We found out yesterday that he has pneumonia. Once I found that out I went and got him from that ER. Today we find out he’s negative for covid. Am I overreacting for wanting to contact administrators for possibly causing harm to my father? He had BACTERIAL pneumonia and they forced 2 masks on him while short of breath. I’m more livid than before knowing he doesn’t have Covid.
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That's fine, just know their one goal is to eliminate litigation and they will do ANYTHING they can to discredit you. Don't make that contact without being prepared.
A good strategy might be to send them a letter (certified) asking why they put the man at risk for pneumonia and then he got pneumonia.
They will see this is a potential lawsuit, and will react in one of two ways: either ignore it, or claim they engaged in "standard medical procedures." They call it "evidenced based medicine." They all do it, and they think it is their get out of jail free card.
If they ignore the letter, you have a stronger case in for a jury. If they claim they took standard care, or make any other claim, you now have knowledge of what their likely defense will be, and can take that into consideration in the lawsuit.
If they do claim they had a valid reason, then I would think the goal in the lawsuit would be to show that the "valid reason" was based on fraud, and that a reasonable person whose profession it is to know the factual information would have learned of the factual information instead of pursing a course of action for which there is no evidence of effectiveness, and clear evidence of harm.
Worth a shot.
We should all be thinking about how we will handle any legal issue of these types by responding with the fact that all of these people are engaging in fraud, which eliminates their claims.
I've been looking for a lawyer but I'm in Texas. I have a case for sure. At least I'm pretty darn sure. Let me know if you can help...I've already contacted every avenue that I can.