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.  

Court Ordered Committee or Committee by Certificate of Incapability

 I find the Court Ordered Committee and Committee by Certificate of Incapability very confusing.

It seems that a Court Ordered Committee has transparency, but the Certificate of Incapability does not.

There is something inherently wrong with the Certificate of Incapability process.  It reminds me of the process the Star Chamber Courts followed in England centuries ago.  Decisions were made in secrecy without due process and with no appeal. The tribunal was allowed to torture an accused but not kill him, much like giving morphine to a patient but not killing him.  But if you torture an accused too much or if you give a patient too much morphine, they will die.  

The Public Guardian and Trustee does an investigation, makes a recommendation, sends it to a health authority designate (an employee of VCHA), and after reading the recommendation, the HAD signs the certificate, probably from the bottom of his "to-do list." The subjected person becomes a nonperson, and the Public Guardian and Trustee becomes the committee of this now nonperson who before was a person. What happens to the nonperson if he was relocated...I do not know, and there is no way for the public to know, as such information is confidential.

Under privacy, the public is not entitled to know.  In New Zealand, identifying those under guardianship is against the law.  And the person elected cannot identify himself. And the press is gagged. It must be the same in British Columbia. These evils must be replicated in other jurisdictions.  

I remember when Randy, my husband, was being relocated by VGH to a long care facility, no one at VCH would tell me what happened to him.  I still remember the terror of not knowing. From the day of his accident and for six months, I visited Randy every day. Never had a problem.  When I approached the nursing station, the eight nurses at the nursing station looked down at me as if they enjoyed watching me being in a state of confusion and terror. Not one of them broke rank and told me.  And they all knew. Again it was privacy.  It was against policy to tell where a patient was being transferred to. The nurses did not tell me that it was a privacy/policy thing. It was cruel. And what would have happened to anyone of them if one of them told me. Nothing. The absurdity of privacy.  It harms.  It does not protect. It isolates.  It drove me to the edge of madness.

My mind went back to the first time I spoke with a social worker at VGH, it was the end of her shift, and she was in a hurry to leave.  Her words to me were to forget about Randy as they would look after him. And she ran out the door. Who were they? And who was she? From that moment on, I became inwardly afraid but I did not know why. The social worker's foregone conclusion was based on arrogant stupidity. Later I learned that a social worker is an officer of the court, and I was right to be apprehensive.

11 June 2020 : how the "tribe" works

I keep thinking about Randy and how you treated him.  Talk about police violence, what do you call the violence that you did to us.  And you are still doing it to me.  The authorities hide behind their lawyers and the lawyers hide behind the rules of court rather than doing what they should be doing.    You delegate so often that soon no one remembers the origin.

You determined Randy was incompetent because he won't answer your questions.  And you would not include me in these interrogations.  And Dr. Tham did not even talk to me about Randy and he just decided out of the blue that I should be banned from ever seeing Randy again.  How dare he.  How dare all of you.

All the parties that I named were and are guilty of conspiracy/complicity that resulted in harm to me and of hastening Randy's death. He did not deserve that. You had to design a scenario so that my power of attorney and representation agreement would be nullified. And the lawyer for the PGT won't even warn me what he was doing. But it required that Randy be declared incompetent.  Of course I did not know what you were doing at that time but you did it. Even after you did it I did not know what you did. You were diverting all blame to me by saying that staff at GPC was afraid of me and I had to be banned.  Funny thing is that no staff has made a written statement saying anything like that.  Recently I spoke to an employee from that time and he laughed.  No one was afraid of me. And then you got this "fake" expert give a report saying that I should be banned.  Everyone knows that an expert cannot be an expert unless he talks to all parties.  This expert did not talk to me nor did he talk to Randy. I am so mad at this expert I cannot remember his name.  I am sure that this expert is still working for VCHA regurgitating what he knows VCHA wants to hear. The evidence of this "expert" was used in a RTA application to get me evicted from my rented basement suite because I had the "potential" of maybe hitting someone who they might send to cut the grass. Another time the owner of the property tried to evict me because the unit had mould in it.  Again another "fake" expert report.  This expert did not suggest that the unit could be remediated by removing the mould. 

And don't any of you say that I was a bitch because I am no longer represented by a lawyer.  The lawyer I had said he could not continue as he had an issue that was not associated with the litigation that he had to deal with.  He apologized.  I never had an issue with him I was always so stressed out I could not have an issue with him.  I trused him completely as I had no choice.I feel I have been betrayed by the legal system now that he is gone I am told that I have to defend myself and how am I going to do that in the time the rules will allow.  And that is the weapon the tribe is using. 

