Memorial Day, 2021. Just in case you wonder where a man like I come from, willing as I am to go after and prevail in getting your stinking attention, and to take it from there in whatever manner I deem necessary.   Pervaiz Ahkter, Cory Nelson, Steven Dingle, Donna Noriega, etc. etc. and those still involved in all that goes on inside the fence lines of the Arizona State Hospital- that's you Aaron Bowen- or having any association to the operation of ASH0- that's you Cara Christ- and all the other scum between your toes. This is where I come from, this is who I am. 

Paolo Jack Reed.
Founder.

For the fact is, my old man had more character in his little finger than any of you people have in general. Sure, we all have our faults, but nothing so much as approaching your shit has ever arisen in my life, my family history, and on that list goes. 

Commander Jackson Reed Pickens.
30 full years. 
Serving on behalf of,
in the interest of real Americans.
Born on the Chickasaw reservation,
that's what it is to be a real American. 
AAA baseball player and star athlete
at the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
That's what it is to have strength. 
Men and women like myself
Are made of these things.
Men and women like me
have never allowed for people like you
to get away with all that you are, 
all that you do.

                                     

UNADULTERATED FACT: Less than five days after I was admitted to the Arizona State Hospital, on January 11, 2011, my first attending primary care provider, Dr. Laxman Patel, stated verbatim, when I sought merely to compel his Punjabi ass to do the right thing: "This is the state hospital. What do you expect?" And as time played out, me refusing to stand idly be when I knew of your willingness to flaunt all elements of your given responsibilities and obligations as per the public trust, Patel took it up a notch, beginning with telling me, "Do not not concern yourself with the treatment of other patients. You need to focus on your own.", shortly after which he sought to discharge me, stating as he did and again verbatim, "This is not the right hospital for you.", only to find that that wasn't about to happen and thus telling me "You need to ask for someone to treat out at this point", only to find that as something beyond his lame ass authority.... All of it. I know that I scared you some, Patel, to be exposed for your shit.

MORE UNDULTERATED FACT: After Patel got away with getting me out his  client base there at ASH, I was cursed with an even worse primary attending provider, Dr. Perviaz Ahkter. And then, of course, Akhter was asl just as afraid as Patel was. So, on point with cowards in any sort of authority, Akhter chose to be complicit in what amounted to highly unlawful retaliation, choosing he did to go along with former since fired Cory Nelson and known sexual predator Steven Dingle, trying  to spook me into submission by moving me from the unit where I had been assigned based on my own diagnosis- and violating your own fucking protocol in doing that- and onto a unit violent enough to put my very life and limb at far more risk of harm than I deserved. Fuckers. Didn't quite work out, did it?

In summer, 2011, Pervaiz Ahkter, in all of his Pakistani arrogance, felt the need to ask me "Just who do you think you are?", prefacing that attitude on I being affected my mental illness. Likewise, there are number of others who ask that same question today, and in all honesty, did so long before I had to encounter your kind. This is a we thing, in other words. For each and every act of utter bullshit that you and your kind try to get away with, your own perverted lack of ethos and utter inability to do you jobs in accordance to the established standards of care that allow you to even work in a place like the state hospital.

I'm a part of the puzzle, you may as well as understand that. It is nothing more that my very real family heritage that most gives me the strength to look your kind in the eye and say, "Not on my watch."

Pervaiz Ahkter
Pakistani piece of dirt
once there on the sole of my shoes
now working somewhere else.
You got lucky.  

In all truth, I was struck in my own right, having to ask myself pretty early on, "Where in the hell do these kind of people come from?" Ironic, indeed. And it did come to me, not too long later. "They come from places like India, and Pakistan, and the Phillipines. They come from places where democracy and human rights are virtually absent, that's where the hell they come from." Now, it need be said that I have good friends from such places, and you know what? They are nothing like you are today, hell I doubt they were ever like you. It's people like you who need to be sent right back where you came from, and that's the American way. Fact is, you Rat Bastards, my own father actually served in the interest of America, and he got there through one hell of a lot more sweat and effort than any of you scum. No one thing could be more evident. You come here to my home country, bringing the same level of ineptitide and abject ignorance in your home nations, well, about all I can say is that you done fucked up some.

