Opening statements begin in a $200 million lawsuit against All Children’s Hospital by a family featured in the Netflix documentary ‘Take Care of Maya’. DETAILS: bit.ly/48q4jMA
It angers me so much when a hospital or doctor says the pain is in the person's head. I know a young woman who was in her twenties when she started experiencing excruciating pain. Doctors tried to tell her it was in her head. She didn't give up. She finally got her diagnosis. She had an extremely rare cancer. Fortunately one physician in our city was well informed on this cancer and knew how to proceed. She fought a long and hard battle. Sadly the cancer finally won that battle after nine years a few weeks ago. She leaves behind a loving son and husband. Doctors who just say it's all in your head need to rethink why they should practice medicine. Their job is to help people heal or at least treat them to a level to manage life as best as humanly possible. My heart goes out to this dear family. I hope she will be able to find qualified, compassionate, capable physicians for the rest of her life.
As a CRPS sufferer of 5 years, i hope this family gets justice! No doctor or hospital should ever handle patient care with such cruelty! CRPS is extremely serious and painful and should not be taken lightly! I've seen both sides of fantastic doctors and negligent doctors on this condition and luckily am able to get treatment. Sadly, some neglect their oath of "do no harm" and even lie on medical records
My niece has had this disease for about 15 years. Her original injury that caused the CRPS was a fall from a climbing rope during high school p.e. class. The teacher had not placed any mats under the rope to cushion anyone falling.
Parents: I don’t think most of you realize how easily this could happen to us; to you! They medically kidnapped this little girl. A girl who had years and years of medical records proving she had this disease. This hospital needs to pay. The “doctors” who did this need to pay. Unfortunately, even if they were awarded all of the money in the world, none of it can bring back Maya’s precious mother. 😢
As a CRPS survivor. As we all are who live with this horrific and painful disease. I am horrified by the callous disregard of these Drs. I understand that not every Dr knows about CRPS but that does not condone their behavior towards this family and to this girl who as a young age was dealing with pain that most people would not have been able to. There is a reason they call this the suicide disease. I hope this brings more awareness to CRPS. I also hope that there is justice to this family for the callous behavior behavior and disregard John Hopkins had towards this family
I watched the documentary and was in tears !! This family has been through hell !! God bless you and stay strong justice has to be served in this case !!!
MUST READ: "Medical Kidnapping" ARTICLE: Escape From The Mayo Clinic: Teen (18 turned 19 yrs.) Accuses World Famous Hospital of "MEDICAL KIDNAPPING" Part 1 (l o n g s t o r y) CNN 8-13-2018 ARTICLE: Escape From The Mayo Clinic: Parents Break Out Teen Out Of World Famous Hospital CNN 8-13-2028 PART 2; Alyssa Giderhus-parents never thought they'd have to HELP her Escape a few months later. (l o n g s t o r y AND "M A N Y" United States Doctors & Hospitals were OUT RAGED on this story and Mayo has done the same with NUMEROUS patients :( :( Mayo-Rochester, MN. . .INDEPENDENT Social Worker WAS NEVER ASKED INTO MY CASE :( :( :( I and the Hematologist and Rheumatoid Arthritis DOCTORS and "I" was doing JUST FINE with MY Medical "Conditions" ! ! I had been taking Methatrexate for my RA Joint deterioration (crippling) for years. I moved and all the pharmacies in the County refused to FILL the Methotrexate and the RH Specialist REFUSED to write a prescription for FOLIC ACID to keep me from getting Methotrexate Poisoning! ! AUG. 22, 2012 my Doctor told me to go to the Emergency Room to get PLATLETS INFUSED because my red and white blood cells were 2 and 3 count! The Emergency Room was CLOSED because they were having a Party & watching football. I was transferred to Methodist Hospital, Mayo, Rochester. Blood was taken at 3:00 A.M. 6:00 A.M. I had NO RED OR WHITE BLOOD COUNTS. BOTH Doctors didn't know how I was still alive, talking, perky, answering questions. I said to give me ONE UNIT of platelets! Next morning, around 8:00 A.M. NOTHING HAPPENED? ? I asked if I could OVERDOSE on another unit of platelets. Hematologist said; "No". Second unit of platelets infused. Next morning the Hematologist came DANCING into my room