Medical Malpractice

Does any one know of any good medical law case sites? Im taking medical law and ethics and i would like to find some good sites for cases in the medical fields...if you know any that would be good. and they dont have to be in americas legal system either they can be from other countries.

Medical case scenario.. :) Law and Ethics? Mrs Jordan is a fifty-two-year old woman with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare disease that causes large, blister-like lesions to form on the skin and in mucous membranes. In fatal cases blisters form in the lungs and kidneys, causing pneumonia and kidney failure. Large, painful, weeping blisters cover her body, soaking her skin and bedding with bloody drainage.Three days ago she stopped breathing. She was coded, resuscitated, and placed on a ventilator. At the time of arrest her blood pressure regulatory mechanisms also stopped working. Doctors ordered intravenous dopamine to maintain a blood pressure high enough to circulate blood. Each day increasing levels of the drug have been needed to sustain an adequate blood pressure. How, before she went into the arrest, the patient has requested that she does not want to go on if she is such a state, has confirmed this with the family and they agree. Doctor says there is a 50/50 chance of life.. but he agrees to withdraw the dopamine becuase it is what the family wants. Nurse withdraw dopamine, rapidly the patient started to go downhill, 20 minutes later she died. What do u think about all this? Legally, ethically anything :)

Medical case scenario - Law and ethics -- Complex situation? There is this woman who was previously a heavy drug and alcohol user, her boyfriend left her for those reasons however soon after she foud out she was pregnant. She keeps the baby and tell the doctors and nurses that shes clean and has stopped everything. The nurse in order to keep her on track continues to educate her on the harm of these subtances on an unborn baby. When the baby is born, the doctor tells her her baby has fetal alcohol syndrome. HERE is he issue... The baby DOESNT really have this syndrome, it is a "strategie" that the doctor has used to "scare" her in order to give it up all together for ever. IT WORKED.. BUT the fault here is that the doctor is putting her through all this emotional trauma when there really isnt anything wrong with the baby. The nurse finds her crying and later finds out that the doctor is lying but the doctor tells her to keep quiet, that he will NOW tell the mother that the baby only has it mild.. Since Linda also had an ongoing commitment to working with Arlene, she realised that she was now in quite a difficult situation. While deception was generally to be avoided, there did seem to be something to be said for this strategy of the doctor’s. Again, lying might not help with attempts to deal with the issues underlying Arlene’s drinking; yet being truthful might make Arlene complacent – a real concern if there were to be later pregnancies. Suppose, after Linda had met with the doctor and learned of his strategy, but before she had made up her mind what to do about her basic problem, Arlene had confided to Linda that she had been drinking during the pregnancy, though not heavily. Suppose also that Arlene had indicated that the doctor’s diagnosis if foetal alcohol syndrome had really given her a jolt, and that she was now determined to try to limit her drinking. What do u suggest? Law and ethics Linda - Nurse,, Arlene - Woman

case study for medical law and ethics!!!? Adam Green is an orderly in the Midwest Nursing Home. His supervisor, Nora Malone, has asked him to supervise the dining room while 20 residents eat their evening meal. Bill Heckler is an 80-year-old resident who is very alert. He tells Adam that he doesn’t like the meal that’s being served, and he wants to leave the dining room and go back to his own room. Adam is quite busy, since he has to watch the behavior of several patients who are confused. He’s concerned that patients might choke on their food or otherwise harm themselves. Adam becomes impatient with Bill and tells him that he cannot leave the room until everyone is finished eating. Adam then locks the dining room door. Bill complains to the nursing home administrator that he was unlawfully detained. He then hires an attorney, who brings forth a charge of false imprisonment. 1. Was Adam’s action justified? 2. In your opinion, was this a case of false imprisonment? 3. What could Adam have done to defuse the situation? 4. Do the nursing home administrator and Nora Malone have any legal responsibility for Adam’s action? 5. What would a “reasonable and prudent” person do in the same circumstances?

I have a final coming up in my medical law and ethics class.......Please read and give me some ideas please? Research a current ethical issue. Create a case study based on your research. Include the major facts of the issue along with the legal and ethical dilemmas. The case study should be presented in writing.

looking for medical malpratice cases where can I look these up on the net? I was wandering if you can tell me where i would be able to loook up some medical malpractice cases for my law liability and ethics class

Medical law and Ethics? Court cases that deal with health information and how it relates to privacy and confidentiality are: a. Whalen v. Roe - The U.S Supreme Court recognized an individual's right to information privacy, but there were instances when the public;s need for information outweighed an individual's privacy interests. b. John Roe v. Jane Doe - The court held that the physician improperly disclosed her patient's HIV status. c. Estate of Behringer v. Medical Center at Princeton - a physician's HIV/AIDS status was improperly disclosed and the court found in his favor on a suit for breach of confidentiality ( his right as a patients were breached). Pick one

I need a website that has medical misdemeanor cases? I need a web site that has actual misdemeanor cases for my law and ethics class.I have to write a paper and present it. i need it soon so help! a medical misdemeanor is a doctor or a nurse "medical" and then the misdemeanor..

search engine for court cases? i have to choose a court case to write a paper about for my medical law and ethics class. i dont know how to search for court cases! how would be the best way to search for it online to get the ACTUAL court case and not just an article about it?

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PLEASE HELP ME? Medical malpractice I have to write a paper for my “Medical Ethics and Law” class and the instructor wants a case in Medical malpractice that is or was in the news that everybody knows about. Can you think about a case please? The only one I can think of was the Michael Jackson one which I don’t want to write about because I will have to write a book. Please help me, I’m in New Hampshire in case your idea is far away and we don’t get the same news. Merci beaucoup mes amis!

What are the beginning steps for creating a Medical Malpractice lawsuit? Never again will I choose medical issues to write about, it's quite difficult, which is why I keep referring for help here. I'm looking at how a lawsuit occurs, I mean, I know the patient is suing the doctor but what i'm asking is one, how to start off a paragraph to lightly explain how the lawsuit starts, and also what efforts go into the case; all the aspects, trial, etc. Thanks so much also, if anyone wants to add in their law/ethics view, it wouldn't be so bad :)

Bases on Law & Ethics what would be the right decision? CASE STUDY: A Medical Office Manager (MOM) is setting up home health care services for a 78-year-old man who was recently diagnosed with diabetes. The home health care is needed to provide the man with education about his condition, as well as assess his self-care abilities. While discussing the services to be provided, the man informs the MOM that he only wants white people to come to his home. He further states, “I just don’t trust those black people and I certainly don’t want them walking around freely in my home. Put that down in writing”. The MOM is shocked by the man’s request and is not sure how to proceed. Questions: 1. Should the patient’s request be documented in the medical record? Why or why not? 2. Do you feel the MOM should take the patient’s preferences or prejudices into consideration? Is it ethical and/or legal to do so? Why or why not? 3. Should health care facilities comply with a patient’s request regarding racial preference? Why or why not?

Are federal or state detectives banned from cases (i.e. murder or kidnapping) that involve a family member? For example, physicians have long been discouraged from providing medical care for their own family members. Percival's Medical Ethics, published in 1803, argued for the separation of professional and personal identities in the care of family members. Today, the American Medical Association guidelines from the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs exhort physicians to refrain from treating themselves or immediate family, though it's not an outright prohibition. Is there a similar stance for law enforcement? In this case, the victim is immediate family of the detective. Although, would having a family member as a suspect alter an investigator's chances of working on a case? If this is sort of work is frowned upon, who along the chain of command would enforce the policy?

