Now the Good want to move Randy back to the Bad

copy of email sent to CTV Janury 10 2013

Audrey Laferriere	11:29 PM (4 hours ago)
to patricia.garcia,

I was suggested to send you a brief outline of something that is happening to us in Vancouver. I tried CKNW and was told they did not do health care stories.Just feel good stories.  My story is not a feel good one.

Three years ago my spouse suffered a spinal cord injury.  There isn't too much wrong with him except he is susceptible to infections from where he lives: George Pearson Centre.

Unknown to me and unknown to Randy a rogue doctor James Dunne placed do not transfer orders on Randy on different occasions.  The last two nearly caused Randy his life as when he needed acute hospital intervention the staff would do nothing as it was against doctor's orders not to do anything.  They were letting him die. 

Randy is 57 years old and not imminent.  He has a limited quality of life and he has learned to live with it.  On all accounts he wants to live,

I had to fight like hell to get 911 to take him to VGH not once but twice.  Once there is a doctor's order no one will question it.  A doctor's order can be voided if the patient knows about it at any time by a patient or his surrogate however this is not general knowledge so deaths occur unnecessarily..  And the nurses would have let Randy die and the rogue doctor knew this would happen..And on these two occasions Randy was not told and neither was I.

The problem now is that VGH wants to return Randy back to GPC under the care of the rogue doctor who put a DNT on Randy twice and it is business as usual. How can VGH returned a patient to an unsafe environment.  It is beyond my comprehension.  And of course GPC/VGH/Risk Management refuse to discuss what the rogue doctor did. It is as if they just want it forgotten.  Like it never happened.
 Randy should not be forced to return to GPC.

I have tried to work with staff at GPC and VGH to make sure Randy would be safe if he had to return to GPC as he needs specialized care which at my age  I do not have the strength to do.  They won't negotiate or talk to me.  They seem intent on doing exactly whatever they want to do and next time I may not be there to rescue him
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A DNT is a certain death sentence if you need acute care. And it is a relatively new vehicle used by rogue physicians for those that are chronically ill but still have 18 years to live.A DNR means go to acute care while a DNT means do not move close the curtain and phone the family after death ... like what happened to me on November 18 2013.  The nurse made a mistake I am sure that cost him his job he  phoned me before Randy was truly dead and I and a friend  were able  to bag him.  His heart rate was 155 and he was dehydrated and he was within moments of death  The rest is too painful to write...

VCH FOI told me that they have nothing in their data base about the use of Do Not Transfer protocols.

I asked Richard Singleton, director of risk management for a letter saying that VCH would never put a DNR/DNT Order on Randy again and he refused although Randy has a representation agreement saying he wants FULL CODE.  In addition Richard said he would not negotiate any safety issues. Things are just fine at GPC..

Doctor's orders can be put on a patient's chart on the whim of a doctor, no questions asked.  The rogue doctor can do as he wants.  No witnesses.  No informed consent.

I do not know who is in charge.  No one seems to know. To help us is to vocalize your dismay:  send emails to : kip.woodward@vch.ca.  Kip is the chairman of the board. I am not sure if he reads his emails but at least you have tried also forward a copy of this blog link to your contacts.

VCH has to be made accountable; it is just a matter of time that the house of cards will collapse and fall hopefully not hurting too many vulnerable patients and families on the way down. Beware of the venom of the snake oil salesmen.

JAG.Minister@gov.bc.ca (Susan Anton, Minister of Justice)
Vancouver General Hospital, 604-875-4111
this might also work:  feedback@vch.ca

Following orders from a superior is no defense to criminally prosecute and each nurse who blindly follow doctor's orders that would in high probability lead to death should along with the doctor be criminally prosecuted.  

JAG and CKNW

context of email sent January 10 2013
to JAG and CKNW

Audrey Laferriere	10:49 PM (8 hours ago)
to nwnews, JAG.Minister,

I haven't heard anything from you for two months.  Is the state condoning murder by DNR/DNT doctor Orders.  Please advise.

It is one thing asking to be euthanized and it quite another matter NOT wanting to be euthanized.

 In Canada euthanasia is illegal.

CKNW 604-331-2832

voiceofgoneballistic.blogspot.com

The nights Randy should have died by doctor's orders.

Doctor's Orders prevented moving Randy Michael Walker to acute care and by fortuitous timing I was able to intervene on both occasions.

Dr. Dunne knew or should have known that such Orders would translate into nights that Randy should have died.

The nurses and security followed Dr. Dunne's Orders blindly although they were aware Randy was full code because I told them so.

The first date was November 18, 2013 and the second date was December 26, 2013.

It is beyond my comprehension that Randy is still alive.

He was/is not imminent. There was no question of competency.

He is stable as of December 30, 2013 at VGH.

I asked the police to investigate and lay criminal charges against Dr. Dunne for attempted homicide.

