Clueless Doctor Causes Stroke

Please read and SHARE everywhere you can to make it go viral! This is very important news for all of you and your loved ones!

My mother had a major stroke today out of doctor cluelessness and this happens every day everywhere only few realize that it does.

Do you have Durable Power of Attorney for your loved ones and for yourself? Were you told to believe that the Durable Power of Attorney will protect you from the hospitals or doctors doing whatever they wish with you? WRONG!

I have full Durable Power of Attorney over my mother. She has been going from hospital to nursing home to hospital and to nursing home to hospital, etc. The very first hospital misdiagnosed her by a psychiatrist who first went to the wrong bed, then came to my mother after my husband called him. He asked some usual questions: where do you live, where did you live before, etc. My mother answered every one correctly. His diagnosis: Alzheimer’s Dementia. Don’t ask me why–I just found this out later, This initial misdiagnosis followed my mother wherever she went.

To make things worse, at this hospital they “forgot” to give my mother a medication that is highly addictive so they pulled her through full withdrawal–have I mentioned she was 88 years old and admitted with high blood pressure and hypertension induced delirium? No? Well forget that since no one cared why she was admitted! They wanted to treat her for Alzheimer’s even though she did not have it. She also came down with serotonin syndrome at the same time full blown since she received by hospital error a double dose of serotonin and what we did not know, her high blood pressure and delirium was building up to a serotonin syndrome. In the US, as of 2012, only 15% of doctors actually recognized serotonin syndrome, over 47,000 people got it and just under 100 died. If you include the other 85% of doctors who missed a diagnosis, you can increase the number 8.5 fold, so well over 500,000 (that is half a million people) in the US had serotonin syndrome and likely around 700 died. It is not a rare disease! Because of her serotonin syndrome, she of course cannot get serotonin anymore but at that hospital no one believed me.

So they sent her on her way to a skilled nursing facility where her serotonin storms hit her. The general treatment for that is to put the person asleep and only awake for feeding. But at the skilled nursing they could not do that so they sent her back to the hospital, which promptly sent her to a psych ward, with now the new diagnostic titles: Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, psychosis, and delirium. The psych ward put her on what is called RIESE 5150, a 72-hour lock-down hold. In that period they started to give her medications like an experiment. She also received medications that had interactions causing heart and liver failure–did I mention she was 88-years old with a heart condition admitted originally?

After she refused to take her medications they pulled a RIESE 5250 on her and even though I had full Advanced Power of Attorney, they denied my rights and put her under state ownership. At that point the doctors can do whatever they wish. there was no communications. We were allowed to see her twice a day for one hour, no phone, no purses, no camera, not even a bottle of water was allowed in. Pure prison. Every time we went she was in a coma-like sleep.

The RIESE was up on the 17th of March, 2014 so one of the doctors called me to get my permission to give her a list of medicines. I permitted none only some Ambient in very low dose for sleeping if must. Instead, they gave her… you guessed it, Serotonin! She left that hospital in a semi coma, in that state for 3 days. They dumped her in a mental institute where only Alzheimer’s (remember, she did not have it), and schizophrenic people were. They were seriously ill… they urinated in my mother’s closet. They screamed all day long!

A psychologist came one day when I was there. He talked to my mother at length, with her answering every question right. Diagnosis: you guessed it, Alzheimer’s.

I called a meeting together because by this time my mom was saying things that if she had to stay here she would rather die. So they wanted to send her back to the psych ward, which I did not permit. The head psychologist was there so I asked him to evaluate. Him, his assistant and my husband went to talk to my mom. She went through all tests with flying colors. Her records were changed to normal, no dementia, no Alzheimer’s, no schizophrenia. And she was transferred to a well known hospital. She was checked into the ER and I gave my Durable Power of Attorney–AGAIN! and listed the medications she is allergic to AGAIN and told them that NO PSYCH medications.

Next day–today, the 4th of April–I visit her in her room. The male nurse is the rudest nurse I have ever seen. My mom was sitting in a pile of pee, wet gown, and no change for hours. The doctor discharged my mom without even a cardiologist so I had the doctor paged at about 2 pm. My mother’s morning medications arrived at 4 pm and there were 5 pills rather than 4 in the case. I asked the nurse why 5, he said all for heart. I said OK. She took the pills and in 15 minutes she had a major stroke.

