Re: discovered another lie/coverup!!

[Guest guest]

patty

thank you for your response. I was am still so mad about that!

love

shari

[Guest guest]

Shari

That's awful! I am so sorry. I am so grateful you finally did get

them out. But to think you could have been saved so much pain and

suffering! It is getting harder and harder for me to think well of

any of the medical community. Your ps was very negligent in not

acting upon the info from mentor and a big ass to boot. I don't

know how he can live with himself knowing what he knew and seeing

how sick you became. Please don't let it eat you up. Anger and

resentment will only make you sicker and he will sleep as well as

always!! I would be tempted to write your ps a letter however.

Wouldn't you love to just send it to all his patients? I know it is

hard to accept negligence. My husband died of a ruptured aortic

aneurysm because the ER doctors and the residents didnt " think " he

was having a dissection even though they already knew he had the

aneurysm. They didnt bother to order a cat scan or an echo or an

mri which would have shown the dissection. He could have had

emergency heart surgery and would have had over an 85% of

surviving. Instead they told us he had a pulled chest muscle and

sent him home to die. Well I was so angry. I filed a malpractice

suit and won. But that didn't bring my husband back or my kid's

father. My sister who was a nurse--and has saline implants--thought

I should have dropped it, because docs aren't perfect and make

mistakes. They had an incredibly cold attitude that night as I

questioned them pretty intensely on what was wrong with him causing

the chest pain if it wasn't a dissection. I often wonder what that

doc thought the next night when they rushed mike back in in the

ambulance and he arrived there dead. When I filed the lawsuit, the

residents hadn't even written any notes of their exam from that

night. They wrote them 3 weeks later and made up that they

ordered a cat scan and he refused. They also said he left the ER

against medical advise. All total lies. That hurt more than their

negligence. My lawyer said it would only help our case as their

lies would alienate the jury. As it turned out, they settled out of

court. At any rate, I just wanted you to know that I understand how

it feels to be treated with negligence, lied to, and to suffer

greatly as a result. Take care

hugs, kathy

> Hi everyone

> I just needed to vent for a moment... I have been talking lately

to a news

> show about telling my story and I pulled out my medical records to

review them

> in case they needed more info, dates,etc. I have a large file

with everything

> for the last ten years in it as I had an attorney a while back who

was trying

> to take my case and had requested all of them (long story, but

they ended up

> dropping it as the statute of limitations had run out - I just

found out that

> the implants were contaminated upon removal which is coming up on

1 year on

> Monday but they had faulty valves - the atty just wanted to go

after malpractice

> and not the mfg as he didn't want to get tied up in fed court)...

anyways, as

> people who have read my story may remember, when my ps refused to

set me up

> fro an explant last Feb, I started crying in his office and went

to my car for

> an hour then came back in a demanded that they give me my

records. I then

> went elsewhere and got the explant. The records that my old atty

had obtained

> from his were a LITTLE thicker and more detailed. I was so bummed

at my case

> being dropped I just stuck them in drawer after the atty sent them

to me and

> just now pulled them out. I went through them and found a letter

sent to my PS

> from mentor back in 99 after he replaced a deflation(the same

implant that they

> refused to let me see after removal). he had returned it to them

to get his

> " bogey " and they examined it and gave him a report. it clearly

stated that the

> implant was found to have " foreign yellow and white " material

inside of it -

> obviously contaminated. I never received a call about this report

nor did I

> get a copy. Had I known back then that they were full of fungus I

would have

> had them removed and saved years of pain and suffering. I could

have been

> completely healed right now and not on disability. They left this

info out of the

> medical records that I demanded (and paid them for) - I am

guessing it was a

> mistake that they sent it to the atty. gosh this pisses me off -

this was

> before my son was conceived - I took a chance with his health with

the approval

> of this creep before I knew of the problems with the implants and

all the while

> he already knew at least on was contaminated and all of the fluid

had leaked

> into my body as it was a complete deflation. This is when all of

my health

> problems really got kicked off. it is so unfair that they can do

this to us and

> we have no recourse whatsoever.

> sorry - just had to vent!

> love

> shari

[Guest guest]

Wow Kathy, that makes my issue so lame. I didn't die because of the

doctor's actions, I just got my feelings hurt! I'm so sorry about

your husband. Doctors need to LISTEN to their patients and their

families. We know what's " normal " because we're with them every

day. I'm so sorry they didn't listen to you.

Pam

> > Hi everyone

> > I just needed to vent for a moment... I have been talking lately

> to a news

> > show about telling my story and I pulled out my medical records

to

> review them

> > in case they needed more info, dates,etc. I have a large file

> with everything

> > for the last ten years in it as I had an attorney a while back

who

> was trying

> > to take my case and had requested all of them (long story, but

> they ended up

> > dropping it as the statute of limitations had run out - I just

> found out that

> > the implants were contaminated upon removal which is coming up on

> 1 year on

> > Monday but they had faulty valves - the atty just wanted to go

> after malpractice

> > and not the mfg as he didn't want to get tied up in fed court)...

> anyways, as

> > people who have read my story may remember, when my ps refused to

> set me up

> > fro an explant last Feb, I started crying in his office and went

> to my car for

> > an hour then came back in a demanded that they give me my

> records. I then

> > went elsewhere and got the explant. The records that my old atty

> had obtained

> > from his were a LITTLE thicker and more detailed. I was so

bummed

> at my case

> > being dropped I just stuck them in drawer after the atty sent

them

> to me and

> > just now pulled them out. I went through them and found a letter

> sent to my PS

> > from mentor back in 99 after he replaced a deflation(the same

> implant that they

> > refused to let me see after removal). he had returned it to them

> to get his

> > " bogey " and they examined it and gave him a report. it clearly

> stated that the

> > implant was found to have " foreign yellow and white " material

> inside of it -

> > obviously contaminated. I never received a call about this

report

> nor did I

> > get a copy. Had I known back then that they were full of fungus

I

> would have

> > had them removed and saved years of pain and suffering. I could

> have been

> > completely healed right now and not on disability. They left

this

> info out of the

> > medical records that I demanded (and paid them for) - I am

> guessing it was a

> > mistake that they sent it to the atty. gosh this pisses me off -

> this was

> > before my son was conceived - I took a chance with his health

with

> the approval

> > of this creep before I knew of the problems with the implants and

> all the while

> > he already knew at least on was contaminated and all of the fluid

> had leaked

> > into my body as it was a complete deflation. This is when all of

> my health

> > problems really got kicked off. it is so unfair that they can do

> this to us and

> > we have no recourse whatsoever.

> > sorry - just had to vent!

> > love

> > shari