And while that may stand as some sort of excuse, to come from somewhere else where folks not aligned with democracy come from, how it can be that the rest of you, you who were raised as I was in the United States, could ever be too shortsighted to understand such things? Fact is, Bowen and Christ, Dingle, you have all had ample opportunity to know better. All of your shit is your now fucking fault, and none of you have any real excuse when it comes the degree of inhumane events and incidents and all the rest there inside the fence lines of ASH.

Dr. Cara Christ 
So called doctor
So called American
Patent bureaucrat
Nothing more. 

No aspect of anything I have included in this blog arose of anything other then the truth. In fact, there were one or two well intentioned security gaurds who I had the distinct privilege of basically befriending, who knew just as well I about your bottom feeding ways, and one of those men used to declare almost every time I ran into him out on the grounds:

                                   Speak to the truth!

And go figure. This is a man who served in the US military. He knew a lot more about what it means to have actual character than any of you still employed by ADHS, as well as those of you who were terminated in 2015. This is the real world, this is what matters. Not you, not your kind.

I'll just add. You, Dr. Christ, look one hell of lot less innocent today than you did out the outset of your time with ADHS. So ask yourself, woman: Has it really been worth it?

Your's truly.
2013
I will never stop
looking over my shoulder
towards people like you
be it in the swamps where your kind emerge from 
be it the safe haven you function from.

In Closing: My only intent herein is to make your day as uncomfortable as I can. So, Dingle, Bowen, Christ, have a fucking uncomfortable day, and share that with each and every one like you.

paoloreed@gmail.com 

,

Of profit driven group homes in the state of Arizona that have little in the way of qualifications to care for any highly vulnerable population.

Update on April 12th Arrest of Christopher Lambeth

Monday’s incident has brought forth questions from the community regarding what regulations and measures are in place related to group homes which are answered in a new resource and FAQ page.

Pervaiz Akhter
Pakistani piece of shit.
Personified.
A former ASH care provider.

True story. In summer, 2010, this writer was willing to trust and to be placed in a Tucson area group home, running under the auspices of the COPE, Inc., outpatient care provider. These places are all operated under the dismal authority of AZ DPHS. I attest that there were so many stomach turning issues going on that the damn place was essentially unlivable. Certain residents defecating in the living areas, and staff not willing to clean the shit up, claiming that is the responsibility of the ones doing it. Other residents much younger and very aggressive, willing to intimidate and even assault those less fit. All of them, affected by serious mental illness and possibly unable due to their given mental health diagnosis and disability to have that going for them, to take such responsibility for those such things. And staff, too, literally unable to so much as cook instant rice- I shit you not- much less so to take care of folks like I who are int this way disabled and affected by serious mental illness. The conditions exacerbated this writer's own personal symptoms, heightening the substantial risks associated with my own diagnosis, suicidal ideation most specifically, which did result in my own need to trust the Arizona Department of Health Services at that time in my life. Me winding up, that is, at the Arizona State Hospital, which was run at the time by overtly incompetent medical providers and administrative authorities. Such patterns are violations of law, breaches of the public trust. Nothing more, nothing else. 

All these things are the fault of people just like Creepy Cara Christ. Plain, unadulterated fact.

Yes, this is about Dr. Cara Christ. This is about a licensed medical doctor who really has no idea about what goes on with regard to group homes. What really goes in in such places, and why tragedies such as this one, yet one more, occur in the first place. This is about one person with more authority over the health and welfare of Arizona citizens. Not only the direct cause to Arizona's well known struggles with managing COVID under her watch, but also the otherwise preventable death, yet again, of an Arizona citizen affected by serious mental illness, April 06, 2021. 

Dr. Cara "Creepy" Christ.
Director.
 Arizona Department of Health Services.. 

These things stand as the sole impetus by which this blog publication was founded in April, 2012. No one of those discussed below had the character to do what was needed. None of those currently working in these positions have proven themselves as capable to do any better. 

We are looking here at yet another death, and otherwise preventable death, caused by the ineptitude of the administrators entrusted by the public to oversee the Arizona State Hospital, and the appointed officials in the Arizona Department of Health Services who have the most authority and associated responsibility specific to the ASH operation, which is also granted to such officials through the pubic trust.

