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Kaiser Patient Malpractice Stories
The following stories and articles are about actual Kaiser Permanente Patients and Employees that have been abused, maimed and killed.
They are sorted by category. If you want your story on this web site then tell us when you write in. Unless you tell us you would like it online we will not share it with the public.
These are tough times and tough words are necessary. For each patient story that is presented on the Kaiser Papers there are at least 1,000 more that should also be told. For each person that remains quiet and does not make their information public they are just as responsible as the medical staff that enables and absolves each other by their group participation in actively harming patients for financial gain.
No matter how they want to sugar coat this they are all taking part in group absolution and justifying to themselves their lack ofresponsibility and lack of action because they choose to believe that as employees they have played a small part in harming the patient. Well, the truth is that they know about it and how they all are working together and they are not stopping it. But you the public can do something about this. You can stop it from continuing by making their corporate actions public. You can contact your legislators regarding all Federally Financed contracts that Kaiser and the Permanente are paid by and exposing their wrong doing.
June 26, 2005- TRAGEDY AND TRAVESTY AT KAISER HOSPITAL - A letter from
Dr. Nayvin Gordon regarding the substandard care his daughter, a twenty year old San Francisco State University student received at Kaiser. Were it not for the Kaiser diluted, overly managed, corporate cost cutting features of standard, accepted by the entire world life saving procedures this young lady may well have not suffered permanent brain damage. Kaiser really botched this case but instead of owning up to it pulled strings all over the State of California with every government agency in existence to not be held accountable.
The clock is ticking Kaiser and you are going to fall hard when the bell rings. Your time is past and we are all just going to let you lie there in the mud where you deserve to be.
http://www.buchanan.org/db00-0131.html
12/7/99 I was on a project with Kaiser Permanente (KP) in Pasadena, California in 1997-1998. KP was developing a new system, using Cool:gen (IEF). There were a number of Cool:gen consultants working on the project - a mixture of H-1Bs' and U.S. citizens.
KP wanted the U.S. consultants to sign on as full time employees but was only willing to pay us about $60K per year. ($60K per year is a low salary for an experienced I.T. professional in S.California). As consultants we were making about $60 per hour so needless to say, most of us declined the KP offer.
So what did KP do? It sent it's managers to the Phillipines, Egypt and India to hire employees on H-1B visas. And guess what? Some of these new hires had NO knowledege of Cool:gen. They had lied on their re'sume's and in the interview. The H-1B hires were being paid about $50-55K per year. And you guessed it, once we trained the H-1Bs' our contracts were terminated.
The Cool Cool-gen programmerLinda Kilcrease email: netmouser@earthlink.net
KAISER CRIMINAL LEGAL RETALIATION STORIES
Often insurance companies in an effort to save face and pretend that they are perfectly run will ignore and or deny their errors in judgement and action. Rather than apologize and say they have made a mistake they will knowingly follow through to the end even though it is bringing sesrous harm to a person and their family. This is a immature, outdated business practice. The people in this subsection were wrongly incarcerated by the Kaiser Plan and the for profit Permanente Medical Group. Kaiser made a mistake and instead of correcting their mistake when it was discovered they chose to instead allow innocent people to be branded and incarcerated for the sole purpose of avoiding the publication of negative publicity.
Man
Wrongly Convicted
of Murder Freed After 21 Years Behind Bars
BUELL: Kaiser Hospital was caring for my son. And in January, before
he died -- a few months before he died, he was bleeding internally when
my sister was watching him. And they said that he had a ruptured
spleen,
and then it turned around that he had no ruptured spleen. And they
don't
know where he was bleeding or...
KING:
You
think the hospital was covering its
own ineptitude?
MARSH: Well, to a degree, yes.
KING: Were you a
scapegoat?
MARSH: I just think I was
caught up
in the overzealousness
of child abuse at that time, yes.