Need help with ideas? I need to write a fictitious story for a Medical Law & Ethics class using 26 terms. The terms do not need to be defined in the story. I swear I don't think I have a creative bone in my body. This assignment is giving me so much grieve. I can't think of any ideas. The class is online which is making it even harder because I don't like online classes. Originally I was going to make up a story about a nurse who was convicted of negligence. But I have trouble including all the words- they range from "administrative law" to "third party contract" to "tort". I don't think I could make up 1 simple case. I'm confused and I don't know where to start. Can anyone be of any help?

Question for creative people...? I need to write a fictitious story for a Medical Law & Ethics class using 26 terms. The terms do not need to be defined in the story. I swear I don't think I have a creative bone in my body. This assignment is giving me so much grieve. I can't think of any ideas. The class is online which is making it even harder because I don't like online classes. Originally I was going to make up a story about a nurse who was convicted of negligence. But I have trouble including all the words- they range from "administrative law" to "third party contract" to "tort". I don't think I could make up 1 simple case. I'm confused and I don't know where to start. Can anyone be of any help?

Will someone please explain to me the meaning of "Tort"? For my Medical law and Ethics class I have to write a report over a "Tort" case, Please explain to me exactly what "tort" means?

Can you correct my paper ? There is a long term debates about deadly sick person’s right to choose between the easy death and the life or, better to say, the rest of the life, full of the suffering from the agonizing pain. What would you choose ? I just finished reading of the essay “ A Crime of Compassion”, written by Barbara Huttmann. Her essay raises a moral issue about responsibility and respect for dying people, who are prefer to die peacefully instead of being revived to live a little bit longer and suffer from enormous scrutinizing pain. The doctors and the nurses have a compassion for the patients, but they also have to follow to the medical ethics and laws. This essay about the male nurse, who, out of the compassion, let a man sick with the cancer die because he knew that patient wanted it and asked multiple times to let him go. This is the moral issue that Barbara Huttmann wants to let us know about. From this essay it is clearly understandable that the medical people should have respect for the dying people and their free will, and in some special cases let them die. Deadly sick people, who has no chance for recovery, should have their right to die and their will should be “respected” by our society. As we all know all the doctors, before they start their medical career, give a Hypocrite's promise to do not take patient’s life away. In simple words they promise to keep the patients alive. I think this promise should have some additional changes. It should include:” I promise do not take patient’s life away no matter what and let this patient suffer longer from the agonizing pain at the end of his or her live”. I know it is sounds sarcastic, but this is true. Instead of releasing person from the pain, our society makes it even more painful for this person. According to essay, a man, who suffer from lung cancer, was resuscitated two-three time a day! There is a short paragraph in this essay that shows how this man was kept alive. “When Mac had wasted away to a sixty-pound skeleton kept alive by liquid food we poured down a tube, IV solutions we dripped into his veins, and oxygen we piped to a mask on his face, he begged us: “Mercy...for God’s sake, please just let me go.”

Religion without morality is a superstition? Doctors basically adhere to the ethics, customs and medical principles and lawyers are aware and devoted to law, its customs, ethics and principles. But, weirdly, why there are quite a lot religious officers (pegawai jabatan agama/ pegawai pencegah maksiat) out there who do not follow and obey religious guidelines or Islamic principles. (Based on cases reported by media where there are officers who humiliating others, making raids and causing loss). Jimmy: For the 1st time ever, i agree with u =)

This is for med law class? Katrina Katt, a 28-year-old woman, is seeing Dr. Orbit, a Gynecologist for treatment of a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Katrina is well known in the area since she is the morning anchor on a popular local television station. Sabrina, a medical assistant working in the office, recognizes Katrina and is curious why she is seeing Dr. Orbit. Sabrina finds Dr. Orbit’s nurse and asks her why Katrina Katt was in the office. After talking to the nurse and looking at Katrina’s chart, Sabrina soon finds out that Katrina is being treated for syphilis. A few minutes later, Sabrina emails her husband, Roger and tells him that Katrina Katt has syphilis. Surprised with the information, Roger then tells his coworkers and emails his parents to let them know. Address the following questions: Discuss the legal implications associated with this case. What federal or state regulations or legislations were not followed in this case? Did all persons (Katrina, Dr. Orbit, Dr. Orbit’s nurse, Sabrina, Roger) involved in this case act ethically? Why or why not? Was confidentiality breached in this case? If so, identify the person/persons responsible for this breach. Discuss how any breaches of confidentiality could have been avoided by the health care professionals in this case. Should Sabrina have been given access to Katrina’s personal health information? Why or why not? Discuss the guidelines of the Patient’s Bill of Rights that were violated in this case. Discuss any potential violations to the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Could these violations be criminally punishable? Why or why not? Look at the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics found on page 91 and the AAMA Code of Ethics found on page 328 in your textbook. Discuss how these standards could have helped to maintain Katrina’s confidentiality.

History or Philosophy UnderGrad Major? Currently I'm a sophomore at Marquette, originally was in the sciences but have lost the passion I had for the subject. I've been very interested in both History and Philosophy since I was in high school and did very well in them. I'm not a terrific writer which deterred me from both majors. However I am considering going to Law School and would love to be a lawyer in ethic cases or even (due to my large background in the sciences, specifically health sciences) medical malpractice law fighting on the side of the hospital or doctor. I keep hearing both majors are good for law school and both of which I can take. Also, I have all the pre-med requirements except for Organic Chemistry. So I ask which do most law schools prefer and which would be more useful for when I want to go into teaching either at a law school (which would be pretty sweet) or even just at a university level (yeah i know you need more schooling for both which I am ok with since I plan on a continuous education throughout my life, so constant schooling or taking classes to stay with the times and to increase my academic knowledge.) Let me know your thoughts and if you feel I should even double major which would cost me another year in college but at this point I'd rather be well rounded and a good candidate for law school or grad school than to finish "on time" and only have a limited choice in options. Thanks! Also please provide sites if you mention statistics or even options from other universities or what certain grad/law schools want. Thanks!

Is Michael Jackson's doctor guilty in the eyes of the law? Drug abuse is rampant especially in celebrity groups. Michael Jackson is known or at least suspected to have been addicted to drugs. The doctor who was with him during his time of death gave him some medication which is alleged to be the cause of his death. His doctor is saying Michael begged him to give him at least one of those drugs. Medical experts appearing in the media are not in agreement as to whether those drugs caused his death especially given the minimal quantities given which would not kill a normal person. Moreso, Michael Jackson wanted those drugs. In light of the fact that Michael was an adult who may chose to or not to take certain drugs, should the doctor be found responsible?.The second question is " can doctors be held responsible in such cases where there is no overdose and where the results would be different if the same drugs were to be administered to a different person?. The third question is "isnt it simply a matter of professional ethics or simply work gone wrong as opposed to murder, just like a plumber, builder, mechanic or any other professional can make a mistake.

writing a term paper on malpractice. i need an example of a malpractice case and simply human error case n med I am writing a Medical Ethics Term Paper and first of all I am having huge writers block. The term paper is on Misdiagnos...at what point does human error stop and malpractice begin. On the web I am looking for a couple good examples of a malpractice cases and a couple good examples of where good doctors by accident make simple human errors and no malpractice law suits result....All suggestions are welcome

A question about Paralegal Ethics? My daughter has a discussion question that has us both kinda iffy on the answer. It is regarding if a paralegal broke the code of ethics when a person was injured. Any paralegals out there that can help us out? The firms paralegal, Jonah, is inside the local grocery store when a woman he knows slips on an unmarked puddle of water. Jonah rushes over to help the woman, who cannot stand and seems to have injured her leg. While waiting for the emergency medical team to arrive, the woman (who knows Jonah works at a law firm) asks Jonah if she should call an attorney. She also asks if his firm handles these types of cases. Jonah tells the woman that she will need to call an attorney and gives her the number of his firm. Has Jonah breached any ethical duties? We can understand that paralegals should not be giving out legal advice but by suggesting she should get an attorney, would this qualify as legal advice? Any help would be great, Thanks!

