24 May 2014

I just finished reading The Secret Language of Doctors (2014) by Dr. Brian Goldman, a Canadian doctor.  When I spoke of my observations of the medical system I am a troublemaker and am banned for life from all Vancouver Coastal properties even after Randy's death.  But when Dr. Brian Goldman speaks of medical unprofessionalism he is a celebrity.

Why are medical institutions so cruel.

On 5/19/2014 11:01 AM, Audrey Laferriere wrote:

Ron, things are still unsettling for me.  I want my Randy back.  I keep remembering how hard he tried to live.
Have you heard of those of us who had to get a court order to watch our loved ones die.

Yes, there are many who are and have been banned from being at the bedside and it is heartbreaking.  You are not alone in being victimized in this evil way!  It is terribly wrong what they have done, but society is upside down. The culture of death has seized control of the healthcare mechanisms, decision-making and they do what they want and nobody in government wants to stop them.  They are in on it.

from Ron PANZER (search Internet)

Abuse at the Dale

This is why all care workers have to be psychologically tested for sociopathic behavior each six month. This behavior happens at VCH as well.  A few weeks ago two social workers were mocking me and laughing at me, and I am not even a patient.  Why. 

 

Bupa care home staff tormented dementia victims and recorded their 'despicable' acts on their mobile phones

DailyMail on Line

By Chris Brooke
Updated: 13:20 GMT, 15 December 2010

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They were elderly, suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s Disease and needed the best possible care at their Bupa nursing home.
Instead the frail residents were bullied, assaulted and terrorised by care workers who recorded their ‘despicable’ behaviour on their mobile phones for fun.
Yesterday the ‘appalling’ video footage of a vulnerable 99-year-old woman and a man of 86 being mistreated by their three carers led to the carers being jailed.

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'Despicable acts': Care worker Tanzeela Safdar, left, received the longest sentence of 21 months in jail, while Paul Poole collapsed in the dock during sentencing

The five minutes of blurred video, which was played at Bradford Crown Court, shows the carers laughing at the helpless pensioners, grabbing and poking them, taunting them and shoving phones into their face and mouth.
The elderly man, Kenneth Costigan, has an expression of ‘stark terror’ on his face, and is shown ‘cowering’ and burying his head in his hands in ‘utter despair’.

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Courtroom drama: Jolene Hullah received 18 months in jail, while Paul Poole collapsed in the dock during sentencing

Edith Askham, who died later aged 100, is shown being bullied and treated roughly as she sits helplessly on the floor pleading ‘help me…I am frightened’.
Recorder Richard Mansell, QC, was clearly outraged by the defendants’ actions, which he described as ‘inhuman and degrading’.
The judge said supervisor Paul Poole, 26, and assistant care workers Jolene Hullah, 21, and Tanzeela Safdar, 23, had committed a ‘gross breach of trust’.
Earlier, when it was suggested that Hullah, who was 19 at the time, had not received adequate training, the judge was barely able to conceal his fury commenting: ‘You don’t need training in ordinary human decency.
‘This is a feature that unfortunately seems to be part of general life. The first instinct of people when they do something wrong is to start casting blame elsewhere. This is about taking responsibility for your actions.’
Referring to the victims, the judge said: ‘Although they were elderly and very ill they still had their dignity.
‘Your job was to provide them with a dignified level of care in the last years of their lives. With these despicable acts of abuse you stripped Mr Costigan and Mrs Askham of their dignity for your own amusement and gratification.
‘Of those who sat in court today and watched the video footage from your mobile phones, nobody could have failed to be appalled by your sick conduct.’
The defendants, all from Bradford, each admitted two offences of ill treatment of persons lacking mental capacity. The new offence, carrying a maximum five-year jail term, was created by the 2005 Mental Capacity Act.

Recorder Mansell ignored pleas to spare the defendants from jail. Hullah was sent to prison for 18 months, while Safdar, who was described as the ‘most culpable’, was jailed for 21 months.
Poole, who fainted in the dock, was given 12 months. All will be released after serving half their sentence.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp told the court the offences took place at the Dales Nursing Home in Bradford between December 2008 and February 2009. The Bupa home specialises in caring for people with dementia.

The victims were ‘particularly vulnerable to abuse’ as they were ‘unlikely to complain’ and had poor short-term memories.

