I Mean, There's Somethin' Seriously Wrong!
ebook ∣ The Destruction of the Long-Term Health-Care Industry in the United States
By David Lear
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The book itself is all about such inhuman indignities both as a
"resident"of the long-term care facility as well as a "guest" at a middle
school cafeteria when we 343 aged, frail, individuals were ejected
from a church where we were initially bussed from the institution,
"Miracle Center" and left to suffocate in a sealed bus container in the
parking lot of the church. Physical intolerable cruelty was magnified
by endless instances of "nursing personnel" yelling and talking down
to the helpless,elderly patients who were denied food, water, sleep,
and prescribed medication and doctor mandated care.
My background as a Biology major at college and my employment
at a local hospital in the northeast gave me a unique perspective
on overall patient care. But nothing remotely prepared me for the
absolutely inhuman treatment that we "residents" received from a
wide variety of medical "professionals" during my 4-month residence
at the "Miracle Center' institution, nor the abomination of a totally
bungled, criminally negligent transport between the "skilled" nursing
facility, the unsanctioned church destination, and finally, what we all
called the "cafeteria-from-hell" where we were forced to ride out the
brunt of the devastation from the hurricane. As traumatic as all of the
transportation experiences; before, during and after the hurricane so
disgustingly were, that treatment we all received in our facility rooms
was even more inhumane and tragic.
I made every effort to report these flagrant abuses of basic human
indecency to the proper state medical authorities, but they as well as
the institution itself always seemed to be hell-bent on covering up,
dismissing. or otherwise denying that such atrocities even took place.
I desperately reach out to readers from all walks of life to spread the word
about the dismaying reality of what truly happens daily and incessantly
in these "butcher shops" all across the United States of America and,
indeed, around the world. You're hearing this from someone right in
the thick of this obscene and criminal nightmare from hell with the
hope that someone, somewhere, is in a position to stop it before more
innocent elderly lives are lost!