Health care question...what career matches up with these interests? I have always been very interested in health care, and I'm currently working as a hospital social worker in an inpatient unit. There are two areas of health care that I'm passionately interested in. The first is medical ethics. For example, my hospital will sometimes have cases where we need to have team consultations where we discuss a complicated case from multiple perspectives (e.g. legal, medical, familial, etc.). I find these types of cases fascinating, but don't know if there's a good career match for this interest apart from law (which I don't want to pursue). My second interest is working to make health care delivery more efficient. I am fascinated by the inefficiency of the current system in many areas (reimbursement, documentation, pricing structure, etc.). Once again, I'm not sure what type of job or training one would need to have to focus on these issues.

What are the law governing use of a interpreter within a Hospital setting? I am a Security Guard at a hospital and just recently had to deal with a patient being admitted to are psych floor who was very upset about how things where going during the intake process. I tried to explain to her that this is how things are but she did not speak any English whatsoever, now this was late at night and interpreter services was gone for the night and are alternative a speakerphone that calls a interpreter service call center was adequate for this particular patient. However there was a ER Tech working that spoke both the patients language and English very well I asked her if she could please help me talk to the patient and try to get her to calm down but a nurse told me she was unable to because it was "unethical and illegal for her to interpret for me". Now I understand that there are rules and ethics surrounding interpreter services when working in a medical facility but in my case I was only asking for someone to help me break a language barrier so that I could better asses the situation and try to calm the patient down. all in all I just wanted to be able to ask her how I can help her and explain the rules of the unit and answer any questions she might have for me. I in no way wanted to ask her anything related to her medical treatment being provided to her by my facility. So in short my question is Is it really illegal for me to ask for someones help in the way I have just explained. (I am really just need to know now because if there are such laws I really don't see how they apply in this unique situation)

Has anyone read My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult? I need your help please!? I need help writing an essay and I really need your help. I read the book a year ago and I forgot what most of it was about and I only had one day to do this assignment. Therefore I couldn't go to the library and read the book because its a really big book. There was no way I was going to read the book in time to do the assignment. Please help me! PS. I think its wrong for a teacher to even think about an assignment so big with only one day to do it. Its wrong and not fair. Anway please help. You will be a life saver and an awesome person if you can help me. Pretty please and Thank You. By the way I know this may seem that your doing my assignment but really your not. I am a smart girl with a 3.9 GPA average and I really need your help. So please have a kind heart and help me. I have to have three of the five questions answered. If you can answer them thank you so much. I promise I wont use your answer word for word. Its wrong and its your opinion based on what you'll say. I just want to get an idea of something I would say in the essay. So, here they are: 1.) Religion is not discussed within the story. What role do you think the religion has in the Fitzgerald family? What is their faith life? Support you anwer with examples. 2.) Julia says, "Even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." Who understood better how to "help" Kate, Sara or Anna? Support your choice with specific examples. 3.) Brian says that when rescuing someone from a fire that "the safety of the rescuer is of a higher priority than the safety of the victim. Always." How does this apply to his role in his own family? Support your opinion with specific examples. 4.) During the trial, when Dr. Chance (oncologist) takes the stand, he describes the rules by which the medical ethics committee, of which he is apart, rules their cases. Out of these six principles (autonomy, veracity, fidelity, beneficence, non, maleficence, and justice), which apply to Anna's lawsuit? Moreover, which of these should be applied to Anna's home situation? In other words, do you think a parent might have anything to learn from the guidelines that the doctors follow? Are there family ethics that ought to be put into place to ensure positive family dynamics? If so, what should they be? 5.) "It's more like we're astronauts, each wearing a separate helmet, each sustained by our own source of air." This quote comes from Anna, as she and her parents sit in silence in the hospital cafeteria. Besides being a powerful image of the family members' isolation, this observation shows Anna to be one of the wisest, most perceptive characters in this novel. Discuss the alienation affecting these characters. While it is obvious that Anna's decision to sue her parents increases that sense of alienation throughout the novel (especially for Anna herself), do you think that she has permanently harmed the family dynamic? Support your opinion with specific examples.

Do we have a case? and how do we do something about it? medical negligence? ok my girlfriend, a few weeks ago had a rod rod implant contraceptive put in her arm, once the procedure was complete the doctor told her it would be safe to have unprotected sex after 3weeks, and she kept drilling the the waiting period into her of 3WEEKS! in this same appointment she also was written a script for an antidepressant medication she has been on for a few months now. so following the doctors recommendations we waited 3 weeks, but the doctor didn't tell us the antidepressants she is on can affect the rod for up to a month! my girfriend is late and and has 1 positive supermarkt pregnency test and is going for another test at(with a differet doctor) today, shes been pregnant once before and is feeling the same way she did then(she misscarriaged at 5 months) so she is most likely pregnant. we are only 17 and cant handle a child right now we need to finish school and we cant rely on our parents nor can we tell them, they would dissown us.... can someone plz help? btw we our in australia nsw if thats makes a different on laws and ethics or something ok, yes some people believe, young people should not be having sex, but in australia it is legal after the age of 16, and yes i know i will have to own up to my decisions, but thats not answering the question, we will deal with it if we have to and we dont need people telling us what we should and shouldn't do, we make our own choices and we deal with the consquences.

QUESTION ABOUT MEDICAL MALPRATCICE? My wife had a hysterectomy about 2 years ago which was botched. After 6 or 7 major and minor surgeries to save her, wound care til the present and home nursing along with all the associated heartache... let's skip the details: We finally went to two different law firms to attempt to sue for malpractice. Both had "experts" review the medical records (we had to pay for them; not cheap). Both firms came to the conclusion that there was, indeed, Malpractice and something called Failure to Provide Expected Medical Care or some such thing. Anyway: Both firms said that, although the case had "merit" and proof, the "Return On Investment" was not adequate for them to accept the case. As one "honest" attorney said, "I've got a Mesarati sitting outside I've got to pay for...Sorry, Good bye". My Question: Where is the line between ethics and profit? This happened in Indiana where there is a cap on malpractice and other restrictions. Hey, if Obamacare comes in, can we revisit this? After I'm a UAW member (lol)... It's lost. Just asking for some opinions about ethics. Thanks. To Whitefan; thx but I'm not quite that dumb. Even explored criminal charges for falsifying post-op reports with other docs agreeing. Can't afford it. Just venting, but still a little upset.