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Not to blame: the judge stressed that the owners of the Dales Care Home in Bradford were in no way responsible for the abuse

The convictions were only made possible because police recovered the damning video footage from the two women’s mobile phones.

Officers were informed after a cousin of Hullah saw the phone clip and went to the nursing home management.

Hullah is believed to have been trying to dispose of the phone when a police officer arrested her.

Several excerpts show Mr Costigan sitting in his room being ‘taunted’ and physically abused by his laughing carers.
Hullah is seen pushing the phone into his face, imitating and teasing him and on another occasion assaulting him.

Mr Sharp said Mr Costigan’s dementia ‘causes him to swear’ and the carers found it funny to provoke his foul-mouthed outbursts.

They put a phone in his mouth and later as he becomes ‘upset and agitated’ Hullah screams at him and ‘pulls at his right thumb in a way that will have induced considerable pain’.

Safdar then ‘tries to grab his nose’ and ‘pushes both her hands into his mouth.’ As a result, Mr Costigan ‘holds his head in his hands and is plainly distressed’, said Mr Sharp.

Poole, the key worker designated with responsibility for his care, watched and failed to intervene.

Another video shows Safdar and another woman mistreating Edith Askham, who suffered from advanced dementia and was incontinent and ‘incoherent’. She is shown sitting on the floor away from her wheelchair and ‘holding out her arms for help’.

Mr Sharp said the carers did nothing to help her, ‘thrust the phone into her face’ and recorded her indignity. The other woman, Hannah Parveen, is believed to have fled to Pakistan.

Hullah later claimed she had just been ‘messing about’ and Safdar said she was just ‘playing around’. Poole claimed he said nothing because he was afraid of retribution from Hullah.

The judge made a point of stressing that the care home owners and management were in no way to blame for what happened.

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18 May 2014

I wake and walk in a daze of flashbacks of Randy.  I should have fought harder for him.  He tried so hard to get well but they won't let him and then at the end they were going to take him away from me so I wold never be able to see him again.  Rolinda Ang, the manageress of GPC, thought it best that Randy die alone without me.  Where did this woman come from and from whom did she get her instructions.  If someone is dying they should do everything possible to keep the family together NOT ban the wife 100% from seeing him.  What empty and cruel argument theycome up with. .  If we lived in a just society all those responsible should be fired.  Punishing Randy for me protecting him and for  me being over friendly with the residents of that place of death. Most everyone has a DNR and a DNT on them which doesn't give anyone a positive reason for life.  VCH can at least be honest and call it long term palliative care.

16 May 2014

I received Randy's belongings from George Pearson Centre on Wednesday evening.  There were nine boxes and his wheelchair sans seat cushion.  It will take me a few days to psyche myself up to open the boxes.

Typical of GPC it did not provide an inventory although I asked for one.  I hope all of Randy's Steeler clothing is in the boxes.

I meet a woman yesterday who told me of her father and how he was injured at St. Pauls and he died as a result of him being rough handled..  After two years nothing has been resolved except she is afraid of becoming a patient in a hospital.  This isn't the first time I have heard of such fear.

I heard of a new term yesterday:  white law black law.  like white coat black coat .... good law bad law  good medicine bad medicine.

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9 May 2014

I was told that George Pearson Centre had a memorial service for Randy on Wednesday May 7 2014 and I wasn't informed. What harm could I have caused if I attended.

No matter what GPC does, it only makes the situation worse.  Their cruelty will never end. 

May 8 2014

I am not sure if the 30-day mourning period is suppose to start from the day of death or the day of burial.  It has been a week now since I buried Randy among the uncultured trees and rocks on the Island.  It is the only good memory I have since Randy was forced into care. My Randy couldn't talk or write so he could not defend me as he was a witness to all the cruelty VCH imposed on us.  We are suppose to trust the medical system but it is only propaganda. And cruelty is only in the eyes of the beholder. 

VCH even went so far as to say my actions negatively affected the care that Randy received.  They imprisoned him and they were in the process of having any involvment of mine negated by bringing in the Public Guardian and Trustee so that I would never see him again.

