Another Versed Victim...A Doctor!

I found this post at the end of this thread;  Midazolam Sedation Is Not ALWAYS Safe - Forum Thread Page 4  Please note the date of 04 Mar 2013.  I and others have been complaining for YEARS about Versed, what it did to us and the lack of effective oversight pertaining to its use and misuse.  I'm absolutely baffled as to why anybody would allow its use!  Why would people ASSUME that those of us who have a severe and long lasting reaction to this particular brain poison are all 'tin-foil-hat' people?  I'm perplexed about the unholy zeal to use this nasty drug! 

Versed/midazolm Is Often A Nightmare For Patients

posted by Jenn on 04 Mar 2013 at 7:58 pm

Please take my comments with a grain of saly; initially I thought that anyone who complained about their experience with Versed/midazolam was a crackpot/tinfoil hatperson. My opinion has changed; Versed/midazolam harms MANY patients. I'm just a patient/mom/wife 47 years old who just had a procedure (colonoscopy-egd) and I was told that the "sedation" would be a comfortable experience with no risk because of the Versed that was administered. Wrong! The Versed caused me severe anxiets, panic reactions and forced me to lie imobile in agony without being able to communicate. It was a nightmare. I'm a physcian and I would not recommend this drug to anyone. My procedure was aborted due to my severe reaction to Versed and I have been bothered by PTSD-like symptoms after receiving Versed. My GI team was totally upset by my horrible experience with Versed (the nurse who tried to administer additional Versed to stop my complaining about pain) ended up getting punched before the procedure was aborted. I never hit anyone before, but the Versed scrambled my memory of this..all I remember is:pain, panic and dysphoria. Does any patient deserve Versed? nope. The GI doc is my friend and she nearly had a stroke when I told her that I would rather risk colon cancer that consent to "sedation" with Versed..it's not sedation, it's a chemical straightjacket and amnestic (until you get home) control drug. they use of amnesia drugs such as Versed makes me sick
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Of note is the fact that the nurse tried to inject yet more Versed because the patient was complaining about pain.  The nurse wanted to shut the patient up with more sedation instead of addressing the patients pain.  Isn't that nice of her?  I have another article here on nomidazolam which explains that Versed is an ANTI-analgesic.  Versed actually causes people to experience MORE PAIN!  It defies logic to hear that medical people, those loving, caring individuals WANT their patient to experience more pain, but they want them to shut the hell up and endure it as well, so they go for yet more of their torture drug Versed.  They can't be bothered with pain medication.  What is up with that?

PS You go girl!  I'm always happy to hear that there were consequences to medical people indulging in some illegal drug pushing.  If more of us became violent when we were violated with Versed injections maybe it would begin to rein in the arrogant excesses and actual harm that our medical workers are indulging in vis a vis Versed/Midazolam!  Here's to hoping that little nursey poo will think twice before trying to  'sedate' somebody into immobility instead of doing their primary job of relieving suffering.  Maybe she'll grab the Fentanyl next time!  One can hope.

Another E-mail About Death By Medical Care

A friend of mine sent me the following e-mail.  Her mother was (allegedly) killed by medical care at the same place I went.  She herself also suffered life-threatening medical problems CAUSED by improperly performed surgery.  Anyway, this is the same medical field that feels that we patients are just determined to file "frivolous" lawsuits.  Unfortunately for all of us patients, some medical workers are taking a "frivolous" attitude towards our care.  Why should they care if you live or die?  There is no downside.  I am NOT talking about those in the health care field who actually do good work.  There are plenty of those, the problem being the shroud of secrecy surrounding "iatrogenic" (iatrogenic - definition of iatrogenic in the Medical dictionary - by the Free Online Medical Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. ) deaths and adverse effects, coupled with ZERO enforcement of the law and ZERO capacity to file a lawsuit.  How long do we have to put up with this? 

Remember the old saying that "one bad apple spoils the whole bushel"?  There is no way for those who wish to do their jobs well to report those who don't.  Those that take a very lighthearted view of their patients care are pulling the good ones right down with them.
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Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039286_hospitals_doctors_killing.html#ixzz2MG5isCPi

(NaturalNews) From the late 1990s to now, more and more statistical evidence regarding death and injury from medical interventions, known as iatrogenic deaths and injuries, have been exposed.