and WE DESIDED I'd be going back to my apartment on Sept. 5th, my son would come to get me. [Mayo-Rochester, MN] The EVIL, VANDICTIVE, independent social worker tried to FORCE me to SIGN, POWER OF ATTORNY over to HER TO MAKE MY MEDICAL DECISIONS? ? ? ? She SCREAMED, STOMPED, YELLED, GOT IN MY FACE and THREATENED me to SIGN the POA! ! ! ! I WAS "55" YEARS OLD and have ALWAYS MADE MY OWN MEDICAL DECISIONS because I was born with NO BLOOD CLOTTING PROPERTIES! ! ! SHE WAS TRYING TO SEND ME OFF TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION BEFORE I REACHED MY SON TO COME AND GET ME ON SEP. 5TH. SHE WHISKED ME OFF VERY EARLY SEP. 4TH IN A VAN TO A NURSING HOME WITHOUT TELLING MY HEMATOLOGIST WHERE I WENT. . ."I DISAPPEARED".? ? ? [NOT ONE PERSON ON DUTY AND SEEN MR LEAVING HAD THE GUTS TO TELL MY DOCTOR, WHERE I WENT] .THE NURSING HOME WAS "V E R Y ANGRY". . ."GETTING V E R Y" TIRED OF ROCHESTER-MAYO EMPLOYEES RE-ROUTING PEOPLE TO THEM. . .STATING THEY WERE SENDING SO-CALLED, VIOLENT, MENTALLY ILL, PAITIENTS? ? ? Only to find out (LIKE ME) I was going home the next day? ? ? After a year of LIES and hundreds of Falsified, Bogus blood tests, [SPENDING THE WHOLE $1 Million LIFE TIME Health Insurance Policy--MAXXED OUT] to see WHY I had no blood clotting properties by another QUACK hematologist. I have von Willie Brand Factor and a LOT OF FEMALES have LOTS of different types of blood clotting conditions--NOT UNUSUAL :) :) The QUACK hematologist diagnosis me as having HEMAPHILIA--me LAUGHING :) :) I researched that in Medical Books. The females are carriers and can give hemophilia to their sons! ! ! Take time to READ about Rochester-Mayo's KIDNAPPING patients. . .you'll be "ANGRY".
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Prayers and Justice for this family. Your story has touched my heart and i am so sorry if no one has ever told you that you had to deal with so much loss, pain, hurt and Trauma. Your family deserves justice and you do as well. May God Bless you!!!
I hope they get everuthing they ask for. The mom sacrificed herself for her daughter because she felt she had no other choice. This family was tortured. For what?
with all due respect, please don't. this family needed help for sure, it was a very difficult situation, but your take that committing suicide when she knew how her daughter would be affected....a daughter who has a disease nicknamed ''the slow suicide", and her symptoms get worse under stress..........that is the darkest thing I've ever heard of. So, please just don't. That kid should not be in this trial right now. None of this should be happening.
The defence never seems to mention that they were ultimately WRONG in their suspected diagnosis, which was that the CRPS was all in Maya’s head & that it was therefore Munchhausen by proxy. That incorrect diagnosis is what lead DCF/CPS to get involved in the first place…so yes, the hospital is responsible for this. Also, they are saying they charged the hospital’s insurance for CRPS, which they flat out denied in their diagnosis of Maya…and the defence is saying that regardless of what the diagnosis was that they were reimbursed for the services & treatment provided to Maya. Who cares what the reimbursement was?! Ultimately, the hospital made the incorrect diagnosis to begin with, gaslighted Maya & her parents (especially the mum), and then got the state involved in taking over custody & refusing to allow Maya’s mother to see her at all and labelling her mother a danger to Maya. This lead to Maya’s mother’s suicide. The hospital making the incorrect diagnosis to begin with, and then insisting on treating Maya as per the same incorrect diagnosis for 3 months is the catalyst for DCF being involved to begin with and the whole saga that followed. DCF can only go according to the hospitals diagnosis that this was Munchhausen by proxy. However , the hospital’s carelessness to simply diagnose Maya with Munchhausen, and their failure to continue to investigate other possible diagnoses in the 3 months she was held captive by the state & hospital is pure recklessness. I hope the hospital gets buried for this and that all the doctors involved in incorrectly diagnosing Maya have their medical license taken away from them.
Exactly! You take Maya from her family and accused her mother of medical child abuse, but then you bill the insurance company for the same disease that her mom was fighting that her daughter being treated of. Mind blowing and angry!!!! In the end is never about the well being of the child it’s all about money for the hospitals.
