Sunday, August 10, 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
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.
PRESS RELEASE
8 August 2014
TO: 6th 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
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Supreme Court Registry August 5, 2014
I went to check the input computer file at the registry and there were six affidvits filed ; four were in the file and two were missing. Dr. Dunne's affidavit of March 17 was missing as well as Louise's dated April 2 was missing. Affidavits are evidence. And evidence filed in court isn't suppose to go missing.
I suspect that Clark Wilson decided to throw Tanu Batlawala under the bus as her Affidavit was still in the file. I hope she has proof of everything she said in her affidavit but then maybe she doesn't have to as she never wrote the affidavit. It was written by Monica Muller, VCH's in-house solicitor, and Tanu just signed it.
Due to unforeseen cirumstances, I will be out of the office immediately until the end of summer.
Please contact Jackie Chow at jackie.chow@vch.ca if this message is urgent.
I do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
After Jennifer's criticisms of her profession i.e.how ashamed she was of registered nurses and the Fraser Health Authority surrounding the death of her mother, I suspect she was asked to vacate her office at VGH immediately and she only had a few seconds to write the above email. I hope I am not wrong. So, where is Jennifer Timer. Perhaps, Pamela Fayerman the Sun reporter on the two Timer articles might know. pfayerman@vancouversun.com
I suspect that Clark Wilson decided to throw Tanu Batlawala under the bus as her Affidavit was still in the file. I hope she has proof of everything she said in her affidavit but then maybe she doesn't have to as she never wrote the affidavit. It was written by Monica Muller, VCH's in-house solicitor, and Tanu just signed it.
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Please contact Jackie Chow at jackie.chow@vch.ca if this message is urgent.
I do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
After Jennifer's criticisms of her profession i.e.how ashamed she was of registered nurses and the Fraser Health Authority surrounding the death of her mother, I suspect she was asked to vacate her office at VGH immediately and she only had a few seconds to write the above email. I hope I am not wrong. So, where is Jennifer Timer. Perhaps, Pamela Fayerman the Sun reporter on the two Timer articles might know. pfayerman@vancouversun.com
Friday, August 1, 2014
Jennifer Timer and Fraser Health Authority
I read Nurse (Jennifer Timer) criticizes 'condescending' response to mom's death in the Vancouver Sun on July 31 2014.
"A letter such as this may placate families without a health-care background but, as a PhD-educated former intensive care nurse, I find it condescending. I am going to deconstruct this letter and everything that is wrong with their response and I am definitely taking it higher."
Jennifer mentions that patient safety should alway trump patient privacy. This is the complete opposite of what I was told each time I worried about Randy not being in the line of sight of the nursing staff at George Pearson Centre. Although it was an open ward the patients in the next bed always had the curtains closed for privacy leaving Randy isolated and him being unable to use a call bell or call out. This was policy said Dr. Dunne as well as Ro the manager and Tanu the head nurse. Many nights I feared that because of this policy that Randy would die because he couldn't call out for help as no one would see him struggling and they would cover it up and say it was a natural death rather than culpable homicide.
I am going to do as Jennifer said in her comments to the Sun that she was going to deconstruct the Fraser Health Authority's letter ... I am going to do the same with the Report of Kevin Calder who was commissioned to do a risk assessment report on me i.e. a criminal profile. It is 16 pages long with a 4 page affidavit. It should take me weeks maybe months deconstructing each sentence. I suspect VCHA told Kevin what the result of his report should say and he designed the report to reflect it. The information was gathered between December 20 2013 and January 8, 2014. Mr. Calder never spoke to me.
. Ms. Laferriere poses a high risk of workplace violence (affective violence) in the form of punching, slapping, pushing and verbal abuse and agression.
. Ms. Laferriere poses a low risk of predatory violence (targeted homicide)
. Ms. Laferriere poses a high risk of ongoing bullying and harassing behaviour directed at VCH employees.
I had no idea that these things happened and I was that person.
VCHA has gone too far; it is not the CIA or the FBI. I only wanted from the beginning to look after Randy and make friends for him at GPC so Randy would have friends there because he can't talk and he was always a loner. Calder never even talked to Randy. Randy can nod yes or no.