If people put ethics over greed, the world would be a much better place? I was discussing this with my parents today (I'm 16). Over how there are people in professions cheat other people just so they can get a higher paycheck. For example, doctors. There are a lot of doctors who give their patients expensive medicines just so they can make more money. So they can live in a bigger house. Provide for their families more. Or, they try to get you to plan multiple appointments to solve an issue that could have been solved in 1 appointment. Or, lawyers. They know the law very well, so they should always have justice. But there are still many who work for people, and fight hard for them in court, when they know they weren't telling the truth. But it doesn't matter, because all that matters at the end of the day is making as much money as possible. How do these people feel good about themselves when they win the case, but they know its not whats just? What kind of sick people are these? The list goes on and on.. even with politicians and lobbyists that campaign for things they know are wrong, but do it because they have sponsors paying them to do so. Think of how wrong the world is because the world is corrupted by greed. Its not just high ranking people either.. everyday people. Putting themselves and their families above others, by ignoring ethics and being fueled by greed. And these people think they are good people? Many of these people claim to be religious? BS. If everybody in the world started to be fairer and actually use ethics, we wouldn't have a lot of problems. We wouldn't have the health insurance mess in the first place. We probably wouldn't have the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico f***ing up so many people's lives as well as the environment, because BP would have thought its better to be safer and do what was necessary to prevent a spill, than risk it to save money. Governments wouldn't be corrupt.. there would be no theft, which means there probably would be a lot less violence. And many many more that I'm sure you could think of yourself. Like if people really gave a sh** about their jobs and actually helping people.. many good things would occur from that. Like I hate when you go to a doctor and they are acting like you are wasting their time.. they just want to go to the next patient soon. Like wtf, do they know how much that 1 appointment costs? I generally hate when people don't care about their job pretty much.. it also could be a teacher, who ist dedicated to really helping kids improve their education. teachers are a big deal.. they shape the future people in this world. Or when you go to a store and the workers don't want to help you out and kind of snub you off and stuff. Im the one giving you my money! If you are going to be a b**** about me contributing to your paycheck, then I'll just go shop somewhere else that cares about its customers, and don't worry, I'll tell all my friends to not shop at such an inconsiderate place. No matter what you do, please do it with some passion, or atleast pretend you give 2 sh**s about it, or it leaves a bad impression. and if you really care for what your doing your gonna do a better job at it, and if everyone did that the world would be vastly improved as when you do work you love you just wanna keep working hard at it. Dont think its just some far-off dream. You can make good decisions in your life because I think karma really does happen. And it makes a difference to other people when you are fair with them.. think of all the lives you'd be helping. that's what is going to get you to heaven, if you believe in it, not having the biggest house on the block. you dont need lots of money to be happy anyways.. rich people have issues just like everyone else.. sometimes even worse. my parents disagreed with me.. like my mom gave me the doctor example.. like some indian who worked really hard and got into a good college to be a medical doctor and is doing those things (which i consider to be scams) to give their kids the best life possible, at many other peoples expense. I think thats sad. I hope I'm not like that when I'm older.. I want to do something in United Nations and hopefully I can have some ethics and not be hypocritical. you cant expect someone to give you a break when you arent gonna help other people as well. people have to work together, not just look out for themselves. and then we'd have far less issues in the world. Sorry for the repitition and sorry this is pretty long, I was on a roll. So what do you think? Are you going to actually try to have more ethical actions, instead of always putting yourself first? I'll answer to your answers.

Do I have a case against a nurse/hospital? My first pregnancy: I was told by the nurse not to walk on my own because I just had the baby. I had to go to the bathroom. So I rung the bell by my bedside. It took them a while to come. They finally came and helped me to the bathroom. When I was finished I rung the bell repeatedly and got no answer and no one came to get me. I can hear the nurses conversating outside. So I figured I can get off the toilet and crack the door to yell out for them. I past out. Don't know how long. I woke up looking at the ceiling with nurses around me. The next day after the medication wore off I felt very sharp pain in my hip. I couldn't even hold my newborn. I couldn't shift my body or anything. I had to lay flat during my hospital stay and when I arrived home. My doctor said I felt that way because of my vaginal delivery. but it's been 2 years. Im in school to be a medical assistant. My statute of limitations is not up. Im learning about med law and ethics. Do I really have a case. My hip still hurts every now and then to the point I can't get up or twist my body. Can I prove it to the court? How? what to do? What to expect? By the way, I live in Philadelphia if you are a lawyer Sway, how abut you sit on the toilet after a surgery (since your a guy). And wait up to ten minutes for someone to get you and put you back to bed. Maybe I should have been more specific. I is all not the hospital fault. I know that. Comparable negligence is the case here if you have done your homework I believe comparable negligence is when the plaintiff and the defendant caused harm. Therefore the hospital is resonsible for half of my injury. If they would have came to me and put me back to bed, none of this would have happened. If I kept ringing the bell how long was I gonna be there. Did the bathroom bell work? If it didn't then the hospital is at fault more than the nurse right? Help me out here. What are my options My med law professor say i got a case. My lawyer say I got a case. Why don't yall think so?

I was served a summons and a letter of case management order.? I was served a summons and a letter of case management order.? I will be very clear.... I was in a car accident, rear ended someone, no insurance, my passenger after 3 years is trying to sue for personal injury. Received a few stitches under eye. Filed 17 days before statue of limitations in California so case was filed. Seen this person after accident and they were doing fine not longer after the accident. Anyway I was hit with a summons which seeeeems very frivilous and as if it is being sent by a "oppurtunist" who is trying to get whatever it is they can. How do I reply back to this summons and case management order. Please be detailed. I understand if this person would be reasonable and go hey here are my medical bills etc...and here are the actual numbers. But to attempt to sue for pain and suffering, loss of wages etc... is ridiculous. I have seen this person driving, looking like life was just fine, this is very suspicious to claim any pain and suffering, if anyone went through pain and suffering it would be me I lost a vehicle, was sued by the other parties whom a paid some money...How can I bring these people back to reality... Thanks for all your responses, I contribute to yahoo answers all the time when it is something I feel I can contribute to....Thanks Category Politics & Government > Law & Ethics

whats your opinion????????????........? Postmortem sperm procurement: whose rights should prevail? please help its for my midterm!? this issue is one of my questions for my ethics midterm and if anyone can just give me their thoughts to help me gather mine and put them all together. thanks! here it is in a nutshell: husband died unexpectedly in an accident and his wife and him had been trying for years to conceive with no luck. after his death she requested postmortem sperm procurement. her husband had no advance directive stating or implying his wish to father a child or specifying his agreement to such procedure in case of his death. the hospital ethics comittee noted that under state law the spouse of the deceased is the surrogate decision maker so it rested with the wife. deceased husbands parents argued their son would have never wanted to father a child who would be raised with only one parent.the medical staff is divided becase half feel they had been trying for years so therefore husband wanted to father a child with his wife, other hald thought its unfair to do so with only one parent although many children have been raised perfectly fine this way. how should conflicting interests be handled by the hospital and whose rights should prevail?

