Negligence...Cerebral palsy...babies...

"Médicos acusados de negligência

O Martim tem paralisia cerebral, nunca terá autonomia e dependerá sempre de alguém para se manter vivo." O grito, de revolta e desespero, é de Samanta Rocheta, que acusa o Centro Hospitalar do Barlavento Algarvio (CHBA), em Portimão, e a equipa que a assistiu no parto, a 16 de Abril passado, de negligência médica. Este é o segundo caso em que a equipa do bloco de partos do CHBA é acusada de negligência, em sete meses....
O bebé tem epilepsia e convulsões....
Quando ele nasceu, não respirava, ficou sem oxigénio e esteve 15 minutos em morte aparente."Martim seguiria depois, de helicóptero, para o Hospital de Santa Maria, em Lisboa."

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Translation

"Doctors accused of negligence
The Martin has cerebral palsy, will never have autonomy and will always depend on someone to stay alive. "The cry of anger and despair, is  from Samanta Rocheta, accusing the  Centro Hospitalar do Barlavento Algarvio (CHBA), in Portimão, and the team that witnessed the birth on 16 April, from medical malpractice. This is the second case in which the team block deliveries of CHBA is accused of negligence in seven months.
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The baby has epilepsy and seizures.
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When he was born, he could not breath, and was without oxygen for 15 minutes was apparent death. "Martin would follow then by helicopter to the Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon..."


http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/nacional/saude/medicos-acusados-de-negligencia010706697

Dr Virginia Soares de Souza and team...

"A Brazilian doctor who was charged with killing seven patients to free up beds at a hospital intensive care unit may have been responsible for as many as 300 deaths, according to a Health Ministry investigator.

...Prosecutors said Dr Virginia Soares de Souza and her medical team administered muscle relaxing drugs to patients, then reduced their oxygen supply, causing them to die of asphyxia at the  Universitary Evangelical Hospital in the southern city of Curitiba....

De Souza, a 56-year-old widow, was arrested last month and charged with seven counts of aggravated first degree murder. Three other doctors, three nurses and a physiotherapist who worked under De Souza have also been charged with murder.

...More cases are expected to emerge as investigators come through 1,700 medical records of patients who died in the last seven years at the hospital, where De Souza headed the intensive care unit.

...Parana state prosecutors asked police on Wednesday to investigate whether more hospital employees, including former managers, were involved in the case. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9958658/Brazilian-doctor-killed-up-to-300-to-free-up-beds-in-intensive-care.html


"Pouco antes das 10 horas, telefonou para a Ouvidoria Geral do Estado do Paraná. Durante 30 minutos, a fisioterapeuta contou à atendente o que vinha lhe tirando o sono havia meses. Com a voz ofegante e embargada, narrou o que se passava no lugar onde trabalhava, a Unidade de Terapia Intensiva do Hospital Universitário Evangélico, o maior e mais antigo de Curitiba.

 Era uma denúncia sinistra: a equipe médica da UTI acelerava a morte de 
doentes em estado grave. Manipulava padrões de oxigênio de aparelhos respiratórios e ministrava aos doentes um coquetel de sedativos e bloqueadores neuromusculares...doutora Virgínia Helena Soares de Souza, diretora da Unidade há sete anos. A doutora Virgínia decidia quem deveria viver ou morrer na UTI."
 
Translation

"Shortly before 10 am, phoned the Police of the State of Paraná. For 30 minutes, the therapist told the attendant what was taking her sleep for months. Her voice choked and gasped, narrated what was happening in the place where she worked, the Intensive Care Unit of the Universitary Evangelical Hospital, the oldest and largest of Curitiba.
 
The complaint was grim: the medical ICU was accelerating the death of seriously ill. Manipulated patterns oxygen breathing of equipment's and ministered to patients a cocktail of sedatives and neuromuscular blockers ... Dr. Virginia Helena Soares de Souza, director of the Unit for seven years. was the one deciding who should live or die in the ICU. "


http://beneviani.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/os-feitos-da-medica-virginia-soares-de_7.html

 

The return of the shock treatment....Portugal...

"Depois de terem sido praticamente abandonados na década de 70, os impulsos eléctricos voltaram a a ser usados nos principais hospitais do País para tratar doentes psiquiátricos. Sobretudo nas depressões graves. Em três deles, Santa Maria, Amadora-Sintra e Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, ...

...a opinião do psiquiatra  João Cabral  Fernandes. "É  um método grosseiro e desumano", alerta o especialista, sublinhando que por ser uma prática recorrente no Hospital Júlio de Matos...

...Já Maria Luísa Figueira, directora do serviço de psiquiatria do Santa Maria, garante que o método é eficaz."

Translation

"After having been virtually abandoned in the 70s, the electro shocks are back again, and in use in major hospitals in the country to treat psychiatric patients. Especially in severe depressions. Hospitals like Santa Maria, Amadora-Sintra and Coimbra University Hospitals...