So now all of you have to deal with a self-litigant.  Here I was yesterday thanking you for saying that the "tribe" was agreeable to hear the application to dismiss in court without doing telephone conferencing but with the proviso that the court would make that determination.  There is a policy that says for judicial efficiency that this is not going to happen.  What the "tribe" should have done is say to me that they will wait until the courts are open and adjourn their application accordingly. They did not even have to make the application until I was in a position to defend it.  Every single one of the "tribe" should be ashamed of what they are doing.  I told them that I could not do a telephone conference as I was so traumatised by the telephone arbitration I had over my tenancy that I could not speak or remember anything. There was the voice of the arbitrator, a lawyer from Lawson Lundell and three witnesses and me alone. It was worst than being judged in a medieval Star Chamber.  So, the tribe is gambling that I will not show up at the supreme court hearing and the litigation would be at an end. To win by default.  So much for the administration of justice.

email 28 October 2011

October 28 2011 ... being an email

They did it to me again.  I went to see Randy at 2:00 p.m. and was told by XXX that Randy did not want to get up.  And when I went to see Randy for my allotted five minutes (I am not allowed to stay in the Ward for more than five minutes under supervision) during which time Randy always changes his mind and wants to visit me when he sees me.  Now the charge nurse XXX said that she doesn't have staff to put Randy in his chair so I could not see him in the piano room.  She pulled this on Monday with me as well.  This time I said if there is no staff to put Randy in his chair then I should be allowed to stay at his bedside.  I was told that was impossible. Randy wanted me to stay. I also got a bit upset when I noticed Randy's head (he is primarily bald) had a whole much of scratches breaking his skin.  When I told him I had to leave he won't let go of my hand. I can't stop crying.  ....  I can't help with his rehab if I can only see him a few minutes a week.

Paladin : 3 November 2012

My memory went back to 8:00 pm Saturday 3 November 2012 when I was physically picked up by two Paladin security guards and carried to the laneway between 10th Avenue and Broadway.  I started screaming for someone to call the police.  No one did.  I was illegally assaulted by these brutes.

There was an apartment building on the corner of 10th and Willow full of families.

There was an event at the Blusson Building (also known as the Rick Hansen building) on property that I found later belonged to Vancouver Coastal Health the cost of which building was paid for by the taxpayers of the Province of British Columbia and on which property I was. But, the sidewalk in front of the Blusson Building on 10th and the roadway/sidewalk on Willow are public property. 

There were three security male guards (two of them physically and without warning picked me up) by my arms and dragged/carried me.  I had a pen and paper in my hand.  They said my Bic pen was a weapon.  My purse was left on a sidewalk, and they took me to the alley.  My feet were six inches off the sidewalks as we travelled. I was screaming for someone to call the police.  Paladin had no right to do this. No one did... haunting memories. No one would help.

 How your rights can be violated by a $12.00 an hour security guard.

And, now, Paladin seems to be everywhere, even in the courthouse...and guards are wearing heavy construction/military steel-toed military boots in Oakridge Mall.

I still hear that woman Paladin security guard from 13 April 2014 who run up to the ICU in VGH calling "where is she."  This was in resopnse to the male nurse who told me that I could not sit /lie next to Randy as he died.  He said (a) it was a liability concer; and then (2) the bed belong to VCH and I was not allowed on it.

This from a 20-year veteran in the ICU.  Do these people not think.  And we trust them with our lives.

Fake Lawyers

Again I got two rejections today from lawyers who refuse to help me.  I am coming to the conclusion that all lawyers outthere are fake lawyers. They do not want to do real law.

This last lawyer I asked to help with Carolanne and all he did was send back the money I sent him.  At least he did not charge me $200 for opening a file.  I cannot get over what VCHA did to Carolanne.  I got a court order so that we could visit each other and as soon as VCHA found out about it they got to Carolanne and I was told hat she did not want to see me. And I was not allowed on any VCHA properties. So I could not talk to her and convince her not to be afraid.   And they will not let me see her.  I suspect that she does not know what is going on as she is a quad, can't talk, can't move, and the only thing she knows is that I have abandoned her. Who is going to tell her any different.  She is at the end of her life and she will die alone like Randy did.

VCHA won't even give me how to contact her family.  They do not have to do it. VCHA does not have to do anything.  I asked Carolanne on February 26 2017 if her family ever visits her and she said no.

Even though her family has not visited her in years I am sure that they will be furious if they knew how their daughter is being treated. I am sure they believe that their daughter has been looked after legally i.e. her rights are being protected.    VCHA imprisoned her, they lied to her, they coerced her, and she would have a cause of action to sue VCHA.

I saw Carolanne on Februry 26 and 28, 2017 and she said that she wanted to see me both times. We were going to be sisters.And no one could stop us from seeing each other as there was a court order.

When this first happened the lawyers said that Carolanne was incompetent but now that she has been coerced to do what they want, she is competent.

Just like what they did to Randy.  The physician who put a DNR on him said he was competent but the next day he was incompetent. Because if you are incompetent only the instructions given prior to the incompetency are legal.  And then to make it worse, this same doctor assessed him to say he was incompetent. This opened the door to get the PGT involved to make Randy a non-person.