Anyone that hires an ex security guard to write a criminal profile on anyone only shows the extreme measures VCHA will go to to discredit/demoralize someone. And to think this report did have a bearing on the result of me not seeing Randy for weeks before he died because WorkSafe BC and the Public Guardian and Trustee got involved.
See below August 1 2014 post as well ...
"A letter such as this may placate families without a health-care background but, as a PhD-educated former intensive care nurse, I find it condescending. I am going to deconstruct this letter and everything that is wrong with their response and I am definitely taking it higher."
Jennifer mentions that patient safety should alway trump patient privacy. This is the complete opposite of what I was told each time I worried about Randy not being in the line of sight of the nursing staff at George Pearson Centre. Although it was an open ward the patients in the next bed always had the curtains closed for privacy leaving Randy isolated and him being unable to use a call bell or call out. This was policy said Dr. Dunne as well as Ro the manager and Tanu the head nurse. Many nights I feared that because of this policy that Randy would die because he couldn't call out for help as no one would see him struggling and they would cover it up and say it was a natural death rather than culpable homicide.
I am going to do as Jennifer said in her comments to the Sun that she was going to deconstruct the Fraser Health Authority's letter ... I am going to do the same with the Report of Kevin Calder who was commissioned to do a risk assessment report on me i.e. a criminal profile. It is 16 pages long with a 4 page affidavit. It should take me weeks maybe months deconstructing each sentence. I suspect VCHA told Kevin what the result of his report should say and he designed the report to reflect it. The information was gathered between December 20 2013 and January 8, 2014. Mr. Calder never spoke to me.
. Ms. Laferriere poses a high risk of workplace violence (affective violence) in the form of punching, slapping, pushing and verbal abuse and agression.
. Ms. Laferriere poses a low risk of predatory violence (targeted homicide)
. Ms. Laferriere poses a high risk of ongoing bullying and harassing behaviour directed at VCH employees.
I had no idea that these things happened and I was that person.
VCHA has gone too far; it is not the CIA or the FBI. I only wanted from the beginning to look after Randy and make friends for him at GPC so Randy would have friends there because he can't talk and he was always a loner. Calder never even talked to Randy. Randy can nod yes or no.
Anyone that hires an ex security guard to write a criminal profile on anyone only shows the extreme measures VCHA will go to to discredit/demoralize someone. And to think this report did have a bearing on the result of me not seeing Randy for weeks before he died because WorkSafe BC and the Public Guardian and Trustee got involved.
See below August 1 2014 post as well ...
Louise Kokotallo
I was downtown yesterday being July 31, 2014, and I decided to check on the court file which had my application to access Randy.
An Affidavit sworn by Louise Kokotailo was missing. I reported it to the supervisor of the department and he agreed that Louise's affidavit wasn't in the file. I asked him to check his computer records of documents filed and again it did not show up. Interesting. Louise Kokotailo is what in my time would be described as a secretary to the now Chairman of the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health, Kip Woodward. In the Affidavit were allegations that were not true. What is this VGH Watergate.
An Affidavit sworn by Louise Kokotailo was missing. I reported it to the supervisor of the department and he agreed that Louise's affidavit wasn't in the file. I asked him to check his computer records of documents filed and again it did not show up. Interesting. Louise Kokotailo is what in my time would be described as a secretary to the now Chairman of the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health, Kip Woodward. In the Affidavit were allegations that were not true. What is this VGH Watergate.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Wesley J. Smith
This is the inescapable logic of euthanasia: It is much more expensive
to care for ill and disabled patients than “compassionately” kill them.
As I like to say, it may take $1000 for assisted suicide but $100,000
to provide the care that helps the patient not want end to their lives.
above quote from Wesley J. Smith, Washington, D.C.
DNRs also save money if doctors can convince patients and families that the patient has no quality of life. It has nothing to do with qualilty of life; it has everything to do with saving health money and spending it on those more worthy: the young, the beautiful, the well educated. If you are a bum or if you are elderly you are not necessary. Most physicians only want good patients to administer to.
Most patients do not require big dollars care before they die, I remember reading a Canada estimate is $30,000.
