Nothing that has the force of the state behind it is a little law.

https://youtu.be/K5QgPiTXHG8?si=UTYhC7by86rVaGru

"When the power of the state is behind it, there is no such thing as a little law." - Dr. Jordan Peterson, at 23:13.

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The ACLU believes that guardianship is the greatest deprivation of civil rights, just after the death penalty. We need transparency so we know who has been deprived.  If you are imprisoned by the state for a crime, the public has a right to know. But, if you are imprisoned by guardianship, the public has no right to know. Go figure!

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I came across the words to describe what could be descriptive of why happened to me.  It was/is known as "street-level bureaucracy."  When what happened to me happened, I just discounted it as non-sense.  It was just stupid words, totally irrelevant, so I thought.  Low-level employees made assessments, and these assessments were sanctioned (rubber-stamped) by upper management at Vancouver Coastal Health.  Later when I came to the realization that upper management did not know what was going on, it was obvious that upper management sanctioned whatever lower management said/wanted, upper management had to support their inferiors at my expense.  I believed that when upper management found out what was happening, I would get an apology. But instead, I was cruelly entrapped.  I am now reeking of anger. When it was happening I did not know what they were doing, so it did not brother me.   Can someone tell me what word should be used for this reversal of the chain of command. I was betrayed by the health authority who I trusted.  

I think the term would be :  street bureaucrats.   

Vancouver Coastal Health

I have been thinking about my experience with the health authority when my husband was hospitalized due to his extensive injuries from an accident.

In November I 2010 I was told that I could be banned from seeing my husband, even on his deathbed. No one said I harmed my husband.  I thought the nurse coordinator was crazy and dismissed her threat as nonsense.  However, her threat did come to pass. Not only did Tanu tell me this, but Linda Rose did also.  

Another time was the manager of George Pearson Centre told me that my husband could not change his mind after he talked to me.  Really. There were signs everywhere saying that patients could change their minds anytime.  The health authority from 2010 wanted Randy to agree to a DNR Order.  If Randy had a DNR on him, he would have died in 2010. He died in 2014. But that could have been from a slow code, meaning as he did not have a DNR, they decided not to treat him, which is what they do when they believe that any medical intervention would be a waste of resources.  

Randy was supposed to have died the weekend before, but because I intervened, the woman manager did not know what to do, so she transferred him within one hour (after my lawyer saw Randy) to acute care. It was  Friday, April 4, 2014. But it was too late; the lack of treatment at GPC cemented his death. I was only able to see my husband on his deathbed (he was comatose) after I produced a court order.  Because of the litigation, the ICU lingered his final breath for nine days.  On April 13, 2014, his vent was disconnected, and he slowly died.  It took three hours.  You never forget.