Update on this
story:
January
20, 2006 State
Pays Wrongly Convicted
Man
*
Compensation board
awards Kenneth M. Marsh
$756,900. He served 21 years for a toddler's death that was later
deemed
accidental. By Maura Dolan, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-innocent20jan20,0,6526039.story?track=tottext,0,5684488.story?track=tothtml
Mirrored at for
historical purposes: http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/kenmarsh.html
Other relevant link:http://freekenmarsh.com/index.html
"A Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy Miracle Story"
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/lindsay.html
Link to Patient's Requesting Help Page which features the current story on the Gentry Family
http://www.kaiserpapers.org/pleasehelp.html
Link to a Letter from Mike and Kathleen Gentry to The American Public and All People of this world.
http://www.kaiserpapers.org/gentryletter.html
You can contact the Gentry Family at: lndsay@adelphia.net
These are the medical highlights of Lindsay's first 6 years of life.
http://www.kaiserpapers.org/gentryletter.html
The Children of Yvonne Eldridge
Here is a brief overview of the heart-breaking story of Yvonne Eldridge. It is an incredible story of lies and false allegations, of egregious misuse of public trust, of an astonishing breach in the criminal justice system, of courage to stand against a brutal system gone haywire, a system intent on the systematic destruction of a loving and close-knit family. A story of perseverence under the most supremely difficult of circumstances. A story so outrageous and so shocking you won't believe it could happen. Not here. Not in America. But happen it did, and in fact, is still going on in the quiet, unassuming town of Walnut Creek, California.
A warm, caring foster mom of two medically fragile infants, Yvonne was falsely accused of child endangerment by an unscrupulous doctor. Even though there was no evidence to back up his claims, Yvonne was put on trial. During the grand jury, a so-called medical "expert" testified under oath that Yvonne suffered from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (even though a scientific diagnosis was never made), and therefore, nothing she said could be believed. - Read more....
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/eldridge.htmlTB Isn't a Disease of the Distant Past By KRIS HOGERHUIS
April 18, 1984
Author: Pam Slater
In what is described as the largest award ever in a Sacramento legal malpractice suit, a jury awarded an
11-year-old quadriplegic and her parents $2.35 million Tuesday after deciding the family's lawyer violated
an attorney-client relationship.
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/11yearold.html
The Bonnie Lloyd Story - Kaiser Texas Story
Cynthia Toussaint -Cynthia Toussaint’s career as a ballerina was ended when a pulled hamstring led to RSD. Today she is dedicated to RSD awareness and HMO reform.
KAISER
PAIN MANAGEMENT STORIES
I
found that my HMO in Washington State (Kaiser) had told their
doctor
to increase their "Patients Per Day" to 110 from 90.
Patient:
Paula Ducas Aug 9 2002
Dr. Hochman, I don't know if you will be able to help me, but you look
like the best hope I have.
Dr.
Hochman,
I am in pain and need help. I am a patient and employee of
Kaiser
Permanete but cannot find a
doctor who honors his oath and will properly and effectively treat
my pain.
Dear
Mr. Greenly,
I am a 61 year old woman who has reached the point where I
don’t know
what to do about the pain Im living with. So Im writing to you to see
if
you can help.
Attn:
Mr. Tom Greenly
In 1983 I was physically struck by an uninsured motorist’s
car. Since
then I have had lots of Physical Therapy, been on Codine, Darvon,
Darvecet
100 & have been on Vicodin/Lortab 5/500 two tablets 4 times
daily to
date. The doctors at Kaiser keep refusing to give me a triple script
pain
killer. I have a herniated disc L4/5 & a cervical herniated
disc; degenerative
spinal disease below L-5; degenerative disease the AC cup area of my
left
shoulder; both legs ache from the knee down; arthritis in right knee;
fibromyalsia
- my muscles hurt so badly...
KAISER
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PATIENT STORIES
Another HMO Horror Story- It can happen to anyone
November 4, 2005
‘Psyche’ patient escapes
By Bill Silverfarb
A Kaiser Medical Center patient is in custody following a bizarre incident that left a security guard hospitalized and a pregnant woman traumatized. .....“If he is mentally ill I’m more angry at the people that allowed it to happen,” Singh said. “If he was on a suicide watch they weren’t doing a very good job of watching him.”
