
I am a widow whose husband drowned when he went out sailing alone.His body was missing for 2 weeks. My son went out with the Coast Guard tom look for him. It has forever made a mark on him. I was diagnosed, shortly after my husband's death, with a rare form of cancer, that has a dismal outcome for most patients. My cancer was usually one found in the brains of children, but I got it as an adult. The year long experimental chemo, took a toll on my veins. I was referred to a wonderful vascular surgeon at Kaiser South San Francisco, named Dr. Gregory Lukaszewicz. He was understanding about my condition, with swollen legs and arms and other parts of the body where disease affected it. Other doctors called me fat, and just told me to lose weight. They did not know what they were talking about, nor did they care. He encouraged me to exercise and take better care of myself. He made it easy. He cared about the whole person. He is a genuine healer. I was grateful to him for going "above and beyond" and gave him a few gifts of gratitude. I began to notice my appointments with him felt strained and observed. People in his office acted differently, cold, and almost afraid acting. Later on, I was funneled to go see a Kaiser psychiatrist, named Marija Petrovic. She had been touted as "someone nice to talk to!" I had not wanted to see a psychiatrist, but I thought it could be okay. It was not. I found out that Marija Petrovic was brought to Kaiser from her then current job at Comprehensive Psychiatric Services in Daly City. At first she was overly flattering, and obsequious, then she began asking me about Dr. Lukaszewicz. She was more an interrogator than psychiatrist. She was supposed to be new at Kaiser, but she was not. She had a picture on her profile that was at least 15 years younger. She began making harassing phone calls to me, and hanging up if I became upset, and cried. It was awful! She was relentless. She nearly had me to the point of feeling suicidal, but I was strong. (I believe she uses some kind of mind control. ) It became apparent that the entire reason for my becoming her patient was so that she could harm me mentally, and also make outrageous accusations about me and Dr. Lukaszewicz. She terrorized me, and when I tried to find answers, she set a trap to manufacture "evidence" to get me a temporary restraining order. Kaiser has a law firm they hired, named Buty & Curliano, in Oakland, CA. They are there for the purpose of being a perk for doctors, who want to have them take care of a legal matter. They seem to be like a legal fantasy fulfillment law firm for Kaiser doctors. When I did a bit of digging around, I found out that Marija Petrovic was not new to that Kaiser, and had an office on the third floor of the South San Francisco building. She seemed to come and go from Kaiser as needed for various situations. As it turned out, she was re-activated from her job at the other company, and began work at Kaiser. Her company said that an "opportunity came up for her to work at Kaiser, so she took it." She said online that she started at Kaiser in June of 2015. She actually started in on covertly monitoring my office visits with Dr. Lukaszewicz at the end of May. As a psychiatrist she works in the field of Neurology, now at Kaiser, and so does her brother, Marko, who works at the Woodland Hills Kaiser, and San Francisco Kaiser prior. Dr. Lukaszewicz's domestic partner, Dr. Moayeri, works in Kaiser Neurology too. All have worked at Kaiser, all in Neurology. Marija Petrovic was brought back to Kaiser specifically to get rid of me as Dr. Lukaszewicz's patient. Who would care that much? Who may have a jealousy involved? Who has connections in Neurology? One can only surmise. But, once the Kaiser law firm of Buty & Curliano got involved, they made things very easy for themselves. I was given a TRO. It was supposedly for giving my doctor gifts, and because of the emails I wrote trying to find answers as to why I was told I could no longer see my wonderful doctor. There was never anything untoward at all. He encouraged me to do better in many areas of my life. He knew I had been devastated by the tragedies in my life, and being a kind person, tried to help. He did. He made me blossom. I started a walking group for people with my same health issues, or anyone who wanted to walk in a beautiful wilderness area. I made some crafts, just to get myself feeling creative. He suggested books to read, and cooking ideas, etc. After I got involved being a patient of Marija Petrovic, my life and self-esteem, began to slide downhill. Besides the harassing , insulting phone calls she made to me, I was suddenly having people at Kaiser say odd things to me. Some said very cruel things. Dr. Hou in Neurology suddenly yelled at me and said, "YOU'RE A BAD PERSON!" I had only been there a short while before that happened. He said it was something he read in my chart, but would not say what. What could it have possibly been. I don't think there was anything; I think he was just told to say it. There was an entire strange environment there. The security guard at the time, Edward Souza, would follow me around Kaiser, and prevent me from stopping to rest, and would yell at me, and threaten to call the police. He would tell me to "move along." He acted very officious, and bullying. Even the day I was released from the hospital, and I was waiting for a ride home, he told me I could not sit on the bench and told me to leave. One time, I asked him outright if Marija Petrovic had been brought to Kaiser for the purpose of getting rid of me as Dr. Lukaszewicz's patient. He said, "yes, she was brought here specifically to get rid of you as Dr. Lukaszeiwcz's patient. My friend, who was on speaker phone at the time, heard him