While they were examining her and getting her stroke treated–half side body fully paralyzed, half face paralyzed, cannot speak. I asked the terrible male nurse what was the 5th pill. This time he did not say heart pill! He said it was for Alzheimer’s! A drug I did not permit! He gave me the name: it was serotonin. At that point I called 911 and wanted the doctor arrested but 911 told me this is a malpractice–which in California does not exist with the $250k cap. But this is also criminal since her allergy chart states no serotonin!

In the intensive care unit, the doctor finally dared looking into my eyes. I asked why she gave serotonin. She said “that was not serotonin” but dopamine. I showed her on my phone using the internet search, taking less than 20 seconds, the drug and all information and that it is serotonin! I also asked her “do you know what dopamine is used for in the brain? She said no. Serotonin? She said no. So.. a doctor prescribing medicine she does not know.

So she said well the pharmacy should have known. But the pharmacy did not know it was serotonin either!

In fact, NOT ONE doctor or pharmacy within any of the hospitals or skilled nursing facilities where my mother was (6 in 6 weeks) honored my Durable Power of Attorney, NOT ONE recognized a serotonin medication when they saw one!

So let me summarize:

Doctors are prescribing medication they are not familiar with and don’t know what those do. Pharmacies are not checking patient allergies and also don’t know what drugs are what. No doctor ever wants to talk to families who would know. Even nurses lie.

The prize:

Serotonin medicines MUST be labeled SEROTONIN under no matter what name they are manufactured.

And finally, in hospital 1 my mom was misdiagnosed and that fate followed her to EVERY hospital no matter what! That initial clueless doctor doomed her all through to her stroke.

Malpractice in California is impossible because of the $250k cap; the District Attorney is overloaded with malpractice cases because attorneys don’t take them. Doctors know this and are running out of control. Hospitals are now out of control! No doctor is an employee of any hospital; they are “contractors” to protect the hospital.

This has got to end! Doctors are killing patients under their Hippocratic Oath! Enough is enough!

Please share this so millions can read it. I will be fighting all the way through all the courts and legislature if I must to change the system!

Posted in This & That, Thoughts, Why Me | 14 Comments

American Medical Civil Rights Act

Good subject to add to Clueless Doctors. Don’t you agree?

Posted in This & That | Leave a comment

-Calgary Suspicion-

Love this so I am re-blogging

Posted in This & That | 2 Comments

Serotonin, NIH, and Malpractice–totally clueless

Serotonin, NIH, and Malpractice–totally clueless.

Posted in This & That | Leave a comment

Serotonin, NIH, and Malpractice–totally clueless

So my last night’s story for Clueless Doctors for you. I found a toll free number to the NIH poison center; the one you are supposed to call when you or your child gets poisoned by something and want to find out what to do.

So the guys picks up and I ask

  • “how long before the brain fully empties the extra serotonin from serotonin poisoning?” He says
  • “Serotonin what?” I say
  • “well you know, when they prescribe too much serotonin and you get toxic levels of serotonin build up in the brain.” He said
  • “Oh that! That is so rare you need not worry.” So I say
  • ” I just read it on the NIH website that last year over 47,000 people had it and just under 100 died.” He says
  • “Just ignore NIH”… I say
  • “duh… YOU ARE NIH“…

What dumb people are answering the phone at NIH poison center to help you??? Honestly?

Note that the number I called is the official number one is supposed to call from everywhere in the US whatever poisoning occurs. Can we even trust the poison center? Is there any place we can go today where we will be treated competently?

There are some places. I have some awesome doctors now after years of searching but it took me about 10 years of moving from doctor to doctor and 2 times near death experience before I found the competent ones. Now you all know that I have medical knowledge at the research level–I am not an MD but a PhD so my field is research rather than practice. Thus I have the advantage over a large percentage of the population who do not know what the doctors do instead of what they should be doing! What can you do then?

Let me tell you another story from yesterday. My mother was completely misdiagnosed at a local very well known hospital and treated with the wrong medications, they forgot to give her the medications she has always taken, etc. So several cases of malpractice and negligence. I filed a claim (within the hospital, following their process) against two doctors who were in charge of my mom’s 10 days in the hospital.

So yesterday I received a letter confirming that the hospital received my complaints and since the doctors are independent contractors and not hospital employees, the hospital is not responsible for their action… I am serious. This is what the letter said. Here is what I wrote back to the hospital:

Interesting statement–does hospital X hire doctors to work on hospital X patients, in hospital X medical rooms, using hospital X equipment, in hospital X offices, using hospital X computers, ordering hospital X nurses, using hospital X medical dispenser system for medicines, and are not responsible for hospital X patients? This will be an interesting discussion indeed.