A DNR is you refusing treatment. If someone said to me to do you want a DNR or do you want to live six months longer, I would of course say I want to live six months longer. I want treatment. DNRs are being pushed on people with pneumonias not only terminal cancer patients like how they were first intended. Now if you do not have a DNR there is something wrong with you and you do not belong to our disposal society and you are the willing disposee.
This is the original article that was written for the British media.
The Daily Mail published this instead and EPC published this.
By Professor Theo Boer
Authorized version, July 16, 2014
In 2001 The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize
euthanasia and, along with it, assisted suicide. Various safeguards were
put in place to show who should qualify and doctors acting in
accordance with these safeguards would not be prosecuted. Because each
case is unique, five regional review committees were installed to assess
every case and to decide whether it complied with the law. For five
years after the law became effective, such physician-induced deaths
remained level - and even fell in some years. In 2007 I wrote that
‘there doesn’t need to be a slippery slope when it comes to euthanasia. A
good euthanasia law, in combination with the euthanasia review
procedure, provides the warrants for a stable and relatively low number
of euthanasia.’ Most of my colleagues drew the same conclusion.
But we were wrong - terribly wrong, in fact. In hindsight, the
stabilization in the numbers was just a temporary pause. Beginning in
2008, the numbers of these deaths show an increase of 15% annually, year
after year. The annual report of the committees for 2012 recorded 4,188
cases in 2012 (compared with 1,882 in 2002). 2013 saw a continuation of
this trend and I expect the 6,000 line to be crossed this year or the
next. Euthanasia is on the way to become a ‘default’ mode of dying for
cancer patients.
Alongside this escalation other developments have taken place. Under the name ‘End of Life Clinic,’ the Dutch Right to Die Society NVVE founded a network of travelling euthanizing doctors. Whereas the law presupposes (but does not require) an established doctor-patient relationship, in which death might be the end of a period of treatment and interaction, doctors of the End of Life Clinic have only two options: administer life-ending drugs or sending the patient away. On average, these physicians see a patient three times before administering drugs to end their life. Hundreds of cases were conducted by the End of Life Clinic. The NVVE shows no signs of being satisfied even with these developments. They will not rest until a lethal pill is made available to anyone over 70 years who wishes to die. Some slopes truly are slippery.
Other developments include a shift in the type of patients who receive these treatments. Whereas in the first years after 2002 hardly any patients with psychiatric illnesses or dementia appear in reports, these numbers are now sharply on the rise. Cases have been reported in which a large part of the suffering of those given euthanasia or assisted suicide consisted in being aged, lonely or bereaved. Some of these patients could have lived for years or decades.
Whereas the law sees assisted suicide and euthanasia as an exception, public opinion is shifting towards considering them rights, with corresponding duties on doctors to act. A law that is now in the making obliges doctors who refuse to administer euthanasia to refer their patients to a ‘willing’ colleague. Pressure on doctors to conform to patients’ (or in some cases relatives’) wishes can be intense. Pressure from relatives, in combination with a patient’s concern for the wellbeing of his beloved, is in some cases an important factor behind a euthanasia request. Not even the Review Committees, despite hard and conscientious work, have been able to halt these developments.
I used to be a supporter of legislation. But now, with twelve years of experience, I take a different view.
At the very least, wait for an honest and intellectually satisfying
analysis of the reasons behind the explosive increase in the numbers. Is
it because the law should have had better safeguards? Or is it because
the mere existence of such a law is an invitation to see assisted
suicide and euthanasia as a normality instead of a last resort? Before
those questions are answered, don’t go there. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it is not likely to ever go back in again.
Theo Boer is a professor of ethics at the Protestant Theological University at Groningen. For nine years he has been a Member of a euthanasia Regional Review Committee. The Dutch Government has five such committees that assess whether a euthanasia case was conducted in accordance with the law. The views expressed here represent his views as a professional ethicist, and not of any institution.
Links to important articles:
• Netherlands 2012 euthanasia statistics.
• Blind woman dies by euthanasia in the Netherlands.
• Some Dutch pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for euthanasia.
• Mobile euthanasia deaths begins in the Netherlands.
above quote from Wesley J. Smith, Washington, D.C.