May 5 2014

Randy is now safe.  He doesn't have to worry about our medical system causing him more harm.  Even to the bitter end I wanted his 100% wool underlay wrap to bury Randy in.  A custom/law in England.  And GPC refused to send it to me.  Since I am not allowed on the premises and I am only allowed to email which Ro or Richard may never answer and did not answer for this request. I was told that Randy's belongings were put in a common area where anyone could rifle through his possessions.  There is a policy that GPC is suppose to respect the dead but it doesn't extend to a person's belongings.

I had an old 100% wool underlay at home which was placed in his pine box.but I wanted his new one.  So now I have to face GPC to get Randy's stuff  without an inventory.  They just want to put it in a cab and that would be the end of it for them.. I do not know if I am even ready to accept Randy's belongings which thought only brings tears to my eyes. 

They made my life and Randy's life a living hell and then they couldn't even give us the wool underlay.
I asked Sam Greenspoon, the social worker,  to drop it over as my place as he is only a few blocks away and he has a car and he has to cross my place each day. Of course by emailing him I was in violation of the trespass notice.

I also wanted them to drop off a new Steelers tee-shirt for including in Randy's pine box so I again had to use an old one. Randy was a Steeler's fan. 


The two days that I was gone, the doggies were very very quiet.  No complaints from the neighbours about them barking.  They just waited for me to come home.  I do not know where I will go if I have to leave this suite as no one will take on two old doggies and one old lady.  Someone outthere who has property should start a doggies foster care so doggies can visit and have a home to go to with a yard. Only the ultra rich seem to be able to afford doggies in the City..

Two weeks ago the big doggie got an infection is his leg and it took $882.00 to cure.  He is okay now but my credit card is at its at its max again. Life is worth it no matter what.  I can go without the history of a book on the star chamber..

I miss my Randy.  He isn't in a better place.  The best place for him is with me.

I am sorry Randy that I did not fight hard enough for you. I had a representation agreement and VCH refused to honour it and I do not know why.  That isn't true, VCH is above the law.  They do what they want so what use is the legislation. All one doctor has to say is a family member is incapable.No one questions the doctor to determine if he is capable. .Beware of the medical legal complex.

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May 2 2014

Randy was buried among the large trees and rocks on the Island..   It was a beautiful day.  Even the ferry boat ride home was positive.

However, today being Friday, I was so exhausted I slept all day.  And when I work up that empty feeling that Randy was gone was still there.

I laid on his grave a bed of baby's breathe (small white floors) layered with carnations.  It looks very appropriate.
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30 April 2014

Randy's burial is now scheduled for tomorrow being Thurday May 01 2014.  I hope to take beautiful pictures of the landscape where he is scheduled to rest.  I am hoping to reserve a spot next to him.  I always thought I would die before him as he always looked after me even when he was deadly ill.  I am sorry Randy that I wasn't able to look after you as I should have.  Please forgive me as I know that you did not want to die.  You fought too hard to live.

25 April 2014

I was hoping that Randy's funeral would go easily but it seems that it wll be delayed for a few days.  Yesterday before I knew of the delay I purchase three buckets of carnations, a cut flower that can last for up to three months.  Even in death Randy has to wait to be put in his resting place.  I now have four sympathy cards and all of them are very thoughtful.

I asked GPC if they would give me Randy's wool coverlettes and his new Steelers t-shirts and they have refused.  They want me to take everything in plastic bags without an inventory and I can't be on the property..They will put the possessions on the sidewalk then by taxi without an inventory..  Even in death they won't do one extra thing. Denying a man a few possession in his grave seems a bit mean. Oh, well by Monday they might change their mind. And to make it more interesting the Public Trustee seized all his possessions so I can't get them anyways.  Why are they interested in a man who has no money.  What next they are going to seize his body so I can't bury him. 

24 April 2014

It has been 12 days since Randy died in the ICU at VGH.  I am so grateful that he died at VGH in its intensive care unit.  He had the best pallative care possible.  They kept him on life support until the support could not sustain him any more. His blood pressure was not compatible to life. I was able to hold his hand at the point that he died.  It was so sudden.  The nurse Susan was watching the monitor and she told me to hold his hand as he was going.  I am grateful to her as it only takes a second for a person to pass and he could have died without me knowing.. I do not remember crying at that moment.  Just holding his hand.

Randy has not been buried yet as I could not deal with him being incinerated.  He mentioned that he wanted a green burial in a forest.  I want to wrap him up in 100% wool which was what was the law in England at one time.  Everyone had to be buried in wool.  And I wanted him to be buried with his Steeler's hats and his Steeler's t-shirts.  I decided to keep his Steeler's jacket for myself as a tribute to his memory.