can some one check my essay? plz? “Worldwide, at least 22 animals die every second in labs. In the UK one animal dies every five seconds (quote)”. It is important to understand that unecessary animal death should be prevented from occurring. The major problem with animal experimenting is the lack of ethics because there is a feeling of superiority and zero consideration for the well being of the animal. In most cases animals are abused everyday in labs for the hope of finding cures for human diseases and to obtain a better knowledge of the possible outcomes of different drugs. There are three major dilemmas with animal experimentation they are: animal cruelty, different methods of experiment and irrellevant testing. One of the major contraversal topics of animal’s experimentation is animal cruelty which includes brutal treatment, abuse, pain and suffering. The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories- the animal welfare act- allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, and forcibly restained addicted to drugs and brain damaged (Bad Science). This shows that the government did not show any grief for these animals and approve animal experimentation within labs.Twenty million animals are used in cruel outdated teaching excercises. Roughly half of them are killed and used for dissection, while others are tormented while they are still alive in classroom biology class, experiments, psychology labs and medical training (In Education). Hundreds of testing of animals are poisoned, blinded and killed every year in outdated products tests for cosmetics, personal care, household-cleaning products and even fruit juices (Info Animal).no matter how many animals are killed and no matter how cruel and outdated the experiments are people still tend to use experimentation .No matter how painful or cruel the experiment Is, pain killers are not even required (Bad Science). In succeding centuries, animals were employed to discover how the body functions or to confirm or disprove theories developed through observation (Opposing). In past centuries since scientists could not opperate on humans for fun they use animals, knowing that animals are completely different that humans .Millions of frogs are captured in their natural habitats every year for dissection and experimentation, and the U.S department of the interior has even stated that amphibian population declines are due in part to the use of these animals in dissection (In Education). The government knows that animals are declining due to experimentation and their not doing anything about it.Monkeys are addicted to drugs and have holes drilled into their skulls, sheep and pigs, have their skin burned off and rats have their spinal cords crushed (Testing 101). Animals can be heavely abused and people either don’t know or just have no interest.In archaic medical training courses, pigs and dogs are cut open and killed and ferrets have hard plastic tubes down their delicate throats (Testing 101). School are still based on outdated techniques,instead of using the technology the 21st century provides schools rather kill animals. Tiny mice grow tumors as large as their as their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, and rats are made to suffer seizures (Testing 101). Even pets are abused and there our friends our companions and their still used as experimentation. Another major topic that can be taken in consideration can be the other methods of experimentation. Today animals are used in experiments for three genreal purposes (one) biomedical and behavioral research, (two) education, (three) drug and product testing(Opposing).for the human society animals are seen for three pruposes, but animals were not made for those purposes they were made to roam the wild and be free .Humans cell cultures and tissue studies (In Vitro Tests) and artifical human “skin” and “eyes” mimc the body’s natural properties, and a nmber of computer virtual organs serve as accurate models of human body parts (Info Animals). Scientists now don’t have to use animals theres even more accurate testing since animals lead a false experiment.so when they experiment on animals it means that the person just wants to tortue animals.The NCI now uses human cancer cells, taken by biopsy during surgery, to perform first stage testing for new anti cancer drugs, sparing the one million mice the agency used annually and giving us all a much better shot at combating cancer (Bad Science). The NCI has advanced to the new technology and advancing to cure cancer with out animals since there inaccurate to test. Medical students are trained with a combination of diddactic methods, sophisticated human patient simulaters, interactive computer programs; safe humans based learning methods and clinical experience (Info Animal). More and more universities and other labs are starting to computers and simulaters to teach or practice. Fortunately, scientists have developed sophisticated product test that are faster, cheaper

Any chance the Pope will reverse the ex-communication of hospital nun who agreed to dying woman's abortion? As one of the key administrators of the hospital voting (as part of the ethics board) in favor of a life-saving abortion for a 27 year old patient, the life-for-a-life decision resulted in the nun being ex-communicated by the local Phoenix Bishop. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Media/church-excommunicates-nun-authorized-emergency-abortion-save-mothers/story?id=10799745 Most Protestants consider abortions necessary to save the life of the mother (thus, choosing just one death instead of two, in many of such cases) moral and Biblical. But does this ex-communication mean that many Catholics disallow all exemptions? Or just this Bishop? (Canon law experts seem to indicate the nun's decision was OK.) ==================================================================== EXCERPTS: Despite being described as "saintly," "courageous," and the "moral conscience" of the Catholic hospital, McBride was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted for supporting the abortion. "An unborn child is not a disease ... the end does not justify the means," Olmsted said in a statment issued to a the Arizona Republic newspaper this past May. Hospital officials defended McBride's actions and released a statement saying, "In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother's life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy." Although many medical ethicists say it was the right decision, the hospital confirmed McBride has been removed from her position as senior administrator and reassigned. Critics are arguing McBride's punishment is a double standard. Many are pointing out that it has often taken years for priests who sexually abuse children to be even reprimanded, let alone excommunicated.

lawyer charged with breach of fiduciary responsibilities? Tyler TX's newest oldest "Elder Law Expert" lawyer is suing my elderly, uneducated, unsophisticated mother for unpaid legal fees. He billed my mom 2 1/2 times his estimate. Also, he did virtually nothing, and badly. He downloaded the *wrong* Medicaid application form at the 11th hour, right before Medicare's 100 days expired. (Medicaid was later denied.) In preparing to defend her against him in small claims court, I find that his own father sued him in 2006. He had been named as Trustee in his mother's Testamentary Trust. Ten years later, his father petitioned federal court to remove him as Trustee, recover trust property, and asked for emergency injunctive relief: His son the attorney had committed a breach of fiduciary duties. He had mishandled the estate, bought himself a house, sent the kids to college, placed his father in a sub-standard nursing home with no medical care, failed to provide an accounting of the assets when requested, etc.. After dragging his feet to provide court-ordered records, he asked that the case to be dismissed when his father died in 2007 (granted). I am now told that none of this can be brought up in my mother's case since it is "immaterial." However, I believe it speaks to the attorney's character, ethics, and mistreatment of the elderly. Any attorney who would act this way in any Trustee capacity, much less his own family's Trust, cannot be trusted with any elderly person's affairs. This attorney has moved to Tyler TX by way of Reno NV. Why? One clue is that Tyler TX is a town abundant in elderly and infirm people, and they are all sitting ducks for a predatory lawyer with a history of lying, cheating, and stealing who now has his "Elder Law Expert" shingle out. How can I get the word out about this unethical lawyer? My elderly mom's case is relatively small compared to his family's ~$780,000 estate. But if he takes ~$3,000 from every old person who is lured by his "Elder Law Expert" advertising, he will soon be able to recoup his losses from being removed as Trustee from his family's Trust. It isn't slander if it's true: The lawyer's father did, in fact, bring suit against him in federal court for mishandling the family Trust; he was, indeed, removed as Trustee. He did, in fact, mishandle my mother's case to the point where he gave her the wrong Medicaid application to fill out: He signed and dated it a mere *three days* before Medicare's 100 days was to expire, and left it up to her to fill it out (yet "File application for Medicaid" is on fee agreement.) I'm considering a display ad in the Tyler Morning Telegraph. Believe me, it won't be slanderous.

