Elie Weisel. September 30, 1928-July 02, 2016. A comparative look at the difference between one simple man of character (in fact), and persons so graphically sick to the soul that I am hesitant to even use the man's name in a piece designed to expose them for who they are. Persons in power- that is- at ASH and in ADHS/BHS, who opt instead to abuse/neglect their status in order to further the hardships of persons of lesser status, despite the opportunity to simply do the right thing.
(Elie Weisel. The Nobel Peace Prize speech, 1986)
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| Pervaiz Akhter Primary ASH psychiatrist 1996-2015 |
It may seem an exaggeration, but allow this posting to stand as one more direct message to the persons responsible for ensuring that the highly vulnerable client-consumers (current/future patients) deserving of humane treatment at The Arizona State Hospital are no longer abused, neglected, or otherwise not in fact provided with optimum medical services. As per the letter of law and policy, be it at the state, federal, or international level of standard.
Ideally, a mere glance at Elie Weisel's character not as a hero, but rather as a human being, will serve to raise awareness with respect to what it means to do the right thing, whether one be in a position of public service, health care, human interest, authority, or anything else of common activity, right on down to the grass root level of one on one human interaction in any given situation.
Likewise, with respect for the objective(s) of the staff of PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse, whether that be to inform the greater public, the world in itself, or- conversely- the lower ranking staff at ASH itself and their given superiors in the Hospital and beyond in the ADHS construct, of how disturbingly inhumane it is to in any way further the historically unjust mistreatment of vulnerable members of the human community. Underlying all elements of public health care, there exists a basic obligation to provide nothing short of optimum service.
And the fact is, in my learned experience, the farther up the food chain you go in any contemporary public health care system, the more this simple obligation exists. But it is always there. This mere obligation to be human/humane, to be civil, to be lawful, to be a positively contributing member of society and culture. Be it in the case of the ASH technician (ala' Aldo and company), the ASH nurse (ala' the two Peggies and current Chief Nursing Officer Debra Taylor, etc.), the ASH physician (and here the lists grows, ala' Steven Dingle, Laxman Patel, Pervaiz Ahkter, Ruby Rosa-Roxas, Sylvia Dy, etc.), the ASH administrator (ala' Chief Executive Officer Dr. Aaron Bowen, Chief Operating Officer Ryan Hoffmeyer, Chief Quality Officer Tiffany Williams, Patient Ombudsperson Alisa Martinez and their given predecessors Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega, Jennifer Alewelt, etc.) and their immediate superiors in the ADHS construct, namely, Director Dr. Cara Christ. All of you share this common responsibility, not in a context specific or limited to your given job descriptions, goddammit! Here, we are talking about your most fundamental morality and sense of ethics. Not just as Americans, but as persons granted the express privilege of overseeing the care needs of highly vulnerable and at-risk persons.
Do you bring everything you could bring
to your table?
Do you leave everything on the floor
when you play your game?
Do you go above and beyond
your goddamn job description?
Or are oh-so pure
in your own self deception?
I can only guess that some of you (above) believe in a religious doctrine and/or exercise a related faith of some kind or another. If so, I only hope you are willing and able to consider the given implications. Because I sure wouldn't want to have to face my god were I a person willing to ignore this specific area of fundamental decency. As so many of the ones I had to deal with as an ASH patient were willing to do.
At a minimum, you should- all of you- be ashamed.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
And while I would never leave ASH's long time legal counsel, Joel "Angel of Darkness-the Mortician", entirely out of the mix, I basically feel his stinking name is hardly worth mentioning. For I highly doubt the man is even capable of shame, given my awareness that he is deeply lacking in anything resembling a sense of conscience, much less what it takes to be an attorney of reasonable character. The fact is, Rudd will get his just due, one way or the other. I will see to that.
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| The author, PJ Reed. Caddo Parish, LA Summer, 2012. |
Be it the suffering and humiliation that I had to deal with as an ASH patient circa 2011-2012, or that of my peers, persons affected as I am by serious mental illness, at ASH (and beyond). Or the blatantly obvious deceptions that ADHS/BHS officials spew to the public in order to maintain the archaic status quo at ASH, to the detriment of each and every person in any way associated with the care needs and rights of ASH patients (family, loved ones, and even the public in the worst of circumstances [the 2011 death of April Mott, for example]). Or the ongoing public discrimination against persons so affected, all of which which definitely further the presence of grossly substandard medical practices in public mental hospitals such ASH. Or the unwillingness of most ASH staff to take a stand and do the right thing while they can, which is equally furthered by the associated willingness of Hospital and State officials to pose threat to the job security of such staff should they in any way make waves. It really doesn't matter.
The fact is:
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| The author, PJ Reed. Dallas, TX. Fall, 2012. |
Be it persons affected by serious mental illness, the at-risk elderly, or at-risk and vulnerable children. Etc.
At a minimum, as illustrated to date by the presence of my writing (which in short time drew the attention of the Phoenix area's ABC news affiliate ABC Ch15, and other like sources of remedial impact), I will make each and every one of your ugly names public, because I know as well as you, that with respect for your conduct when you are on the clock, you have no privacy protections. And you sure can't sue me- or you would have long ago, but go ahead and try!- or anyone else associated with the production of PJ Reed The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse, because you know damn well that everything we've brought out the of dark ( in defiance of "What happens at ASH stays at ASH") and into light ("Hello. My name is PJ Reed." April 2, 2012) is factual and true.