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=49612
text mirrored at:
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/poorsecurity.html
KAISER
ORTHOPEDIC PATIENT STORIES
Kaiser
Permante's Negligent Treatment
of an
Elderly Patient Ends in
Tragedy - Patient - Bernice
Barthoff, Age 86. - http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/bernicebarthoff.html
Parents Overcome the Odds -- Twice by Dana Parsons
Ryan Royer
The odds of Chris and Rod Royer's 12-year-old son getting the debilitating hip ailment known as Perthes disease were 1 in 5,000. But he did, and Chris knew things were bad in December 2001 when Ryan approached her as she sat in the stands watching him play basketball and said, "Mom, I can't run."
The Royers soon learned that the prognosis for Perthes, which causes deterioration of the thigh bone in the hip socket, was not good, especially for children in Ryan's age group. Kids like Ryan typically had to hunker down, withstand the arthritic-like pain the disease brought, and wait for hip-replacement surgery as adults.
Then the Royers got lucky. Chris learned about a relatively unknown procedure known as "distraction" that was performed at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore by its originator, Dror Paley, an outside-the-box orthopedic surgeon who reported 95% success rates.
The Royers, who live in Fullerton, asked their longtime health insurer Kaiser Permanente to pay for the surgery. The company refused, describing the procedure as "not medically necessary." The Royers, seeing Ryan's condition worsening to the point that pain sometimes left him in tears, signed up for it anyway. Last November, they took Ryan to Baltimore for the surgery, which cost about $50,000.
Once back in Orange County, Chris Royer took on Kaiser. Read more.......
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/royer.htmlWe heard her speak the woman's name, the name of the previous patient. We didn't react at once, but when we heard the name repeated as they went out into the hall, the unthinkable occurred to us and we decided to make sure.
KAISER CREDIT
REPORTING TO THE DETRIMENT OF PATIENTS
STORIES
What
Kaiser Does With the TRW Report They File on You
All wasn't good news however, as it took 6 months to get the
health
insurance I should have had all along. Kaiser turned me down because I
had "been hospitalized once within the past year". Big mistake; never
mark
this box on a health insurance application. They denied me any form of
coverage for any price, and apparently reported that to a "health
insurance"
version of the TRW credit reporting business. Everybody else I applied
with turned me down as well, and I couldn't lie since it would be
reported
why Kaiser had denied me. Finally, in April, Blue Shield took my
application,
along with a $318 check to get the policy started. The 14th of that
month
they cashed the check.
This is the story of a senior citizen that trusted, was mislead by Kaiser Permanente, received very poor medical care, and could not change his medical plan because Kaiser had total control over it. The Federal Government was robbed for Kaiser was paid for this deplorable medical service from government funds. The citizens of this country were robbed because they funded this government Medicare program and trusted that it would be administered properly and that someone would be honestly providing oversight.
The attorneys consulted in this case for representation of Mr. Kline and his family sold the family out to Kaiser. Rather than honestly tell the family that it is a rigged system for all intents and purposes they strung them along and gave them false hope. They intentionally let the statute run out knowing full well that no one would ever question their behavior, including the California Bar Association.
Kaiser Permanente violated the law in overcharging for the actual cost of photocopying the medical records. They took advantage of a family already in the throes of mourning to drag the entire matter along until the very short statute regarding malpractice in California would be past. It was an intentional act on the part of many differnt people that consistently work together for personal financial gain at the detriment of the suriviving family members.
Mr. Kline was denied emergency medical care and from the family's information it sounds as if Kaiser also openly practiced active euthanasia on this patient.
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/johnmkline.html
The
Bill
and
Marie O'Dell Story.
Bill
and Marie are Senior
Citizens that in my opinion
have been misled by Kaiser. Marie has diabetes and Kaiser did
create
serious medical complications with her care. She has been
placed
in Kaiser Hospice, because "Kaiser will then pay for her
medicine."
