Fw: One women's point of view - Pre-MEDitated Medical Malpractice on the Defenseless

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From: " Kathi " <pureheart@...>

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Subject: One women's point of view - Pre-MEDitated Medical Malpractice on

the Defenseless

> Pre-MEDitated Medical Malpractice on the Defenseless

>

> What is wrong with the current medical/legal/government/law enforcement

> syndicates as they related to medical injury victims

>

> " My Five Minutes "

>

> I have been invited to give my " five-minute-opinion " about what is wrong

> with the current medical/legal/government/law enforcement syndicates as

> they related to medical injury victims so, here it is:

>

> It comes down to something my grandfather told me when I was about

> three: we were out walking and I saw a discarded toy on the sidewalk and

> stooped to pick it up. My grandfather told me not to touch it, that it

> belonged to someone else who had been playing with it there and would

> certainly come back for it later. I didn't see another child anywhere

> and couldn't envision the concept of ownership at that age and started

> to argue: " why did they leave it? where did they go? when will they come

> back? what is their name? why can't I play with it until they come back

> for it? "

>

> Grandpa said something that stuck in my head forever: " All you need to

> know is that this toy doesn't belong to you. You don't need to know

> anything else, don't need to know who it belongs to, why they left it

> here, when they will come back and get it. All you need to know is that

> it is not yours and walk away unless you have permission of the rightful

> owner to use it. "

>

> My message today is one I learned easily at age three from my

> grandfather: " doctors, if it isn't yours, leave it alone unless you have

> permission from the rightful owner to use it. All you need to know is

> that it is not yours... "

>

> Since I have five minutes, I will devote the rest of this message to

> everyone else and make you a list of the truths I came to know the

> hardest way possible. If I had known back in 1991 what I know today,

> known even one of these things, my personal tragedy might have been

> averted:

>

> *When you are admitted to a hospital you are asked to sign a standard

> " hospital admission form " and are told something to the effect of " you

> need to sign this so that we can treat you " . But do you understand what

> you have just signed?

>

> Probably not. Few laypeople have the experience necessary to accurately

> determine that they have just signed a legal document with the language

> of a " power of attorney " and have unwittingly signed their bodies over

> to the hospital to do with as the hospital staff deems fit. Whatever the

> hospital staff deems fit, whether it will benefit them personally or

> not.

>

> What if, on that day, you have signed yourself into a teaching hospital

> and what they " deem fit " is meeting the credentialing quotas of the

> residents they are getting paid by the government to train? What if that

> particular hospital's first interest is meeting their contractual

> obligations to the government to procure " teaching material " for the

> operating room so each resident they have agreed to train can be

> provided with the correct number of surgery experiences required to get

> certified?

>

> All teaching hospitals are not clearly labeled as such so it is not

> always easy to determine exactly what KIND of institution we have come

> to for our medical care needs.

> This hospital admission form is the document that the patient has to be

> mindful of, more so than the " surgery consent form " or the " procedure

> consent form " we are brought to sign after admission. The admission form

> was signed first and everything signed after, while you are still under

> their roof, is secondary to it.

>

> If you do not listen to anything else I have to say except this one

> thing, know that it is this one thing that causes the most trouble when

> we are injured and seeking justice later. This document is the

> foundation upon which the case is built against us in Court: " well, you

> signed that admission form, didn't you? "

>

> Facts are, if a person signing a contract was not made aware of ALL

> theterms of that contract before signing the contract it automatically

> becomes null and void.

>

> Were you told clearly that your surgery was actually going to be

> performed by a resident trainee instead of the already-trained,

> experienced surgeon you'd consulted? Or that once anesthetized groups of

> medical students were going to be invited into the operating room to

> line up and practice pelvic and rectal exams on you without your prior

> knowledge or consent, one after the other? No? Then you were not made

> aware of ALL the terms of the contract you'd just signed and it is

> rendered null and void.

>

> *Whether we are aware of it or not, we have ALL been secretly divided

> into one of two stratifications: " high priority " and " low priority " . We

> all have a label attached to us, regarding our stratification

> assignment, on our computer file in a centralized computer database.

> This database is accessible to authorized personnel only--- all over the

> world. The operator uses our NAME, BIRTHDATE, and SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

> to call up our file. (please note that the Social Security number is not

> to be used by any other entity but the Social Security Administration

> for identification purposes; that the medical syndicate has been allowed

> to get away with this is very interesting)

>

> Each stratification has its own set of protocols attached to it

> regarding what will be offered in medical care and what will

> not---wherever we go.

>

> The " high priority " stratification gets the best care available: the

> most effective prescriptions regardless of cost, effective pain control,

> organ transplants, and so on. They do not have the burden of being used

> for resident surgery training, device testing, or any of the other

> violations reserved exclusively for those who carry the " low priority "

> tag.