The rate of iatrogenic deaths is quite high, higher than traffic fatalities, heart attacks, and cancer deaths. And there are even more iatrogenic episodes that result in permanent disability or lifelong pain.

Unlike the UK, doctors, clinics, and hospitals in the U.S. Are not required to report adverse events. It's estimated that no more than five percent of adverse events do get reported. So it takes a lot of digging to tally up the statistics of iatrogenic episodes.

Unnecessary surgeries, such as removing non-cancerous thyroid nodes, preventative mastectomies, or Cesarian deliveries, and surgical errors are often responsible for iatrogenic diseases and deaths.

An error by one individual in a surgical team leads to a disaster of performing surgery on the wrong lung, leg, or arm. But surgical sloppiness is only a portion of the bigger picture.

Big Pharma's dangerous drug invasion

A conservative tally of over 100,000 deaths per year is attributed to correctly prescribed drugs. Non-lethal adverse reactions are estimated to triple that number.
This does not include technically legal off-label prescriptions, drugs approved for one symptom but used for another, or incorrectly prescribed drugs. And it doesn't include adverse events from over the counter (OTC) drugs that anyone can walk in and buy. Between 30,000 and 50,000 emergency room visits annually are from those "medications."

With drugs that are correctly prescribed and approved by the FDA, doctors are protected by standard of care guidelines established by the various medical and psychiatric boards and institutions and accepted as what all MDs should be doing.

No matter how many suffer lifelong agony, go crazy, or drop dead, there is no liability or accountability if interventions and prescriptions are within a standard of care guidelines.

Those doctors just keep on prescribing. And it usually takes years before any drug stacks up enough destruction and death before it's taken off the market or merely labeled with warnings that are rarely fully disclosed to patients.

The FDA and Big Pharma have a financially symbiotic relationship. The FDA receives a half-billion dollars or more annually in user fees from Big Pharma companies that were initiated to speed up pharmaceutical approval processes.

Then there are those revolving doors that permit pharmaceutical industry people to sit in on the FDA's approval committees. Here's Mike Adam's 2005 interview of Dr. Ray Strand, author of Death by Prescription. (http://www.naturalnews.com/009758_wellness_disease_prevention.HTML)

All factors included, the total U.S. Iatrogenic death toll is staggering. Over three-quarter million victims a year.

Apparently vaccines are not included in deaths by prescription drugs

With most pharmaceutical medicines, the prospect of financial liability exists from individual and class action lawsuits, or even government fines. After the swine flu vaccination debacle of 1976, a government vaccine court was established to provide a buffer for vaccine manufacturers.(http://www.naturalnews.com/031484_Supreme_Court_vaccine_makers.HTML)

A recent study from VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting system), which is a voluntary system that receives reports from only a small percentage of actual events has high enough numbers for significant additions to iatrogenic deaths. (http://www.naturalnews.com) A common vaccine injury denial activity is to accuse parents of recently vaccinated infants who suddenly died of shaken baby syndrome (SBS) or dismiss it as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

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There is a radio show on every Thursday from 3pm to 4pm PST. It's run by a woman named Deirdre Gilbert and her mother. Deirdre has her own horrifying story of medical malfeasance and so do her guests. Let's support these women and get together to find some ways of getting the medical community back under OUR (patients) control. These medical people have had their own way for FAR too long and it time to show them who is boss. Here is the phone number for Deirdre and "Life Radio" (646) 652-2105 Press 2 just to listen and press 1 at any time to speak. Deirdre lost her precious daughter to a medical malpractice incident two years ago, so please, all you crazy health care people who have written such nasty horrible things to me, have a little compassion for the lady and don't call the show to display your heartlessness. I already know that a significant number of you suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, try to keep it to yourselves...

We need to do a number of things, but first on my list is ENFORCE INFORMED CONSENT LAWS. Anybody who knows me, knows that I feel that 'informed' consent with some teeth in the enforcement area is absolutely crucial to getting medical costs under control and saving us from medical over treatment and treatment which we know is detrimental to our health. Just think of all the money that can be saved if we can tell our doctors NO and have them comply with our wishes. That's the true meaning of 'informed' consent! This document has been bastardized by health care workers and morphed into a meaningless UNinformed consent. Actually nothing more than a vague, blanket "hold-harmless" agreement. Something to get the patient (or bystander for that matter) to sign by any means or subterfuge necessary. This must stop.

