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

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That was my letter to the editor to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

I'll let you know if they print it.

Eoroneth

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