Roger Forney.
Was hired in 2010
by the Arizona Department of Health Servicesto
to work as a security guard at Arizona State Hospital
in defiance of the fact that Forney
had been convicted of sexual exploitation
of children in 2006. 

Will Humble
Former Director
Arizona Department of Health Services.
At the time of Roger Forney
being hired to work
in a setting defined
by highly vulnerable 
Arizona citizens
and for the entirety
of the scandal 
that become public,
beginning in April, 2012
and erupting in 2015. 

L-R Asswipes. Fired!
We all know who they are.
We all know that Dingle
cared not one wit
about the shit
going on under
his watch as a licensed 
medical doctor. 

 

Steven Dingle.
In defiance
of the fact that he'd been
previously identified
as a sexual predator, 
this sleaze bag was hired in 2004
by the Arizona Department of Health Services
to serve as a doctor at Arizona State Hospital.

FACT: In 2019, i

n her official response 

to a person who raised the issue,

that person publicly expressing discomfort

with having a sexual predator

as a primary care provider at

ASH, over his own care needs

and his rights as an AZ citizen

Dr. Cara Christ publicly defended 

Dingle's sexual depravity, 

essentially condoned his record

as a sexual predator, 

an act that 100% furthers

the presence of sexual predators 

in the public milieu. 

This is about Dr. Steven Dingle, sexual predator, Chief Medical Officer at ASH. And this is about all other persons so depraved in behavior that their chances ever of being hired anywhere other than at ASH would be patently unacceptable. Certain medical doctors, certain security staff, certain state health care  officials. This is about the citizens of Arizona who pay these Rat Bastards, and who suffer the impacts of these Rat Bastards' overt depravity. That simple, really, in every way.

It has never been my intent to in any way create false or otherwise unjustified claims about any of the above described persons. Rather, it is their known history(s), the public record, as per the terms of the public trust by which they are employed, that has compelled this writer to ever express what I know. One must ask, how can it be that in they day and age, these sorts of people are entrusted to serve in these positions? How is  it that they still are granted that trust regardless of this known history? 

These things stand as the sole impetus by which this blog publication was founded in April, 2012. Period. End of story.

paoloreed@gmail.com

Dr. Cara Christ, Dr. Steven Dingle. Chris Lambeth. April Mott. 

The history of the Arizona State Hospital has not improved one iota since the founding of this blog. If it had, I'd not have to continue going after this shit, these people, these so called medical professionals who the public has entrusted to oversee the health of the greater public. Shit don't fly, in other words. So here we go yet again. 

April Mott.

A beautiful young woman.

Who died in 2012.

An otherwise preventable death.

Because of Dr. Steven Dingle.

Different Director of AZ DHS then. 

But so the fuck what? It clearly matters no one bit.

Sticky thing is that, Dingle had a record as a sexual predator prior to being hired to work at ASH, grossly unlawful behavior that current Director of AZ DHS, Dr. Cara Christ aggressively defended as recently as 2018. Both these facts as per the record (I mean hell, look at this photo of the fucker.) Two obvious monsters in the midst, and this will end before too long. I promise as much. I have been in contact with certain authorities, and they know now, they know who you are, what you have been doing. 

And that you've thus far gotten away with it. 

Sleazy ass Dr. Steven Dingle.
Sexual predator. 

No different than Roger Forney.
Sleazy Dingle would make Forney a fine ass cellmate. 

Fast forward to April, 2021. Dingle recently approved the discharge of a man who more recently killed yet another citizen of Arizona. Chris Lambeth. Who should have remained where he deserved to be, hospitalized at ASH, safe to himself and towards others. Other then, that is, Dingle's presence as the upper ranking doctor at ASH. 

This is one is also on Christ. No more no less than all the other shit she's accumulated since her appointment to this position via the trust of the public in 2015.  

Dr. Cara Christ. Creepy Cara Christ. 

Sleazy sexual predator Steven Dingle.

Only thier respective medical degrees has saved them. So far. 

Roger Forney, yeah he's pretty bad all by himself. 

But he's also accountable, an arguable amateur compared to these other two.

I am only calling you two out, Christ and Dingle, yet again, the both of you, because of your own depraved character. Becuase of of your own malfeasant misbehavior. Because people are dying because of you and because you fucking deserve it.