I am not well and I can't leave the one-room suite I live in.  I do not know how long I will be self- imprisoned here.

Randy's doggies are with me but they are so quiet all they do is lay on the floor and watch me.  Sometimes the little one, Owen, will come to me and lick/kiss my face and then I hold him tight and then I cry..

Otherwise my room is silent except for the district hum of traffic from Cambie Street. 

I just received three sympathy cards to date; but, then, more may come.  I want them for my memory box.
5976 Cambie Street Vancouver BC V5Z 3A9

April 20, 2014

Nothing to report but grief.
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13 April 2014 @ 7:55 pm Sunday Randy Michael Walker Died (10/12/56)

Randy died.  I am not sure of what, but he is dead. It happened so fast.  He is dead.  My Randy is dead.  And I will never see him again. We had no family, no close friends, we only had each other. And now he is gone. And talking about him and what caused his death will not bring him back.

I have been asked how can those that know me help.  Even if you do not know me or Randy you can help by sending us an old-fashioned sympathy card stamped and delivered by Canada Post.  

Audrey Jane Laferriere 

Randy Michael Walker

5976 Cambie Street

Vancouver, B.C.

V5Z 3A9

For my memory box.

604.321.2276

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Randy in ICU

Randy at ICU VGH

I just got a phone call that Randy has taken a turn for the worse and he is at ICU.  I do not know what to say to all those who was part in the banning.

What harm did I do.  Everything I did was for Randy. Overstaying visiting hours is hardly a reason for a total ban. Defending myself and Randy against a hoard of staff who battered me and it has been turned around to say it is my fault.  I feel whenever I have to deal with the health authority that I live in a country where I have no rights.  You are judged by hearsay by dysfunctional individual who delight in causing harm.  Bullies. The hospital system is full of them.

When I went to the ICU even though I had a court order to see Randy I had to wait two hours. The ICU had to wait for a copy of the order to be delivered to them.  And I was told not to talk to anyone and I could not use any lounges if I was asked to leave Randy's room.  I had to wait off VCH's property.  I am sure he has septic shock; he had laboured breathing, and a high temperature.  He could not recognize me.  

Friday, April 10, 2014

I saw Randy today for my court allotted thirty minutes.  He was extremely hot and not very responsive except towards the end when I mentioned I would rent a television for him for the weekend.  If I can't see him at least he can watch tv.

I still do not know what terrible harm I did to bandish me from being with Randy during his last months of life.  The medical system has not feelings for the living.  What terrible thing did I do.  Not follow one of their stupid rules: you have to leasve at 4:00 pm and if your leave at 4:30 you will be banned for the rest of your life.  That is absurb.  And that is what they are doing. All I want is to see her husband; nothing more nothing less.  VGH creates guidelines that mean nothing and harm no one.  They are all front line workers used to some chaos so why it is directed to me.  They can't prove anything, it is all hearsay compounded upon more hearsay.  It is beyond me that this has got this far and things that are important are sidelined: like the $2,000,000 replacement of the alarm system for the GPC buildingss that are going to be demolished in a few years.It would have been cheaper to higher fire marshalls to walk up and down the hall and pull the fire alarms.  And all the money they are paying on security so I leave the premsies at exactly 4:00 p.m. rather than 4:30 p.m. is stupid.  They must rather have Randy sit alone in a wheel chair for hours and hours and get bedsores than let him be with me. He never had sores when I had access to him everyday.  I would massage his legs and arms and turn him a bit.  I hever saw a nurse at George Pearsojn every do that. And yes he had a bedsore I was told it was gangreen on the heel of his right foot .  I saw it, it was circular black hard dried blood with a diameter of one inch. So when I wasn't able to see Rand GPC left him I assume to sit in his wheel chair for ten hours stretches and not move his foot. 

Randy is still alive

On Friday Randy was transferred from GPC to VGH as he had an infection again.  I wasn't able to see him until this afternoon and he looked tired and when he saw me I thought for awhile that he did not recognize him as I hadn't seen him because of the total banning.  However, when he started to cry I knew he recognized me and I told him that I would be back on Wednesday to see him.  When I am with him holding his hand I am always at peace.  Why can't he just be at home with me. I was told he had septis, the leading cause of death in ICU in the United States.  He also had a very large black sore on his heel of his foot.  This could have been caused by his nurses not moving him for hour and hours when he is sitting in his wheelchair.
My darling Randy.

