Comments on: A Strikingly Similar Story http://collateral-damage.net Heart Ablation Malpractice at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Richard Wu and Dr. Hugh Calkins Mon, 28 May 2012 15:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: danwalter http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-2132 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:35:58 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-2132 Thanks for the comments Molly.

]]> By: M Molly http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-2119 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:37:22 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-2119 It is plenty more. Ghost surgery has been found to be illegal in Maryland at least.And the idea of doctors in training needing the experience has been written about plenty in medical journals. When my brother was a surgery resident, he learned how to establish a doctor patient relationship and rapport, which also enabled him to ask for and receive consent to operate. Of course, that was a long time ago … and English was his primary language!

]]> By: M Molly http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-2118 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:27:36 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-2118 Unfortunately, the converse is regarded as if it was true. Just because somebody writes something in a medical record, reality has not been changed to conform to that notation. Even if the patient has an eyewitness with them. I suppose a tape recording, even if the applicable laws about wire tapping and otherwise taping a conversation were followed, would be ruled inadmissible when that is the request of the heavily funded lawyers. If the judge wants to be reelected and thus needs those lawyers support, financial and otherwise, truth will not be admitted!

]]> By: M Molly http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-2117 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:13:49 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-2117 pre-anesthesia should be typed above, not per. I am too tired to type but am so full of comments I want to make! Above all else, I’m overwhelmingly thankful for what you have documented in these excerpts you’ve freely made available. The lawyers who tried to squelch everything might have actually felt some pain when your freedom of speech was not as restricted as their employers wanted.

]]> By: M Molly http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-2116 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:00:01 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-2116 I am in Pennsylvania and would love to join you and then all we would need is a third person who comes from another location and initiation of a class action suit on the issue of “Ghost Surgery” – which is illegal in Maryland – could be another option for you and your wife to consider. I was so shocked at that aspect of the deceit at Hopkins, especially since the difference between a person who is board certified and one who just barely has a medical license means so much for the risks a patient faces. Also I was so glad to read that your wife held out on the issue of informed consent. I signed a consent at Hopkins which was not witnessed and was changed after I signed it. Then they got somebody to sign it as if a witness to my signature but at least that person did have enough decency to write the correct date of his/her signature, which occurred 2 days after I signed the form. There are so many aspects pertinent to informed consent and it is something which needs to be improved in every jurisdiction. Has anyone ever been given a copy of what they signed, and at the time of signing? You receive a copy immediately with any other contract with a licensed person, even for contractors doing fairly minor home repairs in states where they are licensed. I have never received a copy of an informed consent form at the time of signing and when I tried to get it at Hopkins the surgeon (who allegedly was going to operate on me) gave me a runaround by insisting it had to be obtained via a request sent to the medical records department. I needed the surgery (asap according to my local surgeon)and had no good options to go elsewhere on short notice and get it done since it had to be done at a tertiary care center.

]]> By: M Molly http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-2115 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:27:05 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-2115 Get the operative report as well as every page of the anesthesia records, per-anesthesia, post-op which may be called recovery room. Specify nursing as well as physician notes, copy of the order sheets for every step of the way- there likely will be totally separate orders and nursing notes etc. on separate pages for each place (room) the patient was in (admitted to)

]]> By: Never Again http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-1870 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:49:38 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-1870 Frank, here is what my so-called “informed” consent says; “I hereby authorize Dr.________ and whomever he/she designates as his/her assistants to perform upon ______ the following procedure:_________” I think this is how they get around it. Define “assistant” for me. You and I would think that this would mean those assisting the Dr. but I think it means assistant as in substitute associate. This is in violation of the law. They MUST have a list of persons performing any duties for the patient. They must use a separate piece of paper if there are so many that they have need of it. It’s the law. Try to get it enforced.

]]> By: danwalter http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-1869 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:09:58 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-1869 I’m not mad at anybody. You are welcome to use excerpts. Thank you for linking to my site.

My wife appreciates your posting information on Versed. She has been telling me for a long time how useful it is to research hospitals to be able to employ an amnesiac drug so that patients will not know that strangers have operated on them.

Thanks,

Dan

]]> By: Never Again http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-1868 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:02:14 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-1868 Mr. Walters. I put up an excerpt from your story up on my blog. I also have a couple of links back to this web site on there. I just saw that this is all copyrighted. Should I take the items down? I sure don’t want you mad at me!

]]> By: Never Again http://collateral-damage.net/notes/introduction/a-strikingly-similar-story/#comment-1809 Sat, 29 May 2010 01:52:42 +0000 http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/?page_id=129#comment-1809 I encountered this supreme lack of regard for a patient myself. I went through the whole rigamorole as well and had my case thrown out of court because I didn’t have the 25,000 dollars for a designated “expert witness.” I have copies of my medical documents, the so called informed consent, the incredible lack of skill in performing my surgery, x rays along with documentation of all the subterfuge, ducking, dodging and lying that went with it. I was actually secretly pleased to find others who went through the same thing, even to the point of my Dr. insinuating that I was insane for not liking his bad surgery. I have those letters from the surgeon up there too. My story can be viewed at http://www.nomidazolam.blogspot.com It is eerily similar to what you guys went through. Thank God it was only an arm surgery. IF you decide to go to my blog, be careful if you are easily upset. I put up “comments” which are nasty evil remarks from health care providers. It will give you some insight as to how we are viewed by the medical elite and it isn’t pretty…

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