Mr. O'Dell was advised by Kaiser to give her Morphine for breathing
problems.
My mother has a low tolerance to strong medicine -- she takes only one prescription drug regularly and resists taking even Tylenol unless absolutely necessary. A trip to the emergency room two years ago resulted in her being routinely medicated to a point where she exhibited such confusion that Kaiser committed her to a nursing home for dementia. It took three months of fighting their system to get her out. Naturally, I expressed concern that they would medicate her and that things might get out of control if I didn't arrange the situation; but Kathy said it had to be done immediately because my mother was screaming in pain (from the paramedics examination, I learned later). I agreed to meet them at Kaiser.
DR. CHARLES
PHILLIPS KAISER PATIENT STORIES
Talk
About Kaiser Chutzpah (Nerve)
The Killing Fields The ongoing slaughter in the offices, clinics, gurneys, and beds of Managed Care
Kaiser and Stress Tests by Charles Phillips, M.D.
OTHER WEB SITES WITH KAISER PATIENT STORIES
Stay
away from Kaiser Permanente - Kaiser Permanente is
very much like
the cigarrette companies, and makes money while maiming and killing
thousands
and thousands of people. There is no telling how many people
have
died because of Kaiser Permanente.
Criminal Activity at Kaiser HMO Hospitals Computer Center
The Death of Richard Leonard during Routine Ear Surgery
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/richardleonard.html
Commentary on the Kaiser Permanente fad of gastric bypass surgery.
CDC
Genocidal Measles Vaccine Experiments on Minority Children Turn Deadly
U.S.
Medical System Conducts Ethnic Cleansing At Home and Abroad
Another Life Ruined By Kaiser - A Kaiser Botox Story
Kaiser ruined my life so, obviously, I pre-judge them. I am no longer with Kaiser. I was with Kaiser - Vallejo (North Bay Area) until 1995 when I changed to Health Net to save my life. The internist I saw through HN diagnosed my case in 2 minutes. She had never met me before. The ENT's and speech pathologists at Kaiser treated me for two years and had no clue.
Read more at:
KAISER WRONG MEDICATION STORIES
The family of a Temple Hills woman who suffocated after receiving an antibiotic at a Kaiser Permanente facility has filed a claim against her doctor and health plan, alleging they failed to recognize and treat her allergic reaction to the drug.
....... Lodowski said the case is the worst his medical expert has seen in 20 years.
read more at: http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=3540&type=UTTM
mirrored for historical purposes at:
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/lavernewilliams.html
Wed, Nov. 02,
2005
Medical mistake may have killed man By Julie Sevrens Lyons Mercury
News
A 21-year-old San Jose man underwent chemotherapy in August hoping
it might cure his lymphoma. Instead, it may have killed him -- as human
error at Kaiser Permanente's Santa Teresa Medical Center led to the man
being injected with the wrong medication, state investigators have
found.
Originally Posted at:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/13058936.htm
and mirrored at:
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/chemogoof.html
Nov. 04, 2005
In July, a 12-year-old girl hospitalized at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Santa Clara was mistakenly given a double dose of epinephrine, which speeds up the heart rate, state records show.
Josephine
Frances Hart, a San Jose resident who
loved to play with marbles,
died July 26, the same day of the error. Her official cause of death is
still being investigated by the county coroner's office, but state
health
investigators determined that a nurse failed to check the medication
label.
See: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/13079133.htm
text mirrored at:
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/josephinehart.html
KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN
In this action for damages, the plaintiff alleged that while being seen by a Kaiser physician in April 1995 for respiratory disease she was given a prescription for medrol, a steroid medication. The plaintiff further alleged that the prescription was filled at Kaiser's pharmacy at Falls Church and refilled at Kaiser's pharmacy at Reston during that month. She also alleged that, without her knowledge, the pharmacies negligently provided the wrong medication, namely dexamethasone, a steroid five times more potent than medrol. The plaintiff further alleged that in May 1995 she discontinued taking the wrong medication and resumed taking the correct medication. Thereafter, plaintiff alleged, she was treated by Kaiser's physicians in an effort to relieve the pronounced side effects she suffered from taking the wrong medication.
