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My Dad underwent palliative (broke BBB) radiation treatment (for rare postcricoid tumor). I had fought against RT as I knew my Dad would not survive it. There was only one discussion of immunotherapy, even though curative went from 50% to 20%, treatment continued. Absolutely nothing was done to protect him, and RTshould have stopped.

Dad was never offered in home hospice, refused SNF (discharge codes impact reimbursement). After completing 33 treatments, he was sent home in obstructive ARF with incubating HA pneumonia, without treatment & LFTs↑ (unreported hydromorphone reaction). Dad been admitted for last RT only. If treated for’ not POA’ it would have impacted reimbursement. So on next, and final admission (10 days later), it was too late.

We have attempted to challenge the fortress of systemic bureaucracy to report fraud, gross negligence & sub-standard ‘Acceptable Standards of Practice’ to the appropriate authorities, but all has been sanctioned by DPH, QIO, Joint Comm, HHS/OIG, CMS. My Dad’s D.C. is falsified and he remains a falsified vital statistic. Had iatrogenesis been addressed it would have saved the taxpayer thousands (i.e.pacer at taxpayer expense due to reaction to cocaine hydrochloride.)

Dad had a surgically flawless hip replacement that healed readily w/o issue. Subsequent events: med reaction, ARF/CRF, several unreported nosocomial infections (i.e.HA MRSA), stage IV decubitus (gauzes left in sacrum), expunged MRSA bacteremia, hemo abnormalities, untreated systemic inflammation, cryptogenic cirrhosis, insulin resistance, etc. to rare tumor. All allowed for exploitation of pre-existing co-morbidities, and gave carte blanche to extensive falsified, creative coding.

I had read a lot re: death panels – and in my father’s case they do exist. Under iatrogenic allopathic ‘care’ my Dad was forced to suffer and die…and was denied any morsel of dying with dignity.

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