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Friday, November 12, 2021

July 15 2020.

 There are over 14,000 practicing lawyers in British Columbia.  And I could not find one to represent me against VCHA.  There is something terribly wrong.. 

What goes on in the courts is just as bad as what goes on in the medical profession. Unless you are a special insider you have no access to real justice or real medical treatment. Note, you have to be special. If you are lucky you will get a watered down version making you a third class citizen.  And if you are not lucky you can become a non-person with the help of the public guardian and trustee.

No wonder my PTSD won't go away.

I found the 14,000 figure on the internet when I asked how many lawyers are there in BC.  Unfortunately I could not do a screen shot from google to this blog.

Trying to find a lawyer was impossible.  The lawyers I approached would not even let me tell my story.  All I had to mention was VCHA and I was dismissed: .rejection after rejection.


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However I was able to cut and paste this: 

Over 12,500 lawyers in B.C. responded to the survey in 2019. Chow said there are over 14,000 practicing lawyers in the province.Jul. 15, 2020
 

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

An argument against Euthanasia

 

An Argument for Physician-Assisted Suicide and Against Euthanasia


The article opens with the hypothesis that the default position that should guide healthcare providers when treating patients at the end of life is that patients opt for life. In the absence of an explicit request to die, we may assume that patients wish to continue living. Thus the role of the medical profession is to provide patients with the best possible conditions for continued living. The article makes a case for physician-assisted suicide legislation. It examines the ‘quality of life’ argument, and the issue of the patient’s autonomy and competence. It is argued that (1) quality of life is a subjective concept. Only the patient can conclude for herself that her quality of life is so low to warrant ending it, and that (2) only competent patients may request ending their lives. Patients’ lives should not be actively terminated by the medical team without the explicit consent of patients. 
 
The article then probes the role of physicians at the end of life, arguing that medicine should strive to cater to the wishes of all patients, not only the majority of them. Physicians should not turn their backs to justified requests by their patients. Physicians are best equipped to come to the help of patients at all stages of their illness, including their end-of-life. At the same time, in ending life, the final control mechanism should be with the patient. Thus physician-assisted suicide is preferred to euthanasia in order to lower the possibility of abuse and of ending the lives of patients without their consent and against their wishes. As matters of life and death are grave, they should be taken with utmost seriousness, requiring the instalment of ample checks against abuse and facilitating mechanisms designed to serve the patient’s best interests.

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Premature deaths after 50 (Dr. Zeke Emanuel)

 

Commentary WND News CenterSTATE-DIRECTED MEDICINE
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Exposed: Inhumane, lethal COVID Protocol in hospitals

Exclusive: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., shows link to Obama-era rationing of care for people 50-plus

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Note: Dr. Vliet is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS.

In a shocking departure from traditional hospital policies, admission to a hospital has become like reporting to prison. Prisoners in America's jails have more visitation rights than do COVID patients in America's hospitals.

One family member, a professional psychologist with a career focus treating victims of trauma, said that in many hospitals COVID patients are treated "little better than animals."

Shocking recordings of Mayo Clinic-Scottsdale and Banner Health System hospital executives have been released by an attorney on the Legal Advisory Council of Truth for Health Foundation, an Arizona public charity. Executives were discussing coordinated efforts to restrict fluids and nutrition for hospitalized COVID patients and to suppress all visitations for COVID patients.

The COVID Protocol hospital physicians must follow, in lockstep across the U.S., appears to be the implementation of the 2009-2010 "Complete Lives System" developed by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel for rationing medical care for people older than 50.

Dr. "Zeke" Emanuel, who was the senior White House health policy adviser to President Obama and has been advising President Joe Biden about COVID-19, stated in his classic 2009 Lancet paper: "When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."

"Attenuated" means rationed, restricted, or denied medical care that commonly leads to premature death.

In 2021, whistleblower doctors, nurses, attorneys, patient advocates and journalists have exposed egregious hospital abuses, neglect of patients, and denial of vital intravenous fluids and basic medicines to hospitalized COVID patients across the U.S.

The Complete Lives Protocol apparently derives from the 1990s U.K. National Health Service "Liverpool Pathway," which in effect constituted euthanasia.

Now we see its malevolent manifestation in the COVID Protocol. Age-based rationing is happening every day on COVID units of our hospitals, since the overwhelming majority of COVID patients are older than 50, the age at which Emanuel claims that a life is "complete" and not worth the use of medical resources.

The Complete Lives System and the COVID Protocol both are pathways leading to suffering and premature death, mainly of older Americans. They achieve the government's goal of reducing Medicare costs. At the same time, hospitals make untold extra millions with extra incentive payments for COVID patients during their tortured path to death, while they are chemically and physically restrained and isolated from families, pastors, priests and rabbis.

