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As the anniversary of my daughter's murder nears, I awoke this morning, felt compelled to write:
(below are excerpts from the book 'SILENT SCREAMS' that I am writing about what doctors of medicine, "healers in the art" did to my daughter, Julia Caren. Julia Caren and I would be planting our spring flowers today, if the greedy, power and money hungry, liars who tack on the title 'Dr.' to their name had kept their degenerate hands off of her)
The time was close to 9 a.m. on a lazy, cool late winter Sunday morning. The place was University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. The patient had just finished a nice breakfast of eggs, toast, juice, fruit, eating every bite. The patient, Julia Caren Olivares pushes aside her empty breakfast tray and gets out her 1000 piece puzzle to work on. The television cartoons are on & her mother would be here soon. Today is the day, mom will take the bus to a nearby shopping mall to get souvenirs from Denver to take home to Julia Caren's boys in Texas. In this preeminent, world renown hospital, Julia Caren would receive the ultimate of care of course, she was 'in good hands'. (this is one of the greatest misgivings that people have. NEVER, not even for a minute leave your loved one in the hands of hospital personnel, ESPECIALLY THE DOCTORS. If you do, you are throwing your loved one in the lion's den for a feast. If any medical person reading this statement disagrees or takes umbrage; let them disprove it).
Julia Caren picks up the pictures of her sons in Texas, gives them a big wet kiss and whispers that she will see them soon.
The nurse assigned to Julia Caren that Sunday morning was a stranger, not familiar with the patient, she was on temporary assignment from a temp agency. The registered nurse brings in a tray of medicine, on the tray is a huge syringe of medication that is to be injected right under the skin in the tummy area. Julia Caren feels instantly defensive and cautious, as she is deaf and cannot communicate and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado has refused to provide this deaf patient an interpreter for communication.
Julia Caren motions that the syringe is too big, that the dosage she usually gets is a very small syringe. The RN is character of "the walking talking hearing-world idiots" and ignores Julia Caren's attempt to communicate. The nurse continues to get the syringe ready to plunge into Julia Caren's stomach. Julia Caren, an intelligent, alert young woman of 40, begins to protest vigorously and adamantly that the syringe is too big, too much, not her dosage. She is ignored. With bruises on both upper arms found at private autopsy, I can only guess that the nurse has an assistant hold Julia Caren's arms down, Julia Caren in her fight for her life, bumps her head on something and causes a contusion above the right ear that bled slightly (also found at private autopsy).
The registered nurse successfully gets the huge syringe plunged into Julia Caren's stomach. In the next few seconds, Julia Caren ceases to breathe. The great and famous, the preeminent world renown Dr. Norbert Felix Voelkel, a German trained scientist, who was in charge of Julia Caren's experimental treatment at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, came to Julia Caren's bedside, took his time in hooking up the machine that showed electrical current still flowing, but with no heartbeat or pulse. Dr. Voelkel in his prestigious knowledge "thinks Julia Caren is having an anxiety attack" and he orders Ativan to give her. Ativan is toxic to patients with breathing difficulties. He nonchalantly calls for a technician to check blood gas. Then he pronounces Julia Caren dead.
The famous German scientist doctor, took it upon himself to decide not to use CPR and resuscitate Julia Caren. This German made the decision to let this 40 year old woman, this mother of two, stay without a heartbeat, as Dr. Voelkel said later, " I DID NOT FEEL THAT HER FUTURE QUALITY OF LIFE MERITED RESUSCITATION".
"Dr." Voelkel would not permit other medical personnel to attempt CPR to restart Julia Caren's heart. GOD Voelkel had made a life and death decision: Death To The Patient.
Two days later, without Julia Caren's family knowledge and against the consent of her family, this world renown German scientist, this "doctor of medicine", trained in Germany, gave orders to cut out Julia Caren's heart, lungs, thymus gland, and pulmonary arteries for his research experiments at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Voelkel, in his arrogance of power, thought no one would find out what he did. Julia Caren's family DID find out what Dr. Voelkel did to her, while another world renown preeminent doctor scientist Dr. David Badesch stands right beside him giving approval and encouragement.
(watch for announcement of the publishing of 'Silent Screams'. a true story of actual facts of what doctors are capable of doing to vulnerable, deaf people)
Ardis Townsend
mother of Julia Caren
The following news article is rather humorous as most "doctors" lack the ability to conscientiously debate anything that would 'only' benefit the patient. The "hype" behind the home defibrillators is the manufacturer of this product who stands to reap rewards of mega bucks when the vulnerable public rushes to buy this home defibrillator. Julia Caren was inside the walls of a world renown hospital and she was denied the use of a defibrillator, CPR, she was let die. We need federal laws to "force" a healer in the arts of medicine to "use" a defibrillator inside hospital walls. In this 21st Century, medical treatment is not about 'making well again', it is about how doctors/drug manufacturers can reap the biggest profit, rake in the mega bucks. If it happens to be at the cost of vulnerable trusting patients, tough stuff, just insignificant collateral damage.
