"Restrained By Versed"

Here's a sad story about a doctor's regret about a patient of his.  Look at the first statement from here;  I failed to appease pain during her life, so she died terribly 

(excerpt) "Ellen died a clockwork machine, restrained by Versed, fed by nasal tube, secretions in bags, and as her blood pressure dropped intravenous pressors accelerated in dose until blood squeezed from her extremities left fingertips dry and black as coal."

"Restrained by Versed" this poor lady had to deal with all this while unable to stop them or request more pain meds.  She was doomed to waiting, conscious of everything, for death to take her out of the torture chamber she found herself in.  I sure hope I die of something catastrophic so that the medical field can't do this to me. 

Using Versed as a chemical restraint isn't something that most medical people will admit to.  However it seems that this is EXACTLY why they use it as shown by this doctor.  Remember why this is called CONSCIOUS sedation.  You are CONSCIOUS but not necessarily "sedated".  Your muscles are flaccid, but your brain still has the same brain waves as unmedicated people.  There is no way to tell what the drug is doing to a person's psyche, and most medical workers don't care.  Can you imagine a worse nightmare?

Thanks to Dr. Salwitz for recognising this barbarism.

More Proof

Yet another article on what "anesthesia" (to include sedation) does to people.  I wanted regional anesthetic along with pain medication.  This is the BEST way to do surgery on an extremity in particular.  Why in the world are we being subjected to brain destruction for no reason?

How a general anaesthetic could harm your memory for life: Research finds that three quarters of older patients develop memory loss after surgery | Mail Online

Nurse Rogers aka Last Call Killer

Here's a story about a nurse that got caught. 

Richard W. Rogers, aka Last Call Killer, is sentenced to life — Last Call Killer — Crime Library on truTV.com

Here's another one:

Richard Rogers | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers  In this one I want to draw your attention to the drug used to gain compliance so that this nurse, employed at a very prestigious hospital, Mt. Sinai, could kill them more easily.  Or did he just inject them with our (ahem) favorite drug and dismember them alive?  OMG can you imagine?  Here's the excerpt;  "On May 28, 2001, Mr. Rogers was arrested at Mount Sinai Hospital. When investigators searched his home at 62 Bridge Court on Staten Island, they found a bottle of Versed, a sedative that can be used as a date-rape drug, (emphasis mine) rug fibers consistent with those found with Mr. Mulcahy's body, and "several photographs of unknown men on which stab wounds had been drawn," according to court documents."  Versed should be banned.

This same nurse got away with murder by claiming self defense while he was still in nursing school.  How does it happen that nurses with a violent past get hired in the first place?  He killed somebody with a HAMMER for heaven's sake!  WTH?  Wouldn't that be a red flag or (ominously) do nurses not have to have a "background check" like truck drivers have for hauling hazardous materials? 

Want More Proof Of Medical Malpractice?

Here's a quote from www.nurse-anesthesia.org that a friend of mine gleaned.
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"That's just it. It was a surgical procedure and I was doing the IV sedation with Versed and Fentanyl. I said to the doctor we do not have a signed consent. While I was filling it out he inserted the biopsy needle into the patients abdomen!! He never said one word to the patient, he didn't even introduce himself. When we were taking the patient back to ICU she complained bitterly, and rightfully so, that the doctor had not said a word to her and that she didn't even know his name. In his notes he goes into detail about how he explained the procedure, risks, etc and provided the patient an opportunity to ask questions, and that he then had the patient sign the consent. This doctor is getting off scot free without even a slap on his wrist.

I was so stunned by what he had done. I felt caught between a rock and a hard place. Here's this young person with a needle in their liver. No permit. I truly did not know what to do. Stop? Make him remove it? Get the patient alert and explain to them what the doctor had done and then ask them to sign the consent? Knowing that the patient had verbally acknowledged that they knew what was going to occur and they were doing fine, the procedure would be done in a matter of minutes. It all happened so fast.

Working in radiology the management does not understand the implications of what this doctor did by performing the procedure without a consent while knowing what he should have done and by lying in his charting that he had done what he what he didn't do. I think that is very serious. They don't see it that way."

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My surgeon said the same things about how "he explained the procedure, risks, etc and provided the patient an opportunity to ask questions, and that he then had the patient sign the consent."  (you can see his remarks in my medical records)  My doctor "got off scot free without even a slap on his wrist" as well.  As far as *I* know my doctor never was at the hospital in the first place, let alone there prior to surgery.

