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Escape from the Mayo Clinic: Teen accuses world-famous hospital of ‘medical kidnapping’

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   Chronically Pained, on August 16, 2018 at 9:24 am said:

   This puts me directly in mind of the nightmare that my family was put through by the staff at a local large hospital when my dad had a major heart attack. I an still quite literally mentally scarred by that experience and I highly doubt I’ll ever be totally over it. Especially not knowing if my dad would have been able to recover if he was given the chance to come home to us, like they kept pushing for us to do and then he was taken off of life support in the hospital where he later died before we could get him home. We were treated like complete and total garbage. The hospital staff looked at MY medical records, I am assuming they were trying to find something to use against me so that I could no longer make decisions for my dad, and even though the event was serious and the prognosis was not good, I often wonder if he was either allowed to die or even killed off by turning up his fentanyl drip, all due to the staff’s blantant dislike for me and my family. We literally did NOTHING to them. Nothing but put our foot down. We even spoke to the neurologist, who told us that dad had brain activity and that there was a small chance that he could recover. We were never allowed to speak with that doctor again and he was replaced by another neurologist that adamantly denied what we were originally told. They wanted us to pull the plug. So when one of the staff asked if we wanted to bring him home to let him pass with us around him, we finally relented and said yes. Then they deliberately meddled in affairs between our family and hospice, who would have taken over his care since they did say he was in end-of-life care stages after all. They told hospice they were ‘concerned’ that we couldn’t take care of dad. After my mom spoke with hospice and they recognized her as having taken care of her best friend with terminal cancer, they called the hospital to tell them it would be okay. Apparently this made them angry because they then called and told us they were transferring him the next day, when hospice wasn’t even set to come out and bring a bed for 2 more days. Hospice was at a loss as to why they would do that. So were we. So I called to tell them that because we were just getting over being sick and hospice hadn’t even had a chance to come out yet, that it would be a couple of days before they should take him off of life support, they took him off anyway citing that I had given them permission to do so and the next phone call we got was the one that told us he had passed. They didn’t even call me, either. They called my brother, who was dealing with other major issues at the moment, which is why I primarily was making the decisions for dad. They knew this as well. I wonder, because of all that we went through, if it would have turned out differently had he been allowed to come home. I made complaints against several of the staff for their treatment of my family and several months after my dad’s passing, they rote me back telling me they were ”very sorry I had PERCEIVED things the way I did’. Then a couple months later they sent me an invitation to come to a memorial ceremony for those that had passed while in the hospital. Nothing like spitting in a family’s face. I can’t even begin to tell everyone how poorly we were treated there and for no other reason than not wanting to pull the plug, starting the day after my dad arrived. Seeing as how we were originally given information that gave us a glimmer of hope that dad might recover, of course we did not want to just pull the plug on him. And it was very obvious from the start that they did NOT want us to think that way, regardless of whether there might be hope or not. This is absolutely disgusting and if I had known about organizations that took this kind of information and helped people with it back then, I’d have turned to them in a heartbeat. Those people deserved to be at very least, reprimanded for their actions. Instead, they got away with it all. Because it was just my PERCEPTION of how they talked to and treated us, according to them. Good for this girl’s family!!! I am so happy that they did not have to face any kind of repercussions for doing what they KNEW to be the right thing. I have dealt with doctor’s that think they are in charge and infallible before. As a matter of fact, I told my primary doc a long time ago that doctors are human beings and not all human beings are good, after having some doctor’s come very close to ruining my life(purposefully) by what they did to me in the past. My primary doc has now seen up close what I’ve had to deal with and we now discuss a lot more than we used to, certain things about my care. I can’t be happy enough for this girl and her family. This is nowhere near acceptable and should never be allowed to happen again, anywhere.

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   maryw Mmary, on August 15, 2018 at 8:45 am said:

   psss,,,I’ve been to this mayo,,,it is just as bad as your worse hospital in your state,,,,there is NOTHING extra ordinary about this mayo in Rochestar Minnesota,,,NOHING!!!!maryw

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   maryw M, on August 15, 2018 at 8:42 am said:

   This is what the next generation will face every time one of your kids get hurt,or medically ill w/a painful medical condition,,,if WE,,, doctors included,,,don’t fight this fight and win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!it is a human rights issue,,,Canada,,is right,,along w/the rest of the world,,nations,,,The united states is thee ONLY country,,that arrests doctors for honor their oaths,,,THEEE ONLY 1,,,maryw,

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