We absolutely have to do away with tort reform. Tort reform removes the last vestiges of control from our medical workers. They KNOW that they don't have to follow the law, or even be careful with their charges. There is no ENFORCEMENT of the law in any way shape or form, the only thing left to those of us who have been victimized by sloppy 'care' has been a lawsuit. These medical people wish to take that away.

Don't be fooled by all the hand wringing, moaning and crying about tort reform saving money and all that lying hoopla. Go look at states with tort reform. Notice any reduction in the cost of care? Any cheaper insurance? No? Because it's a lie. Your health care is going to go UP because you can't make these medical workers perform their job within the parameters you lay out! They are out to make the most money possible and if you can't sue them, what's to stop them? Nothing! They laugh and sneer at us for trying to take control of our medical costs. "What are ya gonna do about it, huh?" They already know, especially in the tort reform states that they can do anything up to and including MURDER without any reprisal. It's sickening. Leave it to some of the most under worked overpaid people among us to cry and whine about malpractice insurance costs.

The third thing on my list is DRUG TESTING! For far too long these medical workers, without any significant oversight have been able to get away with being impaired. Due to the above LACK OF ENFORCEMENT for informed consent LAWS and the tort reform keeping them safe from any lawsuits, they have also been able to get away with drug addiction. That's right, mentally impaired medical workers get to work on YOU without any problem whatsoever. Hospital administrators, eyeing only profit are turning a blind eye. Where I went the hospital CEO actually had the gall to state that the hospital "has no fiduciary duty to the patient." So druggies with unfettered access to 'the good stuff' for FREE along with sterile needles etc. are allowed to work on us. You like that?

Maybe these hospital administrators should also have some responsibility to us, the people who trust them with our lives, instead of simply the share holders? Keep in mind that in many cases the DOCTORS are the shareholders! What a conflict of interest.

Medical workers have had their way for far to long and they are bankrupting our entire country while performing shoddy work and in some cases KILLING people. (look at some of my other posts for statistics) We need common sense answers to this that cater to the patients instead of the rich medical lobbyists

Beware of THIS! Hospital NOT CITED for Violations!

I was searching through the Idaho Board of Health records for the hospital that *I* had my experience in, just to see if they were doing any better.   They are WORSE than ever.  However in perusing the many complaints I found one that is germane to the problem of being injected with Versed against our will.  Remember how those nurses simultaneously tell us to list Versed/Midazolam as an "allergy" while at the same time maintaining their right to decide for themselves whether it's REALLY an allergy and giving it to you anyway?  Here's the ABSOLUTE PROOF that even if you tell these medical workers that you don't want or need Versed, (or any other drug) that you deny them their favorite drug and tell them that you have an allergy, they will simply decide otherwise and IT'S ALL OK!  Unbelievable!  Here's the link; 

http://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Portals/0/Medical/LicensingCertification3/120412KootenaiMedCtrCX6.pdf

Here's the excerpt which is so shocking to me!  What happened to informed CONSENT?  The patient involved CLEARLY stated that they didn't want and didn't consent to Morphine...and yet...

"The Pharmacist stated that nausea and "flu-like" symptoms from Morphine was a side effect, rather than an allergy, and would be approved for patient administration.  The Director of Pharmacy provided multiple documents which demonstrated the review of medications and over-ride process before allowing those medications to be administered.

While the patient claimed to be allergic to Morphine, the Pharmacist had determined the drug was safe for administration to the patient."

So the patient goes into the hospital and states that she doesn't want Morphine, has an allergy to it, don't give it.  The personnel flags the hospital records so that the Pharmacy knows to choose another pain killer and guess what?  IT DOESN'T MATTER!  The patient has every RIGHT, BY LAW, TO REFUSE TO ALLOW ANYTHING THEY DON'T WANT!  So why is it just fine to deliberately and maliciously decide, unilaterally and arbitrarily, that the patient will get whatever it is that they DON'T WANT OR ALLOW?  What's the point of consent if this type of behavior is acceptable?  The Pharmacy OVER-RODE the patients wishes, and-they-never-got-in-trouble-for-it!  Clearly this patient did NOT give consent for the drug because she didn't LIKE it, whether or not it was a true allergy.  She declined its administration.  Why did she get it anyway?  Wow!  Can you see why I had so much trouble at Kootenai myself?  (shaking head in disbelief) 

