An open letter to a doctor at Arkansas Continued Care Hospital

Sunday 15 February 12:32:22 CST 1771180342

I only have your last name from the hospital records and as your name appears in other places here I won't bother to use it. By responding to my complaint to the state medical board you admit to being the doctor responsible for my care at the defunct Arkansas Continued Care Hospital from around 15 January 2021 to late March of that same year. In my letter to the board I state that I have never seen you in person and my reasons for so stating - if you were ever in the room with me it was during a time when I was incognizant and incapable of remembering you. After becoming cognizant I asked repeatedly every day for you to come to my room and you did not - your statement that you spoke to me and examined me every day is as false as most of your other assertions and I can prove it. If I do happen one day to encounter you I will happily tell you what a liar you are.

Let me ask you something, Doctor. Do you know the effect of simultaneously administering clonazepam, quetiapine, haloperidol, tramadol and olanzapine to a patient? I wonder if you even knew what those drugs were since no doctor in his right mind would to it. I had about a ten percent chance of surviving and had my family members not prevailed upon you to reduce the dosage sufficiently to allow me to become self-aware I would not have survived. I suspect that quite a few of your patients were not so fortunate.

For the record those drugs are used for treating mental illness and I was not diagnosed as being mentally ill and was never examined for mental illness. Why did you do it? Did you think I would never recover and you might as well milk the insurance company for a long as possible? Not that they seem to care but they paid out over a million dollars for you to keep me in a near vegetative condition in a filthy hospital for months.

You see Doctor, the diagnosis of an anoxic brain injury was incorrect and whatever the failings of the other hospital you had a responsibility to assess my condition - or if necessary consult a more experienced physician with the proper qualifications - and in any case use of psychotropic medications was not in any way warranted by my condition. And since my brain was undamaged - I can't say the same for the rest of my body - I remember everything. Not only did I make an inconvenient recovery but one of my family members requested the records of my stay (I had to pay $250 while the other two hospitals didn't charge me anything) but it was well worth it. You rather smugly advised the medical board that the hospital is no longer in operation and the records were unavailable but I HAVE THEM.

If the reader wishes to know what the effects of those drugs are on survivors I can tell you that they wreck your body beyond repair. I am barely able to walk and must use a cane and I often fall and pain is constant. But I'm one of the lucky ones - I asked the experts about something else that I found interesting about your employer:

A 44-bed physical rehabilitation center that did not serve emergency patients. It did not have an intensive care unit or perform surgery or any other medical procedure. Patients were accepted from hospitals only in stable condition. Any patient whose condition deteriorated was to be returned to a hospital. The average death rate was over twenty per year. Is an investigation by law enforcement warranted?

Is a Law Enforcement Investigation Warranted? Yes, a law enforcement investigation is warranted in this scenario. Below, I'll break down the reasoning step by step, based on the facility's described characteristics, the death rate, and relevant legal/medical standards. This analysis draws from U.S. healthcare regulations (e.g., CMS guidelines, state licensing, and criminal statutes), as the description aligns with a typical U.S. inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF). Similar principles apply internationally but may vary by jurisdiction.

This death rate is statistically impossible without systemic failures, neglect, or criminal activity. enforcement involvement is **not just warranted -- it's required under mandatory reporting laws (e.g., 42 CFR ยง 483). Delaying risks more deaths. If this is a real case, contact your state attorney general or HHS OIG hotline (1-800-447-8477) immediately. For hypothetical analysis, the answer is a clear **yes**.

That's a lot of dead patients for a rehabilitation center that by definition does serve critically ill or injured patients and could be considered whatever form of manslaughter Arkansas law applies to criminal negligence. I have supplied a package of information to the Attorney General and Governor with the results of my four years of investigations. As the hospital was managed by a company in Texas this could become a federal case if other matters such as fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud are involved. Someone might wonder why such a profitable enterprise suddenly went out of business.

Unless another authority does decide to hold you accountable it seems that you will get away with it - my health continues to deteriorate and I probably won't be around much longer. Longer than many of your patients but for all the good it has done it hardly seems worth it. I pity the unsuspecting patients who fall into your clutches.