Kaiser to pay $1.8 million in malpractice case
45-year-old man was not diagnosed with cerebral bleeding and later suffered permanent brain damage.
Kaiser Permanente will pay $1.8 million to the family of a man who suffered a brain aneurysm after his headache was wrongly attributed to grief.
In 2005, 45-year-old Ted Blackwell visited a Kaiser clinic in Orange County with a headache and neck pain. According to the binding arbitration document, doctors attributed his symptoms to grief over the death of his brother eight days earlier.
He received an injection and was sent home.
Blackwell returned to the clinic two days later, still in pain. According to the document, his daughter requested a CT scan because of her father's disorientation but doctors decided that wasn't necessary.
Two days later, Blackwell collapsed and underwent surgery at Hoag Hospital for bleeding in his brain. He suffered permanent brain damage and is unable to work, according to his attorney James McElroy of Del Mar.
http://www.ocregister.com/life/blackwell-pain-brain-1937851-kaiser-days#
mirrored for historical purposes at: http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/tedblackwell.html
A long time California Kaiser patient suffered a painful injury. Consequently this patient received the standard Kaiser treatment of delay diagnosis, deny treatment. When Kaiser was pushed in a corner the physicians did mistreat the patient by only providing the illusion of medical care.
The patient took a chance and left the Kaiser system, leaving the state of California and obtaining insurance elsewhere. In a matter of days the patient was examined, tested and is now receiving life saving medical care that was denied by the Kaiser Permanente system.
"Had I not taken the gamble to leave the state and try to get insurance elsewhere I would have lost my legs. I know that not everyone can do that and I have suffered financially - but I have my legs. "
Please read this material send directly by the patient to the Kaiser Papers at:
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/modesto.html
Jeannette D. Brown received medical treatment on August 6 and 8, 2000 from health care facilities owned and operated by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan for the Mid-Atlantic States ("Kaiser"). On August 9, Brown was admitted to the Fairfax Hospital emergency room for a perforated sigmoid colon and significant sepsis, where she remained for forty-two days.
http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.infobrownmedicare.html
From: http://cbs2.com/consumer/local_story_016195509.html
A cancer patient in the fight of his life suddenly has to fight his HMO at the same time. They cancelled his membership just when he needed it most. So we got involved to help him and what happened next could be a lesson for everyone.
Scott Bracy is the father of a three-month-old baby girl, and he’s fighting for his life.
In August Scott was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Doctors at Kaiser Permanente medical center in Riverside told him with aggressive chemotherapy treatment he would have a twelve percent chance of survival.
Then,
just a few days before his fourth scheduled
treatment, Scott received
this letter from Kaiser, which says, “your membership in
Kaiser foundation
health plan has been revoked due to the intentional misrepresentation
of
your health history." An allegation that Scott vehemently denies.
Mirrored for historical purposes at: http://www.kaiserpapers.info/bracy.html
Keoki Diaz,
who was
admitted on Monday because he
was having trouble
maintaining his balance,
was released Tuesday. The boy died in his
family's
home that afternoon.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2000/08/04/MN84004.DTL
Family Sues S.F. Over 911 Delay
Asthmatic woman died awaiting help
Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, October 30, 1998
The lawsuit,
filed in Superior
Court, alleges
``wanton indifference''
to Chan's plight and seeks unspecified damages from the city and Kaiser
Permanente. The suit alleges that Kaiser negligently reported the
incident
as a drug overdose.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/10/30/MN38144.DTL
High Court OKs Reduced Malpractice Sum in Girl's Death
State's $250,000 limit applies in suit over hospital `dumping'
Harriet Chiang, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer
Friday, March 26, 1999
She arrived at 5:30 p.m. and was examined by a staff physician, Dr. Trach Phoung Dang, who wanted to do blood tests to determine whether she had a bacterial infection. But a doctor at Kaiser Permanente Hospital told him not to do so, saying that the tests could wait until she was transferred to Kaiser. The girl was enrolled in Kaiser's health plan.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1999/03/26/MN102692.DTL
Daughter's dying from rare disorder
Sabin Russell, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, May 24, 1996
An East Bay mother whose 18- year-old daughter is dying of a rare metabolic disorder is picketing Kaiser Permanente after the HMO refused to refer the teenager for tests recommended by an outside specialist.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1996/05/24/MN12556.DTL
Letting Patients Choose How to Air Their Beefs
Arbitration may be one of the best ways to deal with health care gone wrong. But it doesn't always seem that way when the little guy has no choice.
