FOR BRIANNE. FOR EVERY PATIENT.
Demand Medical Transparency, Meaningful Informed Consent & Hospital Accountability
Brianne Rae Carlson was a beloved daughter, sister, and Detroit police officer who dedicated nine years of her life to protecting others.
On September 18, 2025, Brianne died at just 32 years old following metastatic cervical cancer.
She was determined to keep fighting. Even as walking became difficult, she continued attending appointments. She wanted to return to outpatient treatment and was still planning her future.
What our family discovered after her death left us asking: Why weren’t we told?
After Brianne passed away, I downloaded and reviewed more complete records from her hospitalization.
That’s when I discovered physician notes documenting serious concerns about her prognosis and ability to tolerate aggressive treatment.
In a September 8 consultation, a physician wrote that Brianne was “unlikely to tolerate” the proposed aggressive treatment “in its entirety.”
The same physician documented that hospice was another possible option and predicted that Brianne and our father would be unlikely to accept it.
Other documentation described her prognosis as “poor.”
Our family spent extensive time at Brianne’s bedside. During the conversations we witnessed, we did not hear these significant concerns meaningfully explained to her or hospice presented as an option.
We recognize that conversations may have occurred outside our presence. That is why we are asking for answers.
What was Brianne told? What did she understand? And was she given the information she needed to make informed decisions about her own care?
On September 12, Brianne was transferred from Henry Ford Rochester Hospital to Corewell Health Troy for inpatient chemotherapy.
Her records documented serious medical complications, weakness, concerns about treatment tolerance, and questions surrounding her clinical condition and transfer.
Brianne received chemotherapy on September 15.
She subsequently deteriorated and became critically ill. Her final illness included pneumonia, an MSSA bloodstream infection, septic shock, and acute respiratory failure.
She died on September 18.
We recognize that the records we have reviewed do not establish that chemotherapy or any particular medical decision caused her death, or that negligence occurred.
We are asking for a thorough review—not a predetermined finding of wrongdoing.
What we are asking Henry Ford Health and Corewell Health to do
1. Conduct an appropriately independent review.
Examine the medical decisions, informed-consent discussions, transfer procedures, treatment planning, clinical assessments, and communication surrounding Brianne’s care.
2. Provide meaningful written answers.
Explain what information was communicated to Brianne, how treatment decisions were made, what supported her readiness for treatment, and how critical information was shared between hospitals.
3. Strengthen meaningful informed consent.
Patients should understand significant treatment risks, expected benefits, prognosis when relevant, and reasonable alternatives. A signature should never replace an informed conversation.
4. Improve hospital transfers and medical-record accuracy.
Ensure current medications, important test results, changes in condition, monitoring requirements, and treatment plans are accurately communicated and documented.
5. Protect patients facing high-risk medical decisions.
Establish appropriate safeguards when confusion, changes in consciousness, possible infection, or other significant concerns may affect treatment decisions or a patient’s ability to participate.
6. Improve access to complete medical records.
Help patients understand what their portals do and do not contain, how to request additional records, and how to raise concerns about documentation discrepancies.
7. Demonstrate accountability through measurable improvements.
When reviews identify deficiencies, implement appropriate corrective actions and explain the improvements made, within applicable privacy and legal limits.
Why this matters to every patient
Brianne was still planning her future.
She was ordering things from Amazon while hospitalized. Some packages arrived after she died.
She was planning a trip to Miami.
She was looking forward to driving with our father in the car he had recently purchased.
We will never know whether different conversations would have changed her decisions.
Maybe she still would have chosen aggressive treatment.
But she deserved the opportunity to decide with meaningful information.
No patient should have to discover significant medical assessments only after the opportunity to make important decisions has passed.
This is not only about cancer.
It is about anyone facing a serious diagnosis, surgery, medication decision, hospital transfer, or life-changing treatment.
Patients deserve honest communication, meaningful informed consent, accurate records, and a voice in decisions about their own healthcare.
Please sign and share
By signing, you support the Carlson family’s request for an appropriately independent review, meaningful answers, and stronger patient-safety protections.
Your signature does not mean you have determined that medical negligence or wrongdoing occurred.
It means you believe patients deserve to be informed, heard, respected, and protected.
IF INFORMATION COULD CHANGE A PATIENT’S DECISION, THE PATIENT DESERVES TO KNOW.
A NOTE IN A CHART IS NOT A CONVERSATION.
DOCUMENTED IS NOT THE SAME AS DISCLOSED.
THE PATIENT SHOULD NEVER BE THE LAST TO KNOW.
FOR BRIANNE. FOR EVERY PATIENT.
