JOHNS HOPKINS DOCTOR DESTROYS PATIENT'S HEART AND THEN THE HOSPITAL DESTROYS HIS MEDICAL RECORDS...

Between 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year due to preventable medical errors. (Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, 2000.) These numbers do not include medical errors that cause permanent damage to many thousand more patients.

While receiving treatment for a kidney stone in the Emergency Room of a Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, I began to experience crushing chest pains. My wife alerted a nurse who, in turn, ran for a doctor (we later learned he is a cardiologist). An EKG was performed and my wife noted my oxygen saturation level to be 72% (normal is 98%). Oxygen was administered along with morphine for pain. The doctor barely looked at the EKG and said that no further treatment was necessary.

We later discovered I had had a significant heart attack which went completely untreated during my 3-day stay in the hospital. Since "TIME IS MUSCLE", the devastating damage to my heart was to become evident.

Upon discharge I went home and my health deteriorated over the next two months. Then another major heart attack occurred. At a different hospital, a proper diagnosis was made, and faxed medical records from the Johns Hopkins Hospital revealed an untreated heart attack occurred at their hospital two months earlier. The long delay in treatment almost cost my life and I am now 100% disabled and was told a heart transplant is now my only hope.

Johns Hopkins has gone to great lengths to cover-up this medical catastrophe that occurred in their hospital They have done the unthinkable to avoid all financial responsibility to me and my wife. They have gone so far as to:

• deny the presence of this culprit cardiologist at their hospital that day (yet, my wife and I were able to describe him in meticulous detail),
• destroy three hours of medical records (EKG, oxygen saturation, and medications) collected during my heart attack to further distance themselves from this horrible medical error and responsibility to me and my wife,
• lie to the Maryland Attorney General's Office and the Office of Health Care Quality of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene about their apparent negligence during the investigations related to the complaints I filed with their respective offices,
• hire a thug to stalk and harass us whenever we walked through our community in an effort to intimidate us to not pursue this matter any further.

Due to this cardiologist's negligent actions, I am catastrophically disabled, uncompensated, and left to fend for myself.

We have all the supporting medical records with exception to that 3-hour interval in the Emergency Room that went missing from my records.

This Johns Hopkins Hospital must be held accountable! We are seeking a full investigation to uncover the truth about my case.

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