At least in Ontario, doctors are finally instructed to follow the law:
Doctors at a major Toronto hospital violated the
law by unilaterally imposing a do-not-resuscitate order on
an elderly patient against his family’s wishes, an Appeal Board has ruled in an extraordinary clash over end-of-life
care.
go to National Post and type in DNR (father : Douglas DeGuerre ; daughter: Joy Wawrzyniak, who saw her father die and no one would help including the doctors who put the illegal DNR Order on her father).
This happened to me twice finding Randy needing acute care as he was heading for heart failure but I was lucky I called 911 and Randy's imminent death via DNR was averted.
But then I was banned on January 29 2014 from both George Pearson Centre and all other Vancouver General Hospitals because of disrespectful conduct. Risk Management said the Order would be extended forever; this was confirmed by a letter from its lawyers.
Randy finally died on April 13 2014 from organ failure. No one told me he had bad organs.
I had to get a Supreme Court Order to see Randy die in the ICU. I had to get the Order by myself (self-counsel).
I do not know how the Public Trustee and Guardian got involved but its lawyer was able to get an adjournment at the first court hearing for three weeks as Randy's condition was "plateaued" so I could not see Randy for another three weeks and a few days later he died. The PGT didn't care about Randy. If they did they would have made sure I had access to Randy.
If anyone knows how to get a hold of Joy Wawrzniak please refer her to this blog and thank her for fighting for her father since 2008. I would like to talk to her. 604-321-2276
Postscript September 9, 2014, no mention of the Ontario decision is found in the Province or the Sun.
I am also looking for Mary Turner who was/is a resident of Prince George. She lives/lived across from the college.
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If you as a reader are disturbed by the way the medical establishment behaves, email Randy's MLA, Dr.Moira
Stilwell. Moria.stilwell.mla@leg.bc.ca or phone her office at 604.660.8360
and tell her so.If she gets 200,000 emails and/or phone calls, things will swiftly change. It has got to. We can't be bullied by the medical authorities to the detriment of our security of person. They want DNRs so they can take people's lives away from them before it is truly time. Quality of life issues for the most part are bogus. What quality of life do I have: I am poor
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Saturday, August 30, 2014
April 13 2014 ICU VGH 3:00 pm
Quote from the Second Edition of Privileged Presence: Personal Stories of Connections in Health Care, by Liz Crocker & Bev Johnson, page 230.
"The wife knew that the end was near and asked the nurse if she could get into bed with her husband and snuggle. And the answer was, Of course you can, dear."
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This isn't what happened to me when I asked the nurse who had twenty years experience in the ICU if I could lay down next to Randy for a few minutes.
The nurse said NO. I said why not. The nurse said that it was not allowed as it was a liability issue. I asked what liability. The nurse then said that the bed Randy was dying on belonged to the hospital.
I was taken aback with the refusal and the stupid reasoning, and backed slowly into an alcove.
As I stood there, slightly out of sight, two Paladin security guards ran to the pod questioning "where is she, where is she." The nurse had called security.
What was security going to do: pull me out of the room by my hair screaming.
This VCH did to me and Randy. This I will never forgive.
If you find this behavior vomitoid by VGH, email Randy's MLA, Moira Stilwell. Moria.still.mla@leg.bc.ca or phone her office at 604.660.8360 and tell her so.
"The wife knew that the end was near and asked the nurse if she could get into bed with her husband and snuggle. And the answer was, Of course you can, dear."
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This isn't what happened to me when I asked the nurse who had twenty years experience in the ICU if I could lay down next to Randy for a few minutes.
The nurse said NO. I said why not. The nurse said that it was not allowed as it was a liability issue. I asked what liability. The nurse then said that the bed Randy was dying on belonged to the hospital.
I was taken aback with the refusal and the stupid reasoning, and backed slowly into an alcove.
As I stood there, slightly out of sight, two Paladin security guards ran to the pod questioning "where is she, where is she." The nurse had called security.
What was security going to do: pull me out of the room by my hair screaming.
This VCH did to me and Randy. This I will never forgive.
If you find this behavior vomitoid by VGH, email Randy's MLA, Moira Stilwell. Moria.still.mla@leg.bc.ca or phone her office at 604.660.8360 and tell her so.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
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.
*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.
Friday, August 22, 2014
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.
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.
.
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.
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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.
.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Assisted Suicide in Oregon
Stats from Oregon tell us that the reasons people ask for assisted suicide are loss of autonomy (93%), loss of ability to engage in enjoyable activities (89%) and feelings of being a burden on family, friends/caregivers (49%).
What this says to me those that want assisted suicide have been abandoned. All three reasons could be alleviated by a caring community.
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What this says to me those that want assisted suicide have been abandoned. All three reasons could be alleviated by a caring community.
