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***UPDATE #1***
February 20th, 1999:
Just got word that the doctor we sued 9 years ago is
finally being sued for his license from the Attorney
General's office (I got a copy of the complaint from my
attorney)...about damn time for this too, so I have been
celebrating this much so far. Can't wait to hear
more on how this suit will go!!! This doctor
currently has more than 22 lawsuits against him since
1985 and in 1996 he committed fraud by lying on his
renewal for his license, which sparked an undercover
investigation by the local news team about doctors who
slip through the cracks and not getting caught and
reprimanded....in turn, the news team approached the AG
about this as that is where all the lawsuits go to.
In the news story, the Attorney General at the time knew
nothing about this (but his office sure did), so he said
he would look into it and conduct his own investigation.
This doctor was denied hospital priviledges in obstetrics
in December 1995 and they reinstated him in April 1996 if
he agreed to follow a few conditions..one being to have a
backup when he failed to intervene in the delivery room
(which he did not have with me). Well..he failed
that in April 1997 taking yet another baby (and almost
the mother too)who's case was so similar to mine.
We were listed as the 2nd suit on the complaint. I
cannot believe the hospital even allowed him to return
with the mental state he was still in. It was as if
he had a vendetta out on women and took it out on those
that had nothing to do with his scorn. Several
nurses refused to assist in any of this doctor's
patients, yet the hospital continued to employ him.
4 months just isn't all that much time to get cured from
whatever his mental problems are which have been a
problem for well over 10 years. When we filed, he
had already had 13 lawsuits 4 of them active (2 of those
were scenario to mine). Several victims hated to
even press a suit against him because they eventually
found out that it would be hard to put a doctor out of
practice just from theirs alone. A medical
malpractice suit constantly reminds the victims of what
they endured (trust me, I know..hehehe), and when a
doctor is punished by a slap on the wrist with each
settlement of these suits and no reprimand to the doctor,
we (as victims) get soooo much more angry and
discouraged. Well..since getting word of this
complaint, I am glad I did press one...but why did it
take soooo long? I'm also glad I did not take this
doctor out myself when justice failed, because I would
not want to spend time behind bars for something he did
in the first place. It has taken a lot out of me
the last 9 years, but I am a survivor and have done what
I could just so I can be here to watch it all come
full-circle!!!
This doctor and even the hospital has taken away not only
our trust for the medical field, but also a part of our
family. This was not our first encounter with a
negligent doctor...but it was the hardest. I almost
lost my husband, Matthew back in 1992 from a misdiagnosed
ruptured appendix. It was only through God's love
and intervention that we survived this one where I son
didn't. We probably would have pressed a suit on this
too, but since we already had one in the works and the
amount of emotional energy it took, we decided it just
wouldn't be worth it. We were just glad Matt
survived and we counted our blessings once again!!! The
only message I can relate to others from all of this is,
check out your doctors thoroughly. Course the
majority of us
never find this out til it's been done to us. It is
all public knowledge, but the hard part is finding out
where to go to find this knowledge which most consumers
didn't. I didn't until after we started legal proceedings
on our son's and my injury. I did however help 2 people
out when I heard they were seeing this doctor and told
them, if they had any history of difficult pregnancies or
conditions that would require this doctor's immediate
attention, do not go to this doctor. They thanked
me later!!! With my husband, this was not an
option. He needed immediate attention.
I can tell you that when we moved to Maryland, we checked
out all the doctors thoroughly..even the surgeons...and
have found only the female ones the most caring,
competent, less egotistical and comfortable for our
needs. That's not to say no males are, but just the ones
that we came up against even though they did not have a
history of malpractice claims against them. It was their
professionalism that was questionable rather than their
practice..in other words in how they spoke to us when
questioned about their expertise. That was the same
type of attitude that the male doctors in Indiana took
away. In a way I'm glad for that part of it, cuz it
seemed like we were magnets to these kind and still we
thought we could trust doctors even in a different
state. Well..NO MORE...they're even here too!!!
Well..I thank you for your time in reading this!!!
My best therapy has been in talking since I haven't
invested too much in shrinks either..hehehe.
