The Santa Cruz Sentinel impugned the character of my friend JD. They reported his violence in the MRI lab at Dominican, but fail to tell their readers that JD was repeatedly injured with malpractice and was concurrently drugged with a prescription likely to induce violent behavior. This happened a few days back, about the start of May 2000. He has now been in jail. Here is his story, as best as I could get it... JD has been diagnosed with brain cancer and epilepsy. He had been given a barbituate, phenylbarbitol. Barbituates are the only substance that induce violence in people much more frequently than alcohol. Under the influence of this medically prescribed substance, he was then injected with a dye ... incorrectly, completely piercing through the vein, injecting the substance into the muscle rather than the blood. This induced excruciating pain. Months earlier, JD nearly died from another hospital mistake caused by a nurse improperly administering an IV and causing a severe infection. Now, he was being told that the hospital was going to have him wait until they could get the same nurse who had nearly killed him previously to inject him again, while he was in horrible pain and on a medically prescribed drug that induces violent behavior. His friends raised $5,000 to post for his $50,000 bail. As the bondsman was about to pay, the bail was doubled to $100,000.00. Doesn't it seem awfully vindictive (putting it nicely, since I might otherwise say it smells to high heaven of a cover up by a large organisation that victimized JD with malpractice and now to cover the mess is trying to crucify him overlooking their role in the mess). Why isn't JD released on his own recognizance? Why has the hospital pushed for a vindictive doubling of the bail? Aren't people in the medical profession supposed to know about the effects of phenylbarbitol and the likelihood that it may induce violence? (Especially in light of severe malpractice!) Wasn't his near death due to an infection from an earlier act of malpractice enough to alert the hospital that they should clean up their act? Was not the subsequent faulty injection of dye completely through his vein and into his muscle and joint sufficient to trigger outrage without even considering the fact that JD was drugged with a substance that induces violence as a side effect quite often and even without considering that he had recently faced a near death situation from similar previous medical acts of malpractice. How can they give a person a drug that causes violent behavior, severely injure that person and then press to have his bail doubled because they have failed in doing their job at every turn? Neal cc: Imladris News Service *********************************************************************** That was my letter to the editor to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I'll let you know if they print it. Eoroneth
Eoroneth@hotmail.com
California
United States