I still do not know how the PGT was able to convince the Designated Health Authority to revoke my power of attorney.  But the lawyer for the PGT said that the PGT does not have to share those reasons.

Note:

Law Society of BC v. Goodwin: When court orders are disobeyed or ignored, the court is demeaned.  If the court is demeaned, respect for the rule of law declines.

Best interest for who

I came across a memo written by risk management in 2011 that said that it was going to allow me to be Randy's substitute decision maker as long as I had Randy's best interest.  What that means is as long as I agree to whatever VCH wants to do I could be his substitute decision maker.  It seems that a physician has legal arbitrariness to determine this.  Since I did not know anything medical, there was no fear of that. How could I, a rational person, go against what a doctor wants. I am not a health professional. I could comment on an observation respecting care but that is a remote outlier to a medical prognosis. Advocating for Randy, as he wanted to live, is not interferring with his care.  But it seems that according to VCH it was not in Randy's best interest to live.

How was it that Randy asked for a DNR to be placed on himself when he could not even talk or write and when he was unresponsive. When he was transferred from VGH to GPC on November 15 2013  he was not screaming that he wanted a DNR on him.  Not only a DNR but also a DNT (do not transfer order).  The DNT to guarantee if he was in medical distress that the nurses at GPC would not transfer him to acute care (VGH) so he could live. Randy was only 56 years at that time.

From the evidence from 2011 it is clear to me now but not then GPC was wanting to do damage control. The visiting ban would prevent me from seeing and hearing what was happening in the Ward.  For example, after I purchased a flat screenTV for Randy which I could ill afford it sat in a box for over a month.  It was not until a visitor phoned me and said "where is Randy's TV"....  And another time, a few days after Randy was first sent to George Pearson Centre, upon my visiting, Randy was very sick and it was I who brought this to the attention of the staff.  He immediately was transferred back to VGH. Then hell broke out for short period of time. There were numerous other narratives as well.

I just assumed that management was using incidents "red herring" that made no sense to me to have me banned (hours and days and access severely restricted) for being overly friendly which apparently upset patients, their families, and staff. The overly friendly part might be true but no one got upset. There was a big issue about wool bedding. About entering rooms when I had an implied invitation to do so.  And about flowers.  And about food.  Even a newspaper and a chair.   And the doggies. Doggies are allowed at VGH.  And the orchids I supposedly took from the garden. It got so bizarre that I was to be escorted to the toilet down a long hall when I went to visit Randy. So I decided to wear Depends.  I was also taking take a valium every time I went to GPC to curb my anxiety.

On the day I first met Nurse Ratchet at GPC in 2010 I was told that I would have to sign a visitation contract. I never did as she changed her mind. Randy had no rights, neither did I.  The rights only belonged to GPC.  They did everything possible to make me a basket case. I was negatively labeled and everyone acted as though I was to be avoided. I became a victim of prolonged psychological abuse by an alien fossilized institution that I did not understand. An institution that robs everyone of their civil rights "commonsense" including staff.

VCH took total advantage of an unequal playing field.  They abused their extreme superior power. It was brutal.  It was entrapment.  It was outrageous.  And they had a human hostage named "Randy."

Health Care Representation Agreement

This from the Health Professions Review Board:

2016-HPA-024(a); 2016-HPA-025(a); 2016-HPA-026(a); 2016-HPA-027(a) re: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia(Group File No. 2016-HPA-G03)
Stage 1 hearing of an application for review of an Inquiry Committee disposition under s.50.6 HPA - Inquiry Committee disposition confirmed. The complaint to the College alleged that four Registrants ignored the Complainant’s designated health care representation agreement concerning his mother and that she was over-medicated with narcotics without proper consent. The mother subsequently passed away from numerous untreatable medical conditions. The original complaint concerned the actions of Registrant 1 and after the mother passed away was expanded to include the actions of three additional Registrants. The Inquiry Committee conducted a thorough investigation that provided key information. The investigation revealed the mother was experiencing significant severe pain on a constant basis and that treating health care staff were very distressed by her continued painful condition and the Complainant’s restriction on the use of pain analgesics through his enforcement of the health care representation agreement. Concerned that they were not acting in the mother’s best interests, on behalf of the mother, Registrant 1 removed the Complainant from the medical decision making role and began prescribing analgesics to alleviate her pain. In a disposition that is detailed, transparent, intelligible and justified the Inquiry Committee had no criticism of the Registrants’ actions. The investigation was deemed thorough and adequate. The disposition is detailed, transparent, intelligible and defensible with respect to the law and facts.
June 6, 2016 (Posted July 4, 2016)

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copy to Andrew Macfarlane, VCH. I have been asking you why I was stripped of my representation agreement and power of attorney and you have arrogantly refused to tell me.  Am I to assume from your decision that you can do this without due process. What was your legal justification.  In Randy's Representation Agreement he said that he did not want a DNR and yet VGH put a DNR on him.

