Correction!
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I *did* (finally on 6/4/08) find my request for Counsel in the medical
records. In Dr. Zumarraga's handwritten notes that
say: "5/26/07 ... 1600[hrs] Addendum -
Wants for lawyer to review consent for medication
form prior to signing it."
(then her initials). But it
never happened. I had to take the medication
that would make me more compliant to sign the
forms I never wished to without the benefit of Counsel. It's
called "diminished capacity". And I would
*never* have signed anything whatever in such
a place knowing what I
now do. Lesson: never sign anything without
fully reading and understanding it. And
especially in this case, without benefit of a
lawyer to protect your interests. A lawyer that
you know personally and that you trust.
Because if they can't get you to sign it, a naïve
and uninformed loved one will suffice. And
sign anything put in front of them. Quickly
and "without question", "in order to get you
out". Not having been told that your
loved one (or you) have just "signed yourself
in". At $3000/daty. Indeed, my
wishes to stay at a motel instead are in the records
also. And totally ignored. Indeed, I'm
grateful to
Motel 6 for finally solving my problem a
half-year later. And not locking me inside
trying to convince me there were all these things
wrong with me and fearful to ask for my records that
only made me feel worse and billing me $32,000 for
it. Gosh, Motel 6 even let me have a telephone
in my room to help me solve it. All this and
they only charged me $60. Without changing my
legal atatus or defaming me in any way whatever.
Where I saw poor decent honest hard working people
staying the night. And never paid the $3000
they were far more deserving of. For all the
hard work they did that day. |
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