UPDATE #2
Below is a letter I sent in regards to what I wrote to a
website that has the malpractice cases listed for the
State of Indiana
Dear Justice Denied,
I would like to contribute my
story as I assumed that my medical malpractice case
against Dr. M had also been a formal complaint as well
with the Attorney General's Office of which I am just now
finding out was not an actual complaint but just another
malpractice suit with a settlement that just makes us ill
when we found then that it would not put this physician
out of practice as we had hoped. When we filed, there
were no computers or people to turn to in finding out
anything that surrounded doctors like these so were left
to turn to an attorney once the crime was already
committed to find out. In other words, we got the
runaround in 1989 when we went searching for a doctor to
handle our third pregnancy and child's delivery. Dr. M
did formerly care for me in 1985 when I miscarried and
the treatment I received then was outrageous. When I was
in sooo much pain and felt like I was bleeding to death,
I went to the ER and when they found out I was his
patient, they said they couldn't touch me or give me
anything for the pain and Dr. M refused to give me
anything for the pain either. He said I had to wait until
the next day to see him...rather than coming to find out
just how much pain I was in and run tests at the
hospital...which would have confirmed I was miscarrying
then. Instead, he made me wait til the following
morning...did a sonogram, which still showed I had a
viable pregnancy, but nothing that resembled a baby as I
was in my 16th week according to my calculations from my
last menstral cycle, etc. He said he lost the first blood
test and would need to go in search of it to verify I
actually was losing the baby. Well, the pain had
subsided, all bleeding stopped and I went to work the
next day. That next day the doctor had the audacity to
call me at work and confirm I was losing the baby rather
than make an appointment for me to come see him. So there
I was stuck at work balling my eyes out and had to get my
boss to relieve me. He scheduled me to have a D & C
done the following evening, but I told him I couldn't at
that time cuz I had to go bowling..hehehe. Bowled the
best game ever too. He was quite arrogant even then.
I moved to Virginia shortly after this and became
pregnant again with our daughter, Leslie. When I had my
initial exam there, the doctor asked me if I was going to
keep this baby. I wondered why in the heck would he ever
ask such a question. I said, "Why wouldn't I?"
He stated it was just standard questions...and it was
dismissed. (Later I would find out that Dr. M had put
down that I had an elective abortion in my chart rather
than a spontaneous miscarriage). The pregnancy ended with
an emergency c-section because she was in distress. We
had no hesitation whatsoever to go with the c-section. We
returned to Indiana when Leslie was 6 months old and when
I became pregnant with our second baby, I was in search
of a doctor. Three of the mothers of the children I was
caring for in my home-daycare said Dr. M was the best..as
he delivered them all. I hesitated at first because I
thought, well maybe he was just having a couple bad days
back when I miscarried is all and with my hormones
raging, I may have exaggerated a bit. Well my initial
visit was a rather enlightening one. He had a copy of the
post-operative report on Leslie, threw the report on his
desk and said, "This was an unnecessary
c-section". You can imagine how I reacted to that
remark..and I proceeded to tell him why it was necessary.
He never wrote anything I said to him either concerning
that issue. He just continued to say I should try a VBAC
with this one and I agreed on one condition..that if the
baby was bigger than Leslie, then NO. (This is what my
last OB/GYN informed me of).
I had a pretty rough pregnancy with Kyle with several
kidney infections and a sinus infection with only
temporary relief until the next infection. I later found
out that I had a chemical embalance (but which he
dismissed as me being a "wimp" quote unquote)
which also caused me to start having labor contractions
in my 5th month. Well..the rest is now history. You can
find that story at: https://ladygdesign.tripod.com/kyle.html.
Lori Rollins told me about your site. I never even
thought to search on the web once I got a computer with
internet access. I'm glad I did, so I can post my
complaint against him too!!! Unfortunately, it is a
little late. I'll leave this up to you whether or not you
want to post it. To this day I have lost a lot of trust
in most doctors all because of Dr. M and another physician who
almost took my husband's life at the same hospital that
employed both of them...that is another story entirely,
but nonetheless true. We decided not to pursue the second
claim because of the result we knew we would get..no
license on either of them. It was just too emotional to
start a new claim!!!
I thank you for your time in this matter.
Sincerely,
Joni Anderson
Update #3
Medical Malpractice Convention in Chicago on August 29-31, 1998 was not a major success, but a chain of events occurred
around the globe shortly after this. Maybe we made a
difference there, that we will never know. We can only
count our blessings that our voices are finally being
heard!
Update #4
News Article:
State Sues: Morgan
One more victim suffers in the hands of Dr. Morgan and
finally us victims are being heard. Please click link
above for the whole story of what one doctor can do to
many people when a state overlooks him instead of
listening to his victims' cries!! There are more like him
out there but the public is not given sufficient enough
information about the histories of them to know. Maybe
now there will be more voices heard, that much I pray
doesn't happen but rather that we can make them
accountable for their actions as criminal and not
malpractice any longer, especially for those repeat
offenders who show a similar pattern which constitutes
murder rather than malpractice!
Please go and visit the site below (which is based out of
the state of Indiana) that is helping victims of this
monstrous act as well as other crimes so that we can
bring awareness to others. Eventually we can change these
and other laws that govern all doctors who commit
malpractice and bring justice to other victims, plus keep
all consumers/taxpayers/patients more informed:
Victim's Justice Center
http://www.howdyneighbor.com/justicedenied
Update #5
News
Article: Doctor's License Finally Gets Revoked for 7
years!
Finally, some justice for us victims. The doctor lost
his license on February 24, 2000. Please click above
link and read the last two days of his career in
medicine.
Update #6
If Miracles Could Talk
A story Kyle's Mommy wrote recently (May 2000) on what Kyle might have said to the doctor and hospital and now what he might say being an angel in heaven if he
was able to talk. Please click above link above to read.
Graphic set
on this page was made by Kyle's Mommy and should not
be taken without permission as it was made just for
the Memory of Kyle!
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