According to the following, you are going to have to do some serious explaining.  From this HPA- 024 it would suggest that a representation agreement (the voice of the patient) can be overruled by a possee of doctors after the fact.  One of the reasons for refusal of drugs is that some patients do not want to take drugs as drugs dull their senses.

In Carter on page 66

[212] The Court concluded that provisions of the Ontario Mental Health Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 262, granting a physician the authority to override the competent wishes of a patient where deemed to be in the patient's best interests, unjustifiably infringed the security of the person guarantee in s. 7 of the Charter. 

How was the complainant removed from the decision-making process in HPA-024.  By an invisible wave of the hand!

It is not what is in the best interest of the patient, it is what the patient wants.

What is the purpose of a representation agreement when doctors can overrule it at any time.   And it now seems that the BC high medical tribunal can also overrule the Charter. I think not.

On the flip side of this no mention was made whether or not the mother was competent to make medical decisions.  From what I understand, you can be incompetent to make financial decisions but you can still make medical decisions that can hasten your death. Am I mistaken in this belief.

In Carter on page 66

[212] The Court concluded that provisions of the Ontario Mental Health Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 262, granting a physician the authority to override the competent wishes of a patient were deemed to be in the patient's best interests, unjustifiably infringed the security of the person guarantee in s. 7 of the Charter. 

Tort of Outrage

I was reviewing what happened to Randy and me and I was shocked at what happened.  No reasonable man would believe it, but it did happen.   There are only defamatory acts against me.
Currently, I am asking the various agencies for explanations, so far none haver been forthcoming.

It is easy for VCH to do this as who has the money to go up against them.  They can do what they want because no one is going to stop them.  I had a representation agreement for health care for Randy and VGH ignored it.  VCH said that Randy was not dying when he was.  VCH said Randy was incompetent when he was competent and competent when he was incompetent.  VCH said I was a borderline psychotic which I am not.  But VGH did cause me  psychological trauma for years.  Even now when I allow myself to think of the history of what happened, I wake in the middle of the night soaking wet.  The cause is stress. 

VCH said that it would make sure that I would not see Randy even on his deathbed which is what nearly happened. I was restricted from seeing him for two months before he died and when I did see him he was unresponsive. So in reality, he was dead. I remember crying in the ICU over his dying body saying that I am sorry that I did not do enough to save him. And Ro Ang, the manager of George Pearson Centre, would not let me get a piece of his clothing so I could bury it with him in his coffin. 

I want to know what terrible thing I did to cause this.  I do not want to speculate.  I want it in writing.

VCH never documented much of anything so whatever happened, did not happen. Ask a lawyer.
 

Andrew MacFarlane

I came across a newpaper article about the Connections.  It is a centre for addiction.  Andrew MacFarlane of Vancovuer Coastal Health spoke to the Province about it.

I would like Andrew MacFarlane to speak to me.  I have been trying for months maybe a year for him to explain why he took away my Representation Agreement and Power of Attorney just days before my husband died.  He will not explain why.  He just signed the Order. He rubber stamped something from someone from somewhere. I do not understand how he can sign such an Order without even talking to me.  But then that is how Vancouver Coastal Health works.  When MacFarlane can sign a fiat Order based on what I suspect is collateral evidence, evidence that is gossip, no verification, some low bureaucrat telling him to do it, not telling me, not allowing me to question it, then there is something wrong with what he is doing.  There is not much anyone can do if these dubious officers of the court will not talk to you.  What recourse does one have.  How do you make him accountable.  Complain to who.  How can they go against the legal wishes of my husband. What is the purpose of the law when a robot can take your legal rights away at will.

VGH refused to investigate Randy's near death on November 18 2013

I really do not understand how our medical system works.  I told VGH that Randy had an illegal DNR on  him and he would have died if I did not intervene with his care on November 18 2013.  VGH did nothing. That incident should have been investigated as VGH was  aware of it.

Euthanasia and the Outlier Defence

In Lynn Smith's reasons for her declaratory orders, it would seem only a few would use assisted suicide or euthanasia per year. To me, that would mean one or two individuals.  It would only be used in exceptional circumstances;  Lynn said a means of last resort. However, I was wrong, it is more like one percent of all deaths. 

This is what I received from the euthanasia prevention people this morning April 16, 2016, in answer to how many are going to use MAD (medically assisted death) in Canada.

Probably less than 1% in the beginning but in 3 - 5 years there will be 4% of deaths.

There were 268,000 deaths in 2014. Therefore, there will be 10,000 or more deaths in 3 - 5 years and probably 20,000 deaths in 2025.

The medical vultures are already going in for the $kill. The first death in Canada per Carter  was done by Dr. Ellen Wiebe, she has already started a clinic, to much media applause, in Vancouver, being a good death clinic.