I hope and pray Maya and her family get the justice the deserve and so much more. RIP to her mother. I can’t imagine the heartbreak she must of had. So horrible. I would love to see an interview of Maya and how she feels. Hopefully she’ll testify
❤ These large corporations and hospitals and beauracitues are responsible for this tragedy of this family and others. Dfcs/cps hire people that get trained and thrown in the field and giving promotions to people supervisory decisions that make these decisions. Her mother left this world so Myah could return home, a tragedy, look at all the trials online with DCFS/Cps involvement and the children are killed, because caseworkers didn't protect them, it needs to change, I a mandated reporter in my work, but I will have facts before jumping to conclusions based on bias. The system and courts need to change. Love and prayers to this family and all the families involved with John Hopkins, Florida family services, and this justice system that kept denying this trial! . May justice finally be served!
I would like to know a little more about why the mother checked herself out of her hospital (after having her baby) to go to a hospital to be able to give blood for her baby. 1. Was this a rare blood type that was not attainable by the hospital? Was it necessary that she do that? 2. The hospital wouldn't let her give blood because she hadn't recovered from having the child yet so did she lie to the other hospital about having just given birth or did the hospital not have a policy in place. It would seem like if it was a rare blood type then the hospital would leave it up to her as to whether she would want to give.
His explanation of her “giving blood” did not do it justice. Thrombocytopenia has to be treated by stem cell/bone marrow platelets and most likely she was his only match to his blood or marrow typing. It was not as simple as just rolling up her sleeve. They take this from your bone and it takes the donors body a month to replace, and much longer for a donor who just gave birth. If the lawyer had of explained it correctly, he would have made it clear that Biata saved her babies life while risking her own health and didn’t think twice doing it. JUSTICE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!
@l.j.1585 she sacrificed herself to get her daughter out of that hospital. Completely unnecessary and tragic. Shame on the hospital and CPS for what they did.
High level synopsis: Maya started having unexplained pain as a young child. Her mom did everything she could to figure out what was going on. They went to a doctor that prescribed them s treatment of meds that finally helped stop the pain. I believe she ended up going to a local hospital due to an issue and when the mother told them what she was taking for her pain, those doctors at the hospital thought it was too excessive. So they pretty much labeled her mom a Munchhausen by proxy caretaker. The hospital staff used the courts to keep her mom away from the daughter (who was forced to stay at the hospital for months) for so long that ultimately the mom committed suicide.
This defense attorney is trying to flip the evidence. This kid had a rare syndrome before the Ketamine. The symptoms were there BEFORE the Ketamine. Ketamine was the only thing that worked. The reasons why she gained a measly 4 pounds was because of containment. Its typical that that doctors do not like anything that is outside of there practice. Its typical that DCF has absolutely no medical training. Now they are stating that DCF (a social worker) is now the main doctor. This defense attorney keeps flipping back and forth who kept her there. The CPS doctor is definitely not an expert in anything. They have become a disappointment in this day and age.
Thermography testing with accompanying pictures is also a diagnostic tool for this truly awful disease , latest research suggests the fault lies around the chromosome 8 marker
Why didnt the parents continue going to doctor that could perform the ketamine treatment? Why did they keep going bsck to a place that would not , or could not , legally give that treatment ?
I think also because Maya fell Ill and they took her to nearest emergency centre and then they would not let her out ( as I remember from the Netflix documentary)
in the documentary they said they couldnt afford it anymore. the og doctor recommended another doctor he knew, and i think they saw him for a while and she improved. then a year or so later she relapsed, and if i remember correctly it was bad enough that the dad took Maya straight to the hospital.
CRPS is typically a complication due to an injury. hers does not really match that definition. If they thought the parents were just getting the kid hopped up on drugs, yes, it would have been in good faith...but, it's just a very horrible case. I feel bad even talking about it.
I watched a documentary about Maya,,,,,It was the saddest thing I had watched in a long time. The mother was 1 in a million moms, ,,the love for her child was everything, ,,, She tried everything for Maya, she was being accused of Munchausen by proxy. At hearing that, she knew if she was around, no one would help her daughters, so, she committed suicide.....there is tons more stuff on Netflix,,,,,,
Mmm this is going to be an interesting one one one hand the hospital has a duty of care especially when court ordered On the other hand as a mother you will go to the end of the earth 🌍 for your child as maya’s mum did will be interesting to hear from the doctor who gave such high dose’s of ketamine sounds like this horrible crps is one of those that you have to find the best treatment for yourself poor maya’s mum it literally broke her heart ❤️ to be unable to see her daughter sad all round
Wait…so mom was a nurse?? Specifically, an infusion nurse?! I’m sorry, but it sounds like to me that the mom may have ended it due to fear of being exposed, & going to jail. Maybe she was giving her daughter ketamine all along, but then ran out, which triggered withdrawals, which CAN cause pain. I think this is a more mild case of “Gypsy Rose” similarities.
they said it took her 22 minutes to die of strangulation too.... that's super odd. Why give herself an infusion when she was trying to commit suicide? O_o...this case is so wierd and so freaking dark!. damn...