Indeed. Only two of the five named at the top of this article are entrusted by the public. Two state employees, that is, still as though they are untouchable. That's what they think, at least. 

While two of the five are not state employees, are rather disabled by serious mental illness, and are now facing with being incarcerated rather than where they deserved to be in the first place, hospitalized and safe. Because of these two state employees, another young man going to prison, the second such ASH patient in less a decade that we know of. Very much that, as per the record. 

And then there's April Mott. A victim of this shit only because of Dingle, again, but in association with people who the state chose to fire not too long ago. And for now, there's whoever Chris Lambeth killed the other day, an otherwise preventable death, because of Dingle, and because in this case, Christ, too. Neither of these victims would be dead today if not for these sorts of people, who willfully abuse the trust granted them, who feel they are somehow above the rest of us, which is really pretty fucking ironic, in fact, given that they are both overtly lower than the rest of us, in fact. As per the record, irony personified.  

You guys really suck. You know this, right? You know you ain't no better than the rest of us, right? Dingle, you were a sleaze back in my days at ASH, and I knew it the one time I sat and talked with you personally. Before, you know, you got all nervous and shit about who I am and what I am capable of. While you, Christ, with your creepy as it gets smile. No faith in you anymore, Cara, I mean, really, why should there be? 

More later. I promise you that because you fucked yourselves yet again. Have a great fucking day. 

paoloreed@gmail.com

Hello Dr. Christ. Fall 2020. COVID19 and medical ineptitude that borders of criminal in nature.

Hello, Dr. Christ. 

It has been awhile since I was last compelled to reach you personally. There are a number of reasons for why this is so, but for the moment, at least, those are irrelevant to this  document. Off the bat, then, I must assure you that I sincerely hope all of your family and friends are all doing well. This global pandemic is really a problem, and I would never wish for anybody to suffer its impacts without identifiable cause. "Identifiable" being all and any willful behavior that puts us or those around is at risk. 

That said. I was no less disturbed by your response to Dave Biscobing a few short months ago than I have ever generally been. In this case, specific to the good faith and well founded concerns of staff who were forced by you to add yet one more potentially fatal risk factor as persons employed by your agency, as that relates to COVID19, to working at ASH, and therein having to function under your twisted sphere of obligations, responsibilities, and associated privileges, as a licensed physician in the first place, doctor, and your position with the state in the second place). 

1) The greater public is very aware that you failed to so much as mention the welfare of ASH patients in that recent interview with Dave.You did that, doctor, miserably refused to even acknowledge the very existence of the  highly vulnerable adults hospitalized at ASH and under your authority. I know Bowen fits in somewhere, too, just one more doctor of ill repute bearing direct association to the operation of ASH. You and nobody else,, doctor, in utter defiance of the fact that these involved staff have proven themselves capable of conscientious concern for patient welfare when that person made the difficult but hardly mysterious decision to sacrifice her own employment because of you.

2) The purpose, utility, and any possible benefit(s) to the staff complaint process is effectively, utterly circumvented when all you have the capacity to offer these hard working staff under these tragic circumstances is a willingness "to listen": In no uncertain terms, doctor, this is no different whatsoever from the refusals of ADHS officials to follow established protocol, AZ Administrative law, when ASH patient-consumers choose to take even higher risk of retaliation if they have the courage to generate grievance reports, and especially as per my very own real experiences when they actually reach your office. Your "office", of  course, was Humble's back then, but it's also any in the ADHS construct, including the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals, and as Biscobing  dutifully clarifies, at ASH. Because of you, doctor, this crap is going today, in fall 2020. A global pandemic that you are unable to relate to in any clear way as that failure arises under your responsibilities today.  Retaliation at ASH was the norm in my time there, I was subject to it by some lower ranking ASH staff and virtually all higher level executive officers, even mortician Rudd, simply for having done the right thing in my own right back then, to the best of given ability, always in good faith at the onset, asking for nothing other than reasonable response from those people. While staff who basically agreed with my concerns were not able due concerns about the same issue- retaliation, as it can and often does arise in the context of job security.