Do not ask me to be objective, rational and courteous with working to "change" the medical system. Do not ask me to conversely speak with medical personnel to enlighten them of 'mistakes', 'errors' that they are making in medicine. Do not ask me to join a group who encourages those who will listen to "clean out their medicine cabinets of old medicines". Do not ask me to participate with sending out flyers and speaking to groups encouraging them to "check out the past record" of their doctor.
A waste of my time and energy. BUT, I will work adamantly with groups who demand from our lawmakers, new federal laws to protect vulnerable patients from doctors/drug manufacturers. Unfortunately, today's world is not a world of solid citizenry, integrity, and 'word of honor' as applied 50 years ago. Today's world is motivated on greed, power, money and infamy with medicine the top contender (right below Enron type companies of course). Federal laws that mandate that a crime in medicine be punished the same as a crime on the streets is punished, is the only way to even put a dent in the atrocities happening above-the-law every minute in medicine. We must have federal laws to protect handicapped, vulnerable sick patients. Presently there are none, and laws like ADA for the handicapped are ignored and worthless, such as in the abuse and denial of basic human rights to my daughter; as well as handicapped rights while in a hospital funded by state and federal funds.
Perhaps "docs" should debate the enforced use of defibrillators in a university hospital setting before in a private home.
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Docs Debate Defibrillators in Homes
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - You can be walking around normally when your heart suddenly stops beating. It takes a mere five seconds to lose consciousness. In 20 seconds, your brain shows it's losing oxygen - your eyes roll back and your arms and legs twitch. In 10 minutes, you'll be dead.
This is sudden cardiac arrest, and there's only one save: a defibrillator, a device that shocks the heart into beating again. Every minute spent waiting for one lowers the chance of survival by 10 percent.
Portable defibrillators in airplanes, shopping malls and casinos have saved lives. Now some doctors, survivors and defibrillator makers say it's time for the easy-to-use machines to move into many homes, alongside such common safety devices as smoke alarms and fire extinguishers.
Other doctors argue that putting defibrillators in so many untrained hands could be risky. They envision a distraught spouse spending precious minutes hunting for the defibrillator instead of dialing 911 - only to discover the machine's battery is dead.
Dr. Arthur Kellerman of Emory University worries that owning a defibrillator might cause people to ignore less glamorous but proven heart protection: ``Why give up my cheeseburgers? I've got old sparky under the couch.''
The American Heart Association says there's no scientific evidence to tell whether at-home defibrillators are helpful or not - the topic hasn't been studied.
Yet already dozens of people - who can afford the $3,500 price tag - have gotten doctors to write them prescriptions for the devices.
``I have one in my home and my car, as a personal safety thing,'' says Dr. Gust Bardy of the University of Washington. ``Speed is of the essence.'' Bardy's research suggests 11-year-olds can quickly learn to operate the machines.
Hoping to widen the market, manufacturer Philips Medical Systems plans to seek Food and Drug Administration approval this spring of a defibrillator specifically designed for at-home use. The device, slightly smaller than those available now, would sell for about $2,300.
Manufacturers are even asking what the FDA would require to sell defibrillators in drugstores without a doctor's prescription.
Every year, about 220,000 Americans collapse and die of cardiac arrest. This is not a heart attack, it's worse: Without warning, the electrical signals that pump the heart go haywire and heartbeat stops. CPR buys crucial time by getting oxygen to the victim's brain while help is summoned. But only a defibrillator can restart the heart.
It requires no special medical expertise, and step-by-step instructions are provided. The machine isn't supposed to shock if it detects a heartbeat.
Paramedics have long carried defibrillators. Backed by studies, such as one that found defibrillators on board American Airlines saved six of 15 cardiac-arrest victims, they're increasingly found in police cars, office buildings, airports, casinos and shopping malls.
The home is the next frontier. Proponents say that's where most cardiac arrests happen.
Studies of laymen's use of defibrillators in public buildings are mixed on whether they increase survival rates significantly more than performing CPR until paramedics arrive.
The National Institutes of Health has begun a major study in 1,000 apartment buildings, health clubs, skyscrapers and other buildings. It doesn't address at-home use specifically - study participants are unlikely to be treated by a loved one - but it should shed some light on ways to ensure defibrillators are used effectively.
More than one person must know where it is and how to use it, says Dr. Marcel Salive of NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Someone must perform regular battery checks.
That sounds simple, but 16 million homes have smoke alarms with dead batteries. Defibrillator proponent Dr. Lance Becker of the University of Chicago admits he doesn't know where his fire extinguisher is.
What's a consumer to think?
Even Becker doesn't think everyone needs a defibrillator yet. But some heart conditions are treated by implanting a defibrillator into the chest - and people too old or ill to undergo that surgery should own a portable defibrillator if they live with someone who could use it on them, he says.
Kellerman calls that reasonable. But he advises anyone else to get a checkup, join a health club and make a donation to the local paramedics. ``You'll do more for your health and your community.''
EDITOR'S NOTE - Lauran Neergaard covers health and medicine for The Associated Press in Washington.
AP-NY-02-04-02 1702EST
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