DNRs also save money if doctors can convince patients and families that the patient has no quality of life. It has nothing to do with qualilty of life; it has everything to do with saving health money and spending it on those more worthy: the young, the beautiful, the well educated. If you are a bum or if you are elderly you are not necessary. Most physicians only want good patients to administer to.
Most patients do not require big dollars care before they die, I remember reading a Canada estimate is $30,000.
A DNR is you refusing treatment. If someone said to me to do you want a DNR or do you want to live six months longer, I would of course say I want to live six months longer. I want treatment. DNRs are being pushed on people with pneumonias not only terminal cancer patients like how they were first intended. Now if you do not have a DNR there is something wrong with you and you do not belong to our disposal society and you are the willing disposee.
Dutch Ethicist: “Assisted Suicide: Don’t Go There”
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| Theo Boer |
The Daily Mail published this instead and EPC published this.
Authorized version, July 16, 2014
Alongside this escalation other developments have taken place. Under the name ‘End of Life Clinic,’ the Dutch Right to Die Society NVVE founded a network of travelling euthanizing doctors. Whereas the law presupposes (but does not require) an established doctor-patient relationship, in which death might be the end of a period of treatment and interaction, doctors of the End of Life Clinic have only two options: administer life-ending drugs or sending the patient away. On average, these physicians see a patient three times before administering drugs to end their life. Hundreds of cases were conducted by the End of Life Clinic. The NVVE shows no signs of being satisfied even with these developments. They will not rest until a lethal pill is made available to anyone over 70 years who wishes to die. Some slopes truly are slippery.
Other developments include a shift in the type of patients who receive these treatments. Whereas in the first years after 2002 hardly any patients with psychiatric illnesses or dementia appear in reports, these numbers are now sharply on the rise. Cases have been reported in which a large part of the suffering of those given euthanasia or assisted suicide consisted in being aged, lonely or bereaved. Some of these patients could have lived for years or decades.
Whereas the law sees assisted suicide and euthanasia as an exception, public opinion is shifting towards considering them rights, with corresponding duties on doctors to act. A law that is now in the making obliges doctors who refuse to administer euthanasia to refer their patients to a ‘willing’ colleague. Pressure on doctors to conform to patients’ (or in some cases relatives’) wishes can be intense. Pressure from relatives, in combination with a patient’s concern for the wellbeing of his beloved, is in some cases an important factor behind a euthanasia request. Not even the Review Committees, despite hard and conscientious work, have been able to halt these developments.
Theo Boer is a professor of ethics at the Protestant Theological University at Groningen. For nine years he has been a Member of a euthanasia Regional Review Committee. The Dutch Government has five such committees that assess whether a euthanasia case was conducted in accordance with the law. The views expressed here represent his views as a professional ethicist, and not of any institution.
• Netherlands 2012 euthanasia statistics.
• Blind woman dies by euthanasia in the Netherlands.
• Some Dutch pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for euthanasia.
• Mobile euthanasia deaths begins in the Netherlands.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Vomitoid
I woke up this morning vomitoid thinking how Vancouver Coastal Health decided that it was going to make sure that I never visit Randy again. What cruelty they imposed on Randy.
Recently I received a newletter in which Norman Kunc who has represented the disabled in the BC media say:
I've seen far too many unrequested do not resuscitate orders placed on my friends and colleagues.
So this illegal practice is common and no one is doing anything about it least of all the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In Randy's case they never had to restart his heart; only give him assist in breathing. And if he wasn't full code, he would have died years ago.
I asked the CPS for direction to where the legislation says it is legal for doctors to place DNRs on patients without the permission of a patient who would surely die without further medical intervention and the CPS so far as been mute on that point.
Recently I received a newletter in which Norman Kunc who has represented the disabled in the BC media say:
I've seen far too many unrequested do not resuscitate orders placed on my friends and colleagues.
So this illegal practice is common and no one is doing anything about it least of all the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In Randy's case they never had to restart his heart; only give him assist in breathing. And if he wasn't full code, he would have died years ago.
I asked the CPS for direction to where the legislation says it is legal for doctors to place DNRs on patients without the permission of a patient who would surely die without further medical intervention and the CPS so far as been mute on that point.
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