...The opinion of the psychiatrist John Fernandes Cabral. "This method is crude and inhuman," warns the expert, that this is a common practice at the Hospital Julio de Matos ...

...however Dra. Maria Luisa Figueira, director of the psychiatric service of the Santa Maria, ensures that the method is effective. "

http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1369718

Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar and Dr. Rudolph Schrot...

"Two neurosurgeons from the University of California, Davis have been banned from performing medical research on humans after they allegedly experimented on three patients without university permission...documents that allegedly show the surgeons obtained consent of three terminally ill patients with malignant brain tumours to introduce bacteria into their open head wounds in hopes that it might save their lives...the university has found that two of the three patients developed sepsis and died.
...One of the doctors, J. Paul Muizelaar, 65, holds a prestigious position as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery. Rudolph Schrot, 44, worked under Muizelaar as an assistant professor and neurosurgeon.
Muizelaar, however, doesn't believe he did anything wrong."Muizelaar reportedly said, "there are people who blatantly break the rules that endanger all of their research programs. We certainly didn't blatantly trample any rules."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/j-paul-muizelaar-rudolph-uc-neurosurgeons_n_1695562.html

"In 2008, the doctors proposed treating a glioblastoma patient with bacteria applied to an open wound to "attack the tumor," then later withholding antibiotics and letting the bacteria do its work.
Schrot contacted the FDA but ultimately was cautioned that animal studies were needed first...And so the doctors continued with preclinical work, arranging for a rat study..." http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/22/4648415/2-uc-davis-neurosurgeons-accused.html  ...a rat study where at least that we know 2 patients human beings were killed..

 Who are the people that this prestigious neurosurgeon with a position as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery talks when he says "there are people who blatantly break the rules that endanger all of their research programs..." and who are the human guinea pigs of those people...can they be epileptics/people with other type of brain tumours?????

Are the articles about medical research that they said that are made with animals made with human beings??????Are human beings considered rats by some scientists, rats that they can play with and torture in studies similar to this :
"...Mice are exposed to an electric shock and learn to associate it with a neutral stimulus like the chamber in which they received the shock (contextual fear conditioning) or an auditory tone (cued fear conditioning).Memory is a high level brain function that allows organisms to modify their behaviour...RFID transponders (Datamars SA, Bedano, Switzerland) were injected subcutaneously in the dorso-cervical region under Isoflurane inhalation anesthesia"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230787/

Dr. Jayant Mukundray Patel

"Jayant Mukundray Patel (born 10 April 1950) is an American surgeon who is at the centre of a 2005 scandal in which he was accused of gross incompetence while working at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia. In June 2010, Patel was convicted of 3 counts of manslaughter and one case of grievous bodily harm, and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

 

...Patel was born in Jamnagar in Gujarat, India. Initially, he studied surgery at the M.P. Shah Medical College at the Saurashtra University, obtaining a master's degree. He then moved to the United States where he received further surgical training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine as a surgical intern and a resident in surgery.

 

...In 1984 in Buffalo, health officials cited Patel for failing to examine patients before surgery...

 

...In 1989, Patel moved to the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Medical staff allege he performed surgery when not rostered to work, operated on other surgeon's patients, operated unnecessarily and caused serious injury and death. In 1998, Kaiser Permanente restricted Patel's practice. He was instructed not to operate on the liver or pancreas and to seek second opinions before performing other surgeries. In September 2000, after reviewing four cases involving the deaths of three patients, the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners made Patel's restriction statewide.

 

 

^...In 2003, Patel moved to the position of Director of Surgery at the Bundaberg Base Hospital where he was employed by Queensland Health (the state government department of health in Queensland) under an "area of need" program where overseas trained doctors are employed in predominantly regional understaffed areas. He was appointed despite having no specialist surgical qualifications.

 

...In 2007, he was filmed in Oregon by the Nine Network's current affairs program, 60 Minutes in an investigation by reporter Paul Barry and producer Stephen Rice.

 

...On 22 November 2006, a magistrate issued a warrant for Patel's arrest and extradition to Australia.He was charged with three charges of manslaughter, five charges of causing grievous bodily harm, four of negligent acts causing harm and eight charges of fraud. He was extradited to Australia on 21 July 2008.^"

...An independent surgeon, Peter Woodruff, who was asked by Justice Davies to examine Patel's work believes that Patel negligently caused 13 deaths, and possibly up to 17."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Patel

 

 

 

 

Casa Pia Guinea pigs - Oral Medicine/ Neuroscience...

“Children who were sexually abused used in renowned dental mercury experiment Lisbon, Portugal ... children wrongly used in a medical mercury experiment at the Casa Pia, an institution already riddled with scandal.

