"But there will come a time when we realize their game is to tie us up in court forever, years and years if necessary, running us around in circles getting nothing, playing games and jerking us around, until we finally tire of the abuse and drop out. I put in six years of it; it could have gone on to this day if I had kept going: the crooked judge absolutely refused to do his job. How do we make them do it? The bottom line is we can't. This is their game, their playing field. It is all a sham. Their whole purpose is to protect the other club members from consequences of their crimes and to keep the common folk down, trick us into making contracts with them and in service to them. Even when they are clearly in the wrong."
LATEST LEGAL ATTEMPTS IN CASE OF DEAD  MEDICARE PATIENT ZOE






Shaken Baby Syndrome [SBS] ---never heard of it?  Join the crowd.  This "disease" - physical state is one justification used by medical professionals and bureaucrats in Departments for Children and families to break up families and jail innocent people -  usually those, who do not have much money to afford good lawyers.  I hate to think of the number of innocents jailed in this country, but more public awareness of this issue must be awakened and this injustice stopped.

Through my patients' rights work and general interest in health, I became aware of this problem through the Canadian web site of Nicholas Regush [www.Redflagsweekly.com]. This excellent  site [Raising issues, Facing challenges, Exploring Ideas] has a conference on SBS and also on vaccines. I suggest that everyone should investigate these problems before getting any kind of vaccination for oneself or your family. I also suggest that you do something about this injustice, before you or a member of your family becomes involved in this pseudo crime - unjustly accused.

Charmaine Smith contacted me through my organization and I have gained first hand experience in this injustice. Her story of Timothy, her baby, is  found on my hospital abuse site.  Since creation of her story, I have been contacted by many, who thanked me for writing about the SBS problem. The unbelievable follow-up is in the making in Fulton County and exposed the dangerous system, which allows "guilt  before innocence."

The following sites give you an idea of how widespread this injustice is:
READ Dr. Carley's Problems with being a Good Doctor [her own child and  her New York medical license taken for refusal to vaccine her son and support big Pharma medicine]



                           STATE LAWS  started Aug. 19, 2004


NEW MEXICO
Court invalidates time limits on children's malpractice lawsuits
Now minors generally will have until they turn 19 to bring a medical malpractice claim.

An attorney says that's the same time limit for other personal injury lawsuits.

The appellate court says a statute of limitations for children violates their due process rights.

GEORGIA
$350,000 cap on pain-and-suffering awards for people hurt by negligent doctors   Feb. 15, 2005
Sen. Robert Brown, D-Macon is right when he said the vote was a victory for corporate interests over those of ordinary taxpayers."This is bad, bad legislation," he said. "Probably some of it is going to be contested in the courts, but it won't be long before people realize that their rights have been given away...They didn't want democracy fully at play"
          Shields hospitals from paying when contracting doctors, not staff members, commit malpractice. The bill also toughens the burden for patients trying to sue emergency room doctors.
          "Everyone loses in this bill except insurance companies," said Allison Wall, head of consumer group Georgia Watch.

Montana
3/28/05  Gov. Brian Schweitzer (R) signed into law four bills (HB 24), (HB 25), (HB 26) and (HB 64) addressing medical malpractice, the AP/Billings Gazette reports. The Montana Medical Association drafted three of the new laws and the other law was drafted by Montana hospitals. One measure states that physicians cannot be sued for apologizing or expressing sympathy, sorrow or condolence for the suffering or death of a patient, while another bill bars patients from bringing claims against doctors for medical mistakes made by someone that they were not directly supervising or working with, such as a pharmacist who dispenses the wrong medication. One of the bills establishes criteria for determining who can be qualified as an expert witness to testify about standards of medical care in a malpractice lawsuit, and another bill prohibits hospitals from being sued for the actions of independent contractors, such as doctors or other health care providers, who are not employed directly by the hospital. The state legislature is still considering five other malpractice-related bills (AP/Billings Gazette, 3/29).

South Carolina
The state Legislature last week approved a bill that would cap noneconomic damages in malpractice lawsuits at $350,000, the AP/Charlotte Observer reports. The legislation also would increase the cap to $1 million in malpractice lawsuits that involve a physician, hospital and third health care provider.
VIRGINIA          
Virginia has placed limits on overall awards in the suits, which can now bring no more than $1.75 million.      
Bill allows doctors to apologize for poor outcomes without fear that their statements will be construed as an admission of error; the bill tightens requirements for expert witnesses, requires competency evaluations of certain doctors, and adds requirements for reporting of insurance data.
The state's birth-injury program has new filing deadlines. Warner backed a conference committee decision that struck proposed language toughening entry requirements for premature infants.   Mar 24, 2005


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FCA APPEAL -denial of self representation and discovery