 

My take on this is that the management DOES understand the implications of the behavior and CHOOSES to ignore it because there is almost never a successful malpractice suit that can be brought.  They don't care!  Besides which there is money to be made by doing things to patients without their consent.  They are all so protected that they don't even bother with silly things like informed consent.  What's to stop them?  (not a rhetorical question, I'm serious, WHAT'S TO STOP THEM?)

 

The doc in this story probably felt that the patient was already under the influence of Versed and so he could dispense will all niceties like informed consent or identifying himself.  Versed is SUCH a bad drug and it's not just bad for the patient, it's bad for medical practitioners as well and leads to this kind of anti-social arrogance. 

 

Medical Malpractice: A Patient's Story

A friend of mine sent me this article;  You Can’t Handle The Truth | Medical Malpractice: A Patient's Story  This is a harrowing tale, and until I had my own debacle I would have found it hard to believe that medical people were this hardened and callous, not to mention INCOMPETENT!.  If I hadn't received so much hate mail from nurses, especially advanced practice nurses, I would have thought that what happened to this lady was an isolated incident.  How many times does this go on each and every day while the perpetrators whine and moan about "tort reform" to give them blanket immunity from their behavior? 

We Are Slaves, All Of Us

If you think of it, this whole blog is premised on the thought that the medical community feels that our bodies are THEIR personal property to be used/abused and drained of money.  I was treated like some kind of inferior being by the folks at the hospital *I* went to.  My desires were not important.  My restrictions on what they could do to me, mind and body were completely unimportant.to them.  They OWNED me.  They had the perfect right to attack me, destroy my mind, botch my surgery, give me a hospital acquired infection etc. because *I* (and probably you) belong to THEM, body and soul while you are in their clutches.  Their purpose is to make money off of you.  They do shoddy workmanship because you are not a real person.  They don't care about you as long as they can get your hard earned money and convert it to their own.  Isn't that how people used to treat slaves?  Steal their money and their autonomy? 

Did you celebrate "Independence Day" yesterday?  We as a country gained independence from the capricious rule of a foreign king.  Do we have independence from a "king" today?  Aren't we slaves subject to the whims and rules of a tyrannical government?  Don't our "rulers" think that we are their slaves, working to support them and their lifestyle?  Don't we pay enormous amounts of our income as "taxes" on everything.  Taxation I might add that would make ole King George the Third smile and rub his hands together.  Our own government is no less gleeful as they ponder how to get even more of our, sorry THEIR money, out of our hands.  Now they have the "Affordable Care Act" to remove the last vestiges of autonomy from us, in collusion with the medical industry.

It's all about control these days, in the government and in the medical field.  (That's what Versed is REALLY about, control)  Here in my city we are not allowed to have sparklers.  The city puts on a shindig for us slaves to keep us happy.  We aren't ALLOWED to have our own fireworks lest we hurt our little selves.  We are too stupid to trust.  We aren't really human, just child-like proto-humans, in need of their protection.  Isn't this how they viewed/treated slaves?  Just a sub human life form to be worked and kept healthy so that the master could have more money? 

Look at the wording of the "Affordable Care Act."  Do you see where the law is supposed to "protect productivity"?  It's mentioned several times.  Productivity.  As in producing income for our government.  Did you see the part where the government has DIRECT access to your bank account?  That way they can take THEIR money out of your bank account.  That's how they see it.  It's their money that they have graciously allowed us to keep...until they want it.  That's how the medical field sees it as well.  We now have an unholy collusion between big government and big medical.  It's not going to be fun being a slave, count on it.  The only "good" part of it, if you can call it that, is that we have slowly been inculcated with the slave mindset by all the laws, rules, regulations, fines, fees, behavior modification attempts, restrictions, taxes on everything and so forth that the final chains won't be so onerous.  Maybe.

I Usually Don't Do This...

One of my fellow Versed sufferers has experienced the loss of her dog.  You don't need to know her name to say a quick prayer for her.  On top of the devastation Versed wreaked upon her, she didn't need to add the loss of her emotional mainstay.  Anybody who is a "dog person" will understand the devastation.  Please pray for her strength if you are a praying person.  If you are "new-age" of some type or pagan, say something that might get to her and help. 

This person has been of enormous help to me, especially early in my recovery from Versed and selfishly I don't want to lose her.