Notes 1
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Speckled Band
Police
The first thing they told me was that there was no point in reporting it
because there wouldn't be any witnesses. Isn't it interesting that they know
that right off the top of their heads? It took a long time for me to understand
how right they were.
Ohio State Board of Medicine
According to their own lists of disciplinary actions taken, the OSMB never disciplines physicians on the basis of complaints from patients unless it is a paperwork issue. They did not assign an investigator to my case until so long after the XXXXX perpetrated on me that routine
document retention policies already would have destroyed any incident report
that might have been filed. When the investigator went to the hospital to find
the witnesses (because I demanded that he do that) they told him they didn't
know who they were and he left.
The hospital
XXXXXXX to prevent me from
telling the name of the hospital. They wouldn't even let me
find out the names of the nurses who witnessed XXXXXX. The nurses had
scrawled their signatures illegibly. Not a bad way to avoid being called as
witnesses. The risk management department told me that if I figured out who they
were, they wouldn't be allowed to talk to me. See survey and
loyalty to see why it didn't
matter when I finally did track them down.
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Why don't doctors record
Doctors never write it down when a patient arrives saying that their
problems began on an operating table. See silence
and written policy.
Treat the injuries
This is the most damning thing in this case. To prevent me from getting the diagnoses necessary to
get justice required preventing me from getting medical care until the statute
of limitations passed, by which time the injuries had become inoperable scar
tissue. This is the part of the case that has a paper trail. I am able to chronicle dates and associate
primary source documents. The laws about keeping medical records
private were passed to protect me, not them. I can make them public if I want,
as long as I don't mind bankrupting myself defending it. It doesn't matter if what I am saying is true. They still can sue.
Dear Hospital (that I am not allowed to identify):
Please stop maintaining the silence that protects miscreants who ruin lives by choice. Such cover-ups did not work for the XXXXXXXX, and they are not
going to work for you.
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