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Monday, August 18, 2014
Finding No. 4 Calder's Workplace Violence Assessment
4. Ms. Laferriere has identified specific individuals in emails and in the internet blog. These include Richard Singleton, Risk Management, Romilda Ang, George Pearson Manager, Tanvirenzoha Batlawala, Resident Care Co-ordinator, Sam Greenspan, Social Worker, and Dr. Dunne, Mr. Walker's physicians.
Why is this an issue. These are the people that I was told to deal with. Was I not suppose to send them emails just discuss things verbally so there is no evidence to counter whatever these people might say. I know of no incident where any of these people ran from me or even cut a meeting short.
And to think the taxpayer is paying for this idiotic report.
Finding #2 was even more stupid.
It is reasonable to conclude that Ms Laferriere recognizes that her behavior, actions, communications and contacts would cause fear, anxiety, and humiliation and intimidate workers.
So it is my fault. This assumption is ridiculous and illogical.
Where did Calder get this from. A clairvoyant. It was the other way around: staff and security intimidated me and caused me fear, anxiety, and humiliation to the point that before I went to George Pearson Centre to see Randy I had to take a valium to ensure that I be calm. This is documented by my personal physician. I did everything possible to avoid any type of interaction or conflict with staff. I did not want to get physically assaulted by them again. Violence does scare you into compliance or flight especially at seventy years old and weighing 100 pounds.. Staff was told not to talk to me so there was no real verbal interaction except the barest of pleasantries.
I expressed my displeasure with being bullied to management in January 2010-2011. They just ignored my pleas. The social worker did not keep my notes I wrote to him, and Risk Management just looked into space when I talked to him.
If the result of this report wasn't so tragic it would be laughable. Staff at GPC treated me with great disrespect and contempt and now this "expert" with his libel. And all the while Randy being denied his constitutional rights (1) not having a say in his treatment and (2) being imprisoned (no security of person) not to mention my rights were violated.
Calder's evidence is 35 pages long, a long way to go yet...
Why is this an issue. These are the people that I was told to deal with. Was I not suppose to send them emails just discuss things verbally so there is no evidence to counter whatever these people might say. I know of no incident where any of these people ran from me or even cut a meeting short.
And to think the taxpayer is paying for this idiotic report.
Finding #2 was even more stupid.
It is reasonable to conclude that Ms Laferriere recognizes that her behavior, actions, communications and contacts would cause fear, anxiety, and humiliation and intimidate workers.
So it is my fault. This assumption is ridiculous and illogical.
Where did Calder get this from. A clairvoyant. It was the other way around: staff and security intimidated me and caused me fear, anxiety, and humiliation to the point that before I went to George Pearson Centre to see Randy I had to take a valium to ensure that I be calm. This is documented by my personal physician. I did everything possible to avoid any type of interaction or conflict with staff. I did not want to get physically assaulted by them again. Violence does scare you into compliance or flight especially at seventy years old and weighing 100 pounds.. Staff was told not to talk to me so there was no real verbal interaction except the barest of pleasantries.
I expressed my displeasure with being bullied to management in January 2010-2011. They just ignored my pleas. The social worker did not keep my notes I wrote to him, and Risk Management just looked into space when I talked to him.
If the result of this report wasn't so tragic it would be laughable. Staff at GPC treated me with great disrespect and contempt and now this "expert" with his libel. And all the while Randy being denied his constitutional rights (1) not having a say in his treatment and (2) being imprisoned (no security of person) not to mention my rights were violated.
Calder's evidence is 35 pages long, a long way to go yet...
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Critical Care Nurse Fast Facts
Critical Care Nurse Vol 28, No. 2, April 2008
FACTS
According to estimates, 30% to 40% of patients do not receive care consistent with current scientific evidence. That was in April 2008, with VCH's Mean Management's Best Practices it is most likely higher than that in 2014.
Do not instill normal saline (physiological salt solution) before endotracheal suctioning. VCH is doing this and this process probably is causing infections. The salt causes colonized bacteria to dislodge. I opposed the use of this but still saw the pink saline bullets at Randy's bedside.
Turning critically ill patients every two hours may not be enough to preserve the oxygenating ability of the lungs or to prevent healthcare-acquired pneumonia. I have never seen GPC turn Randy or any other patient and Randy had pneumonia often
FACTS
According to estimates, 30% to 40% of patients do not receive care consistent with current scientific evidence. That was in April 2008, with VCH's Mean Management's Best Practices it is most likely higher than that in 2014.
Do not instill normal saline (physiological salt solution) before endotracheal suctioning. VCH is doing this and this process probably is causing infections. The salt causes colonized bacteria to dislodge. I opposed the use of this but still saw the pink saline bullets at Randy's bedside.
Turning critically ill patients every two hours may not be enough to preserve the oxygenating ability of the lungs or to prevent healthcare-acquired pneumonia. I have never seen GPC turn Randy or any other patient and Randy had pneumonia often
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