... the atrocities of the Children’s Amalgam Trial (CAT), a U.S.-based dental research project conducted in the U.S. and Portugal with another horrific scandal at the Casa Pia, which numerous NGO’s and scientists are calling the “Children’s Mercury Experiment.”

 

The CAT was a prospective study implanting children ages 8-10 years old with dental mercury to see if they would sustain neurological or physical damage.

 

The 11 million dollar study, authorized by Dr. Norman Braverman of the National Institutes of Health, was conducted from 1997-2005 by the University of Washington in conjunction with the University of Lisbon and was funded by U.S. tax dollars through the National Institute of Dental and Cranial Research.

 

The test subjects included 500 low income and minority children in the U.S. and 500 children at the Casa Pia here in Lisbon.  Half of the test subjects were implanted with mercury, some receiving up to nineteen mercury fillings.  ...

“The consent forms were misleading and outright bogus. 100 of the orphan’s forms were thought to be signed by the same doctor, who was investigated in the Casa Pia sex scandal in 2002,” says Gallagher, who further claims, “This is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, which prohibits human experimentation without informed consent.”

Sandy Duffy...once stated, “Weighing dental industry economic interests against the unnecessary addition of mercury to the body burden of powerless children is unethical, morally bankrupt and an intentional assault and battery.”

This dental experiment was occurring at the same time that some of these children were involved in the sex scandal....

 “Dental associations and government agencies bragged about the Children’s Amalgam Study and reported that there was no harm done,” says injured Consumer Advocate, Freya Koss, Director of the Pennsylvania Coalition for Mercury Free Dentistry.”

http://drleonardcoldwell.com/2012/05/28/scandal-strikes-again-at-the-casa-pia/

 

"Additionally, Boyd Haley, PhD, chairman of IAOMT's Scientific Advisory Board and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, found major scientific flaws in the CAT study design and conclusions.

Dr. Olympio Pinto, a dental expert from Brazil interviewed for the Portuguese expose, warned of dental mercury: "The scientific evidence in over 30,000 papers is clear...and we do not need any further findings, needing to submit even animals, let alone humans, to experiments we can anticipate the results of, based on pure science."

Leo Cashman of DAMS, a non-profit that co-submitted the complaint, agreed: "We want justice for the children subjected to corrupt experimentation and an end to the use of toxic mercury fillings."

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/international-crime-against-humanity-filed-at-the-hague-156941635.html

I wonder if these are the same dentists who receive checks for treatments offered to children and pregnant ... would be a poisoned gift for them ... not knowing what they could expect to be implanted ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz2wyueMNDM&feature=player_embedded

Nurse Stephan Letter...

"Stephan Letter (born 17 September 1978 in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former nurse and serial killer known to be responsible for the killings of at least 29 patients while he worked at a hospital in Sonthofen, Bavaria between January 2003 and July 2004. The acts have been described as Germany's largest number of killings since World War II...

...Stephan Letter was a nurse at a hospital that treated a large elderly population.During his employment from January 2003 to July 2004, a pattern of more than 80 deaths occurred on his shifts. Officials exhumed the bodies of more than 40 patients, but another 38 had already been cremated. Lesser became a suspect after officials learned that large quantitites of drugs, including the muscle relaxant lysthenon, had gone missing from the hospital.

...He confessed to some of the killings, but insisted that he acted out of sympathy and a desire to end the suffering of sick patients. However, the prosecution indicated that Letter was not the assigned nurse for some of the patients and that some of the patients were in stable condition and due to be released from the hospital.^"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Letter

Dr. Swango...

"Joseph Michael Swango (born October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and former licensed physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he only admitted to causing four deaths. He was sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Swango was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in Quincy, Illinois, the middle child of Muriel and John Virgil Swango. Swango's father was a career U.S. Army officer who served in the Vietnam War and was troubled by alcoholism...Upon his return from Vietnam, Swango's father became depressed...

...Even earlier, several students and faculty members had raised concerns about his competence to practice medicine...Swango got a surgical internship at Ohio State University Medical Center in 1983, to be followed by a residency in neurosurgery. While he worked at the Rhodes Hall wing at Wexner, nurses noticed that apparently healthy patients began dying mysteriously with alarming frequency. Each time, Swango had been the floor intern. One nurse caught him injecting some "medicine" into a patient who later became strangely ill. The nurses reported their concerns to administrators, but were met with accusations of paranoia.

...Soon, many of the paramedics on staff began noticing that whenever Swango prepared the coffee or brought any food in, several of them usually became violently ill, with no apparent cause...

...In 1989, Swango, now released from prison...He then found a job as a laboratory technician for ATICoal in Newport News, now Vanguard Energy, a division of CITA Logistics. During his time there, several employees sought medical attention with complaints of persistent and increasing stomach pains...

