UPDATE RE: LAXMAN PATEL, M.D. This man was my first attending psychiatric doctor at The Arizona State Hospital. LAXMAN PATEL, and has since been promoted to the very powerful position of Chief Medical Officer at the Arizona State Hospital. Business as usual… At ASH, at least. 

(This material relates to and is derived of a previously published article here in this blog, September 20, 2013)

"Mr. ------ (the patient) reports that his sister allowed him to fondle her when he was 6 years old…:

The following academic article, published by the well qualified staff in the cited group (below) is just one example of well established medical standards as they apply to the required conduct of any licensed medical provider granted the privilege of overseeing the care needs of a seriously mentally and disabled person being provided services via public health care. 

Survivors of Incest Anonymous http://www.siawso.org

The Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on the Adult              Survivor. Any sexual contact, covert or overt, between a child and a trusted individual that damaged the child, whether these contacts included suggestive remarks, pornography, fondling or acts of sexual aggression or torture, needs to be dealt with assertively. These contacts scar virtually all facets of victims' lives since we are left with little or no self-esteem. At least one out of five boys and one out of three girls will be abused before they reach the age of eighteen. The child’s emotional growth will be arrested at the age of the first attack, and we have found the surviving victim won't begin to work on recovery until adulthood, if then. Boys, as well as girls, are victims of child  sexual abuse. Abusers come in all shapes and sizes. Many perpetrators were perceived by the child to be an authority, including: father, grandfather, mother, brother, uncle, friend of the family, aunt, teacher -- unfortunately the list is endless. Some of the social maladjustments arising from incest are: alcoholism, drug addiction, self-injury, prostitution, promiscuity, sexual disfunction and suicide. Eating or sleeping disorders, migraines, back or stomach pains are just a few of the serious physical consequences that we may suffer. Food, sex, alcohol and/or drugs deaden painful memories of the abuse and obscure reality temporarily. If for instance we perceive obesity to be unattractive, and if we believe or were told that we were abused because we were attractive, we may overeat in a misguided yet totally understandable attempt to defend ourselves from further sexual assault. (end of article)

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As I have illustrated in the past, my statements to this so called psychiatric professional, at that point in time wherein he was required to conduct a formal diagnostic assessment specific to my personal history as it relates to my diagnosis and related treatment needs, did include the very serious fact that I was sexually abused by an older sister when I was 6 or 7 years old. Not only was I willing to trust and share this aspect of my deepest private life affairs with Patel at that time, it is also significant to the nth degree that my priorly established mental health records do include this specific information, as established by those who treated me prior to my referral ASH. As per these records, and my statements to a man who is now the Chief Medical Officer at ASH, the incident itself has no bearing on my behavior in this context (I did not "fondle" my sibling in this context- I was raped), for as I told him in that assessment process, I had no idea of what was going on, in truth, when my older sister connived me into a physical interaction that is 100% on point with the definition of incest. As such, I was raped, as per legal definition today. I made the factual details of what happened very, very clear to Patel when we sat down and went through this very critical diagnostic assessment, about 24 hours after I arrived at ASH, early January, 2011.

BUT WHAT DID DR. LAXMAN PATEL RECORD IN HIS OFFICIAL RECORD SPECIFIC TO THE ASSESSEMENT ITSELF, IN DIERCT RELATION TO MY STATEMENTS IN THIS CONTEXT?


"The patient reports that his sister allowed him to fondle her when he was 6 year old."
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The record specific to this matter  is documented, and included in my ASH records, in my possession. The details specific to this highly disturbing incident from my childhood has everything to do with my known diagnosis, as it stood when I was faced with having to accept Dr. Laxman Patel as my primary doctor at ASH: Major depressive disorder and associated traits, including acute suicidal ideation. And more shocking than his proven ineptitude in this case, is the fact that Patel is now THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER AT ASH! There is no reasonable justification for why or how this highly experienced psychiatric physician could have so graphically mischaracterized my personal testimony, testimony which arises via the required trust relationship that any licensed medical practitioner asks a patient to engage in. No justification whatsoever, thus implying that Dr. Laxman Patel- WHO IS NOW THE ACTING CHEIF MEDICAL OFFICER AT ASH- is utterly lacking the capability to serve his patients in manner consistent with their very crucial needs. For how it can it be that I am the only ASH patient subjected to such substandard treatment provided by this man? He has worked at ASH for decades and is the most experienced doctor there, and has thus been the assigned primary psychiatric physician for hundreds of individuals over the years, and is today assigned to full the highest level of medial authority in the Hospital itself, where at any given time, close to three hundred seriously mentally ill and disabled adults are due the established medical standards that any American expects today. Herein my awareness that the abuse and related incompetence that I witnessed experienced at ASH is far from unique or exclusive. 

It is, in fact, a matter of standard practice at The Arizona State Hospital. Graphically substandard medical-mental health care that defies applicable law and policy, and they are getting away with it.

IN CLOSING: Need I say more? Rape and incest in the country of India, where Laxman Patel was raised, educated, and socially oriented before he immigrated to the United States (sometime in the 1970s, I believe), is increasingly being identified in international media reports as one of the most critical problems in the modern world today. It is identified, as such, as a critical human rights issue on an international scale, and it is clear that India's most privileged class of citizens (persons just like Patel) have willfully turned a blind eye towards these issues as a matter societal and cultural standard practice. I have no reason to fabricate this fact, and only recently acquired a semblance of understanding in terms of how and why this so called psychiatric doctor could have so miserably failed to comprehend the significance of my personal history, as it relates to rape and incest, and my associated mental health diagnosis. Herein, I contend lies legitimate data that has direct relatedness in terms of graphic disconnect between The Arizona State Hospitals senior clinical staff and the needs of their patients. It is sickening to experience, and I can attest to that. These people flaunted their willingness to ignore all/any aspects of commonly understood health care and ethics while I was under their authority, and they are still getting away with it now. Obviously, as exemplified by the fact that this man is now Chief Medical Officer at ASH. 

It is that bad.

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