And since your family physician, if you are lucky enough to have one, will not want to get involved in any of this, he will refer you to Dr. Ellen, a stranger. And you will die in a sterile clinic. I wonder who funded her clinic.

There is no law yet and already there has been four individuals that have used the exemption clause: two died in BC and another approved in BC and another approved in Manitoba.  Three have died in Quebec under its own law to hasten death. There could be more but the white wall of silence prevents disclosure. The public might never know of  further deaths unless the Death with Dignity people leak out the information to the media as a good news story.

And who is paying the $10,000 or more to do the court applications and the costs of travel to the good death clinic in Vancouver to make these deaths a good news story.  Was it on the condition that the participants participate. When Bill C-14 passes, hopefully, it does not, there will be no legal fees as a doctor will make the order, not a judge.  This also means there will be no transparency.  No oversight; just the truth of health care professionals.

Bill C-14 has to be defeated.  Contact your MLA and MP and say you want to veto Bill C-14 and invoke the "notwithstanding clause". We have to study this further to make sure the safeguards are safe and cannot be circumvented.  Collateral deaths are not allowed: we are not at war.

We as a society did not contract for lethal injection at the HEMLOCK AID CLINIC.  Dr. Ellen could have come up with a less vomitoid name.  Hemlock is dark... very very dark.  Does anyone know how the very very very rich die, the 1%,  I have read that it is the 1% who want the rest of us to die as soon as we are not productive.

Euthanasia and the Canadian Medical Association

Today being Thursday January 21 2016, the Canadian Medical Association is presenting its Principles-based Recommendations for a Canadian Approach to Assisted Dying. What a joke.

The Recommendations (if the government accepts the recommendations) will be stealth law giving 99.9% power to doctors to do euthanasia when they want.  There is a window, so it will be opened.  The window is ...a standard waiting period is not appropriate for all requests ...this could be shorter ...the attending physician must wait no longer than 48 hours, or as soon as is practicable, after the written request is received.

Think about it why have a waiting period as each day costs $big, so why wait. More importantly, the patient may change her mind and all the preparation are for naught.  Doctors do not like patients who change their minds. This is what Ro Ang, the manager of GPC, told me. So was Randy declared incompetent because he might change his mind.  Is this one of the reasons used to justify his incompetence. 

Like the young woman (Brittany Maynard) in Oregon, she changed her mind against assisted suicide as it was too soon, she said (there was a video), and the next day she was dead. Was she forced to follow through with her original date to commit suicide. Also, Gloria Taylor, who was happy with all the attention she was getting.  She must have had a DNR on her and emergency refused to agressively treat her.  She did not want to die from an infection.

The first few of those who will be euthanized will have perfect oversight to satisfy the public as to  safe safeguards but after that what: confidentiality; and a death certificate, not mentioning euthanasia so an insurance company (I think that is criminal fraud) will never know.  

CORRECTION; Quebec is already euthanizing patients against federal law and details (the process) is confidential.  We live in Dodge City.

The CMA recommendations are not even dated. Trust doctors, you cannot even trust them to date a document recommending how they are going to euthanize patients. What an oversight.

Listen to this: http://rewardsradiotv.com/AUDIO/vickie-t/index2.htm.  This is also what is happening in Canada not only to the elderly but to anyone the system targets as not having a meaningful quality of life.  This parallels what happened to Randy and I.  The legislators in the US and also in Canada know that this is happening but do nothing except to maintain the status quo thus creating a culture of death.











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Stockholm Syndrome and Vancouver Coastal Health

I keep thinking of how Vancouver Coastal Health and I became at odds.  They were the oppressors and they relied on the Stockholm Syndrome to cancel out their psychological harassment (like a wife batterer).  I succumbed to this so many times that VCH just continued their bad bahavior, an amusement on their part.  A game they always win.  I have asked since 2011 for an independent investigation as to VCH's behavior and in 2015 I received an email from Richard Singleton that he had investigated my concerns.  Richard is not an independent investigator he is a mental health worker who is an expert at using the Stockholm Syndrome to control risk even if that meant discrediting others. This man who was responsible for Randy's life and investigating my allegations of non treatment and illegal DNRs finally made the decision that VCH did nothing wrong (at least, not in his mind).

Randy was chronically ill.  VCH did not have to hasten his death.

Stockholm syndrome

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Stockholm syndrome (disambiguation).

Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.^[1][2] The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly eight percent of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.^[3]
Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."^[4] One commonly used hypothesis to explain the effect of Stockholm syndrome is based on Freudian theory. It suggests that the bonding is the individual's response to trauma in becoming a victim. Identifying with the aggressor is one way that the ego defends itself. When a victim believes the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be perceived as a threat.<sup>[5]

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the Vancouver Province and Elaine Peaston v. BC College of Physicians and Surgeons

I tried to find out more about Elaine Peaston vs BC College of Physicians and Surgeons (see post August 29 2015) and I searched the Province newspaper for her name.  Quess what.  I could not find it in the Province search function.  It is gone like it never was there.  It reminded me of wanting to find out what happened to Mary Turner in 2013.  I put an ad in the Prince George paper and it was to be on-line.  I could not find it.   VCH knew I wanted to know what happened to Mary and now Elaines litigation is not on its database.  When I checked the court registry on Randys case to find Dr. Dunnes Affidavit and the Affidavit of Kip Woodwards secretary, both were missing.  Is this called damage control. Well, I can only speculate that the medical establishment seems to have tremendous power with the courts and the press.