          Loving daughter, Carol Stronstorff, stood by in a Bradenton, Florida hospital, (Blake Medical Center), and  unwittingly allowed "honorable doctors" and other employees to deceive her and torture her mother, Zoe, - a stroke victim.
          The nightmare hospital stay [an HCA hospital] was followed by a nursing home stay for rehabilitation, where her mother's death was assured by being denied emergency access care for two days.
          The reason for the patient's "murder" was to all appearances an unreported adverse incident on hospital admission night.  To hide this, massive fraud and falsification of medical records appears to have been involved.
          Legal help is non existent for the elderly who have no spouse or dependents!!
Malpractice and negligence suits for the elderly in reality do not exist. Therefore, elder abuse often appears to be the standard of care - defying every textbook and code of ethics
but condoned (by some) to maximize profits for the "industries."
          Carol  attempted to stop the abuse through government ("watchdog" healthcare) agencies without success. She then attempted to sue for these apparently "legalized crimes." Without a lawyer, she discovered that our constitutional rights to a fair trial and equal protection under the law are nothing but a myth.
          Laws exist to protect us, but they appear to be only enforced for the wealthy and powerful.  White collar crime among the medical profession and healthcare industry appears to be rampant - (dwarfing Enron by comparison).                 IHS, Integrated Health Services - the largest nursing home chain at the time had approximately $304 million in false claim and criminal charges outstanding in their chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.  The US government settled this for $19.1 million  and dropped all criminal charges. {This is 6%}. Does bankruptcy pay? Hell, yes.  No criminal charges and a clear record  for a continuation of fraud on the public.  {Zoe was at IHS of Bradenton until her death [ Today: Heritage Park] .  We do not know where she was on paper, since IHS shows her discharged a day and one half before her death on all official forms and cannot find any record of her billing}.
          Big money behind the AMA, pharmaceutical industries, hospital and nursing home industries and Insurance  industries and child abuse defense has achieved for Americans the most expensive health care system in the world, yet the worst among the industrialized countries, even lagging behind the care of some poor 3rd World countries.
          Medical malpractice and falsification of medical records appears to be the normal course of business in this HCA hospital. HCA just paid 1.7 billion dollars in a government settlement on fraud charges. HCA stocks went up with this news. [In other words, they were expecting worse].
          Please join SPCP in our efforts to place American healthcare in its proper place. The United States is often referred to as a "Super Power". Under no circumstances should it be less than a "Super Power" for the healthcare of it's most precious resource - its citizens. We have a long way to go.
The Story

                    JUSTICE  DENIED IN FLORIDA
                Malpractice and Negligence as the Normal course of Business
HCA hospitals and Medicare Fraud - No enforcement of Patients' Rights
          Loving daughter, Carol Stronstorff, stood by in a Bradenton, Florida hospital, (Blake Medical Center), and  unwittingly allowed "honorable doctors" and other employees to deceive her and torture her mother, Zoe, - a stroke victim.
          The nightmare hospital stay [an HCA hospital] was followed by a nursing home stay for rehabilitation, where her mother's death was assured by being denied emergency access care for two days.
          The reason for the patient's "murder" was to all appearances an unreported adverse incident on hospital admission night.  To hide this, massive fraud and falsification of medical records appears to have been involved.
          Legal help is non existent for the elderly who have no spouse or dependents!!
Malpractice and negligence suits for the elderly in reality do not exist. Therefore, elder abuse often appears to be the standard of care - defying every textbook and code of ethics
but condoned (by some) to maximize profits for the "industries."
          Carol  attempted to stop the abuse through government ("watchdog" healthcare) agencies without success. She then attempted to sue for these apparently "legalized crimes." Without a lawyer, she discovered that our constitutional rights to a fair trial and equal protection under the law are nothing but a myth.
          Laws exist to protect us, but they appear to be only enforced for the wealthy and powerful.  White collar crime among the medical profession and healthcare industry appears to be rampant - (dwarfing Enron by comparison).                 IHS, Integrated Health Services - the largest nursing home chain at the time had approximately $304 million in false claim and criminal charges outstanding in their chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.  The US government settled this for $19.1 million  and dropped all criminal charges. {This is 6%}. Does bankruptcy pay? Hell, yes.  No criminal charges and a clear record  for a continuation of fraud on the public.  {Zoe was at IHS of Bradenton until her death [ Today: Heritage Park] .  We do not know where she was on paper, since IHS shows her discharged a day and one half before her death on all official forms and cannot find any record of her billing}.
          Big money behind the AMA, pharmaceutical industries, hospital and nursing home industries and Insurance  industries and child abuse defense has achieved for Americans the most expensive health care system in the world, yet the worst among the industrialized countries, even lagging behind the care of some poor 3rd World countries.
          Medical malpractice and falsification of medical records appears to be the normal course of business in this HCA hospital. HCA just paid 1.7 billion dollars in a government settlement on fraud charges. HCA stocks went up with this news. [In other words, they were expecting worse].
          Please join SPCP in our efforts to place American healthcare in its proper place. The United States is often referred to as a "Super Power". Under no circumstances should it be less than a "Super Power" for the healthcare of it's most precious resource - its citizens. We have a long way to go.