I'll just mention, too, that I took time to review your current willingness to rely on a still less than actual evidence proven approach to COVID19, the antigen crap, referring to children as football players and dormitory residents, versus acknowledging the far broader implications of how your decision making in that regard will impact all residents of AZ, including and most importantly AZ kids. Where does it end? Or does it!?!  

Enough for one day. eh'. Not quite yet... It is critical, Dr. Christ, that you recall your stalwart defense of known sexual predator Dr. Stephen Dingle not so long ago. I certainly do, and that in that instance, you patently presented an absolute disconnect from all elements of the presence in American society of men like Dingle who have all but always gotten away with that shit due to malaligned privileges as doctors, judges, film producers, whatever, they are slime. You, doctor, provided Dingle with the sickening privilege of unaccountability in this very real context, abuse of power personified.  As I see it, you are little different from Ghisane Maxwell. Because no aspect of this issue is insignificant, you know, women everywhere still suffer this shit, not just from men but also from certain women, yes, women just like you, doctor. Plain fact: I have yet to even meet sexual deviants in mental hospital conditions lacking in this basic understanding of the issue. Sexual sociopaths, in other words, still able to acknowledge the essence of truth for what it is once it's known to others. I mean that sincerely, and I will not ignore it.

In closing for the moment, then. Watching footage of recent interviews with you, I am reminded of  the closing statements of Matt Damon in his acting role in that one stage in the Bourne movie series. I'll put it this way, though. You look beat up, Dr. Christ, you really do and then some. The wear and tear of bureaucratic absurdity and directly related ineptitude is obviously taking its toll on you. And while in no way surprising to me, it is nonetheless pretty shocking to actually see. This, all of this, is your choice, however. I have no argument sufficient to deny you these choices, or to let you off the hook. So be it. 

Have a nice day.  

Pervaiz Akhter. Again. As per the usual when it comes to the face of evil and the realm of sociopaths, it's typically all in the eyes.

It is all right there, the scowl of a mangy ass cur, the mindset of a twisted in the head scoundrel, the character of a boneheaded devil of sorts. My very real memory of having this Rat Bastard as my doctor still carries enough vile energy that it turns my stomach. 

I warned you, you fool-you old man, I did and you know it. I did so in good faith, and it is only your own damn fault that you are known for who you are today.

Dr. Pervais Akhter.

Was once a young man

even if already 

creepy looking 

as hell 

still wet behind

the proverbial ears

young enough

to establish himself in the 

medical field 

as a man of character

and reasonably decent repute 

in these

the United States of America.

Even today (see photo below), one simple glimpse of the man's face quite plainly suggests what only some of us already know about Akhter, in fact. For us, then, it is all right there. His face, nothing more.  While my very real memory of having this Rat Bastard as my doctor still carries enough vile energy that it turns my stomach.

CASE IN POINT. Fact: In the first few months of my time as a patient-consumer of ADHS care services at ASH, my first assigned primary psyche provider there (the first of four in a period of 13 months!, and so much for the established medical standard, "continuity of care", right?), longtime ASH psychiatrist Laxman Patel. got good and spooked by my willingness to exercise my civil rights and basic sense of civic duty, and to follow the Hospital's own protocol by reporting to him issues occurring there, issues that I knew to were happening in abject violation of state and federal law, patient abuse, namely, and directly associated staff misconduct.

Dr.  Laxman Patel, Friday, February 04, 2011:

"What? Do you think you can change the system?"

Laxman Patel. Wednesday, March 04, 2011.

(To my entire treatment team, in fact.)

"Your behavior is ridiculous!

Everything I  say you then write down!"

It perhaps goes without saying that in rather short time,  Patel's nervousness became pretty freaking clear to me, which then led to him demanding that I seek another primary ASH psyche doctor. And even that occurred in ludicrous fashion, an overt example of  Patel's own ignorance when he made this demand, which I only realized in full when he came to me a few days later, and stated as though he had a tail between his legs:

"I did not know it,

but I am not allowed to do that.

You need request another doctor.

Unless you are willing to continue

working with me, that is."

"Continue working with him!?! 

After he, himself, had so loudly pronounced 

an willingness to continue treating me!?!"