>

> New surgical procedures, drugs, devices, implants and so on are tested

> on the " low priority " stratification and if these new things prove

> useful and worthwhile, they are offered to those on the " high priority "

> list---after all the " bugs " have been worked out on the " low priority "

> people.

>

> " Low priority " people are organ donors, never recipients---unless there

> is an experiment going on and human guinea pigs are needed. They are

> used for student surgery training, drug and device testing, medical

> student's " pelvic

> exam practice " without informed consent when laid out on the operating

> room table anesthetized for surgery, and any other risky or painful

> thing the medical syndicate requires for its own purposes. When the

> teaching hospitals have surgery resident's training/credentialing quotas

> to meet a call goes out to family practitioners offices and the

> Emergency Room doctors to send in referrals---from the " low priority "

> stratification, always.

>

> Who are labeled " low priority " ? The elderly retired. Housewives. Single

> over the age of twenty-five. People with no dependents. Terminal with

> other disease. In short, anyone who has a relatively small monetary

> value on the scale medical malpractice attorneys use to calculate

> monetary losses and " damages " .

>

> Attorneys will only accept medical malpractice cases where they are

> assured of getting a great big financial return for themselves (not for

> you; they have no interest in you)---a return that is based on monetary

> losses to the victim: " What are the damages? "

>

> " Damages " calculated for the groups mentioned are so low attorneys will

> not accept medical malpractice cases brought in by these particular

> people no matter how meritorious the claim itself might be. This

> selection process has nothing to do with truth, merit or justice---the

> attorneys are interested only in monetary returns to themselves.

>

> In a civil court, only monetary returns are offered; medical malpractice

> cases are traditionally filed in civil courts.

>

> What you and I are not supposed to know, but the medical syndicate knows

> well, is that the elderly retired, housewives, single over the age of

> twenty-five, people with no dependents, terminal with other disease

> groups are essentially " free kills " . Anything at all can be done, and IS

> done, to these people in these particular groups with no accountability

> whatsoever.

>

> If you fit one or more of these categories you'd better " watch your

> backs " whenever you have an encounter of any sort with the medical

> syndicate; there is nobody policing that system and if you don't look

> out for yourself and take preventative action nobody else will, before

> or after injury occurs, then it is too late.

>

> *Attorneys are " Officers of the Court " , take a loyalty oath to that

> effect. You will be paying their fees but they will NEVER be working for

> YOU; their first loyalty is to the Judicial branch of the government.

> And government is not going to go after government, has secret

> " sovereign immunity " protocols in place to protect the government-funded

> residents and the hospital teaching programs from consequences and

> rightful prosecution of medical injury victim's valid claims.

>

> *One of the tools used to oppress and discourage medical malpractice

> victims from seeking and getting relief through the Courts is something

> called a " Certificate of Merit " law, which is being challenged in some

> states as unConstitutional in that it allows the perpetrators themselves

> the exclusive right to decide which cases are going to be allowed into

> the Court system,

> and which are not---even before the cases are filed! If the medical

> syndicate doesn't want certain kinds of cases recorded " on the books "

> and resolved in the Courts all they have to do is filter the most

> embarrassing or most criminal ones out of the system entirely before

> they can be filed at all! The " merit " of all cases with a monetary value

> of over $25. are for JURIES to decide in a Courtroom. That is what our

> Constitution says.

>

> *Another oppression used to discourage and control medical malpractice

> victims are " Statute of Repose " laws that say after a set period of time

> passes no case can be filed. The law incentives this widespread,

> criminal action by the medical syndicate: when an iatrogenic injury

> occurs the medical community " sees nothing " for the whole time the

> state's Statute of Repose is in effect, which in many states is seven

> years.

>

> The injury will be deliberately left untreated for seven whole years,

> will get no active response and will remain unrecorded no matter what

> manifests. Nothing will be done to halt progression of the injury. Care

> is limited to a sociopathically inhumane " symptomatic relief

> only/noactive intervention " protocol and the doctors will not be moved

> from this rule no matter what you say or do.

>

> The victim will be hung in limbo until the very day that Statute of

> Repose expires. Whatever is left standing on that day gets immediate

> action: the doctors who " saw nothing " for seven long and painful years

> " spring to life " suddenly, the " selective blindness " lifts, and the

> truth is told. Whatever care can be offered is offered---if the victim

> is still alive. Staying alive untreated is the trick, especially if you

> are not told what your injury is early in their " game " so that you can

> take proper action in your own behalf through alternative medicine while

> you " wait " for your Statute of Repose to expire. People are being

> deliberately " waited to death " every day, all over this country.