The heartbreaking story of Veronica Wolski, a well-known Chicago Freedom advocate, was widely publicized. Once hospitalized in ironically named Resurrection Hospital, Veronica was given Remdesivir, which she had repeatedly refused, denied proper basic medical care that could have been lifesaving, and was not allowed access to her family, priest, or health care power of attorney. Veronica was blocked from leaving the hospital when she and her attorneys demanded release. Her health care power of attorney was removed by hospital security. Veronica died alone as a medical prisoner in a Catholic hospital, denied even a priest at the end of her life.

Unconscionable hospital violations of human rights, including even violations of the Geneva Conventions established following World War II to prevent abuses of prisoners, are occurring daily across the U.S.

  • Patients are coerced to take rapidly approved drugs like Remdesivir, in spite of known risks of kidney and liver failure, and to be placed on ventilators, both of which bring in incentive payments and create huge profits for hospitals.
  • Patients are denied adequate fluids and nutrition, as well as vitamins, inhaled and intravenous corticosteroids, antibiotics, antivirals,and adequate doses of "blood-thinners" (anticoagulants).
  • Patients suffer inhumane isolation with use of chemical and physical restraints, in violation of existing guidelines for patient protection.
  • Hospitals are using law enforcement to deny access to hospital grounds for family and advocates.

Patients and their advocates have been denied information on benefits of early treatments and denied access to such treatment. Autopsies have confirmed many patients died because of inadequate doses of standard anticoagulation, even after family members went to court to demand therapeutic doses to help save lives.

Doctors and nurses risk their careers, their licenses, livelihoods and even their lives as they courageously speak out to give their patients and the public with lifesaving information. One ICU physician colleague posted this on social media recently:

Just finished a 10-night stretch in the ICU. Patient bashing and blatant meanness have taken on a whole new level within our health care colleagues. How can we NOT spiral downwards towards despair when this behavior is allowed and is being normalized?? … I feel I've been thrown into a "Mean Girls" sequel. Making fun of patients and families for not being V'd is the cool thing now. … I don't mind taking care of COVID patients. But this hateful vibe that has permeated my world is what's going to end my career if it doesn't [stop].

Welcome to the brave new world of government-directed medical care carried out by obedient, profit-focused hospital executives eager for the government handouts of incentive payments for following the "COVID Protocol."


EDITOR'S NOTE: Last year, America's doctors, nurses and paramedics were celebrated as frontline heroes battling a fearsome new pandemic. Today, under Joe Biden, tens of thousands of these same heroes are denounced as rebels, conspiracy theorists, extremists and potential terrorists. Along with massive numbers of police, firemen, Border Patrol agents, Navy SEALs, pilots, air-traffic controllers, and countless other truly essential Americans, they're all considered so dangerous as to merit termination, their professional and personal lives turned upside down due to their decision not to be injected with the experimental COVID vaccines. Biden's tyrannical mandate threatens to cripple American society – from law enforcement to airlines to commercial supply chains to hospitals. It's already happening. But the good news is that huge numbers of "yesterday's heroes" are now fighting back – bravely and boldly. The whole epic showdown is laid out as never before in the sensational October issue of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled "THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION: 'We will not comply!' COVID-19 power grab ignites bold new era of national defiance."


'blessed'

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

8 September 2021

These past weeks I haven't been able to do much.  I am always tired.  I have so much to do that I should have attended to from 2019 mostly personal stuff.  And I am having difficulty in walking.  I can walk a bit then my legs pain.  Sign of advancing age.



Monday, August 30, 2021

30 August 2021

 It is 6:29 am, thirteen hours since I got home yesterday, I went to an outdoor town-hall meeting that was rather long, and it was too much for me. It took me an hour on transit each way.  I was so fatigued when I returned home that I had to sleep and I am still tired and need more sleep.Wrapping myself in a warm comforter awaiting death.  Getting old is not a good thing.

 


Monday, August 23, 2021

22 August 2021

 For most of yesterday August 22 2021 I felt a foreboding.  It was like the calm before a storm.  Late that day I received a communication that said my friend had died.  She, like me, had the dark experiences of dealing with the health authorities .... I will surely miss her..

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

18 August 2021

I am freezing cold, can only sleep, hope to get well soon.  Aug 18/21


It is 3:02 am .  I am soaking wet as my body is hot and wake with flashbacks.  I want to sleep so I do not have to remember..Aug 19/21


It is 6:40 am.  I just awoke.  Soaking wet.  My teeth hurt.  Neurological stress.  The pain is so intense my mind is closed. Aug 20/21


Wasted another day sleeping.  I am so tired..  Aug 21/21

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

It takes me a long time ...