Iv ketamine would never be given at home. No pharmacy would be able to fill it for a family even if she was a nurse. Plus when you give ivs at home other iv supplies are needed thst can really only be obtained thru an iv nursing company like a home care co. The only way Beata would have gotten the supplies was to steal them from her job. BUT It would be a significant amount of supplies. Iv insertion kits, heparin flushes, tubing , iv machine , saline flushes etc. so it’s not so easy as you think.
The reality to me, is that they should never allow those types of ''trials" if they're just going to give the patient a ''cure" they cannot access once the program is over. There are so many things wrong with this case which highlight the insane cracks in the medical system. And if the child was in a come and clearly her legs were still turned in as we saw in the evidence presented, how can you possibly still say she was faking her symptoms bc of her mom? Whatever else was going on, she is not faking symptoms. No one can fake anything while in a medical coma. A very disturbing case. @@NurseSue425
She’s one of the PLAINTIFF’s….why should she not be there? She’s obviously going to have to testify. This case is about Maya (separately), Jack (separately), Kyle (separately) & Beata’s estate separately.
Not that it has anything to do with this case, but is anyone else disturbed by Maya’s lawyer constantly wiping his nose with his finger while giving the opening statement?
I read the backstory on this and my immediate thought was the hospital had an obligation to err on the side of the child’s safety , until things were sorted out . Unless the family can prove the hospital acted without any cause , they don’t have a case. IMO. Still, what happened with mom was unfortunate.
making the call with their concerns isn't the problem. like you said, that's what they're meant to do. it was the treatment following that that this case is about
She left the hospital in worse shape than she went in. Also, while telling her it was all in her head they were charging them based on a CRPS diagnosis. They held her against her will and denied her first amendment rights.
I think the main evidence is that the hospital billed the insurance for 3 months for the disease that the parents claim that she have without providing the treatment to Maya.
The mum craved attention and is I still getting it 🤷♀️ I’ve known many nurses, and many have been terrible mothers re thinking they know more than doctors/specialists, and won’t even take their very sick children to the doctors 🤦♀️ This mum had serious mental issues, and it sure wasn’t John Hopkins fault imo
Why are you defending Johns Hopkins are you there fan club 😆 if you weren’t there you don’t know …Johns Hopkins killed my grand baby and I won’t say no more about it 😢
I mean.. Her child was sick.. & doctors weren’t listening.. I don’t think that qualifies for craving attention.. Having your child taken away from you, for being a concerned parent, is ridiculous.. imagine not being able to be with your child in the hospital. I’ve been through something similar.. & trust me.. Nothing is more frustrating than someone telling you, you can’t be with your kid in the time of need. There no feeling out there that can describe that pain.
it wasn't like she diagnosed her herself. Maya's parents took her to multiple doctors, and it was one of those doctors who diagnosed her, and who set the ketamine treatment. Maya's mother wasn't talking out of her ass, she was saying what she had been told (which ended up being true). It wasn't her idea to give Maya ketamine, but that was the only treatment that worked for Maya's advanced CRPS. And yes, the mum had serious mental health issues AS A RESULT of the way she was treated. Being desperate for your child to get the treatment they need is not attention seeking, it's being a parent who doesn't want their kid to suffer. She was treated like a criminal, seperated from her child, and in her mind the only way for Maya to be released is if she wasn't there anymore. It's heartbreaking what Mrs Kowalski, Maya and the rest of the family went through, and to speak about a seriously suffering mother in such a way is beyond disrespectful.
@@Jacqueline____ there's absolutely nothing worse then to have to leave a child in the hospital's care when you know they hurt your child ! I've been in that situation and it's horrible.
Where's the evidence that proves Beata had Munchausens? An ASSUMPTION by an evil 'Dr.' (Smith) is NOT evidence. There IS plenty evidence to show what the hospital did wrong.
nope. Maya was diagnosed by a doctor, the ketamine treatment was prescribed by a doctor. Maya's mother was just trying to get her daughter treated properly.