How did the system degrade to the level that is less responsible than constructions or grocery stores or any other public or private system? How can the healthcare system of a country be not responsible for its doctors’ incompetent, negligent, and sometimes criminal actions? Here is a criminal one for you: If on your medical chart says you are allergic to a medicine and the doctor goes ahead and gives it to you anyway, that is “intent to harm” and that is a criminal act.

So now you may say “why don’t you file criminal charges against that doctor?” And I have to tell you that I cannot. The California medical criminal system is so kluged up as a result of attorneys refusing to take on malpractice cases, that the District Attorney’s office can no longer see out of their offices from the stacks and stacks of claims. No claim can be put in that will actually prosecute in my lifetime. And then you may ask “well don’t attorneys take on the malpractice cases?”

Here is an example for you that made the news a day or two ago: a child died from the malpractice of a doctor. The mother wanted to sue but no attorney would take it so she paid for the suit and hired an attorney to file a malpractice. She lost! Her child was dead, obvious malpractice and she lost! Not only that but then after loosing her child and also all that money in court, the insurance companies ended up suing her for all the costs they had in defending themselves.

Today, in California, no attorney will take on a malpractice lawsuit no matter how hard you try. the explanation is simple and rather ugly: if the malpractice is against a child or an elderly, there is absolutely no chance for them to prove that the child or elderly would not have ended up dead without the bad treatment. In the case of a young adult through middle age person, there is a chance that life would have turned out differently and so then they cannot judge and this little bit of uncertainty is enough to motivate.

This system has to change. I have some ideas that will be written up on my next day of thoughts. If you have any suggestions or complaints yourself or know someone who does, please feel free to write it up under comments or visit my Facebook Fan page and comment there.

Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Clueless versus Incompetent versus Malpractice versus Crime

Clueless versus Incompetent versus Malpractice versus Crime.

Posted in This & That | Leave a comment

Clueless versus Incompetent versus Malpractice versus Crime

I am sure you have heard this many times: what’s wrong with these doctors today? My medications are not working. They chopped off my left leg when the right was the sick one. They left a pair of scissors in me after surgery. They gave me the wrong medications. The list goes on. What is what and how can you tell if a doctor is clueless, or incompetent, or is committing malpractice, or is the act downright criminal?

I am not sure if my definitions are correct in the eye of the law so if you know something I missed or got wrong, please don’t be shy and help me out. Feel free to post what you know so I can update my knowledge.

Clueless

Clueless is defined as “not having knowledge of something.” So in case of doctors, a clueless doctors means no harm, only does not know what he/she is doing. Mind you in some fields being clueless can cost lives, such as medicine, so while ignorance may be bliss in many fields of work, medicine is not one of them.

Incompetent

Incompetent means that although the person may know what needs to be done, he/she does not have the skills to do it.  The person is not legally qualified and so cannot take on the particular duty. For example a doctor of the foot, a podiatrist, may not have the skills to operate on the patient’s heart. The podiatrist may know what needs to be done but is not qualified to actually perform the surgery and is he/she attempts it anyway, that is incompetence. Incompetent people are probably the type we most often bump into in our every day lives. They know they are not qualified but are ashamed to admit it and act as though they were. I think most people’s managers fall into this category somewhere…

Malpractice

Malpractice is pretty much a crime but need not end in prison sentence. Malpractice is officially defined in the dictionary as “a dereliction of professional duty or a failure to exercise an ordinary degree of professional skill or learning by one (as a physician) rendering professional services which results in injury, loss, or damage; an injurious, negligent, or improper practice.” Thus malpractice is close to crime that cannot be considered deliberate and hence is a mixture of clueless and incompetent to a deeper degree.

Negligence

Negligence is more along the side of criminal, particularly if it is with intent. The official dictionary definition of negligence is “failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances” which is similar to malpractice but requires expert witnesses and is likely a jury court hearing. I suppose in the case of “negligence with intent” the doctor may lose his/her license and may even spend time in jail, dependent upon how much damage was the consequence of negligence.

The reason why I am bringing this up here is because I would like to find out if a doctor and an entire medical institution disregards a medicine that the patient has on her chart that she is allergic to it and yet the doctors force down large doses of that drug in to her in spite of the allergy warning, is that criminal negligence with intent to harm?

