Elizabeth, the Webmaster, strikes back!
(See my photos! )-- with "symptoms" and "normal"
In addition to the details contained in my medical nightmare story on the "About Us!' link on this site, a few other shocking things happened to me at Overlake Hospital during my illness. One is the illegal HIV test I was forced, coerced and directed to take after a nurse stuck herself with a syringe she used to give me a sedating drug. It was in the middle of the night and I was sleepy and drugged but forced to answer questions about my sexual history and if I was ever "a risk" for AIDS. I gave no "consent" for the test -- that was for no one's benefit but the nurse's ... who should have tested herself invasively, NOT me. The nurse did not read me the form, she filled it out for me and dated it for me (forged) and I had no other option presented to me (she could take triple cocktail, retest herself.) This makes this incident a felony assault. To this day I have not been able to learn the identity of the nurse -- the risk manager, Mr. Bryan, refused to tell me. I can't file a complaint due to this withholding of information. A person has the legal right to know the identity of anyone that treats them. Also, I was denied knowing the results for 2 years, this is a very psychologically distressing test (no counseling offered.) Mr. Bryan challenged me to a lawsuit to get the information, which I am doing. These are state laws that Overlake has violated, beyond civil court!
Another AMAZING incident that MUST be told, centers on my being kicked off the hospital property while I was an inpatient because I was crying in pain. They got sick of me, and because I had been branded nuts -- I was perceived as a pest while pleading for pain medication for my excruciating headaches (I later went to have meningitis which was diagnosed at the University Hospital.)
My family had left for the night hoping I'd stay and get the drugs I needed for the pain, I did not get them. I was so desperate and disoriented, I grabbed my things and began to leave. Instead of helping me, the sadistic nurses called the security on me and had Officer T. Caldwell escort me out of the hospital grounds out to 116th Avenue. I was half dressed, in my pajamas, no real shoes, in bed clothes. I was a young, drugged, half dressed woman with no money, no ride home, staggering in pain and left to the elements at 11 PM at night. On my way out I collapsed in the ER only to have a sadistic nurse shove ammonia salts INSIDE my nose (NEVER to touch tissues, only waived under!) They broke inside my nose, burning me badly and made me bleed. I got up and was hustled out. I walked across the dangerous busy street 116th Avenue to the parking lot of the old BEST Store where there was a pay phone. I called collect to my husband and he pleaded I go back across the street to the ER and wait for him -- he was coming for me. The nurses made me wait in the room where the psych. patients are strapped in leather restraints. It was upsetting. I was almost struck by a car crossing the streets while so medicated. I was disoriented from the pain and was not treated in VERY severe distress. Incredible, but typical for Overlake ER people. DO NOT GO THERE!
DID I MENTION OVERLAKE HOSPITAL SUED ME FOR $600 OF ER CO-PAYS I REFUSED TO PAY DUE TO THE REPETITIVE MISDIAGNOSIS ON SO MANY VISITS?
Kim's story
I had a needle biopsy done on my neck for a lump that would not go away. An Overlake pathologist performed this procedure improperly and I got a bad infection from it. More surgery was needed to fix the problem, leaving a much larger scar on my neck. Totally unnecessary.
"Jane" can't ski?
"Jane" broke her knee skiing a few years ago and was taken to Overlake to set it after the break. Such a poor job was done, she had to have a knee replacement after 4 years because the knee joint had rubbed down to nothing from surgical misalignment. Now "Jane" can't ski so well, or at all. A major surgery and large scar, totally unnecessary.
Dr. Boyd? Dr. Boyd? Wherefore art thou Dr. Boyd?
Remember the press on this clown? This Overlake "eye doctor" had 143 complaints lodged against him to the Medical Quality Assurance Board before the public got wind of it from a reporter's ferreting out the information. Should it take 143 complaints to find out about anything? Boyd fled the area and the country it is believed... with his cash, his lies and his incompetence -- Farewell Boyd! "Absence makes the heart grow fonder for more of your absence" (Webmaster)
One way or another, Dr. James Stroh, I'll Get Ya.
Anyone follow the King County court cases? See Reese v. Stroh case # 61935-2. The same Dr. Stroh responsible for harming Supreme Webmaster, Elizabeth. In 1992 Mr. Reese needed care for his emphysema condition and saw Dr. Stroh. He was told by Stroh, "it isn't serious" and Mr. Reese's health declined. Dr. Stroh failed to work-up Mr. Reese properly and failed to offer a new drug that all doctors everywhere were using for the specific condition that plagued Mr. Reese. All but Stroh, it seemed from the court papers. Had the Reese v. Stroh case been posted and public back in 1997, perhaps Dr. Stroh would not have been so cavalier to the Supreme Webmaster. Let's see what happens now to Dr. Stroh's 'practice.' Practice makes perfect, don't you think? If he keeps saying this "isn't serious" to patient's with severe medical problems, what good is he? He should not be allowed to 'practice.' The only thing good named Stroh, comes in a can!
Subject: Stroh
Date: 9/4/2003 1:06:05 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: *****
Reply To:
To: MedicalError
Stroh is a complete idiot! I was referred to him after getting hives from my pregnancy. He did not do any tests to find out where the hives were coming from and basically just asked me personal questions. His conclusion was that I needed to see a shrink!!! I walked out and thought what an idiot and I was then treated at Univ of WA Medical Center for my condition!!!!!!
