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.
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.
I am a victim of Kaiser malpractice.Please email me if you are interested in signing a ballot initiative petition to place an initiative on the ballot in CA,statewide,that would ban arbitration in medical malpractice cases.This would force Kaiser and any other health care provider out into the light of day,exposing their malfeasance and criminality.They would be made to answer just like anybody else when they have committed medical malpractice(s).
I had a really bad experience yesterday with a Dr. Galpin at the Englewood Clinic here in Denver, CO.
I was hoping to receive a well rounded medication protocol for severe pain in my left shoulder due to tendinitis as well as a auto accident last April. I have always believed that my meds should include but not be limited to opioids. As of last Friday, Dr. Galpin had told me that she would be bringing in a pain med contract so that I could get some much needed relief from long acting opioids. Imagine my unpleasant surprise when she walked into the exam room with no contract! She informed me that she now felt uncomfortable in prescribing any long acting opioids. She did not even offer any explanation for her sudden change of heart. Then, she told me that I should pay a visit to a new doctor there at the clinic for my chronic and imagined pain. I felt betrayed by her. Also, I had just received acupuncture treatment that morning at, I might add, her insistence. I was already in severe pain by the time I saw her. I had done everything she asked me to do, including blood work, a urine analysis, and an X-ray of my neck. On the other hand, she did not fulfill her end of our agreement. Even though I had explained to her that the tramadol which she prescribed was not strong enough to deal with my pain level, she insisted that I take up to 400mg each day as needed. Finally, yesterday evening I had to pay a visit to the ER where I was given some hydromorhone.
News media MUST EXPOSE KAISER,,, they have robbed me of my life ! Bad Drs, admitting botching amputation after allowing Dr to perform experimental limb savage-gone very wrong then slipped away never to be heard again. Crippled, grossly disfigured and pain I demanded it removed- first dr would not even though I did not want the leg. Lies, empty promises, millions of dollars so Dr could experiment, unmonitered, un accountable, answered to no one. My life was taken away Now, 2 botched amputation and a great deal more I am bedridden and in dire pain. I am denied an absolutely necessary surgery by expert out of plan. Kaiser has no Drs with the level of expertise but continue to demand I see dozens and dozens of Drs who all no nothing. I will post more when I can get control of pain! Anybody, please help me. They lie to SDMC to!