I specifically mentioned Morphine as a drug that was acceptable to me, along with nausea medication.  I'm fine with Morphine.  Guess which drug I DIDN'T GET?  That's right, they wouldn't give me Morphine, oh hell no, patients can't dictate any preferences to THEM!  I guess I should feel lucky I didn't get Demerol, another drug *I* had refused.  I had no idea that this kind of forced medication, violating the autonomy of patients was actually just fine.  So where do we go from here?  How do we get COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW? 

FYI here are the patient rights laws that were broken in the above example;
42 CFR 482.13 (a)(2)(b) "The patient has the right to participate in the development and implementation of his or her plan of care."
42 CFR 482.13 (a)(2)(b)(2)  "The patient or his or her representative has the right to make informed decisions regarding his or her care.  The patients rights include being informed of his or her health status, being involved in care planning and treatment, and being able to request or refuse treatment.

These violations of patient rights laws were substantiated by the investigation by the Idaho Board of Health, so why did they dismiss the charges as 'unsubstantiated'?  It's because there are no real patient rights.  There is no other explanation why Kootenai wasn't cited for a clear and egregious violation of several of this patient's rights.  It doesn't matter what some Pharmacist wants, decides, or proclaims is "safe for administration" the patient has every RIGHT to refuse!!!!

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Another Helpful Site

I was poking around the internet today and I found this site:Patient Advocate Directory: Linking Patients and Families to Health Care Advocates  This place is AWESOME!  I highly encourage you to go there, read the stories, take advantage of the directory, and find others who have been harmed by the medical community.  Remember that MEDICAL ERRORS ARE A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE UNITED STATES.  You are far more likely to be killed or disabled by medical care than to die in an auto accident.  Great web-site, I highly recommend.

FYI on medical care being a leader in unnecessary deaths:  Happy reading!

Medical Treatment is the Leading Cause of Death in the U.S - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

 More Treatment, More Mistakes - NYTimes.com

The leading cause of death and injury in the United States

More Vindication!

I got the following e-mail in my inbox today.  I love it when I discover that *I* am not a lonely voice in the wilderness.  (how's that for hyperbole?)  Here we have a carefully reasoned idea, complete with statistics, to do something I have been agitating for.  That is, DRUG TEST THE DRUG PUSHERS!

Here's the e-mail, just as I received it.  Don't you love it?  Call your elected officials no matter where you live and tell them we need this!  Make these health care workers PEE IN A CUP!  I have to as a condition of employment  and as a condition of being licensed AND SO SHOULD THEY! 

Jackie

It’s outrageous. A methamphetamine user convicted of a federal felony for drug dealing just won the right to treat patients again in one year.

Pilots would be grounded for life. Lawyers would lose their license forever. Doctors that use and deal drugs, like Nathan Kuemmerle, face little discipline or deterrence. That has to change, and you can help today by calling for reform.

The Los Angeles Times conducted a remarkable investigation that found widespread problems with prescription overdoses and a fundamental failure in California to discipline and deter drug-dealing and drug-using doctors.

This week, I talked with mothers who lost their sons to drug-dealing doctors and are ready to march on Sacramento for change. Will you help clear the road for them by asking your legislators to hold hearings, data-mine state databases about doctor prescribing patterns, and improve doctor deterrence and discipline?

These families have been devastated by the preventable loss of their children. The fact that their kids’ deaths were preventable is what is so frustrating for them and tragic.

How is it possible that drug-using and drug-dealing physicians, including the 71 identified by the Los Angeles Times whose prescribing has led to 3 or more deaths, are not known to the public and are nearly all still practicing without scrutiny?

Pilots must undergo mandatory random drug testing because they hold the lives of so many passengers in their hands. Physicians who operate on patients and are in a position to overprescribe or use narcotics themselves should undergo similar mandatory random drug tests.

Sacramento needs to put the issue of doctor oversight, discipline and deterrence on the front burner. Will you help by weighing in today?

Thanks for helping these families and sending a message to Sacramento.



Jamie

PS: You can read today’s Los Angeles Times story about our call to Sacramento and find the full investigative series here.