...In 1991, Swango legally changed his name to Daniel J. Adams and tried to apply for a residency program at Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. In July 1992, he began working at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

...The AMA temporarily lost track of Swango, who managed to find a place in the psychiatric residency program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. His first rotation was in the internal medicine department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport, New York. Once again his patients began dying for no explicable reason.

...In November 1994, he went to Zimbabwe and used forged documents to obtain a job at Mnene Lutheran Mission Hospital in the center of the country. Again, his patients began dying mysteriously...

...he hired prominent lawyer David Coltart to enable him to return to clinical practice. He also appealed to the authorities at Mpilo Hospital, Bulawayo, to allow him in the interim to continue working voluntarily there.

...until mid-1994, when the FBI found out he was living in Atlanta and working as a chemist at a computer equipment company's wastewater facility...

...Swango had sensed that the net was closing on him; he crossed the border to Zambia and subsequently to Namibia where he found temporary medical work. He was charged in absentia with poisonings. In March 1997, he applied for a job at the Royal Hospital in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...

...As part of that investigation, prosecutors exhumed the bodies of three patients and found poisonous chemicals in them. They also found evidence that Swango paralyzed patient Baron Harris with an injection of what was supposedly a sedative. The sedative caused him to lapse into a coma...

...Swango lied about the death of Cynthia Ann McGee, a patient he treated during his internship at OSU. Swango claimed she suffered heart failure; he had killed her by giving her a potassium injection that stopped her heart..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Swango

Nurse Beverley Gail Allitt..."the Angel of Death"

"Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968) is an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering four children, attempting to murder three other children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six children. The crimes were committed over a period of 59 days between February and April 1991 in the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire, where Allitt was employed as a State Enrolled Nurse. She administered large doses of insulin to at least two victims and a large air bubble was found in the body of another, but police were unable to establish how all the attacks were carried out. In May 1993, at Nottingham Crown Court, she received 13 life sentences for the crimes...She is detained at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.

 

Victims

• Liam Taylor (seven weeks old) – was admitted to the ward for a chest infection and was murdered on 21 February 1991.
• Timothy Hardwick (eleven years old) – a boy with cerebral palsy who was admitted to the ward after having an epileptic seizure. He was murdered on 5 March 1991.
• Kayley Desmond (then one year old) – admitted to the ward for a chest infection. Allitt attempted to murder her on 8 March 1991 but the child was resuscitated and transferred to another hospital, where she recovered.
• Paul Crampton (then five months old) – admitted to the ward for a chest infection on 20 March 1991. Allitt attempted to murder him with an insulin overdose on three occasions the day before he was transferred to another hospital, where he recovered.
• Bradley Gibson (then five years old) – admitted to the ward for pneumonia. He suffered two cardiac arrests on 21 March 1991, due to Allitt's administering insulin overdoses, before he was transferred to another hospital, where he recovered.
• Yik Hung Chan (also known as Henry, then two years old) – admitted to the ward following a fall on 21 March 1991. He suffered an oxygen desaturation attack before he was transferred to another hospital, where he recovered.
• Becky Phillips (two months old) – admitted to the ward for gastroenteritis on 1 April 1991. She was administered an insulin overdose by Allitt and died at home two days later.
• Katie Phillips (then two months old) – Becky's twin was admitted to the ward as a precaution following the death of her sister. She had to be resuscitated twice after unexplained apnoeic episodes (which were later found to be caused by insulin and potassium overdoses). Following the second time that she stopped breathing, she was transferred to another hospital but, by this time, had suffered permanent brain damage, partial paralysis and partial blindness due to oxygen deprivation...
• Claire Peck (fifteen months old) – admitted to the ward following an asthma attack on 22 April 1991. After being put on a ventilator, she was left alone in Allitt's care for a short interval during which time she went into cardiac arrest. She was resuscitated but died after a second episode of cardiac arrest, again following a period when she was left alone with Allitt.

Allitt had attacked thirteen children, four fatally, over a 59 day period before she was brought up on charges for her crimes. It was only following the death of Claire Peck that medical staff became suspicious of the number of cardiac arrests on the children's ward and police were called in. It was found that Allitt was the only nurse on duty for all the attacks on the children and she also had access to the drugs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Allitt

"Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968, Corby Glen, Lincolnshire, England), dubbed by the media the Angel of Death...Her method of murder was to inject the child with potassium chloride (to cause cardiac arrest), or with insulin (to induce lethal hypoglycemia).

...As a child, Beverley wore bandages and casts over wounds that she would not allow to be examined. She suffered from a volatile temperament, and became aggressive toward others. She had gall bladder pain, headaches, urinary infections, uncontrolled vomiting, blurred vision, appendicitis, back trouble, and ulcers. Beverley persuaded a doctor to remove a healthy appendix then failed to heal because she kept plucking at the surgical scar. "

http://krazykillers.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/beverley-allitt-alittle-loony/