PI Damages and Doctor Cover ups
Monday, September 25, 2006 6:08 AM
From:
"loree baird"
Add sender to Contacts
To:
eaglelaw@qwest.net, dick.whittemore@bullivant.com, dslader@spiritone.com
I really don't care anymore. I have a disorder, caused by medical malpractice, that COULD have and SHOULD have been prevented. I said to stop and was powerless. It was like I was raped. Now I have permanent damages and have to have a surgery that means probably hysterectomy, and whether I have it or not, or when I do, eiether way, I have problems for the rest of my life. I have a symptomatic rectocele, a large rectocele, which indicates surgery. It was caused by my midwife pulling down on me and stretching me for so long, tearing into me, when I said to stop, that something was wrong. This is not a normal risk of childbirth. This is something that happens to elderly women who have lost a bunch of estrogen in old age and who have had many children. And my own primary doctor was trying to cover up for my midwife and had been downplaying things so I had to get a second opinion from a specialist. I talked to a lawyer who signed me up on the spot and have to get more opinions fromout of this city bc eveyrone here is too chicken to stand up for their patients if they think they'll be blacklisted. It's like, "you cover your malpractice insurance rates and I'll cover yours". The big insurance ass. Everybody's covering their ass and who cares about MY freakin' ass. Literally. Since I'm going to write a book about my memoirs if I don't get whacked first, I don't care if everyone knows. Everyone is going to know eventually. And it's sick. Now I get to look forward to poop, rectum, and vaginal prolapse discussions. and Jokes (there are a lot of them) and I make them myself. Everything else healed on me well, I don't have urinary incontinence at all (which would be bc of anterior prolapse). I am prolapsed where she pulled on me forever, and tore into me with 3rd and 4th degree tears which left me hemmoraging out both holes. I heard her say, right after, we had to get the placenta out immediately bc I was hemmoraging out of both holes, and it wouldn't stop...she tried to plug me up and had to stuff material in me or something until the OB came in to stitch me up.
All to say, this girl, ME, knows what she is talking about. If I say something wrong is going on, don't you DARE disbelieve me. And yet now, at the ER and everywhere else, people still try to cover, downplay, and "talk me out of it" as if telling me my problems are from something else, when I know it's not true, is going to talk me out of trying to find enough money to cover my damages. Basically, I need a surgery NOW, but the specialist (who didn't shy away from diagnosing but was still reluctant to place blame) said if I wanted children to have them first (bc of risk of need of hysterectomy), but since I need the surgery NOW, what does that mean? I'm supposed to wait and deal with the problems I have now and for it to worsen or who knows what, to have kids and then I get a hysterectomy? Anyway you look at it, it's bad. AND this is something that happens to old, old, women. Not a 31 year old. My midwife tore the crap out of me, and then she tried to cover her ass and claim I had issues and that I had postpartum depression, etc.
But right after, I couldn't urinate for 2 weeks, and now I have a diagnosis of permanent damage that points to her. If I DIDN'T would anyone still believe me, about what happened in that room? I don't lie and I don't exaggerate. And after everything I've been through, she didn't listen to me.
In some ways, right after I found out about this diagnosis I wondered if any of the sex abuse victims had problems now from being torn the crap out of. In a way, I felt a connection to them again, because I understand rape and it happens over and over again and I just get to "share in the sympathies" of all kinds of people. No one wants to talk about shit. Or deal with shit. Or have shitty things happen to them.
I found out in WA, because of medical malpractice laws, people can only get 1 million. I'm not saying I should get that much, but that is RIDICULOUS. If you take into consideration how bad some malpractice is and how some people have to pay for it, literally, their whole lives, it's not enough. And I don't think lowering the punitive damages award results in better doctor service. Supposedly the thought is that doctors are hindered by fear of malpractice and can't practice well because of insurance costs. Well now, they don't have ANYHING to worry about do they? at least, before, they could have a healthy God fearing concern that they not harm and damage their patients. Maybe now they just think, who cares, bc it won't be too bad. But then again, if that were the case, people over here wouldn't have been covering their asses and still trying to cover their asses. Doctors, in polls, have more respect from people than lawyers, but I have met and seen many doctors who couldn't care less about their patients when it comes down to lawsuits. They engage in cover ups which is just as despicable as some of the stuff lawyers do. but some of these doctors do not just cover up with the help of lawyers but do a little work on their own by changing records and altering diagnosis', etc, because they know there is a problem. Real noble.
I found out the statute for me is different than it is for Oliver. I think Oliver is fine, and he seems really bright (besides not rolling over very much) but if there are future problems, I'm glad to know the statute is longer so he can be helped, even though he DID still suffer from the whole ordeal.
But what is going to happen to his mother. I am worried he won't even have a mother with all of the unnecessary medical problems. What do I have, 10 years? I need a total reparative neck/spinal reconstruction (they told me, "10 to 20 years") after I broke my neck (in 1995) and it's been 10 years. After what the Abbey did, I barely get by because of PTSD.
No comments:
Post a Comment