It takes me a long time to see the trees for the forest. I was worried about the tress. The forest was overwhelming.  And  now I am angry and my PTSD is reliving everything. Every suspicion I could not deal with is now coming true.  

We as a society do not trust the government, the health authorities, the police, the schools, the media, lawyers, the church, our family, our friends, etc. The only thing left is the judiciary and they are not doing a very good job.  After we lose trust in the law, there is nothing left.



Friday, July 2, 2021

Mostly exact the same as what happened to Randy.

Exactly the same what happened to Randy.  Randy would get an infection and he would go to VGH, he would improve and then against my wishes and Randy's wishes he would be returned to GPC to be mistreated/ignored again and this was a repeat over and over again.  I was banned from seeing him and he died.  Not only did they kill Randy this way, they also killed Carolanne Chamberlain.  They tortured my husband until he died.  The person behind all of this and who is to blame is Bob Chapman  604-644-8585 who knew this behavior was happening and since he came from Risk Management being its manager his job was to let it happen so these residents would want to die rather than live. He is also responsible for not providing proper protection for the residents during the heat dome.  He knew the heat dome was coming so what does he do, he goes on holidays.  He and Dr. Henry should get married. And the one behind everything is Dr. Penny Ballam, the women who was so mean when she worked as the manager of City Hall, the mayor fired her.  She is now the chairman of the board of VCH and earns $22,000 a month distributing the vaccine. 

 

The Curse of George Pearson Centre - #2: A Husk of Herself

Andrea Wildman before (left) and after (right) entering George Pearson Centre


By Spencer van Vloten

BC Disability

In part 2 of our series on Vancouver's notorious George Pearson Centre, we'll tell the story of Andrea Wildman, who entered Pearson happy and optimistic, only to become a shell of herself in a place where compassion isn't a priority.

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The Curse of George Pearson Centre - #1: A Place for Captives and Incurables

The Cruel Compassion of George Pearson Centre


A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE

Andrea Wildman’s life changed forever on November 19th, 2019.

It was just a fall down the stairs in her Fort St. John home, not something that would usually bother the 52-year-old motorcycle aficionado and crane operator, but this time the effect was devastating: Andrea's spinal cord was severed, leaving her paralyzed.

Lucky to be alive, she was flown to Vancouver General Hospital, where she would spend the next 10 months in a spinal cord unit.

Despite the severity of her injury, Andrea, now requiring a ventilator to breath, remained in high spirits.

She had long, upbeat talks and texting sessions with friends and family, her hair was styled by the VGH staff during 'spa days', and she enjoyed being taken outside for strolls in her wheelchair.

Andrea enjoying the outdoors (L) and with family at VGH shortly after her fall (R), with daughter Sarah on the right


Then the words George Pearson Centre came up for the first time.

Around 10 months after she first arrived at VGH, the time had come for Andrea to find somewhere to live permanently.

Her family were eager to have her close to home, back with them in Fort St. John, but were told that none of the care facilities in the area accepted ventilator dependent residents.

Vancouver's George Pearson Centre did, however. And, the family was informed, it would be a great place for her to live.


"I'M REALLY SCARED"

Andrea entered George Pearson Centre in September 2020, nearly a year after her fall.

On the day she arrived she was excited and optimistic about the future. During her time at VGH she’d been making progress with her recovery, and was looking forward to continuing her improvement in Pearson.

Although far from home, she still talked with her family and friends regularly, finding strength in her connection to them and making everyone hopeful that it would work out.

But within days things started to change.

After having been in regular contact for the previous 10 months, it was becoming difficult for her family in Fort St. John to reach her, as their calls – both to her and Pearson staff - started going unanswered and unreturned.

their calls - both to her and Pearson staff - started going unanswered and unreturned

When her family finally managed to contact her, they noticed that something else changed too.

Once talkative and cheerful, Andrea had turned inwards, becoming increasingly reserved. At first, she described her feelings of isolation at Pearson, where only 22 percent of the residents are female.

Then over the weeks, entire calls would pass with her only uttering a couple words, which became more and more worrying:

"No one cares"

“I’m neglected”

“I’m really scared”

Something had obviously changed in Andrea Wildman once she entered George Pearson Centre, and staff were reluctant to provide information. 760 miles away, her family in Fort St. John decided that they needed to get to the bottom of it.


RIDDLED WITH INFECTION

Increasingly worried about the state of her mother’s well-being, Andrea's daughter Sarah made the 15-hour drive from Fort St. John to see for herself what was going on.

