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How to protect you and your loved ones from the hospital

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It’s a sad day when we need a post like this, but apparently it has come to that.

Unfortunately, you’ve got to understand that we’re at a point now that where they’re murdering people.  The lawyers have been rendered in some cases impotent.

— Thomas Renz

Hospitals receive money when people die.  Unfortunately, there are hospital administrators who are willing to let people die to receive the death money.

Time to Free America and Truth for Health Foundation have laid out processes as well.

Generally, try to avoid going to the hospital at all.  Consult your doctor about when it will save your life to go to a hospital.  Early care is essential for avoiding a hospital stay.  A link to FLCCC protocols is included here.

If hospitalization cannot be avoided, then knowing how to advocate for a family member in the hospital is essential in the current medical environment.  This knowledge can save your family member’s life.

These are my notes from the videos below.  Please watch the videos yourself since I may have missed something.  Both of the Dr. Ardis videos below contain essential information for surviving the current medical situation.  Please check the laws in your locality.  State laws may vary.  Please consult your lawyer.

  1. Keep records of your efforts.
  2. Do not sign anything without reading it thoroughly.  Illegal “Do Not Resuscitate” clauses have been found in admission forms, among other adverse statements.
  3. Personally, I am not keen on “paperwork” requiring electronic signatures.  These can be attached to ANYTHING.  Insist on paper documents to sign.
  4. If you have to drop someone off at the hospital, immediately ask for a medical power of attorney form and sign it over to whoever the hard ass in the family is.  It does not matter why the patient is entering the hospital.  All it takes is a positive COVID test for a hospital patient to become a COVID-19 patient, potentially subject to the the standard dangerous COVID-19 protocol. All patients and their families must know the patient bill of rights in their state.
  5. Do not allow the doctors to put your family member onto palliative care until the family is ready for the patient to die.  That is the care that prepares someone for death.
  6. If a problem develops:
    1. Call the unit, ask for the charge nurse, and say, “I am calling to let you know that I am initiating the chain of command.  I am not happy with my family member’s care.  He is not lucid, and I am telling you that he should not be making his own medical decisions.  Nobody is calling me from the medical team for updates or asking for my permission.  I feel that he is being medically neglected because you are not doing everything that you could be doing to make sure he gets better.  I need someone to call me back within an hour to let me know how we are going to rectify the situation.”  Set an alarm.
    2. Call them back if they don’t call.  Say, “It’s been an hour and no one has called me back.  I need to speak to your manager.  I need your manager to call me back within 30 minutes.  Otherwise, I am going to go there, and we are going to do this in person.  I respect that you are busy,  I respect that there are a lot of patients, but right now I am telling you that I don’t feel that my family member is safe, and you are not responding to me.”
    3. If it is during the day on a weekday, the chain of command works one way.  During the off hours, the chain of command works another way.  The chain of command is charge nurse and then nurse manager of the unit, then director, then the administrative office.  Do not let them direct you to the case manager.  The case manager is useless for this purpose.
    4. Ask for a patient advocate.  You can hire a private patient advocate as well.  That is a clue to the hospital that this could become a legal issue with a lawyer involved.
    5. If that does not work, the next step is to hire a lawyer.
    6. If it is the weekend, the chain of command is charge nurse, and then house manager.
  7. Set up a family patient care conference on the phone.  Attendees could include the nurse, the charge nurse, maybe the manager, maybe the social worker, respiratory therapy, at least one of the physicians involved if not two.
  8. You can fire the doctor.
  9. A patient held hostage without visitors is being subjected to “medical kidnapping.”  Patients fare better when they have visitors.  A medical doctor who forbids visitors can be reported to the state medical board.
  10. If you want your loved one to go home and the hospital will not release them, call the police and say that you want to make a kidnapping charge.
  11. According to Thomas Renz, we need to get rid of the PREP Act.  We should be calling our congressmen every day to request that they repeal the PREP Act.  You can find more details about the PREP Act here.
  12. If you tell a doctor that you do not want a certain drug, they must not give it to you.  If the doctor prescribes it for you anyway, call the police, report it as battery (unwanted touching), and ask that those who administered it be arrested.  Insist on making a report.  It is a criminal violation.
  13. If a source of calories is not included in the patient’s care, call the police or adult protective services and report that the patient is being starved to death.  Insist on making a report.  The appointed power of attorney should have access to the medical records to determine this.  The hospital has a legal obligation to care for the patient.  There is no legal justification where starving someone to death is OK.

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