I feel vomitoid.

PS Sept 2 2015, I found the Province article on a post. Elaines segment had  5,322,247 page views. So much for damage control. I hope she is aware of what happened was read by millions.  Why cannot doctors tell the truth and then there would be no need for risk management departments to hide the truth (evidence). To think the College of Physicians and Surgeons might have gone that far to protect itself.  But then it might have been Elaine who did not want it in the newspapers.  I do not know. 


What tangled webs we weave when we set out to deceive.


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How many of you are aware of what is happening to Planned Parenthood in the United States.  It is going to be the end of Hillary Clinton.  Planned Parenthood is a non-profit but it gets half of its yearly $billion budget from the US government to do abortions.  It also sells aborted baby parts (see videos).  I can not find any information on this aspect of Planned Parenthood in the Canadian media but it is on the internet and LifeNews is a good source.The President of Planned Parenthood and her high level executives who are not even doctors make more money than the President of the United States.


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Quebec police chief mobbed (bullied) by his own staff. (pyschological harrassment)

I have been bullied (mobbed) by George Pearson Centre since 2010 and it is still going on even after the death of  Randy.  VCH will do everything to discredit me and they have been very successful so far.  The only reason for this is that these officers were given misinformation, the police believe them because they are health professionals, and I am at a disadvantage.  Beware of Car 57 (Mental Health team). VCH uses third parties to do their dirty work.  I would really like to know who are behind the complaints. When I first was having trouble with Tanu at GPC I would write notes to the social worker and when I asked for them he said he threw them out.  No wonder he has been at GPC so long.  I remember him telling me that Randy and I were his clients. A social worker is an officer of the court.  What a joke.  I know of no incident where he tried to help us. 

This National Post article was published in the Vancouver Province recently.  If the police will do it to its own why is it that it is not conceivable that such behavior is not happening within Vancouver Coastal Health..  These past weeks I have had three visits from the VPD.  Concerns that could have been cleared up with a telephone conversation.  All it did was distance me from my neighbours in my complex.  The complaints to the police involved Vancouver Coastal Health who I suspect are doing this deliberately to unsettle me and cause embarrassment.  The Vancouver Police Department is being  used by Vancouver Coastal Health.

Court orders reinstatement of police chief harassed by his own officers

By Graeme Hamilton, National Post August 6, 2015

One day, Michel Ledoux found a fake bomb outside his office door. Another time, he arrived at work to find himself hanging in effigy.
Ledoux was chief of police in the Laurentians resort town of Mont-Tremblant, Que., but the intimidation tactics were not coming from local gangsters. His own officers were targeting him.
A Court of Quebec decision this week concludes that Ledoux was the victim of a "vicious and degrading" harassment campaign and that he was justified in resorting to secret video and audio surveillance to identify his tormentors.
Calling the facts of the case unprecedented, the three-judge panel has ordered that Ledoux be reinstated as police chief with back pay after the town fired him in 2011 for spying on his subordinates. A jury had earlier acquitted him of criminal charges related to the surveillance.
"A smear campaign like that constituted a 'particular circumstance' in labour relations at the police station justifying the surveillance measures used," the Court of Quebec wrote. "It is hard to imagine that they were members of 'law enforcement' who did that."
Ledoux, a 30-year veteran of the Montreal police, was an outsider when he took over as chief in Mont-Tremblant in 2007.
He made it his mission to ensure officers were better prepared in court and in general to tighten discipline among the roughly 30 officers. Some of the officers, led by the president of the police brotherhood, were not amused.
After Ledoux suspended two officers early in 2011 and amid contentious contract negotiations, Ledoux and his assistant responsible for investigations became the targets of personal attacks at the police station.
Crude photo montages appeared in the station depicting Ledoux with a penis in his face, as a baboon having anal sex and as a Klansman. Insult-laden tracts, associating the police chief with sexually transmitted diseases and mental illness, were also posted inside the station.
Fed up, Ledoux bought a camera hidden in an alarm clock and a microphone hidden in a key chain, purchases that were reimbursed by the town. It did not take long to establish that Sgt. Serge-Alexandre Bouchard, president of the police brotherhood, was behind the campaign, according to the judgment. Video captured him posting posters on Ledoux's office door.
Audio recordings revealed the underlings wanted to drive Ledoux out. "I hope he is smart enough to leave," one officer was heard saying. "A boss can't live with harassment like that," said another. "All organizations run by guys from Montreal are crap," said another.
In one recorded conversation, officers laugh over Bouchard's treatment of Ledoux before a charity hockey game at the local arena. Ledoux had come to give the officers a locker-room speech. "Serge-Alexandre told him to get the hell out of the room. ... He slammed the door on him."
The court concluded that Ledoux was the victim of a form of psychological harassment known as mobbing, to the point where he took his service revolver home and considered suicide.
But instead of dealing with the offending officers, the town administration fired Ledoux, saying he had broken the law with his surveillance. The town manager claimed she had been unaware of the extent of Ledoux's spying, but the court cast doubt on her testimony. A lawyer for the town concluded the harassment was part of normal union pressure tactics.
"These were not legitimate pressure tactics used in the context of the negotiation of a collective agreement," the court ruled. "They were sneaky personal attacks directed at chief Ledoux, aimed at harassing him to ultimately have his head."
Under the circumstances, the court concluded, the officers' right to privacy did not protect them from surveillance aimed at exposing their abusive behaviour.
A town spokeswoman said the municipality needs more time to study the decision, which cannot be appealed.
A message to the police brotherhood was not returned.