— Jennifer Marie Preston, sister of Brianne Rae Carlson, on behalf of the Carlson family
petitie tekenenpetitie tekenenBrianne Rae Carlson was a beloved daughter, sister, and Detroit police officer who dedicated nine years of her life to protecting others.
On September 18, 2025, Brianne died at just 32 years old following metastatic cervical cancer.
She was determined to keep fighting. Even as walking became difficult, she continued attending appointments. She wanted to return to outpatient treatment and was still planning her future.
What our family discovered after her death left us asking: Why weren’t we told?
After Brianne passed away, I downloaded and reviewed more complete records from her hospitalization.
That’s when I discovered physician notes documenting serious concerns about her prognosis and ability to tolerate aggressive treatment.
In a September 8 consultation, a physician wrote that Brianne was “unlikely to tolerate” the proposed aggressive treatment “in its entirety.”
The same physician documented that hospice was another possible option and predicted that Brianne and our father would be unlikely to accept it.
Other documentation described her prognosis as “poor.”
Our family spent extensive time at Brianne’s bedside. During the conversations we witnessed, we did not hear these significant concerns meaningfully explained to her or hospice presented as an option.
We recognize that conversations may have occurred outside our presence. That is why we are asking for answers.
What was Brianne told? What did she understand? And was she given the information she needed to make informed decisions about her own care?
On September 12, Brianne was transferred from Henry Ford Rochester Hospital to Corewell Health Troy for inpatient chemotherapy.
Her records documented serious medical complications, weakness, concerns about treatment tolerance, and questions surrounding her clinical condition and transfer.
Brianne received chemotherapy on September 15.
She subsequently deteriorated and became critically ill. Her final illness included pneumonia, an MSSA bloodstream infection, septic shock, and acute respiratory failure.
She died on September 18.
We recognize that the records we have reviewed do not establish that chemotherapy or any particular medical decision caused her death, or that negligence occurred.
We are asking for a thorough review—not a predetermined finding of wrongdoing.
What we are asking Henry Ford Health and Corewell Health to do
1. Conduct an appropriately independent review.
Examine the medical decisions, informed-consent discussions, transfer procedures, treatment planning, clinical assessments, and communication surrounding Brianne’s care.
2. Provide meaningful written answers.
Explain what information was communicated to Brianne, how treatment decisions were made, what supported her readiness for treatment, and how critical information was shared between hospitals.
3. Strengthen meaningful informed consent.
Patients should understand significant treatment risks, expected benefits, prognosis when relevant, and reasonable alternatives. A signature should never replace an informed conversation.
4. Improve hospital transfers and medical-record accuracy.
Ensure current medications, important test results, changes in condition, monitoring requirements, and treatment plans are accurately communicated and documented.
5. Protect patients facing high-risk medical decisions.
Establish appropriate safeguards when confusion, changes in consciousness, possible infection, or other significant concerns may affect treatment decisions or a patient’s ability to participate.
6. Improve access to complete medical records.
Help patients understand what their portals do and do not contain, how to request additional records, and how to raise concerns about documentation discrepancies.
7. Demonstrate accountability through measurable improvements.
When reviews identify deficiencies, implement appropriate corrective actions and explain the improvements made, within applicable privacy and legal limits.
Why this matters to every patient
Brianne was still planning her future.
She was ordering things from Amazon while hospitalized. Some packages arrived after she died.
She was planning a trip to Miami.
She was looking forward to driving with our father in the car he had recently purchased.
We will never know whether different conversations would have changed her decisions.
Maybe she still would have chosen aggressive treatment.
But she deserved the opportunity to decide with meaningful information.
No patient should have to discover significant medical assessments only after the opportunity to make important decisions has passed.
This is not only about cancer.
It is about anyone facing a serious diagnosis, surgery, medication decision, hospital transfer, or life-changing treatment.
Patients deserve honest communication, meaningful informed consent, accurate records, and a voice in decisions about their own healthcare.
Please sign and share
By signing, you support the Carlson family’s request for an appropriately independent review, meaningful answers, and stronger patient-safety protections.
Your signature does not mean you have determined that medical negligence or wrongdoing occurred.
It means you believe patients deserve to be informed, heard, respected, and protected.
IF INFORMATION COULD CHANGE A PATIENT’S DECISION, THE PATIENT DESERVES TO KNOW.
A NOTE IN A CHART IS NOT A CONVERSATION.
DOCUMENTED IS NOT THE SAME AS DISCLOSED.
THE PATIENT SHOULD NEVER BE THE LAST TO KNOW.
FOR BRIANNE. FOR EVERY PATIENT.
— Jennifer Marie Preston, sister of Brianne Rae Carlson, on behalf of the Carlson family
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