>

> If, when the Statute of Repose expires and you have been allowed to

> deteriorate untreated to the point of no return, and nothing can be done

> to reverse the damage the doctor-caused injury has created, you will be

> given a fake " cancer " diagnosis, allowed palliative care, and

> fast-tracked to your grave.

>

> *If you are tagged " low priority " and come down with an expensive,

> prolonged illness which makes you a financial liability to your health

> insurer you will be fast-tracked to the grave to save money. Remember

> all those odd stories that have come out in the news regularly where

> some doctor, respiratory therapist, or nurse was accused or caught in

> the act of killing patients in hospitals, nursing homes, or veteran's

> hospitals? Well, it is just plain cheaper for the health insurers to

> place and pay these killers to get rid of the policyholders who turn

> into financial liabilities than to allow the expensive, prolonged

> illness cases to continue after a diagnosis is made and they are locked

> in to providing proper care forever. For all these stories that made it

> into the news at all there are thousands that didn't. This goes on every

> day all over this country, right underneath all our noses but we don't

> understand what we are actually witnessing.

>

> *Referring doctors who send their patients to the teaching hospital's

> training program to be used by their government-funded students to

> practice on gets paid a " finder's fee " . Call it a kick-back, bonus,

> graft,

> whatever-you-will--- " low priority " lives are being bought and sold

> every day.

>

> Patients are being lied to and scammed into undergoing surgeries they do

> not really need in order to meet the needs of the teaching hospital's

> resident training programs. Some hospitals are so aggressive in snaring

> " training material " that their ER doctors are admitting people directly

> from the ER " for observation " then offering surgery after admission; if

> the target refuses surgery they are lied to and told if they don't go

> through with what has been recommended the doctors will not sign them

> out of the hospital---and if they leave without being formally released

> their insurers will not pay the bill.

>

> Parents of minor children are being falsely accused of " child abuse " or

> " Munchausen-Syndrome-By- Proxy " and their parental rights terminated,

> when malpractice happens to their child, or when medical experiments

> requiring children are being performed. Parents are denied access to the

> child so that the parents cannot witness what is actually going on,

> being done to that child.

>

> *There is a centralized computer database where all of our clean,

> unaltered medical records are kept that is accessible only by people who

> have terminals and know the proper passwords for each level of access.

> If you ask for copies of your medical records you will never be allowed

> to have what is kept in this computer database, you will be given a copy

> of the sanitized paper file kept in the fileroom. Hospital x-ray

> filerooms keep two envelopes of your x-rays: a sanitized one and a

> " clean " one labeled " for doctors only " and tagged with a

> call-number---no name. You will be allowed access only to the sanitized

> x-ray file.

>

> *The medical profession is not what you have been led to believe it is.

> (neither is the legal profession and government entities for that

> matter, but that is another story...) There have been vast changes in

> the character and quality of the medical system due to the introduction

> and spread of " managed care " . The insurance companies have taken over

> and now control doctors through income, sit directly in the middle of

> the doctor-patient relationship and decides who gets what based on cost.

>

> They've bought up the hospitals, made their plan doctors stockholders

> and invented other " incentives and rewards " to justify what amounts to

> murder of their policyholders to boost profits. They also decide who

> gets what based on profit too. One of the ways the insurers and their

> stockholders can make money off their policyholders is to use them for

> training surgery and allowing experimentation in the teaching hospitals

> they have bought up. Private companies pay good money to test medical

> devices, drugs, equipment and so on. But the government pays out about

> seven billion dollars a year in Medicare funds to teaching hospitals to

> train residents. The teaching hospitals have so many student slots to

> fill and and training students is so lucrative an enterprise that if

> enough American medical students cannot be recruited these slots will be

> filled with foreign students; Medicare pays for that too.

>

> Training students brings money into the company; paying for proper

> medical care for policyholders takes money out of the company. It

> doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who is going to end up on

> the short end of things when money is the motivator.

>

> Medical CRIME is rampant in this country. It is rampant because the

> protection laws on the books are only as good as the ones enforcing

> them---and there is no real law enforcement. Justice (just-US) is

> reserved exclusively for those who can afford to BUY it.

>

> There is nobody standing up to make sure these kinds of human-rights

> abuses are not allowed to occur in the first place. And no place to take

> a violation for proper resolution after-the-fact.

>

> What we have now is a medical syndicate who knows it can do absolutely

> anything to anyone and get away with it. Even murder, torture, and rob.

>

> That is where we are at today.

>

> Eugenia LaBozetta <labozetta@...> Central Ohio

> Patient's-rights Service Citizen's Organization for Patient Safety

> http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Medical/premed_malpractice.htm

>