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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 385404" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Haven't read all of the responses, sorry if I repeat what someone has said.</p><p> </p><p>First you have to get a copy of ALL of her hospital records. Your first request for her records will get you a summary of them, a few paragraphs at best (Wiz 4 month psychiatric hospital stay got five paragraphs of "records" when I first asked). You need to be specific to request a copy of EVERY document/record/chart including all testing. it is likely to take another couple of weeks before medical records will have the chart (here the average is 3-4 weeks after discharge before it is available) but they can go and find it if you have asked for it. Many docs/hospitals will NOT give you ANY response to a request for change the way you put it in the email. The statement that you will sue if they don't respond and don't make substantial changes in the program leaves them open to a whole world of problems if they even acknowledge receipt. Your idea of changes is likely to be entire different than theirs. They also could be opening themselves up to legal action if they change a medical treatment program based on the treat of litigation from an unhappy patient (or patient's guardian) rather than making program changes based on sound medical practice and medical science. Know what I mean?? If they change things because Jen said to, then those changes result in someone getting hurt, the hospital could just say "jen made us so you need to go sue jen" rather than "It isn't legal to give medications to minors without specific permission from their parents so we stopped doing that because the law said we had to" or "we stopped leaving patients alone locked in their rooms in their own waste because it is not healthy to lay around in your own waste all alone for days at a time". </p><p> </p><p>Once you have a copy of the records you need to find a lawyer to help you figure out if you have a case. You will NOT get $$ for the truck repairs because the truck would have needed repairs even if difficult child hadn't needed to be in a hospital. That is what the court will say anyway. The rest? LArgely depends on your attorney. in my opinion the hospital is likely to want to settle if there is much merit to the case legally (from the sounds of it I would think there is merit, but laws are tricky). The state medical board may be able to help you file a complaint if you choose to go that way. Lots of it will depend on what you are suing for. Malpractice is very tough to sue for because you need another doctor to say that what the doctor did was wrong. While a doctor may tell YOU this, getting them to tell a court is another ball of wax.</p><p> </p><p>You will be charged for the records. They will NOT let you go and make the copies, even though they charge a HUGE sum per copy (can be $1 a page or more!). They will likely send the records to another doctor for nothing. Not sure about an attorney. If you have a doctor who is GOOD friends you may be able to get them to give you the copy if they request it. That is how I got Wiz' hospital records. There were over 500 pages to his records, and our therapist looked at them and then handed them over to me. She had no room to store them, if nothing else. </p><p> </p><p>I think you should have grounds for some type of suit. For giving her medications with-o your consent if nothing else. I am so sorry that she was treated so badly there. I honestly think the docs and staff lost sight of the fact that she is just a little girl and got caught up in the "I can MAKE you do it" bullkoi. The program there seems to be about breaking children instead of healing them. WTH was the idea of not letting her have therapy unless she ate her entire meal? Do these docs not know that they are there to treat eating disordersd? It makes no sense and goes against every type of therapy I have ever heard of. Esp therapy for eating disorders. I even asked a friend who has been inpatient several times for both anorexia and bulimia. She couldn't believe this was a program afiliated with ANY hospital, much less one as well known as that one. She said that no reputable program would not let you have either group or indiv therapy if you hadn't eaten. They might make you go back to the food, or take the food to the therapy session, but never would they not let you have the therapy. I would guess that keeping difficult child from therapy would be the basis for any lawsuit, but I am just guessing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 385404, member: 1233"] Haven't read all of the responses, sorry if I repeat what someone has said. First you have to get a copy of ALL of her hospital records. Your first request for her records will get you a summary of them, a few paragraphs at best (Wiz 4 month psychiatric hospital stay got five paragraphs of "records" when I first asked). You need to be specific to request a copy of EVERY document/record/chart including all testing. it is likely to take another couple of weeks before medical records will have the chart (here the average is 3-4 weeks after discharge before it is available) but they can go and find it if you have asked for it. Many docs/hospitals will NOT give you ANY response to a request for change the way you put it in the email. The statement that you will sue if they don't respond and don't make substantial changes in the program leaves them open to a whole world of problems if they even acknowledge receipt. Your idea of changes is likely to be entire different than theirs. They also could be opening themselves up to legal action if they change a medical treatment program based on the treat of litigation from an unhappy patient (or patient's guardian) rather than making program changes based on sound medical practice and medical science. Know what I mean?? If they change things because Jen said to, then those changes result in someone getting hurt, the hospital could just say "jen made us so you need to go sue jen" rather than "It isn't legal to give medications to minors without specific permission from their parents so we stopped doing that because the law said we had to" or "we stopped leaving patients alone locked in their rooms in their own waste because it is not healthy to lay around in your own waste all alone for days at a time". Once you have a copy of the records you need to find a lawyer to help you figure out if you have a case. You will NOT get $$ for the truck repairs because the truck would have needed repairs even if difficult child hadn't needed to be in a hospital. That is what the court will say anyway. The rest? LArgely depends on your attorney. in my opinion the hospital is likely to want to settle if there is much merit to the case legally (from the sounds of it I would think there is merit, but laws are tricky). The state medical board may be able to help you file a complaint if you choose to go that way. Lots of it will depend on what you are suing for. Malpractice is very tough to sue for because you need another doctor to say that what the doctor did was wrong. While a doctor may tell YOU this, getting them to tell a court is another ball of wax. You will be charged for the records. They will NOT let you go and make the copies, even though they charge a HUGE sum per copy (can be $1 a page or more!). They will likely send the records to another doctor for nothing. Not sure about an attorney. If you have a doctor who is GOOD friends you may be able to get them to give you the copy if they request it. That is how I got Wiz' hospital records. There were over 500 pages to his records, and our therapist looked at them and then handed them over to me. She had no room to store them, if nothing else. I think you should have grounds for some type of suit. For giving her medications with-o your consent if nothing else. I am so sorry that she was treated so badly there. I honestly think the docs and staff lost sight of the fact that she is just a little girl and got caught up in the "I can MAKE you do it" bullkoi. The program there seems to be about breaking children instead of healing them. WTH was the idea of not letting her have therapy unless she ate her entire meal? Do these docs not know that they are there to treat eating disordersd? It makes no sense and goes against every type of therapy I have ever heard of. Esp therapy for eating disorders. I even asked a friend who has been inpatient several times for both anorexia and bulimia. She couldn't believe this was a program afiliated with ANY hospital, much less one as well known as that one. She said that no reputable program would not let you have either group or indiv therapy if you hadn't eaten. They might make you go back to the food, or take the food to the therapy session, but never would they not let you have the therapy. I would guess that keeping difficult child from therapy would be the basis for any lawsuit, but I am just guessing. [/QUOTE]
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