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"Corporations
can be charged with
crimes," Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School.
In Memory
of Ryan Arthur
Huff Lawsuit
/ Campaign against
HMO Kaiser
Regarding
Baby Ryan -
"IT
WOULD BE INTERESTING TO
FIND OUT HOW MUCH MONEY WAS
SPENT TO FIGHT RATHER
THEN TREAT THIS
CHILD.
WHAT
ARE PATIENTS REALLY
PAYING FOR? MEDICAL TREATMENT
OR LITIGATION? WHAT IS KAISER'S BUSINESS?
TO TREAT OR TO LITIGATE? " Dina
Padilla/Former Kaiser Pediatric Unit Worker
Newscoverage
in Real
Video of the Kaiser Permanente Protest held in Baldwin Park, California
for Baby Ryan. Station KMEX, Channel 34 Broadcast in
Spanish.Newscoverage
in Real
Video of Ryan Arthur Huff and what Kaiser Permanente did not do to help
him on Channel52/Telemundo
Los Angeles Broadcast in Spanish.
Newscoverage
in Real
Video of Ryan Arthur Huff and his family on KABC/Channel 7 Los
Angeles.
Broadcast
in English
Newscoverage
in Real
Video of the Kaiser Permanente Protest held in Baldwin Park, California
for Baby Ryan. Station KMEX, Channel 34 Broadcast in
Spanish.Newscoverage
in Real
Video of Ryan Arthur Huff and what Kaiser Permanente did not do to help
him.
We are Don Huff
& Veronica Solorzano, the
parents of Ryan Arthur
Huff from Baldwin Park, California. Our 14 month old baby past away in
the hands of Kaiser Permanente, due to neglect. We have launched a
public
campaign and filed a law suit against Kaiser Permamente for the
wrongful
death of our son.
Since his
passing we
have had 2 peaceful
demonstrations in front of
Kaiser Baldwin Park. Our story has made front page of the San Gabriel
Valley
Tribune, and reached many families by television news channels that
came
to our demonstrations are as follows: UPN 13, FOX 11, ABC7, KMEX 34,
TELEMUNDO
52. Our son has touched many peoples lives and have help support us to
continue to fight for the rights that our son deserved.
Ryan was born
on 5/10/01,
and passed away on
7/13/02. Several
doctors denied to provide the proper medical attention that could have
saved our sons life. We requested Blood test, X-rays and CT
scans,
if the doctors would have listened to our concerns as parents, our son
would be alive today. In failing to do so our son was first
checked
starting July 7 and he past away on July 13 of a brain tumor undetected
until it was too late to operate, all because doctors refused to listen
to us. His symptoms were as follows:
* Drastic Weight Loss
* Loss of Appetite
* Vomiting 2 to 4 times daily
* Severe Constipation
* Shaking
* Falling on his side & could not sit up
* Extreme dehydration
After all this,
several doctors stated that we
were being over protective
parents and should come back in a week, also that the tests we
requested
were too expensive to do and would only be done if they found reason to
do so. Not only were we turned away once, but twice, but on the third
visit
we refused to leave.
That was when
finally in the ER Ryan was given a
blood test and an x-ray,
only to confirm that he was extremely dehydrated and
constipated.
He was transfer to Kaiser on Sunset in which he then suffered seven
seizures
and went code blue. Once our son suffered many seizures and
was on
life support was when doctors finally rushed him to get a CT
scan,
which confirmed that our son had an undetected brain tumor and that it
was too late to operate.
We were then
told that if we could have brought
him sooner he would
have had a 70% - 75% chance of surviving the surgery. The
surgeon
could not do anything for him, because his brain tumor had
already erupted. When we mentioned that we did indeed bring him to
Kaiser
Baldwin Park on July 7, July 9, and finally July 10 he told us that if
the doctors would have listened to us, he could have had done his
job.
Ryan
never had a chance with our
HMO Kaiser, he
deserved that chance
in which doctors never cared to provide.
Upon his
passing, we have taken upon ourselves to
make a difference
in his honor. We have had great support from:
* Senator Dianne Feinstein
Deputy State Director GuillermoGonzalez
&
Field Representative Kristen Garey
* Senator Gloria Romero
Case worker Bill Baca
* City of Baldwin Park
Council member Ricardo Pacheco
Our complaints
have been filed with Consumer
Affairs General Medical
Board, and is in process of a full investigation.
Since then our
tragedy has
inspired us to continue
to help people of
the community, to make a difference for all walks of life that we have
rights and we deserve the best medical attention. We all pay our
premiums
and in return we deserve the proper medical attention for human
life.
Not
only are we fighting against
our HMO, Kaiser
Permamente, but have
taken upon ourselves to make a difference in our City. Our story has been high profile in all Kaiser
hospitals, and within the
community.