dont pay attention to this!? Organ and Tissue Transplants Modern techniques of medical transplantation—surgically removing a diseased or malfunctioning kidney, heart, or other organ, and replacing it with a healthy organ from a donor—has brought new life and new hope to patients who, just a few generations ago, would have died. But the practice has also raised significant ethical questions. One such question centers on the cold reality of supply versus demand: At any moment, there are upwards of 150,000 people in the world awaiting transplants. A scarcity of donor organs usually means a long wait—during which some patients die. A large supply of organs is available from the roughly 200,000 patients worldwide who are declared brain-dead each year, but the problem has been to secure consent from family members and loved ones to remove organs for transplant. For many years medical ethicists have considered the question of whether ethical means can be found to increase the supply of donor organs. In the early 1980s, for example, American bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania discussed the concept of presumed consent—the idea that, barring strenuous objection from family members, doctors could presume that a person declared brain-dead would be willing to donate organs to save others. Some Asian nations, as well as some European nations, including France, Belgium, Austria, and Spain, have such policies. The United States and Canada later enforced a concept advanced by Caplan of required request—a policy whereby hospital personnel would be legally required to seek permission from family members before harvesting organs. The adoption of this policy in the United States and Canada increased the supply of donated tissues, such as corneas and bone marrow, but failed to dramatically increase the supply of donor organs. Current United States and Canadian law bars the sale or purchase of donor organs. The United States does permit the sale of plasma and other bodily products, such as hair and sperm. Would financial incentives provide a stimulus for more people to make organs available? Some ethicists believe so, while others find the idea of marketing organs ethically objectionable. Other ethical issues are raised by the practice of xenotransplantation—the use of animal tissues and organs for human transplant. In 1984 the case of “Baby Fae” stimulated wide ethical discussion. Doctors transplanted a baboon heart into a newborn girl to replace her own fatally flawed heart. She died shortly after. Some critics contend that xenotransplantation poses a danger to human health because of the risk of transferring deadly animal viruses to the human population. This risk causes bioethicists to question if such practices are ethical. In recent years, one of the most promising areas related to transplantation will likely trigger ethical debate well into the future: the experimental use of tissues from aborted human fetuses. In one particularly active area of this research, scientists have experimented for more than a decade with grafting nerve cells from human fetuses into the brains of patients suffering from Parkinson disease. This disorder, caused by the mysterious death of brain cells that produce a chemical called dopamine, gradually causes patients to lose control of their muscles. In early studies some patients who received fetal cells showed improvement in their symptoms, as the transplanted cells demonstrated the capacity to produce dopamine. But the treatment also produced unpleasant side effects. This research, like all research that depends on human fetal cells, has also provoked debate. Critics question the ethics of using tissues from human fetuses for any research purposes. Ethical uncertainty hangs over a related area of research on human embryonic stem cells. Human embryos contain stem cells that have the ability to develop into almost any type of cell. Scientists hope to direct stem cells to produce certain types of human tissue. It is possible that someday these cells might be used for transplants or for growing new tissue that can be grafted into the human body. For example, scientists hope that stem cells might one day be used to replace nerve cells destroyed by spinal injury, or heart muscle cells damaged during a heart attack. Interest in this field was heightened considerably when scientists announced in 1998 that they had learned how to grow human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory. At present the U.S. government has banned federal funding for human-embryo research, although private biotechnology companies are exempt from this ban and have been vigorously pursuing research on embryonic cells. In 2000 the federally funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) ruled that this ban was not necessary for studies using cells derived from human embryos, since these cells are not embryos. The NIH established guidelines enabling federal funds to be used in cases where cells were derived from frozen embryos that were created for the purposes of fertility treatment but were not going to be used and were therefore slated for destruction. Other nations currently differ widely in their policies: France, for example, has forbidden human-embryo research. No laws in Canada regulate human-embryo research, although scientists or institutions receiving federal funding must follow strict guidelines governing research on human embryos. The United Kingdom has laws permitting some forms of human-embryo research, going so far as to create guidelines allowing scientists to apply cloning technology to human embryonic cells to create genetically identical cells for a potential patient. But the ethical questions remain: Is it morally acceptable to use tissue taken from human embryos? One recent development might change the nature of this argument. Scientists discovered in 1999 that stem cells taken from adult mice, and not human embryos, also display an ability to change their function. Some stem-cell research continued with the use of adult mouse cells. In 2007 government medical authorities in the United Kingdom approved the creation of embryos that combine human and animal cells for use in medical research. British researchers claimed the hybrid embryos were vital in the fight against disease. ETHICAL ISSUES A number of ethical issues haunt the transplant field. With few exceptions, donated organs go to the patient who is nearest death, even though a healthier patient might benefit more by living longer after the transplant. People who need a second, third, or fourth transplant because their prior transplants failed usually gain top priority, even though they are not likely to do as well as patients who have not already had a transplant. Some critics object to giving organs to patients whose organ failure was the result of their own actions, such as cirrhosis of the liver resulting from alcohol abuse. Money is also a major issue. Access to transplantation is impossible without access to good primary medical care and good insurance, both of which are largely unavailable to the poor. To be placed on the waiting list, patients must show they can pay for the transplant. In 2005 a kidney transplant cost about $116,000 and a liver transplant as much as $250,000 in the first year after the surgery. Many insurance companies do not cover such costs, particularly for the new procedures, such as lung, pancreas, or multiple organ transplants, which are still considered experimental. Although organs cannot be bought and sold legally in the United States, there is evidence that a black market in organs exists in China and other countries. Persistent allegations have been made of people traveling to China and paying for organ transplants. Human rights groups have reported evidence that the bodies of executed prisoners are the source for most of the organs transplanted in China. In the United States, where organ donation is voluntary, ethical questions arise over the nature of the consent and the use of incentives. Intensive donor solicitations in recent years have not made much of a dent in the shortages of organs. Even though many people sign organ donor cards, their families are often reluctant to grant permission at the moment of crisis. Some ethicists debate whether family members should have the right to refuse donation if the deceased signed an organ donor card. Presumed consent laws, in which everyone would be considered willing donors unless they have specifically said they were unwilling, have been tried in Europe and South America, and on a limited basis in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Some experts have suggested financial incentives, such as cash rebates, estate tax discounts, or payment for burial expenses. Others have suggested broadening the criteria used to determine death beyond the lack of all brain activity. This would permit a surgeon to use organs from anencephalic children, who are born without a brain, and from people in a persistent vegetative state. The implantation of tissues from aborted fetuses into the brain showed promise as a treatment for both Parkinson and Huntington’s disease. Experimental results were mixed, but the treatment raised its own set of ethical questions. The foremost is the question of abortion itself. The possibility of using embryonic stem cells to create replacement organs has faced opposition for similar reasons. Some researchers believe that this issue can be surmounted by growing cells in the laboratory or by genetically engineering a patient’s own skin cells. Fetal pig cells have also been used as a treatment for Parkinson and Huntington’s disease, but that raises other ethical issues regarding the treatment of animals. The Moral Case for Organ Donation by Amitai Etzioni Thursday, August 26, 1999 Amitai Etzioni is the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of The Limits of Privacy. He can be reached at etzioni@gwu.edu. Pennsylvania is considering paying families of organ donors $300 to help cover the donors' funeral costs. The money will be paid directly to the funeral homes, to prevent it from being used for other purposes, thus openly introducing a market in organs. Such a market has been until now considered anathema in the United States, a sentiment backed by a law banning trade in organs. Could that be changing? In the market for organs A May Time magazine essay by Charles Krauthammer suggested that it is acceptable that the poor will be more likely than the rich to be enticed by the Pennsylvania gambit, given that most societal harms fall more heavily on the poor. Why not a cash benefit? And, Krauthammer argues, if paying for organs would lead to a flourishing market, one that licks the great shortage in organs, breaking the taboo against such a trade is a price well worth paying. What about an organ market? The experience in third-world countries, such as India and Egypt, should give pause to all those who favor an outright market in organs. Poor people have their kidneys taken without being properly informed of the risk involved. Rich people can buy all the organs they need or want; those less fortunate often cannot scare up any. At the same time, the urgent need to increase the organ supply on these shores is well established. An estimated 4,000 Americans die each year because no organs can be found for them. And the quality of life of thousands more suffers because they cannot find needed corneas and kidneys. Increased organ donations also would significantly reduce health-care expenditures. For instance, it costs less to transplant a kidney and maintain a person on the follow-up treatment needed than to keep the same person on dialysis for four years. Many stay on dialysis much longer if no kidney is found. Is there any way to greatly increase the number of organ donors without opening a market in human parts, which many -- myself included -- find ethically highly troubling? Before chapter and verse can be spelled out, the underlying principle needs to be explicated. Social scientists have shown that we are social creatures who deeply yearn for the approval of others. These can be members of our family, friends, neighbors, and more generally, community members. The strong power of so-called significant others is exhibited in intense, sometimes extreme, forms through peer pressure on teenagers, gang members and soldiers in combat. Members of such groups will do practically anything their group prescribes, even endanger their own lives. Much milder forms of such social pressure are evident when we donate money to a church or a civic cause, both because we believe in the merit of doing so and because we yearn for the approval of those whose opinions matter to us. (Anonymous donations are surprisingly rare.) The case for moral suasion Currently the voice of the community that favors organ donations has no chance to be aired or heard. People who feel like donating on their own, and remember to do so, mark their Motor Vehicle forms accordingly, but nobody is there to encourage them to do so, to appreciate it when they do, and maybe look at them with regret when they do not. Typically the issue does not come up until someone is on the death bed and -- at this most difficult time -- physicians and other health-care personnel are expected to ask the members of their family to consent to organ donation. To give moral suasion more of a chance, two measures should be taken. First, we should provide a new form at physicians' and hospitals' waiting rooms, clinics, Red Cross stations and other places where volunteers gather. The form would state explicitly that "we the people would be most appreciative, and hold you in high regard, if you could find it in your heart to make a life-affirming donation by authorizing the use of your organs once they are no longer of service to you." The text then would describe briefly the severe shortage of donated organs and its many dire effects. The main focus of the text, however, would be the moral virtue of donating organs. The forms would close by stating that if you decline, for religious or any other reason, no explanation is needed. All said and done, it is up to you. Second, the names of those who made the pledge would be logged into computerized databases, accessible to physicians engaged in organ transplantation. (A new law may be needed to establish the validity of the endorsements of these forms and to prevent family members from overriding them.) If these lists also were open to the press, its reports might greatly increase the number of those who would sign up; it is the best tool to alert the community about who has -- and has not yet -- committed to make an organ donation. At the same time, at least initially, such publication might be considered too high handed. The new forms should be promoted through public-service announcements, and by public figures -- urging people to come forward, announcing that "I myself have just made the commitment to save lives by donating my organs should I no longer need them." The main point, though, is as elementary as it is important: Instead of waiting for each person to consider the matter, without any encouragement or recognition by their community, we should unabashedly stress that in our minds and hearts we cheer donating organs and celebrate those who pledge to do so. One need not a priori rule out a market in organs, despite all the ethical challenges it poses. But at least we should first give moral suasion a chance. http://www.speakout.com/activism/opinions/4188-1.html http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=68158 http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=moral+issues+of+organ+transplantation

