing gear was all screwed up.
The media called her a hero....
She was lucky not to have killed somebody with her actions taken when going into cloud. Also, time was no factor here as she enough fuel on board, the patient endured 90 min. of circling over the field and the extra time it took to have him/her ferried by plane to another location. Obiously his life was in no immediate danger?
I never did HEMS and I think unless you have done so it is difficult to say how each and everyone of us Pilots would act but common sense is if the patient is not in immediate danger then don't ever risk it?