Upon arriving in Vancouver and entering Pearson, she found her mother alone in a corner, left in her wheelchair, facing the wall.

"She was so out of it. She was completely loopy, not making any sense. And there was so much buildup of skin between her finger and toenails, it was disgusting."

Sarah also noted that her mom, now a husk of her former self, was burning with a fever, to which staff responded by saying that everything was fine, and that her mom was merely at her 'baseline', an


Andrea at George Pearson Centre


Sarah remained unconvinced, however, and after many requests her mom was finally taken to Vancouver General Hospital, where doctors confirmed the family’s suspicions.

“The Pearson staff had assured us she was okay, but it turns out she was riddled with infection.”

At VGH it was discovered that she had serious lung and urine infections, which VGH doctors attributed to poor hygiene. Since Andrea was unable to clean herself, it was the responsibility of Pearson staff to do it for her, but the indications were that it hadn't been happening.

For the next few weeks, Andrea remained at VGH as hospital staff treated her infections and helped nurse her back to health

Like many other Pearson residents, once away from the institution Andrea's situation took a turn for the better. In addition to her improving health, she started communicating more, her mood brightened, and glimpses of the old Andrea appeared.

But she could only stay at VGH for so long. She was soon well enough to be discharged, and within days of returning to Pearson began to retreat into her shell once more.


CRUEL COMPASSION

Paul Caune, a civil rights activist and former George Pearson resident, has referred to Pearson as a place of ‘cruel compassion’.

It's a place where the recognition of residents as human beings with unique feeling, needs, and desires simply doesn't exist.

For Sarah, one particular phone call with a Pearson nurse left no doubt about it.

When she asked the nurse what could be done to improve her mom’s quality of living, they laughed dismissively.

"She’s on a feeding tube, and in wheelchair" - as if those limited her to a life of mere subsistence.

To Sarah, it reflects an ongoing lack of compassion at George Pearson Centre, where the residents are treated as things that are there simply to survive, and not as people who, with the right support, can lead happy, fulfilling lives.

“At VGH, the nurses were so caring and engaged; it was a completely different atmosphere. They’d do her hair, dress her up in her favourite clothes, and take her outside for walks and cute photos. “


At Vancouver General Hospital, staff would style Andrea's hair, take her outside, and keep her in high spirits

“At Pearson, she’s kept in a hospital gown, she's told she can't go outside, and they just place her in a corner to stare at a wall."

And the reason for that, in Sarah's view:

"They just doesn’t care.”


A LARGER ISSUE

It was Andrea’s birthday on June 28th.

Instead of spending it in celebration, she spent in Pearson, 1 of the 10 residents in a boiling, open room without air conditioning. This comes amid a wave of heat-related deaths across BC, which has experienced its hottest summer ever.

It's stuff like this that weighs on Sarah's mind constantly, as she worries about her mother. But the situation at George Pearson Centre is part of something bigger.

“My main concern is that I don’t feel safe with her being there. But as a larger issue, something's seriously wrong with how long-term care functions, and the authorities don’t do anything; they just make excuses and try to ignore the problems.”

something's seriously wrong with how long-term care functions....and the authorities don't do anything

For Sarah, it needs to start with helping families

“More needs to be done to educate families and create more options for them so they don't end up putting loved ones in places like Pearson."

"Once they’re there, it’s hard to get them out, and people don’t realize how bad it is until it’s their loved one."

Stay tuned for part 3

For more on George Pearson Centre see The Curse of George Pearson Centre - #1: A Place for Captives and Incurables and The Cruel Compassion of George Pearson Centre

Spencer van Vloten is the editor of BC Disability. To get in touch, send an email to spencer@bcdisability.com!


Saturday, June 26, 2021

A fistful of dollars

 

a fist full of dollars

THE COURT ORDERED $16,000

street funding

 

June 22, 2021

The Justice, the Honourable Madam Gail Dickson, ORDERED that I pay $16,000 (security for costs) so I can continue with an appeal by June 30, 2021.  I do not have $16,000.  Thus, the reason for this handout.  I need interim financing. 

 

If you can, send a fist full of dollars to the Registrar, Court of Appeal Courthouse, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver, B.C.  V6Z 2E1  (Action No. CA47158 Laferriere v. VCH).  If the action is allowed, I can reimburse you as the court will return the money.  If not, I will still repay you when I can.  Just let me know. (see next page)

Justice Dickson made this order at a hearing held on Wednesday, May 12, 2021.  The appeal is to set aside the discretionary order of Justice Iyer to dismiss my action November 6, 2020.  VCH caused serious harm to my husband and myself.  They networked employees at VCH and others to discredit me.  This should also become a class action suit considering all the harm VCH has done to others.  Not to mention the damage they have caused to the careers of physicians.