what is your reaction about this article as psychology? Give me your comment about this article as many detail as u want? NEW YORK — In a report published in a medical journal this month, two doctors describe a 6-year-old girl with profound, irreversible developmental disability who was given high doses of estrogen to permanently halt her growth so that her parents could continue to care for her at home. The controversial growth-attenuation treatment, which included hysterectomy, was requested by the child's parents and initiated after careful consultation and review by an ethics committee. In their report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Drs. Daniel F. Gunther and Douglas S. Diekema, both at the University of Washington in Seattle, explain the reasoning behind what they hope will generate a healthy debate. Gunther is at the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, and Diekema is at the Center for Pediatric Bioethics. Caring for children with profound developmental disabilities can be difficult and demanding, they note. For children with severe combined neurologic and cognitive impairment who are unable to move without assistance, all the necessities of life — dressing, bathing, transporting — must be provided by caregivers, usually parents, and these tasks become increasing difficult, if not impossible, as the child increases in size. "Achieving permanent growth attenuation while the child is still young and of manageable size would remove one of the major obstacles to family care and might extend the time that parents with the ability, resources, and inclination to care for their child at home might be able to do so," Gunther and Diekema write. The parents of the 6-year-old, both of whom were college-educated professionals, indicated a strong desire to continue caring for their daughter. Despite having the neurologic development no greater than that of an infant, the 6-year-old responds to her parents and two healthy siblings — vocalizing and smiling in response to care and affection — and "clearly is an integral, and much loved, member of the family," the authors note. After extensive evaluation, the combined opinion of a team of specialists is that the child will have no significant neurologic or cognitive improvements. advertisement | ad info Advertisement | ad info Advertisement | ad info The onset of puberty and continued growth caused concern in the parents about how they would care for their daughter long-term, which they clearly wanted to do. They were concerned about having to turn over care to "strangers" and also about the complications that would arise when the child started menstruating. The child is now a little more than a year into growth-attenuating therapy and approaching the end of her growth, Gunther and Diekema report. "As of yet, there have been no treatment complications." The authors feel that growth arresting therapy can be "both ethical and feasible and should be an option available to parents." The authors of a commentary applaud Gunther and Diekema for publishing this case report, although they believe that attempts to attenuate growth are "ill advised." Nonetheless, Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco from the University of Miami and Dr. Chris Feudtner from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, say that by beginning the debate, this paper helps to "advance our ethical dialogue as we struggle to define our core values in words, laws, and deeds. Only with further research and public discussion will we learn whether attempts to attenuate growth run with or against our fundamental values in caring for children with profound developmental disabilities." give me as much details as you can Plz

Medical case scenario - Law and ethics -- Complex situation? There is this woman who was previously a heavy drug and alcohol user, her boyfriend left her for those reasons however soon after she foud out she was pregnant. She keeps the baby and tell the doctors and nurses that shes clean and has stopped everything. The nurse in order to keep her on track continues to educate her on the harm of these subtances on an unborn baby. When the baby is born, the doctor tells her her baby has fetal alcohol syndrome. HERE is he issue... The baby DOESNT really have this syndrome, it is a "strategie" that the doctor has used to "scare" her in order to give it up all together for ever. IT WORKED.. BUT the fault here is that the doctor is putting her through all this emotional trauma when there really isnt anything wrong with the baby. The nurse finds her crying and later finds out that the doctor is lying but the doctor tells her to keep quiet, that he will NOW tell the mother that the baby only has it mild.. Since the nurse also had an ongoing commitment to working with the woman, she realised that she was now in quite a difficult situation. While deception was generally to be avoided, there did seem to be something to be said for this strategy of the doctor’s. Again, lying might not help with attempts to deal with the issues underlying the woman's drinking; yet being truthful might make The woman complacent – a real concern if there were to be later pregnancies. Suppose, after the nurse had met with the doctor and learned of his strategy, but before she had made up her mind what to do about her basic problem, the woman had confided to the nurse that she had been drinking during the pregnancy, though not heavily. Suppose also that the woman had indicated that the doctor’s diagnosis if foetal alcohol syndrome had really given her a jolt, and that she was now determined to try to limit her drinking. What do u suggest? Law and ethics

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PLEASE HELP ME? Medical malpractice I have to write a paper for my “Medical Ethics and Law” class and the instructor wants a case in Medical malpractice that is or was in the news that everybody knows about. Can you think about a case please? The only one I can think of was the Michael Jackson one which I don’t want to write about because I will have to write a book. Please help me, I’m in New Hampshire in case your idea is far away and we don’t get the same news. Merci beaucoup mes amis!