And they make us this terrible story about me and even when he is on his death bed they will not allow me at his bedside unlike any other hospital.

Even a secretary  lied in an affidavit to discredit me.  Lies generated by security did not upset me nearly as much as the lies from her.  I only met her once for a few seconds so where did she get all her phantom information . Or does a VCH lawyer write an affidavit and say sign it and employees do even if the information is false.

Star Chamber (VCH)

Star Chamber
An ancient high court of England, controlled by the monarch, which was abolished in 1641 by Parliament for abuses of power.
The English court of Star Chamber was created by King Henry VII in 1487 and was named for a room with stars painted on the ceiling in the royal palace of Westminster where the court sat. The Star Chamber was an instrument of the monarch and consisted of royal councillors and two royal judges. The jurisdiction of the court was based on the royal prerogative of administering justice in cases not remediable in the regular courts of law.
The Star Chamber originally assisted with some administrative matters, but by the 1530s it had become a pure court, relieving the king of the burden of hearing cases personally. It was a court of Equity, granting remedies unavailable in the common-law courts. As such, the court was an informal body that dispensed with "due process" as it was then understood.
During Henry VII's reign (1485–1509), about half the cases involved real property. During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Star Chamber became a useful tool in dealing with cases involving members of the aristocracy who often defied the authority of the regular courts. It was during this period, moreover, that the court acquired criminal jurisdiction, hearing cases on issues concerning the security of the realm, such as Sedition, criminal libel, conspiracy, and forgery. Later, Fraud and the punishment of judges came within its jurisdiction.
The importance of the Star Chamber increased during the reigns of James I (1603–25) and Charles I (1625–49). Under Archbishop William Laud, the court became a tool of royal oppression, seeking out and punishing religious and political dissidents. In the 1630s Laud used the Star Chamber to persecute a group of Puritan leaders, most of whom came from the gentry, subjecting them to the pillory and Corporal Punishment. Though the Star Chamber could not mete out Capital Punishment, it inflicted everything short of death upon those found guilty. During this time the court met in secret, extracting evidence by torturing witnesses and handing out punishments that included mutilation, life imprisonment, and enormous fines. It turned equity's traditionally broad discretion into a complete disregard for the law. The Star Chamber sometimes acted on mere rumors in order to suppress opposition to the king.
The Star Chamber's Arbitrary use of power and the cruel punishments it inflicted produced a wave of reaction against it from Puritans, advocates of common-law courts, and others opposed to the reign of Charles I. In 1641 the Long Parliament abolished the court and made reparations to some of its victims.
The term star chamber has come to mean any lawless and oppressive tribunal, especially one that meets in secret. The constitutional concept of Due Process of Law is in part a reaction to the arbitrary use of judicial power displayed by the Star Chamber.

Further readings

Elton, G. R. 1974. Star Chamber Stories. New York: Barnes & Noble.
Guy, J. A. 1977. The Cardinal's Court: The Impact of Thomas Wolsey in Star Chamber. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield.

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Back to VGH with Septis

Septis is the leading cause of death in ICU's in the USA.

Randy was sent back to VGH with septis yesterday before 1:30 pm.

When I went to VGH I was prevented to see Randy because of the banning letter which security waved in my face.

I asked security to contact VGH's lawyer, or Richard Singleton or Ro.  And they refused they said the letter was their authority.

Randy is dying and they are relying on a stupid piece of paper and they won't even confirm it.  A piece of paper says kill, and they kill. Even the military isn't allow to do this.  VCH is beyond the law; VCH is beyond God.

I sat on the sidewalk and waited for five hours until a friend came by and said Randy was as stable as can be expected and later on he phoned me to say he was sent to an ICU step down unit, not good..

And here I am his wife, a person discredited for no reason just because VCH targets people without due process, just with hearsay evidences and lies.  One bad judgment leads to one cover up lie and that lie leads to another and another.

I was hoping by now someone would phone me and say I can go and see Randy but nothing.

I was told that all those that could make a decision about relaxing the banning letter were out of town on a conference. 

January 20th, 2014

January 29th, 2014