© Copyright (c) The StarPhoenix

Randy's 6 month anniversary of his death.

I am doing okay so far.  It is 13 minutes into the 13th of October, 2014.

Yesterday was a really bad day as I saw Randy everywhere. I so wanted him back. I was paralyzed with grief.

A woman at the Senior Centre said it took her four years to get over her husband's death and she didn't even like him.  So it might seem that I still have 3.5 years to go.

I still do not understand how Vancouver Coastal Health allowed us to be so victimized. A system of policies which they do not follow unless it suits them.  Even the direction of the chair, Kip Woodward was disrespected.  I suspect Kip was convinced by the government that if he quit the Board it would tarnish the reputation of the government and its health system and Randy and I were expendable. They gambled that no one would take any notice of us.  

The individual means nothing; only what is good for the government.  The majority that is made up of tax paying citizens who believe that they will be treated fairly.  .

Randy so wanted to live.  He would try his very best to get better.  I remember in 2012 after St. Paul's gave him a passey muir speaking valve so he could speak and they surprised me when I attended at Christmas and I heard Randy say  he loved me.  It was a whisper but it was an audible whisper.

GPC should have been exercising his vocal cords but they didn't.  I suspect the cuts were part of Ostrow's mean management policy. Yes, it was called mean management.

But when Randy was returned to George Pearson Centre against his will and mine, I fought to have him remain at St. Pauls.  St. Pausl said I had no proof that GPC wasn't safe.

 GPC took away his talking valve not because Randy could not handle it but because VGH screwed up (staff can't read instructions) and three patients died while using them. Of course that wasn't the reason GPC used on Randy, it was that Randy's secretions were too heavy.  Not true.

Randy always said I was stupid so can someone tell me why Moira Stilwell, MLA for Langara, would tell me when I spoke to her in January 2014 not to picket GPC.  She asked me what I was going to do about the banning and I said I wanted to picket.  She said do not do that.  I do not know why she would tell me not to do a legal protest but then at that time I was so demoralized I could hardly find my shoes in the mornings.  Even now I still feel like picketing GPC with a sign that GPC banned me.  The use of the property is for patients and their families, so VCH telling me that they have the right to ban me if they want as it is private property doesn't sound right. I did not have $200,000 to fight the system nor did I have a powerful support network. The media and the support advocacy groups support did not come to by aid. 

Randy was so angry with the RTs that he would not allow them to suction him or change his trach.  Randy was so stubborn.  He allowed the floor nurses to do it.  Randy said he won't allow the RTs to touch him until he got his passey muir valve back again. The RTs were very upset over Randy's refusal to have them touch him.  How deceitfully cruel VGH was.

Deconstructing Calder's Erroneous Report Amended 29/08/14

The frist Paragraph 1 wrote by me is missing.  I will have to reconstruct it in the next day or two.  

*The paragraph missing had to do with Calder's recommendation that I be permanently restricted from attending George Pearson Centre and from all other VCH facilities and this was incorporated in the Notice of Trespass letter I received on January 29 2014 and what risk management said.* 


Unless staff and Dr. Dunne are harshly interrogated by the police as if they were terrorists rather than saints, I will never know.  If I had not been there on November 18 2013 and December 26 2013 during my limited access to Randy and I calling 911 Randy would have died. Because of the missing paragraph, this sentence was to refer if the staff or Dr. Dunne shut off Randy's heart monitor (the audio).  This was conveniently countered later by Paladin Security who said the alarm was on after I brought it to management's attention.  Anything to save Palladin's multimillion contract with VCH. Randy's heart rate was 142 and 155 and maybe beyond.  In Randy's frail condition his heart rate should have been alarmed at 100.