- Reynolds Holding
Sunday, July 26, 1998
The pains in
her back and arm had grown
intolerable since late 1996,
crippling her ability to earn a living or really to do anything beyond
lying in a Vicodin haze at her Santa Rosa home.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/07/26/SC85026.DTL
OAKLAND
Parents target drugs after kids' deaths
- Leslie Fulbright
Friday, January 14, 2005
A Danville couple whose children were killed by an allegedly intoxicated driver said Thursday they were working with Kaiser Permanente and state Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, to develop legislation that would place tougher controls on prescription drugs.
Bob and Carmen Pack, who recently learned that the Walnut Creek nanny accused of running down their two children might have been abusing the prescription painkiller Vicodin, said at a news conference outside Kaiser's corporate offices they were pushing for a statewide, real-time database that would allow doctors and pharmacists to access medical records.
Their children Troy, 10, and Alana, 7, died in October 2003 after allegedly being hit by Jimena Barreto, 46.
According to
transcripts from grand jury
testimony, Barreto told police
she had taken Vicodin and muscle relaxants the day of the accident. A
Kaiser
doctor who treated her days before the accident testified that she had
been seen by several doctors and given six different Vicodin
prescriptions.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/14/BAG94APU0C1.DTL
Kaiser Permanente and Medical Murder-by Scott G. Beach*
Patient story about an intestinal parasite infection that was inappropriately treated by Kaiser resulting in long term damage to the patient. The patient began picketing Kaiser Permanete Morse Avenue. Patient states that Kaiser retaliated against him by filing false criminal charges. The standard accusation of mental health problems and disappearance of conventional medical treatment records was made by Kaiser staff to discredit the patient. Further information on the parasite at:
ref:http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Strongyloidiasis.htm
Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Health Care
David Himmelstein, MD, Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH
Ida Hollander, MD
Common Courage Press, 2001
Reviewed by Kenneth R. Kahn
"Bleeding the Patient" is not simply the charts and graphs and statistical study of how people are unequally treated by America's nightmarish system of "health care' but for the army of bean counters and CEO's "Bleeding the Patient" is a way of life, a creed and code to live by.
The unfortunate part is that while this volume deals with an important, timely and life- and-death subject, it does so graphically, statistically and mostly fails to convey to the reader the life and death story, the human equation, of how Americans cope with a system to which its rulers are not subjected and which causes untold suffering and misery. After reading this volume, one can only come to the conclusion that the only thing worse than an HMO is being uninsured and that sometimes there may exist little difference between the two except for paying the bill.
A real life personal example of the tyranny of HMOs was driven home to me when my wife underwent surgery at a hospital. The HMO was Kaiser Permanente. The doctor committed what was to Kaiser an unpardonable sin--he admitted her a day early, an unscheduled admission due to a low blood count. To extract its revenge, while my wife lay recovering from surgery, Kaiser sent a social worker to see my wife and told her that she had a choice of being to either a "skilled nursing facility" or to obtain "home health care" at our expense. Keep in mind that I have been paying premiums to Kaiser for years. The ultimatum was delivered as a result of the early admission by the doctor. Additionally, my wife was approached by a nurse working for Kaiser to ascertain her condition and to get her discharge as early as possible. In the end, I had verbal confrontation with the Kaiser nurse and told them that if they did not back off, I would be filing suit for malpractice based on misdiagnosis. In the end, my spouse was driven home in an ambulance at Kaiser's expense. However, they refused to pay for home health services which we then contracted. We were told by the staff at the hospital that this conduct by Kaiser is commonplace and that they harass Kaiser patients regularly. Since the hospital has a contract with Kaiser, such conduct is tolerated. Additionally, we were told that Kaiser sends people to "skilled nursing facilties" at 10 p.m. and regularly monitors the conditions of Kaiser patients to send them home as quickly as possible.