Please give me your thoughts by a comment!

← Back

Thank you for your response. ✨

Posted in Thoughts | 1 Comment

Why Me?

I am a scientist and not a clinical practicing doctor. There is not a better place to be than a scientist who understands what an MD does or does not do right. Because recently there have been so many bad outcomes to patients–including my mother, many of my friends, and also me–I am taking it upon myself to help changing the medical system by explaining why it does not work, why it cannot work, and what we can do to change it and improve it.

Many stories will follow. I encourage you all to leave a feedback message or email me both good or bad stories. There are many good doctors but they are very hard to find. In my new book I will help you find one by informing you what to watch out for, how to prepare, where to find information, and what tools are available to you to face your doctor and show them that YOU know.

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Angela

← Back

Thank you for your response. ✨

Posted in Why Me | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Clueless Doctors; an introduction

Today’s doctors are so overwhelmed by many variety of illnesses that have similar symptoms that they are starting to forget how to be doctors. Unless they ask a relative or someone who knows the patient, misdiagnosis is highly likely. Today I had a big argument with a doctor who is handling one of my family members. He finally (after 2 weeks) called me back. So the first thing he says that the drug Depakote (generic is Valproic acid) is not an MAOI drug–more of what that drug is in a moment. But here is the NIH article stating that in fact “Valproic acid induces monoamine oxidase A via AKT/forkhead box O1 activation.”

For your information, MAOI drugs are of the worst kinds. They are used for psychosis and schizophrenia among other things but this medication type interacts with many other medications in a way that is deadly without exception and is also causing severe liver damage within 6 months of starting treatment. So MAOI drugs are to be highly avoided! Furthermore, in talking with his he said “we are giving this to her so that her dopamine receptors stop working”. I asked if he understood the meaning of what he just said. He was certain he did but he did not. Dopamine is a crucial neuropeptide driving our decision making ability, logical thoughts, and in general, someone with dementia will have reduced ability in the area of the brain where dopamine receptors are found. So in fact they were inducing dementia in her by blocking the dopamine receptors. When I told him this he said “are you telling me I am making your mother demented?” my answer: YES!

The second drug came as a total surprise to me.  They are prescribing her Ambient. Now we all know that Ambient has caused a lot of problems, sleep walking, sleep driving, killing of people as a result, etc. Recent research shows that women taking the same dose as men of Ambient are overdosed by 45%. So I asked what dose my mother (age 88) was receiving and she was receiving Ambient in a large dose (the doctor did not actually remember, he said eitehr 5 or 10 mg… so I asked him to half the dose whatever it is! At the same time the doc told me that Ambient does not fall into the category of drugs of Benzodiazepines, but in fact it does under what is called “Atypical benzodiazepine receptor ligands” meaning they act as benzos even though they are not benzos but to the body they are. The generic name is Zolpidem and it is the second drug from the bottom of the table.

There was one additional drug on the line that they gave as a patch for her to reduce dementia which she did not have. I had him remove that as well.

I don;t know if my mother will ever recover from the torture she had to endure in this hospital and in the hospital before it but one thing is clear to me: today’s doctors do not have enough specific information. There are great doctors out there, don;t misunderstand me. In fact I have several such awesome doctors but that does not stop me from taking with me an entire pile of scientific documents with me for our meeting. In fact last time one of my doctors stepped in with a bigger pile of scientific data and noted “Dr. Stanton, my pile  is bigger, I must be right”. 🙂 And I am sure he is since he is doing his upbringing of his skills based on new science.

Now the doctor I am talking about is a psychiatric specialist running with one additional psychiatrist a hospital specifically for elderly psychiatric patients. One would expect a bit more knowledge from them than what they represent given that they pretty much run the hospital. The questions I am asking here are very serious and are as follows:

  1. Why are doctors not informed better?
  2. If they are doctors, should they not be tested every year for new medications and research coming at them?
  3. Should doctors pass an annual competence test if they still know enough to be doctors?
  4. Should doctors be obligated to talk to family members about the history of the patient if such members exist and are happy to share the information?
  5. Should doctors have the right to prescribe any medication at all until patient and/or responsible parties have approved them given the explanations provided by doctors?
  6. Should it not be mandated that doctors provide such information?

As you can see I have a lot of questions. I am looking forward to your participation and answers and also questions on your end. I will be writing a book about this and am hoping to chance the medical industry to help patients rather than the pockets of clueless doctors.

Angela

Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments