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Kaiser and the For Profit Permanente Cancer and Tumor Patient Medical Horror Stories
Throughout her entire adult life Jeanne was plagued with peculiar physical symptoms which were eventually explained by a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis on June 4, 1998 by which time she was in a wheelchair. MS took its toll on her health throughout her life but she never gave up,maintaining a fine sense of humor and perseverance even as MS rendered her bedridden. ..........
A stunning diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer on May 3, 2006 was followed by successful surgery May 26, leaving her and family and friends filled with hope. Over the next 26 days a succession of hospital errors took their toll and she died suddenly June 21 and was removed from life support June 24 after all hope was gone.
Kaiser killed her - AUTOPSY results added 10/27/06.
http://www.mjbarkl.com/jeanne.htm
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Scott Bracy is the father of a three-month-old baby girl, and he’s fighting for his life.
In August Scott was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Doctors at Kaiser Permanente medical center in Riverside told him with aggressive chemotherapy treatment he would have a twelve percent chance of survival.
Then, just a few days before his fourth scheduled treatment, Scott received this letter from Kaiser, which says, “your membership in Kaiser foundation health plan has been revoked due to the intentional misrepresentation of your health history." An allegation that Scott vehemently denies. Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/can/bracy.html
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Way to go Kaiser. Your pattern is consistent with all patient stories.
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COMMENT: Judges don't generally list physcians as being responsible for harming a patient unless they actually were found to be responsible. Why these physicians appear to be given special treatment with reporting in this public database by the medical board is only a question that can be answered by the CA Med. Board and Kaiser.
How Kaiser has mistreated Miss.Breanna Pflaumer - http://www.hembree.us/Breanna.html Breanna Pflaumer is a young lady with parents that knew Kaiser wasn't telling all. For two years Kaiser had been pretending that she had little if anything wrong with her. For two years this young lady suffered and for two years Kaiser pretended that they did not know what was really wrong. This isn't malpractice, this is called committing fraud. Kaiser did it on purpose to avoid treating a patient.
Breanna was losing a lot of weight and had developed serious neurological problems. In characteristic Kaiser behavior several months went by before Kaiser could get around to allowing Breanna to be properly examined. Meanwhile Breanna's parents kept taking her back to Kaiser for medical care. This is called Kaiser medical billing fraud and is highly profitable to the company. Repeated co-pays being paid by patients that are being strung along make up a mighty tidy income for Kaiser. Kaiser staff played dumb and people do get the idea when this happens that the place is run by unprofessional, improperly trained phyciains. Nothing is further from the truth. They know exactly what they are doing with these matters and they are doing it on purpose.
When Kaiser was finally forced into examining this young lady they followed their classic pattern of delay of diagnosis by sending her to first an endocrinologist who misdiagnosed her, lied about what tests were run and sent her off to a dietician claiming that she had a eating disorder thus labeling her a mental patient.
Whenever any patient is labeled a mental patient in the Kaiser system that should be a big red flag to get a through physical examination somewhere else immediately.
To continue this standard treatment Kaiser tried to transfer the burden of actual cause of disease onto the patient. This is again a classic attempt to distract from what they are actually doing which is avoid providing medical care while collecting those co-pays. Finally, near the end of 2004 Kaiser diagnosed her with inoperable cancer. This is the time of year when Kaiser will intentionally misdiagnosis or underdiagnose or outright lie to the patient that there is no hope in order to have enough money left over in their budget to transfer to the Permanente for the physicians retirement fund.
Breanna's parents got her medical care outside the Kaiser system at their own expense. The fake Kaiser Review Board is refusing to reimburse the family for actual costs of "real" medical care. If it were a true Review Board the family would have already been reimbursed. Read the entire story and how it is progressing at:
For two years Kaiser staff pretended they were dumb. Eight Kaiser Permanente physicians that were involved in this patients medical care refused to notify the patient, her husband, her children, anyone of the seriousness of this patients condition. This is a straightforward case of intentional denial of service to the detriment of the patient with the intent to commit medical and financial fraud. This is the purest example as to why all patients should have a complete copy of their own medical records at all times. If Mrs. Runels had obtained a copy of her medical records rather than trusting her physicians she would have known what was wrong with her and could have investigated other medical resources outside of the Kaiser system. This is also a very clear case of Permanente physicians trying to keep as much of the revenue in the Kaiser bank accounts as possible rather than being spent, as promised to patients for their medical care. Kaiser Senior Plans are nothing more than a sham both on the Medicare system and the trusting patient.
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To: Rep. John Doolittle - March 24, 2005 http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=403&letter_id=208738671 Jane Stevens writes of how little the Kaiser Senior Advantage Plan helped her mother Violette Runels and clearly and concisely explains how Kaiser is nothing more than a wellness program that the public could get free at any YMCA, information from a magazine at a supermarket checkout line or any public library. When the time comes that real medical care is needed Kaiser has already used up alloted patient money on the wellness program that is merely an illusion of medical services performed. They are the masters of deny, delay and do not treat. It does little good after a patient is dead for Kaiser to receive a small reprimand for their conduct. The public is being deceived by this sham organization that purports to provide medical care.
Evelyn L. Moreno was diagnosed with abdominal cancer at Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Hospital; the late part of November 2002.
This story is about Evelyn's fight to go home to die, and her abandonment. The term "full code" means that the patient wishes full resuscitation.
Her son Patrick, took issue with the Kaiser Doctors, about not granting his mothers wishes. He said, "She has a right to "full code" status, if that is what she wants. Do you want her to change her religion too; to be allowed to go home?"
This web site appears to no longer be online and has been preserved here: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/can/evelyn-moreno.html
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Listen to WBUR Boston - "The Connection"- Show Originally Aired: 2/24/2004
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Lawsuit / Campaign against HMO Kaiser
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Dear Michael Moore: When I learned this morning that you were now beginning pre-production on Sicko, my sense of elation knew no bounds. And I felt the necessity of writing this letter of congratulations and encouragement. You couldn't have chosen a better topic. The horrifying and inhumane health care system---or lack thereof--- in the U.S. (especially as exemplified by HMOs) is hobbling unions, and causing millions of otherwise healthy people to shamble around half-mad simply because they are fearful of what might happen to them if they were to fall ill. And that's just for starters. In the past few days I have been contemplating writing a missive of complaint to the HMO Kaiser Permanente. Either to a director or ombudsman at Kaiser, if indeed such individuals as the latter even exists there. But it will be a pointless act, I know. For if anything demonstrates my axiom "No Time Left to Do the Right Thing" (in this particular society), it is Kaiser.
BTW I don't know whether you will recall, but I interviewed you for "International Documentary" in 1989 when Roger & Me was released. I can still remember that you, my co-interviewer David Ehrenstein and I, spent nearly as much time talking about Bitburg as we did your film. Specifically about how much, as David had observed, the graveside tableau at Bitburg exactly resembled a scene in Triumph of the Will.
My complaints against Kaiser are not as dire as, for example, the woman in Putnam County, West Virginia who recently had both legs amputated by mistake. Wrong woman, you see. Not Kaiser, of course, still it makes my point. Nor even as grave as the woman across the street from me who recently had cancer surgery at Kaiser and was then tossed out on the street the same day (!), because there were "no more beds available."
Still. . .how would you like to be told, as was I not long ago by a doctor at Kaiser, that you had had a major heart attack and then ordered to endure a sedentary life for an entire month only to discover that the incorrect diagnosis was based upon a faulty EKG. They had me walking around with a vial of nitroglycerine, for crying out loud! Well, at least I had both my legs left.
Sure "mistakes occur." But a month prior to that, a faulty x-ray caused me to have to deal for several days with another incorrect diagnosis of. . . .LUNG CANCER. Both of these arising BTW from shoulder pain that I have endured for nearly two years without Kaiser doing much of anything to alleviate it. All for the low Low LOW cost of 389.00 per month. Q. How can they do it? The Answer: volume Volume VOLUME!
I have periodic nightmares of a Soylent Green nature about Kaiser: people going in but never coming out. . .if you catch my drift. All the better to make room for yet more "suckers," most of whom cannot afford anything more than the far less than acceptable and humane "care" they allegedly provide. (An exception: I did one time see L.A.'s RICH ex-Mayor Tom Bradley there. But then I always did find him somewhat dim.)
And I could go on and on. Things like a full set of x-rays taken by a technician, only for him to discover after he was finished that I had not taken a chain off from around my neck. Maybe that was HIS job to notice. Thus, I had to go through the whole process again. It's a wonder my arm didn't fall off from all the radiation. Then there was the time that. . . oh never mind.
Maybe I am just an extreme example of Kaiser's ineptitude. I truly feel if every one of their, uh, CLIENTS had experienced half of what I have with that HMO in the way of outright incompetence and inhumanity there would be rioting in the streets in front of their facilities round the clock. But I don't think this is the case; for I have heard more than my fair share of Kaiser horror stories from others, as well as similar tales about other HMOs. To whit: someone told me recently told me that PacifCare was even worse than Kaiser and I had to do a spit take.
I realize in the final analysis your film will not just be about HMOs, but the entire SICK medical situation in this country. In other words, HMOs finally are but a "neurotic system," if you will, of problems ultimately much more serious.
Goodluck and godspeed. I would love to help you with this project in any way that I possibly can.
Regards, Bill Reed
PS: I just decided that instead of writing a letter to Kaiser, I'll simply cc a copy of this to their head honcho.
PPS: And what's the deal with not being able to sue HMO's? LOL
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Vianna Trenchuk waits alone in a cavernous room. It is empty, except for the cold metal bed she lies on and the machine she hopes will save her life.
Four screws hold an awkward metal frame steady on her head: two in front above her eyes and two behind, where a scar curves like a question mark down the back of her head. Doctors hoped a surgery to remove Vianna's rare tumor three years ago would cure her, but in January, a walnut-sized growth glowed white against black on the 15-year-old's brain scans. The disease was back.
"She is out of options," said Dr. Michael Miller, radiation oncologist at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. "That's a hard thing to accept."
When Kaiser doctors told the family this spring that there is no proven way to save or prolong Vianna's life, her parents, Dwayne and Sandra, launched an odyssey many with cancer brave: They decided to investigate the alternatives on their own.
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Dan Freedman, EXAMINER WASHINGTON BUREAU Wednesday, May 17, 1995
Ryan Comer, a star high school baseball player with aspirations to play professionally, died of a rare form of pediatric cancer known as rhabdomyosarcoma in 1991 at age 17. Kaiser attorneys argued the treatment was not covered by Comer's HMO plan (through her job at AT&T) because it was experimental. Comer eventually raised $100,000 to cover the cost of the treatment, but Ryan's cancer was too advanced, and he died soon after.
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On September 2, 1988, approximately one month before Corey completed his chemotherapy, he was admitted to Kaiser Hospital for Cytoxan treatment. Three hours after administration of the Cytoxan, the pharmacist noticed that an error had been made in its preparation. Insteading receiving 700 mg of Cytoxan, Corey received 70 mg of Cisplatin. http://www.vaagelaw.com/cases/CH20.asp
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That was not Dr.
Lew's first
malpractice case while with Kaiser.
As per the San Diego
County Superior Court :
Case Title:
GALINDO vs
KAISER
FOUNDATIONHOSPITALS
Case Number:
565824
Case Location:
San
Diego
Case Type:
Civil
Date Filed:
06/04/1986
Category:
A72120
Personal Injury
(Other)
Plaintiff/Petitioner
Last Name or Business Name
First Name
Primary (P)
GALINDO
CARMEN
P
GALINDO
GUADALUPE
GALINDO
JULIE
Defendant/Respondent
Last Name or Business Name
First Name
Primary (P)
KAISER
FOUNDATIONHOSPITALS
P
KAISER FOUND HEALTH PLAN INC
LASASSO
BARRY
LEW
SAM WEI
PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP INC
SOUTHERN CALIF PERMANENTE MED
California
Medical Board Info -
Licensee
Name:
SAM WEI LEW, MD
License
Type:
PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON
License
Number:
G36379
License
Status:
LICENSE DELINQUENT
WEILEW LICENSE NUMBER: ME85483
Year
Began Practicing:
7/1/1976
Expiration
Date:1/31/2004
The
practitioner is not obligated to update their profile data.
Status:VOL-RELINQ/
SAM
WEI LEW
LICENSE NUMBER: ME85483
Profession:Medical Doctor
(more
info, click here)
Year Began Practicing:7/1/1976
Expiration
Date:1/31/2004
The
practitioner is not obligated to update their profile data.
Status:VOL-RELINQ/
Primary Practice
Address
SAMWEILEW
NEMOURS CHILDREN'S
CLINIC
5153 NORTH 9TH AVENUE
PENSACOLA,FL32504
Secondary
Address(es)
No secondary address available.
Medicaid
This practitioner does
participate in the Medicaid
program.
Staff Privileges This practitioner currently holds staff privileges at the following hospital/medical/health institutions: Institution Name SACRED HEART HOSPITAL City PENSACOLA State FLORIDA E-Mail Address Please contact at: swlew@prodigy.net Other State Licensure This practitioner has indicated the following additional state licensure: State MAINE Profession MD State CALIFORNIA Profession MD Sam Wei Lew MD(207) 255-3356 Rr 1 Box 11 Machias, ME 04654 as of September 28, 2007
The American Board of Pediatrics has this information about Dr. Lew: Sam W Lew Orono, Maine United States of America
Estate of Gerri Fuentes v. Nancy Hundt, M.D., Kaiser Foundation Health Plan - Failure to Diagnosis Cancer Verdict Information: On Feb 5, the jury ruled in favor of the defense. Post-verdict, the case was settled as to one of the defendants pursuant to a high/low agreement-the details of which were not disclosed. The plaintiff also requested a new trial regarding Mid Atlantic, based on an alleged erroneous jury instruction on proximate cause.
https://kaiserpapers.com/legalstuff/gerri.htm
Insurer said no, so cancer patient pays for experimental treatment
Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, December 15, 2007 Pappas' personal nightmare started in November 2006 when she went in for her biannual ultrasound. She took that extra precaution because her mother had died of breast cancer less than three years earlier, placing her at high risk for the disease.She became nervous when the ultrasound technician at Kaiser's San Francisco hospital took longer than expected and made a comment suggesting something had changed.
"I asked for a biopsy, and they didn't do it," Pappas said, adding she was never informed about inflammatory breast cancer and its symptoms. "Four and a half months later, I have stage 4 cancer."
Kaiser officials have defended the health maintenance organization's decisions, describing her care as "appropriate and consistent with standard practice given her family history."
............Adding to the controversy, bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer patients fell out of favor in the late 1990s after studies showed it did not prove beneficial. Pappas' doctors, however, are testing their theory that the procedure might be successful among a select group of patients.
Barbara Brenner, executive director of Breast Cancer Action, said it's appalling that M.D. Anderson would require Pappas to pay for the privilege of becoming a human guinea pig.
Read more at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2007/12/15/MNQETTOVL.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/c/a/2007/12/15/MNQETTOVL.DTLkaiserpapers.com/horror Les Mahler - misdiagnosed and not treated by Kaiser Permanente.
Name redacted as per patient agreement with Kaiser for lawsuit settlement
The death of my amazing mother Tami