I had a lawyer.  In 2020 he resigned due to poor health, and I was left to do the litigation myself.  No lawyer wanted to take my case half-way in.  I also had serious problems with expert witness hesitancy.  VCH took advantage of this in the middle of the Covid lockdowns (the courts were not open except for emergencies).  VCH said the litigation was urgent and it was heard.  It was not an emergency.  The courts were supposedly closed until March 25, 2021.

When a self-litigant is vulnerable, lawyers will do what their client wants, even lie.  And since a judge agreed with VCH, the lie became a truth.  If I had more time maybe I would have been able to prepare myself properly for the hearing. 

If VCHA was rational, it would want this to go to trial to untarnish its negative behaviors (reputations).  The allegations of what it did are set-out in the 28-page notice of civil claim S162916 (604.660.2847).  I can email you a copy (see next page).

I asked Angela B and her law firm to do the appeal.  I thought, when it was late at night, that since her firm received a settlement of $100 million from the RCMP for the women members who were sexually abused causing ptsd, its contingency fee would have been $30 million dollars and it could well afford to do the appeal pro bono.  For that kind of money, they could do a lot of pro bono work for a lot of us.

VCH wants to terminate the litigation on technicalities so what happened never gets heard in a court of law.  Such dismissal is at the discretion of a judge, no trial, just punitive costs that I must pay.

My husband was a patient at George Pearson Centre, a satellite of VGH.  Currently GPC/VCH is getting some bad press, so I am not alone.  VCH was blatantly cruel in what they did.  My husband was terribly ill-treated.  A retired respiratory therapist did not mince words:  he said Randy was tortured.  VCH ignored my husband and unlawfully imprisoned him.  VCH placed unlawful DNRs (do not resuscitate, do not treat) and SLOW codes on him.

It used snowflake nonsense to void my husband’s health care representation agreement and enduring power of power.  I could not advocate for him.  I was told by VCH, that a wife had no rights.  I never understood that but maybe it is true.

I could not believe that an order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia was not necessary to make my husband a non-person.  Only a signature by an employee of VCH saying Randy was incapable.  VCH did not consult with me if he was incompetent or not.  It was as if it was from another time; from historic England, a star chamber order.

There was no due process.  The statement of claim alleges that there was complicity among the defendants as each defendant acted in bad faith.  We were not isolated victims.  Such behavior is systemic within the health authorities.

I was told by VCH that it had the power to make sure that I would never see my husband again, not even on his death bed.  And that came to pass. 

The first time I met with the head nurse at GPC, she told me that I was not to talk to anyone, unless someone spoke to me first.  I remember looking at her and thinking she was crazy.  She was not crazy; she was a control freak.

I was bullied by VCH staff and others.  And when Randy was actively dying, they banned me from all VCH properties.  I do not know the truth why I was banned.  

Banning is common within the health authority.  I am still banned even after my husband’s death.  My husband died of multiple organ failure (hospital sepsis).  He was 57.

Randy’s death drove me into complex bereavement.  What VCH did and, by extension, what their lawyers did, caused me to suffer from severe and crippling depression and acute long-term ptsd.  I was over-whelmed and felt powerless, even now.

VCH did not have to bring on the application to dismiss the litigation on technicalities.  They could have stayed it.  The dismissal had nothing to do with the topical issues of abuse or constitutional rights being violated.   They did not have to ask for security for costs as costs could have been dealt with later. 

Legal procedural technicalities are used by VCH to fit their narratives.  They bring on applications as soon as they know a party is vulnerable.  From my observation, VCH would make submissions and the court would comply.  Something about lawyers being officers of the court.

VGH told the court that if my appeal is not successful, I would not be able to reimburse VCH their costs.  VCH’s budget is in the billions of dollars.  They are not going to go hungry, but I will.  Randy RIP will not have his day in court, nor will I.

VCH must be exposed, and its people made accountable.  If not, the public will become much more distrustful of the law.  Accessibility by an individual, as I found out, is virtually impossible in a high court.  Any one can start an action but VCH will find a way to make sure it never gets to trial with or without a lawyer.

Trust Dr. Penny Ballem to do the wrong thing.

 

Note:

The above allegations are contained in the statement of claim.

They have not been proven in court.

 

          

 

 Audrey Jane Laferriere,

207-5524 Cambie Street,

Vancouver, B.C.  V5Z 3A2

604.321.2276 (landline)

audreyjlaferriere@gmail.com

http://voiceofgoneballistic.blogspot.com

22/6/2021

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