So I did make that request, and was thus reassigned to become one of Akhter's patients. Who, in turn, immediately- literally that fast- failed to abide by his own obligation to meet with me as a new patient in a reasonably timely fashion, as per ADHS protocol. Ergo, when I saw the Pakistani Rat Bastard out on the "patient mall" at the time, I cordially asked to meet with him within the standardized time frame,  which he refused to do. I then informed him in very clear language that I knew of this protocol, and that I was not going to ignore his violating that standard, he literally blew me off with a cursory wave of his hand, overtly indicating that he had no concern over such protocol. And as time passed, he further indicated that in his perverted frame of mind I was something far less then an American. That went for the rest of my time there at ASH, even after Akhter followed Patel's lead and and passed me off to my next (of four total, as stated above) ASH psychiatrist, Lynn Lydon. But Akhter was definitely the shittiest of the bunch, as personified by the following:   

Pervais Akhter, Wednesday, March 16, 2011

"There is nothing you can do about these things.

Who do thing you are, anyway?

As far I am concerned, 

you are nothing

but a patient."

I would be hard pressed to more seriously express just how graphically twisted this Pakistani doctor's behavior is. It is about this time, when I was subject to his crap in April 2011, that I began asking myself: 

"Where in the hell 

do these sort of people come from!?!"

Dr. Pervais Akhter 2019

Far too late, old man 

you blew it

 fool

you had the chance

you had every chance 

dumb ass

to become something

other in life

then a medical doctor 

known as 

nothing more then

a cretin 

if not a clear example

of Machiaveillian offspring,

the mere droppings

of a Pakistani dog 

in these 

the United States of America.

One of my patient-peers at ASH, a guy named Chris T. who I roomed with for several months in late 2011, characterized Akhter's behavioral characteristics as nothing less then outright racist in form and substance. Hatred for Americans, more specifically, on the basis of having to work in a place like Arizona State Hospital on the basis of his culture.

That said, these sort of people come from areas of the world where neither democratic values nor human rights are the norm. Raised in an atmosphere that in no way serves to meet these specific attributes. Where people are subject to caste, or dictatorships and familial structures that put the less privileged in ways that we all know would not be allowed in The US.

It is that simple. I hate to say it, but it really is.

I hate racism, and do realize its presence in American society even today. I also feel that I fairly well understand what it must be like to come here to USA from somewhere like Pakistan, or India, or the Philippines, simply as a result of my being an American who values democracy and the equal rights and protections of others.   But even so, to take that shit out on persons- Americans- affected and disabled by any form of illness is horrific, at best.

paoloreed@gmail.com

Further Warning to Dr. Cara Christ, and Her Underling Staff at Arizona State Hospital.

That'd be you, Dr. Aaron Bowen, underling that you are, and all of your own staff at this time. 

You have all made you own beds, so get on already with lying the hell down.

Arizona Center For Disability Law Settles Suit With State Hospital
         By Kathie Ritchie. Wednesday, November 20, 2019. 

Dr. Cara Christ
Current (yet to flee?) Director
Arizona Department
of Health Services.

Said warning is offered as it always has been. In reasonably good faith, but not in the interest of the state employed health care official with the responsibility of managing ASH, but rather, in a context of the care needs, welfare,  and rights of the patient community at Arizona State Hospital. Care needs specific to Rights that apply to all Americans disabled by serious mental illness, or any other type of disability. As per federal law, these such disabled persons are to be provided care in manner consistent with state and federal laws and established policy standards, including in a context of medical licenses that persons such as Cara Christ and Aaron Bowen have the express privilege of possessing. Yes, privilege and nothing more, the same that any other type of state issued license is produced, such as a driver's license, a dog license, and on it goes. 

Tom Betlach
Former-since fled
ADHS official. 

Plain fact is, Christ, Bowen, and a host of others (such as Tom Betlach, who resigned his position in the state health department not long at all after the law suit specific to above headline was filed- go figure) were behind the varied issues that were central to the filing of this particular legal proceeding. Namely, her willful refusal to acknowledge the critical need for advocacy resources to play  role in ensuring a reasonable degree of quality of care at ASH, and to attempt to shut down the value of such resources, regardless of how this nature of abuse of her power affects ASH patients, patient families, and so on. Just as with her predecessors in the ADHS construct, I contend the Christ  pulls this crap as means for her to maintain a a sickeningly corrupted version of status quo, in patent defiance of the rights and care needs of the ASH patient community. This lawsuit, ergo, just one more example of wasted tax payer money, 100% due to the willingness of the state's highest ranking public health care official to  to ignore the care needs and rights of the patient community at Arizona State Hospital. If Chist and her various counterparts had been able to recognize and value the efforts of advocacy resources such as AZ Center for Disability Law, versus going around the mountain and back in hope of thwarting these efforts, this law suit would never have been needed.  