The staff was instructed not to call 911 because Randy had a DNR on him. Randy did not have terminal cancer, he had respiratory problems, maybe a pneumonia (an infection), he wasn't at the end of a painful cancer death because he did not have cancer; he had a spinal cord injury due to an acquired brain injury. 

My ideation is that Mr. Calder be run out of his profession post haste.

His report was given to WorkSafeBC, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Public Guardian and Trustee. And now it is a court record accessible to the public in the Supreme Court Registry.
(Action No. S142003).

How could Vancouver Coastal Health commission such a disparaging report.


On a lighter note, I have custody of Randy's doggie being a mixed terrier-poodle. It is so spolit that it won't eat anything unless I feed him by spoon or else from my hand.   I suspect it is his way of getting undivided attention from me.  Like Randy when he stubbornly refused for months to have the respiratory technicians tend to him after they took away his passey-muir talking valve...  I blame myself for not fighting harder for Randy...They had no right to take away his means of communication limited although it could have been.  The first word he spoke to me as he looked at me and this is documented in his health record was the word "stupid."  And that is exactly what I am: stupid and also stupid for believing in the system.

August 22 2014

I checked with the court registry this afternoon to see if the two missing affidavits had appeared.  No.

I do not know what was in the affidavits that was so important.  Maybe it had something to do with not telling the truth.

In any event, I came across an email of one of the supposed "offending emails" I sent to Dr. James Dunne with cc to Dr. John Fleetham. One of the emails that caused Dr. Fleetham to abandon Randy as he could not provide Randy with objective care and one over which Dr. Dunne threatened to resign.

I did not receive a reply to this email.It took Dunne and Fleetham ten months to make mention of it or the one dated May 16, 2013.

Audrey Laferriere @gmail.com	6/19/13
to james.dunne, john.fleetham, frank.ryan

Further to my email to you dated May 16, 2013, to which you have not
replied to.  Please do.  

I also want to know why you are refusing to give Randy an oxygen tank
 for use when he is off site.  Someone telling me that he doesn't fit the 
criteria for home funding does not ring true or Ro telling me that an 
oxygen tank might explode the likelihood so remote that such a statement
is rendered ridiculous. Note:  I was given a second opinion saying that if Randy
was off site and was having difficulty the only thing that would save him would
be oxygen. I offered to pay for the oxygen.

Just like Randy cannot have a passey muir valve so he can speak
because there is no funding to monitor him.  I read the passey muir
web site and it says a passey muir valve helps swallowing so how can
you say that he can't swallow therefore he can't have a passey muir
valve. Randy can swallow, how else can he be rid of his mouth saliva.
I do not believe that you or you staff understands fully what a passey muir
is.

Your rationalization that suctioning only be as needed is based
when a patient is in intensive care and there is one-to-one nursing
and not in a ward with closed curtains and one nurse overseeing ten
patients as she walks down the middle of the ward each fifteen
minutes (????). NOTE: At times you can't even find a nurse on the ward.
They have no schedule they just walk by whenever whenever that is.

Even telling me that Randy can't have the curtains open in
the ward puts him at risk as staff cannot see him.  

I want Randy safe and it seems that you are doing everything possible
to make sure he is not safe.


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Press Release to IPFCC

On Friday I attended at the Vancouver Convention.  I handed out 200 Press Releases.  The convention was attended by 700. I saw no one from VCH.

8 August 2014

TO: 6^th International Conference on Patient and Family Centered Care

        Bayshore, Vancouver, B.C.

 PRESS RELEASE

 Woman banned from all Vancouver Coast Health Facilities on January 29 2014 for disrespectful conduct for ninety days while husband is dying at George Pearson Centre. (with a threat that it will be extended forever)

Woman unable to access husband until she alone self-litigated and got a court order only long enough to watch him die from what could have been a preventable urinary track infection in Vancouver General Hospital in the Intensive Care Unit on 13 April 2014.  I saw him for ninety minutes him being non responsive before being sent to ICU. 

Disrespectful or not, this woman should have had access to her husband 24/7 because of his fragile health and not a cruel banning.  One complaint was that she sent emails to Kip Woodward, the chairman of the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health.  Another one was she was being too friendly with the residents and visitors and she was barred from talking to them. She was also barred from talking to the nursing staff and Randy’s doctors. Randy was 57 years old. 

Randy’s right to security of person was violated by VCH.  He was imprisoned. He had no right to see who he wanted, when he wanted or where he wanted. This was part of his health care plan for which he was denied.  Since he was dying I should have been there. Randy had a spinal cord injury, an ABI and a trach so he could not talk. Because of $rationing he was denied a passey-muir talking valve.

Randy gave Audrey the lawful rights given under BC legislation : the Representation Agreement and an Enduring Power of Attorney both of which VCH refused to honour. And a will dated in 2006.

Audrey Jane Laferriere

voiceofgoneballistic.blogspot.com

604-321-2276

5976 Cambie Street

Vancouver, B.C.

V5Z 3A9