Little Traci McGill
April 18, 1984
Author: Pam Slater
In what is described as the largest award ever in a Sacramento legal malpractice suit, a jury awarded an 11-year-old quadriplegic and her parents $2.35 million Tuesday after deciding the family's lawyer violated an attorney-client relationship.
The jury of 11 men and one woman unanimously found that attorney Rodney A. Klein breached his duties as the family's lawyer during a medical malpractice suit that ended in an out-of-court settlement in 1978.The jury unanimously awarded Traci McGill and her parents, Michael and Carolyn McGill, about $1 million in general damages, $469,392 in interest and $870,000 in exemplary damages.
The McGills' current attorney, Edward P. Freidberg, who specializes in legal malpractice cases, said it is the largest such award ever granted in Sacramento County.
Hospital now
says it tried to call priest's
family on day of his death
rather than three days after.
By John Geluardi and Rebecca Vesely
CORRESPONDENT AND STAFF WRITER
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Oakland is investigating how an Episcopal priest's body was misidentified last week, and changes in its morgue's record-keeping have already been instituted, hospital officials said Wednesday.
However, Kaiser officials are still declining to answer mounting questions from family members as to how Thomas Douglas "Dewey" Schwartzenburg's body was mistaken for that of an elderly Fruitvale woman and released to a mortuary, which cremated the body.
Kaiser representative P.J. Ballard said the 59-year-old Schwartzenburg drove himself to the Oakland hospital's emergency room early May 11 and died from a heart attack shortly after. But information about what happened after Schwartzenburg died is sketchy.
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/deadpriest.html
Couple Claim Hospital Lost Baby's Remains
-
Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Oakland -- Oakland couple has filed a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente Hospital claiming that the HMO lost the body of their stillborn daughter.
The child, Malika Armstrong, was
stillborn at Kaiser's Hayward facility on November 23. Her parents,
Elisaia Levingston and Joe Armstrong Jr., claim that while awaiting her
autopsy results, the hospital informed them that it could not locate
her body. What happened to the body is a mystery.
Attorneys allege that the hospital had the remains cremated against the
parents' wishes. Kaiser officials yesterday said the hospital doesn't
perform or authorize cremations and doesn't know what happened. Despite
an hospital investigation and an extensive search -- even through
hospital laundry -- the baby's body has never been found. The
suit alleges that after telling the parents the baby's body had been
misplaced, the hospital offered Levingston her placenta for burial
instead and $15,000 for the loss of the child's body. The suit claims
that hospital officials told the parents at one point that the remains
might have accidentally been placed with another body that was to be
disposed of.
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1999/04/21/MNR3BA6.DTL
May 11, 1984
Author: Bee Metro Staff
The family of a Davis man who died of pneumonia at Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center
in Sacramento has been awarded more than $2 million as result of a malpractice suit filed
against the hospital and its doctors.
http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/pneumoniahospital.html
Kaiser giving parents the wrong baby stories
March 12, 1989
A mother given the wrong baby when she left a hospital maternity ward
last month cuddled her own son for the first time Friday and said all
she wants to do now is ``get to know him.''
Days of suspense and a barrage of medical tests confirmed what Rosetta
Kirks began to suspect earlier in the week - that the infant she took
home from Kaiser Permanente Hospital in West Los
Angeles was not the baby she gave birth to Feb. 11.
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