Doris Ford, RN, BSN by fax 410-402-8167
Office of Health Care Quality
Spring Grove Center
Bland Bryant Building
55 Wade Avenue
Catonsville, Maryland 21228
Re: University of Maryland Hospital - 3/8/01 to 5/4/01
Discharge Summary Prepared by Jennifer Oldham, M.D.
Dear Ms. Ford:
As I mentioned over the phone, I am working on a response to the subject discharge summary. My draft response is now 13 pages single spaced. A finalized version will be submitted within the week.
But I have come to a stopping point beginning page 3 of the Oldham version. This is the paragraph beginning, "On 04/13 Neurontin was added for supplementation of her mood stabilization. ..."
The remainder of the discharge summary is so wholly inaccurate and misleading that to tell the story would require full access to the complete medical record since that date.
As a stopgap and in the interim, I am submitting herewith my comments regarding Neurontin to the Food and Drug Administration along with the newspaper article that inspired it.
It is probable that side effects undergone during that period of my admission are nowhere
noted in the chart or are mischaracterized. It is a fact that the loxapine course
is mischaracterized.
Doris Ford, RN, BSN by fax 410-402-8167
Office of Health Care Quality
Spring Grove Center
Bland Bryant Building
55 Wade Avenue
Catonsville, Maryland 21228
Re: University of Maryland Hospital - 3/8/01 to 5/4/01
Bipolar Realities - email of 17 Nov 2000 - to follow
Prescribing High Doses of Neuroleptics and Benzodiazepams for Punitive and Retaliatory
Reasons
Jennifer Oldham, M.D.
Angela Adebuiwa, M.D.
Doris Balis, M.D.
Dear Ms. Ford:
At the latter stages of the subject hospitalization, I distributed copies of the document to follow ("Bipolar Realities") around the ward (patients and staff) at 12-West. There is nothing in the discharge summary written by first year resident Jennifer Oldham, M.D. or attending physician Angela Adebuiwa, M.D. to document this fact.
First year resident Jennifer Oldham, M.D. approached me about the handout. Her sole remarks were, "I was not the dregs of my medical school class - I did well in med school." Since Oldham had been telling me since the clinical review panel (4/10) that "you belong in a state hospital" AND she couldn't discern any other meaning in the handout, I didn't answer her.
The document raised issues of utilization of drugs meant for one condition for another, influence of pharmaceutical salespeople, side effects, medical education, economics and so forth. Oldham grew deaf and dumb when I tried to tell her some things about the Outpatient Department, the head of which, Doris Balis, M.D., was supervising her and my admission. I grew frustrated and angry at Oldham's stupidity, ignorance and feigned deafness.
The result was that I was within minutes informed Klonapin (clonazepam) would immediately be increased to twice a day.
The result the next day (after Balis was able to get a fax) was that the neuroleptic loxapine would be increased to 40 mg, certain to bring out symptoms of tardive dyskinesia with uncontrollable leg tremors, cogwheeling and other effects. In fact, I informed Oldham that tardive dyskinesia would set in over 20 mg.
Oldham stood by me at the dispensing station saying, "Take it ... Take it!"
The management of my treatment regimen at the point of distribution of the handout to follow was not based on psychiatry, but Lesbian intra-ward and pecking-order politics not to mention pure retaliation.
My communication on Neurontin was faxed earlier today. Neurontin was instituted in retaliation for intent to file a Petition of Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Ativan was administered at the outset because nobody talked to Dwain Howard but relied on Doris Balis and Sharon Lerner and they didn't give a "crap", either.
The official "Discharge Summary" in the permanent record, is deliberately and maliciously
falsified in an effort to "cover up" appallingly bad practice of medicine and psychiatry.