It is not and has never been my primary choice to take such a route in cleaning this crap up. The fact is, I initiated my first simple effort to report patient abuse at ASH in my 2nd week as a client-consumer there (patient) there; and it was my first (of four in thirteen months!) primary care physician, Dr. Laxman Patel, who compelled me to go beyond good faith protocol at that time, by resonding to me verbatim: "What do you expect? This is the state hospital... Do you believe you can change the system?". Likewise, I can only characterize my earliest motivation as being further fueled by the next doctor I was panned off to, Dr. Pervaiz Akhter , when he sneered at me down his Pakistani nose and stated "You can't do anything about it. Who do you think you are!"
Therein and regrettably, due to the reality of it all, I have been forced to take take whatever measures I have to in order to preserve the deserved interests of the ASH patient community. Of which I was one, for near-precisely thirteen long months, during that period time when a far too limited number of persons now known to have been engaged in exercising grossly unlawful misconduct were yet to be openly exposed- and subsequently fired- via this blog and the concerns of other concerned citizens.
FACT: As an ASH patient, I submitted no less then fourteen well drafted, civil and as per protocol grievance documents to ASH and ADHS/BHS officials describing in detail the violations of law and policy that I knew of via very real first person experience (as in victimized!); documents that granted these people- most of whom are still employed in the ADHS/BHS construct- an easy opportunity to meet their most obvious responsibilities, which literally would have saved the lives of at least two people, and not to mention would have prevented a radical amount of on-site patient abuse. But no matter what I did while there at ASH in this context, no aspect of my concerns were so much as acknowledged outside of consistent denials and other similar rebuffs, much less honored, respected or otherwise given the merit that the voices of ASH patients across the board are deserving of. This pattern of rejection and denial occurred at the Hospital as well in the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals, the staff of which repeatedly violated a variety of applicable laws dictated in the Arizona Administrative Code. These procedural violations serve as only one more graphic illustration of the ineptitude in the ADHS construct that directly contributes to the substandard conditions at ASH- including patient abuse in itself- and are a central part of my record and data today, documented in detail via standard formwork specific to each on of the aforementioned grievance and related appeal(s) documents.
So in defiance of the attempt of ASH administrators and medical staff to thwart my good faith desire to see that patient abuse at ASH would be addressed and brought to an end once and for all, I decided to let them have it.
Therein and regrettably, due to the reality of it all, I have been forced to take take whatever measures I have to in order to preserve the deserved interests of the ASH patient community. Of which I was one, for near-precisely thirteen long months, during that period time when a far too limited number of persons now known to have been engaged in exercising grossly unlawful misconduct were yet to be openly exposed- and subsequently fired- via this blog and the concerns of other concerned citizens.
FACT: As an ASH patient, I submitted no less then fourteen well drafted, civil and as per protocol grievance documents to ASH and ADHS/BHS officials describing in detail the violations of law and policy that I knew of via very real first person experience (as in victimized!); documents that granted these people- most of whom are still employed in the ADHS/BHS construct- an easy opportunity to meet their most obvious responsibilities, which literally would have saved the lives of at least two people, and not to mention would have prevented a radical amount of on-site patient abuse. But no matter what I did while there at ASH in this context, no aspect of my concerns were so much as acknowledged outside of consistent denials and other similar rebuffs, much less honored, respected or otherwise given the merit that the voices of ASH patients across the board are deserving of. This pattern of rejection and denial occurred at the Hospital as well in the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals, the staff of which repeatedly violated a variety of applicable laws dictated in the Arizona Administrative Code. These procedural violations serve as only one more graphic illustration of the ineptitude in the ADHS construct that directly contributes to the substandard conditions at ASH- including patient abuse in itself- and are a central part of my record and data today, documented in detail via standard formwork specific to each on of the aforementioned grievance and related appeal(s) documents.
So in defiance of the attempt of ASH administrators and medical staff to thwart my good faith desire to see that patient abuse at ASH would be addressed and brought to an end once and for all, I decided to let them have it.
Indeed, you people asked for it. All of it. And you are still asking for it. As exemplified by current ADHS Director (hired in March, 2015) Dr. Cara "Tremendously proud!" Christ's obvious intent to continue spewing out the same insulting propaganda that her immediate predecessor, Will "Yea team!!!" Humble, attempted to rely upon in order to further the abjectly substandard care practices and conditions at ASH, circa 2010-2015. This, despite the known fact that the issues most at stake are still occurrent. And yes, to date, Humble has yet to be brought to accountability, in large part because the Rat bastard scurried into the sewer immediately in late February, 2015, only slightly before the hammer came down at ASH late on that spring.
Which has only taught me that much more. Begging the question:
Which has only taught me that much more. Begging the question:
How long will it be until Dr. Christ hits the bricks?
It's that simple. It's that bad.
That said.
Carry on with your role as tormentors,
or whatever other form of
Rat Bastard you may happen to be,
at your own risk.
Dr. Cara Christ, Director, Arizona Department of Health Services.
Dr. Aaron Bowen, Chief Executive Officer, Arizona State Hospital.
Do the right thing. Now.
paoloreed@gmail.com
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