     

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PJ Reed. 2012.

It has been nearly ten years since to founder of this blog publication, Paolo Jack "PJ" Reed initiated a process by which to serve the care needs and interests of ASH patient community. This process began due to an event that occurred during Reed's very first moments following his January, 2011, admission to ASH, after ASH staff immediately stole a full, as in unopened, bottle of medication from Reed personal belongings. As per protocol- medication transport- this property in itself was placed on the vehicle EMS vehicle that transported Reed to ASH in what had at the time been a well sealed bag (before said staff' at ASH took control of this personal property, that is, and formally transported in an even more secure way in the  lock box of that vehicle.  

Within one hour of his arrival on the ASH property, longtime ASH psychiatrist  Dr. Laxman Patel forced Reed to be the subject of a strip search on the basis of these meds being "missing" from the property log that was produced by staff at the Tucson hospital that referred Reed to ASH. Reed fullt cooperated in good faith with this process at the time, not having any predisposition in a context of suspecting anything, per se'.  

A week or so later, when Reed inquired what they had been able to find out about the matter, Patel stated that the hospital's investigation had concluded that staff of the transporting vehicle were behind it, a claim that Reed was willing to trust. However, as Reed became increasingly aware of the shortfalls of ASH's care practices over the next few weeks into months, he reported the matter to AZ State Police (state police have jurisdiction over county to county distribution of any form of controlled substances), who went to the company that owned the transporting vehicle and directly looked at on-board camera technology, which confirmed the plain fact that it was someone on the ASH end of it all who had stolen those medications.    

This is how it began, then. Literally, upon his first moments at Arizona's sole long terms public mental health care facility. And soon thereafter, it only continued, in so overt a a way that no person of reasonable intelligence- mentally ill or not- would have missed it.  For only one bright line example, e.g., when Reed followed the basic directives included in the ASH patient manual, talking 1:1 with Patel about staff misconduct-  abuses of patients most specifically- Patel's first response, for only one bright line example:

 "What do you expect? This is the state hospital." 

Patterns of similar ineptitude arose as Reed's time at ASH passed, leading him to take further steps (beyond Patel, that is), always in good faith as this process began, in the simple hope of seeing that ASH patients were not subject to abuse, and that abusive staff not be granted opportunity to carry on or get away with this such misconduct. But no matter who he went to there at ASH, Reed learned the hard way that no persons in any sort of authority at ASH, from doctors to executive officers, were willing to do anything about this crap. 

In fact, as a consequence of his right and willingness to report issues detrimental to the care needs of both himself and his patient-peers at ASH,  Reed was formally, overtly retaliated against by the by former-since fired ASH CEO, Cory Nelson, and by Dr. Steven Dingle, who has long and is still the chief medical officer at ASH, as well. Forcing Reed from the appropriate treatment unit specific to diagnosis and established behavioral characteristics- major depressive disorder, and no history of violence or actual psychosis- and onto one of ASH's most dangerous treatment units, a unit designated in the hospital'n protocol to treat individuals affected not just psychosis, but by acute psychosis. It takes no  stretch of consideration to realize that all hospitals are required to provide a wide variance of specific diagnoses and treatments.Which is only to say: 

You wouldn't put a cancer patient onto an orthopedic surgery unit , would you!?! 

This was nothing less then an abuse of power, and an action forbidden by the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act.  Mistreatment and abuse of this type compelled Reed- begrudgingly, at best- to go to a degree of effort ridiculously beyond what any patient-consumer should have to go to, in merely reporting these such issues, 100% consistent with simplest of civic duty. 

He did this because he had to, only to run into brick walls throughout all aspects of the operation of ASH, and more so the administrative offices of the AZ Department of Health Services. Which, quite obviously, is continuing even today, as I write this, in December, 2019.

Do not say that you were never warned!

PJ Reed. 2017.

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