Arbour HRI Hospital records: "sub therapeutic"

December 23, 2014



Discharge note from the male doctor and medical director of the hospital, October 28, 2014:

I covered the name of a psychiatrist and the location of a therapist.

What might help the average employee of this hospital to develop insight about spelling and grammar?

I don't think it's lack of intelligence that creates hospital notes like this one and many of the others that I have published.  Mental patients are dehumanized everywhere in society, including in mental hospitals, and the standards for their care are correspondingly low. 

Many hospitals also illegally prevent patients from reading their charts while they are hospitalized.  Then they charge what are, for a lot of people, prohibitive fees to get copies of their records after they are discharged.  There's not much a patient can do with his or her record after being discharged; by the time a patient is discharged, the hospital has already done everything it could do to that patient.

There's no mention in this note of the medication reaction that I had, or that I was transferred back to the more disturbed unit the day after I had that reaction.  There's no acknowledgement of the reality of my being emotionally abused by staff or patients.  There's no acknowledgement that I asked for help with getting the harassment stopped several times every day, and that the help was often refused and never provided a total cure even when it wasn't refused.  I went through the same process every day, all over again.  There's no mention of the relentless harassment of me by male patients at the mixed gender unit.  There no mention of my having asked to be in the hospital; my admission is discussed in such way that I am characterized as being practically witless.


Sarcasm Alert:

Gosh darn it, that's what hurts!  Call me anything you want, just don't say I'm not funny!

End of Sarcasm Alert


There's no mention of the fact that we had just gone to court the morning of October 28, and that his original goals of having me committed and court-ordered to take medication did not happen.  There's no mention of the public defender or the independent psychiatrist who supported my goals for the court hearing.  Although he lost both parts of the court case which he had brought, he insists in this discharge note that I am not taking enough medication.

Considering how I was treated when I had the medication reaction, what do you think would have happened if he had succeeded at getting me court-ordered to take whatever medications, and at the higher doses, that he wanted me to take?  Do you think that he would have listened to what I had to say about the side effects or that I could have gotten taken to a physical hospital if I'd had another medication reaction?

I could have died in that hospital.  That was an ironic thought that I had while I was having the medication reaction a couple of weeks before the hearing.   I thought I was going to die, and I couldn't help being partially amused by that thought, since the conglomerate has made me frequently suicidal since 2010, with no credible remorse.


Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, December 23, 2014 @ 8:13 p.m.