Please join us in welcoming KaiserVictims.org to the growing ranks of web sites dedicated to exposing the egregious, and oftentimes deadly abuses of power and patients at Kaiser Permanente (gazillion dollar Thrive campaign notwithstanding). From the site’s introduction:
This is a collaborative community project that intends to provide a public record of serious medical errors. The site is structured as a wiki and each page is editable.
Best wishes for success in this very worthwhile, and all too necessary endeavor.
Kaiser Thrive Exposed would like to personally thank Dr. Geoff Galbraith - Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute board member; and Vice President, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Quality Improvement Management - for inspiring us to create this website. Did we make it into the top 5?
Boy am I glad to see this. Much needed.
Finally … I am not a public person but they will get their’s in due course.
I found this site while looking for a possible Kaiser resource for sudden hearing loss. My first appointment with Kaiser for this issue was in February. After four visits over three months, I finally have an appointment with an audiologist in another 3 weeks, then another a month later with Kaisers’s ENT. This ENT has already let me know that anybody “as old as I am (69) shouldn’t be surprised about a hearing loss.” I told him this is not a gradual thing, but a near total loss now of low frequencies that has occurred over a period of about four months. That didn’t matter.
The Mayo Clinic Web site says that this condition should be treated as an emergency. I told this to the doc I saw today and he didn’t agree. Furthermore, he had his nurse run a “hearing test” on my today with an instrument that she clearly had no idea how to run and he showed me the results on his computer screen. The instrument, he said, indicated that I have no hearing loss, therefor it is certainly not an emergency, and I better just wait to see the audiologist’s report.
I cannot hear a phone pressed to my right ear, but his machine says I have no hearing loss. Stay tuned for a follow-up, and thanks for providing this forum.
Hi there,
Having a hearing test, should go thru the audiologist, because they have a special machine to use when you go into the Hearing Center, you will need to go into a box where “sonic Box” i think what it called. And they audiologist will put a “ear phone” on, and a special button, then she/he will go outside of the box, and they will set the frequencies on high and low to see if you can hear, every time you hear it just press the button. That will tell you how much you have lost your hearing. It’s better off to be with Audiologist than into the hospital cause they know nothing a bout it. I have been with hearing testing all my life for every two years.
So My HMO approves that kind of hearing test OR go to SEARS they will give you a FREE hearing test!
So Aloha!
Kari
We,too, have very bad experiences with Kaiser Doctors.
DR.ELISA MELANIE LUTZER-Oakland Kaiser Permanente- This is one of the worst doctors I have seen in my lifetime. She is so incompetent. She has given my daughter different kinds of diagnosis and medications so much so that we have completely lost confidence with her. At one point, we decided to take my daughter to another doctor for a second opinion. She obstructed us, the parents to do just that. We told her that we have a POWER OF ATTORNEY to take care of our daughter as we see fit and yet they chose to ignore it. She, together with another incompetent Case Coordinator by the name of JETH GOLD, at first threatened to call the Police if we don’t follow their orders. Then as I was talking to this SHREW on the phone, the other was calling the Police on the other line–who came knocking at my door. When I explained to the COPS that this doctor has done nothing but DOPE UP my daughter (probably to gain more browning points with the pharmaceutical companies so that she can get free travel benefits from them under the guise of training and symposia).
And that Kaiser doctors are NO GOOD, one of the COPS commented that he definitely agree with me on that point, then they left me alone. I SUGGEST THAT EVERYONE SHOULD STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM THESE INDIVIDUALS AS YOU CAN. AND GET OUT OF KAISDER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.