On January 3 2014 I was told that Randy was clear of all infections.

Should Randy be forced to return to GPC he will get soon get another infection as every resident/patient at GPC has MRSA, a super bug.

Returning Randy to GPC is like forcing a woman who was nearly killed by her husband to return to him.

What am I to do.

By the guideline as presented by the health authority says I cannot go down the hall from where Randy's cell is located across from the security office and a personal security guard sitting in front of Randy's door..  He has this room which is accessible only by his jailers and me.  I have a problem.  A visitor who visits her son everyday left me some of her high quality used clothing in his room.  Two pairs of leather boots, four tops and a beautiful scarf.  Since I do not know her name or even the name of her son how can I thank her for the gift which I appreciate.

I also noticed that there is no clock in Randy's room.  In VGH each room had a clock.  Another method to drive patients like Randy: and put them in solitary confinement so they have no sense of time and eventually they will go mad.





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What the Hell are they doing....

The other day I was given a slip of paper by an employee of GPC saying that I was not to harass Karen Storms alledgedly from Karen unsigned..  I read it and thought it strange as I thought we were friends. We spent a lot of time together at VGH.  From the wording it seemed that the social worker was behind it..  So I left it as I had Randy to worry about and Karen could wait. However, I have a note from Karen, signed by her, saying that I can visit her at GPC anytime I want.  She gave it to me while we were at VGH.

I didn't have to wait long.  Yesterday outside on my way home at 7:30 Karen motioned for me to come and see her.  She gave me a hug and told me that she was writing a book:  Bad Things: Good Things.  She said she missed her husband who recently passed without much formal explanation and not even a memorial service.  We agreed we would go to IHOP for its Christmas pancakes special which she likes as she has no teeth but she can eat pancakes. My treat as they are a bit expensive.

Now I am told that I am not allowed to talk to staff, residents or visitors.  I wonder if  visitors and residents know that this is the new guideline at George Pearson Centre. Interesting.  Can visitors and residents talk to me?.Or do they even know that I can't talk to them.Or do they even care. There isn't one iota of normalcy in that place..

What is wrong with George Pearson Centre? They are running around looking like fools. When will it all stop.  Maybe never.

Quality of Life RushJudgments Kill

NCD Comment John Kelly, December 5, 2013, Topeka Kansas

“New Disability and the Rush to Judgment”

Last month, Indiana hunter Tim Bowers fell from a tree and broke his neck. Bowers breathed on his own until help arrived, 5 or 6 hours later.  At the hospital, he was intubated, placed on a ventilator, and put under sedation to spare him physical discomfort.
Less than 24 hours later, news reports had doctors predicting that Bowers would “likely spend the rest of his life in a hospital bed, attached to a respirator unable to hold his soon-to-be-born child. “
Bowers’ wife Abbey said “The last thing he wanted was to be in a wheelchair. To have all that stuff taken away would probably be devastating. He would never be able to give hugs, to hold his baby. We made sure he knew that, so he could make a decision. Even if he decided the other thing, the quality of life would’ve been very poor. His life expectancy would be very low.”
“We made sure he knew that so he could make a decision,”  his wife said.  But what Tim Bowers was led to accept as truth about his future was false.  His tragically unnecessary death is another in a line of “rush to judgment” cases, in which newly disabled people are immediately steered towards death.
I have almost exactly the same injury as Bowers and I know that reliable prognosis requires the passage of time.  Weeks or months under ventilation was typical at my rehabilitation hospital.  In the spinal cord injured community, we know people who weaned off ventilation.  We also know many people who have led thriving lives with breathing assistance, whether by ventilator, oxygen, or continuous pressure CPAP/ BiPAP.
Tim Bowers deserved to get the same suicide prevention services offered to any other person in the throes of trauma.  Instead, he was given an incomplete and hasty prognosis and false certainty of future suffering. No one told him about all the opportunities open to him, or about the adjustment and adaptation that follow in time.
Based on this misinformation from doctors, and his and his loved one’s fears about  life in a wheelchair, Tim Bowers gave his consent to dying on the first day after his injury.  In no way was his decision based on informed consent.
Meaningful self-determination gets bypassed and obstructed in favor of a rush to judgment that cuts short the lives of newly disabled people based on ignorant and outmoded judgments about quality of life. 
John B. Kelly
New England Regional Director

Karen Storm

The other evening I spoke to Karen Storm at Emerg VGH and she seemed delighted to see me as it was her who motioned to me that she wanted to converse. .  I asked her if she received the card I sent her.  Yes.  I asked her did anyone from GPC contact her to say that I wanted to see her.  She said no.  I mentioned: Ro, Sam, Sandra, Bob.  She said no to each.  Either she is lying or else GPC has taken it upon itself to decide whom Karen should speak to.