say it. I told him that if there had been a plan/trap against me, then that meant the restraining order was invalid. She set a trap designed for me, using my weaknesses as the method to get me to take the bait, and get pulled in. The attorney for the Kaiser hired law firm, Mr. Mike Guasco, was said to be quite prolific in giving out questionable TROs. One was even "given" to a quadriplegic man. I was told that Mr. Guasco was building quite a reputation in So. CA for being very prolific in his production of TROs (temporary restraining orders. They are very bad to get, because they imply violence, or other untoward behavior.) That is also what I was given. For what? For writing emails asking what was going on? Or was it for my gifts of gratitude for my lifesaving doctor? I was unable to get an attorney for the initial hearing; "somehow" they all said no, after initially agreeing. One attorney said to me, "stay away from them (meaning Buty & Curliano) they are very, very bad people! Then she shoved me out the door. That gave me a sense of why I was unable to find an attorney. I went to the restraining order hearing alone. I was sick from MS, and from nerves. I could barely talk. I was given 30 months of a restraining order. I did nothing wrong. I was barely allowed to say anything. I was humiliated to the extreme. It was so foreign to me. I was a good person, and never on the wrong side of the law. I was friendly with the local police/deputies. After that degrading experience, I sat home. I was too humiliated and embarrassed to leave. I had to sell my family home and move to Mendocino County. I only leave my house to go to court. I had a contempt of court, because I was worried about my doctor, and it was his birthday. I thought that if I were being attacked by that unhinged acting psychiatrist, perhaps he was too. I wanted to show him that someone cared about him, and supported him. The judge seemed understanding about it. In fact he said, "this may very likely be an invalid restraining order!" Yes, it was! Strange thing, though, he suddenly "retired!" Interesting how the judge who was on my side "retired" like that. And even more interesting; there is no record of his having said that he thought it was an invalid restraining order. I got another contempt but it was nothing I did. It was manufactured. It was all lies. I was not given an opportunity to refute it. I never got any punishment for any of them. The new judge, Lisa Novak, though, told me to do 40 hours of community service and a $500 fine. I called the court to ask how I go about fulfilling them, and they said, "you can't; they are for criminal cases and yours is civil." I thought that since the punishment was fake, so was the restraining order. The judge included in the next contempt filing, a complaint by her about my not doing my community service and not paying the fine. I told her what happened, and she said, "I don't want to hear about it!" She also said that I was to go to the Private Defender Program and get an attorney, or she would put me in jail if I tried to defend myself. Again, that program is for criminal offenders. I had already been through that. I supposedly had an attorney through the Private Defender Program, but as it turned out, he was merely there to keep me quiet, and not fight against Kaiser. Yes, the very kindly Kaiser attorneys made my wonderful doctor file the TRO against me. That is because some people are "just too important"... and cowardly to fight their own battles, and make the person they feel wronged them do it, so everyone would hate each other. I saw through it. My doctor will always remain as the person I most admire in my life. He had made my life so nice; I would give my life to save his. Now, this judge makes strange comments to me, like she is a heckler at a comedy show. She just throws them out there! Last time she said, "stalker" and she said, "no wonder the doctor is afraid of you!" And she said, "I don't know what your mental problem is..." She just seems to have me tried and convicted! One time, I drove home and I awoke with large lumps on my face. The doctor said it was stress. That attorney who was not with a program, but was there to keep me quiet, and defenseless, was not on my side at all. He cleared the room and told the judge I was delusional. Then she laid into me, with some insulting diatribe, I cannot remember. All I could think was, "is she talking about me?" I felt so strange and like I was in a nightmare, that I think I lost consciousness somehow. I lost time. Last time I was there she had me in tears. I put my face in my hands and cried. She asked me if I wanted to go to jail that day, because she WOULD send me there if I tried to defend myself. I am a nice person. I have MS, and it makes me sick when I am yelled at,. and treated so unreasonably. I also had a Crohn's attack, and was bleeding, and nauseated. That judge is unfair, and brutal. This has been such a nightmare, and I even shortened it for expediency. I have not even mentioned that that "psychiatrist" gave me 5 major mental illnesses in my chart. I saw her 4 times. There were no meds prescribed, nor cognitive therapy. She just wanted to ruin my credibility. I asked her about them and she said, "oh you noticed that, huh?" Then she laughed. Yeah, ruining my life is certainly a hoot and a half! That Kaiser South San Francisco is a DANGER ZONE!" Maybe it happens at all Kaisers; I don't know. All I know is that if they decide they want to make your life a living Hell; THEY WILL!
I have suffered over 1.5 years with this matter! It is time for it to END! I want Buty & Curliano to tell their real client to drop this outrageous insult to decency and justice NOW!
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