This page was last updated on: May 23, 2005

                   LINKS





FCA APPEAL -denial of self representation and discovery







UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS - 11TH CIRCUIT - 03-12226-GG
Click on the world below and you have a draft copy of the appeal filed on June  9, 2003.
Through this appeal, it was discovered that Blake Medical Center is buried under seven levels of corporations - some not registered to do business in Florida.  One of the seven corporations, which  wholly-owns Blake appears to be a teaching facility.  Does this make Blake medical Center in Bradenton, Florida, a to the public undeclared teaching facility?
Zoe's radiology records appear to receive several "students" as technologists. 
LATEST LEGAL ATTEMPTS IN CASE OF DEAD  MEDICARE PATIENT ZOE






Shaken Baby Syndrome [SBS] ---never heard of it?  Join the crowd.  This "disease" - physical state is one justification used by medical professionals and bureaucrats in Departments for Children and families to break up families and jail innocent people -  usually those, who do not have much money to afford good lawyers.  I hate to think of the number of innocents jailed in this country, but more public awareness of this issue must be awakened and this injustice stopped.

Through my patients' rights work and general interest in health, I became aware of this problem through the Canadian web site of Nicholas Regush [www.Redflagsweekly.com]. This excellent  site [Raising issues, Facing challenges, Exploring Ideas] has a conference on SBS and also on vaccines. I suggest that everyone should investigate these problems before getting any kind of vaccination for oneself or your family. I also suggest that you do something about this injustice, before you or a member of your family becomes involved in this pseudo crime - unjustly accused.

Charmaine Smith contacted me through my organization and I have gained first hand experience in this injustice. Her story of Timothy, her baby, is  found on my hospital abuse site.  Since creation of her story, I have been contacted by many, who thanked me for writing about the SBS problem. The unbelievable follow-up is in the making in Fulton County and exposed the dangerous system, which allows "guilt  before innocence."

The following sites give you an idea of how widespread this injustice is:
READ Dr. Carley's Problems with being a Good Doctor [her own child and  her New York medical license taken for refusal to vaccine her son and support big Pharma medicine]



                           STATE LAWS  started Aug. 19, 2004


NEW MEXICO
Court invalidates time limits on children's malpractice lawsuits
Now minors generally will have until they turn 19 to bring a medical malpractice claim.

An attorney says that's the same time limit for other personal injury lawsuits.

The appellate court says a statute of limitations for children violates their due process rights.

GEORGIA
$350,000 cap on pain-and-suffering awards for people hurt by negligent doctors   Feb. 15, 2005
Sen. Robert Brown, D-Macon is right when he said the vote was a victory for corporate interests over those of ordinary taxpayers."This is bad, bad legislation," he said. "Probably some of it is going to be contested in the courts, but it won't be long before people realize that their rights have been given away...They didn't want democracy fully at play"
          Shields hospitals from paying when contracting doctors, not staff members, commit malpractice. The bill also toughens the burden for patients trying to sue emergency room doctors.
          "Everyone loses in this bill except insurance companies," said Allison Wall, head of consumer group Georgia Watch.

Montana
3/28/05  Gov. Brian Schweitzer (R) signed into law four bills (HB 24), (HB 25), (HB 26) and (HB 64) addressing medical malpractice, the AP/Billings Gazette reports. The Montana Medical Association drafted three of the new laws and the other law was drafted by Montana hospitals. One measure states that physicians cannot be sued for apologizing or expressing sympathy, sorrow or condolence for the suffering or death of a patient, while another bill bars patients from bringing claims against doctors for medical mistakes made by someone that they were not directly supervising or working with, such as a pharmacist who dispenses the wrong medication. One of the bills establishes criteria for determining who can be qualified as an expert witness to testify about standards of medical care in a malpractice lawsuit, and another bill prohibits hospitals from being sued for the actions of independent contractors, such as doctors or other health care providers, who are not employed directly by the hospital. The state legislature is still considering five other malpractice-related bills (AP/Billings Gazette, 3/29).

South Carolina
The state Legislature last week approved a bill that would cap noneconomic damages in malpractice lawsuits at $350,000, the AP/Charlotte Observer reports. The legislation also would increase the cap to $1 million in malpractice lawsuits that involve a physician, hospital and third health care provider.
VIRGINIA          
Virginia has placed limits on overall awards in the suits, which can now bring no more than $1.75 million.      
Bill allows doctors to apologize for poor outcomes without fear that their statements will be construed as an admission of error; the bill tightens requirements for expert witnesses, requires competency evaluations of certain doctors, and adds requirements for reporting of insurance data.
The state's birth-injury program has new filing deadlines. Warner backed a conference committee decision that struck proposed language toughening entry requirements for premature infants.   Mar 24, 2005


"But there will come a time when we realize their game is to tie us up in court forever, years and years if necessary, running us around in circles getting nothing, playing games and jerking us around, until we finally tire of the abuse and drop out. I put in six years of it; it could have gone on to this day if I had kept going: the crooked judge absolutely refused to do his job. How do we make them do it? The bottom line is we can't. This is their game, their playing field. It is all a sham. Their whole purpose is to protect the other club members from consequences of their crimes and to keep the common folk down, trick us into making contracts with them and in service to them. Even when they are clearly in the wrong."