Need help with ideas? I need to write a fictitious story for a Medical Law & Ethics class using 26 terms. The terms do not need to be defined in the story. I swear I don't think I have a creative bone in my body. This assignment is giving me so much grieve. I can't think of any ideas. The class is online which is making it even harder because I don't like online classes. Originally I was going to make up a story about a nurse who was convicted of negligence. But I have trouble including all the words- they range from "administrative law" to "third party contract" to "tort". I don't think I could make up 1 simple case. I'm confused and I don't know where to start. Can anyone be of any help?

Medical Law question? I am doing homework for Law and Ethics, I need help please. Here is the question: Patient Sally sued Dr. Smith for malpractice. How might the fact that Sally got sicker because she forgot to take her medice affect the case?? Anyone?? PLEASE :)

POLL: ARE YOU IN SUPPORT OF THE RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE RULE THAT WAS RECENTLY PASSED? THIS IS LONG JUST BACKGROUND TO THE RULE Federal law has affirmed doctors' right to act according to the dictates of their conscience and protected providers who don't want to participate in abortions for more than 30 years. But still, anti-abortion advocates have been eager to see more far-reaching protections enacted. They got their wish on January 18th, when the outgoing Bush administration announced a new regulation that extends the "right of conscience" to a broader range of health care workers and activities. The 127-page rule will require as many as 584,000 health care facilities to certify in writing that they accomodate medical workers who refuse to provide services based on moral or religious beliefs, according to the Washington Post. SOME VIEWS OF PEOPLE Washington, D.C.: How wide-spread a problem is this issue? Are these cases of medical professionals refusing care or facing employment issues still relatively rare? Have there been any surveys of medical professionals to see how the larger community feels about these issues? Rob Stein: Unfortunately there is no good data on how frequently this occurs. A few surveys have been done though. One, of nurses, for example found a significant proportion said they had been in situations where they felt their personal beliefs were challenged. _______________________ Bethesda, Md.: Could you provide a little more background on the Chicago EMT story? I'm curious about the status of the woman who was awaiting transport. If her health status was serious enough to require an ambulance, then it sounds as if the EMT put the needs of the fetus above those of the woman. Could you please comment? Rob Stein: There isn't much information available about the patient. It was listed as an 'elective abortion,' implying that it was not an emergency situation. _______________________ Vienna, Va.: This country, for good reason, does not recognize a "right" to anything other that medically necessary treatment. Do you see the movement towards forcing medical personnel to provide unnecessary medical treatment as a greater fight for some type of inalienable right to premium health care? (I do.) Rob Stein: That's an interesting point. Some of the experts I interviewed for these stories pointed out that part of what's going on in this debate is the changing nature of the health care provider-patient relationship as patients have become more assertive. _______________________ Washington, D.C.: Has this 'right of conscience' been practiced as widely in the past or is this a relatively recent phenomenon given the current political climate? Rob Stein: It has been an issue for a long time. After the 1972 Roe vs Wade decision, for example, states began passing 'conscience' laws that specifically protected doctors and nurses who did not want to do the procedures. Nearly every state now has one of those on the books. It also came up when Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide. That law too allows health care workers to opt out. _______________________ Silver Spring, Md.: I have HMO coverage so my choices of health providers is not always that wide. If I want something that someone decides goes against their ethical principles is my HMO obligated to provide me with that service if it is legal within my state? Rob Stein: There are some states that are considering new laws that would allow health care plans to NOT cover certain things.But if the care is currently covered by your plan it should continue to do so. _______________________ Arlington, Va.: As a student planning on attending medical school next fall, I find it appalling that medical professionals place their own moral agenda ahead of what is best for their patient. Religious objection to me is not a compelling reason for refusing service to someone. Why is the AMA and some states allowing this to happen? Rob Stein: The AMA hasn't directly addressed this issue directly, although its ethics guidelines do specify that physicians have an obligation to put patients concerns first. States are considering laws on both sides. _______________________ Maryland: It seems to me that prescribing and talking about birth control is a pretty important part of a gynecologists' job. I would imagine that any gyn. who declined to do this would quickly find himself without patients! I know I would leave, after I gave him a piece of my mind. The problem is that some women in more rural parts of the country may not have much choice in gynecologist. Why did these people become gynecologists if they have a fundamental problem with such a large part of the job? Rob Stein: Those with objections say they don't have any problem with most aspects of their jobs they have no problem doing. It's just certain aspects -- abortions, sterilizations, birth control -- where the conflicts arise. _______________________

Who to chose an attorney for Wrongful Termination? LEGAL DISCLOSURE You do NOT have to agree or accept any or all on this site or the blogs Dedication Samuel Moore Walton "Mr Sam, Helen Robson Walton "Mrs Walton, and James Lawrence Walton "Bud" , and Thomas M Coughlin, a protoge of Mr Sam, even though he did some wrong nevetheless, but lost because of the Code of Silence and the fear that all associates have of the powerful Legal Division of Wal Mart Stores, Inc. The FBI's Cyber Division knows the password of this site and CAN deliberately DELETE it, accidentally leak it or sell it. There are still FBI Agents that will defend and uphold the US Constitution even if it means questioning their orders and superiors. I respect them as I have met some, but I am glad that I never asked for their names. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Wrongful Termination with possible illegal implications at Sam's Club 6625 at San Fernando California 91340 William Gregory Lang or Bill Lang wants to transfer to a Sam's Club in Colorado as soon as possible. Mr Lang used to be trusted by Max Rafael Waller who made the mistake of telling him everything before the Termination on Monday, 23 April 2007. Mr Lang is a decent and the Waller Family will pray for everyone that is against Max Rafael Waller Team Lead Ambrosio Galvan also knows a lot of dirty secrets at Sam's Club 6625, but is nervous about losing his job if he sides with Max Rafael Waller Sam's Club PD-57 was NOT adhere to by Club Manager Fidel Jacobo and Membership Manager Esperanza Lopez. No documentation of any complaints and the San Fernando Police Department or the Los Angeles Police Department ever showed for a "Work Place Violence." Please show proof since one complaint and one video tape does NOT establish workplace violence. Neither Mr Jacobo or Ms Lopez wanted to sign the papers of any meeting between two managers and Max Rafael Waller for Legal Documentation. No meetings to address any potentail problems at the Tire and Battery Center were brought up by the Team Lead or Management. The Waller Family will pray for everyone that is against Max Rafael Waller formerly Assoc ID 0035 and Operator 007 proudly serving since Tuesday, 13 November 1990 - Monday, 23 April 2007 and only needed about nine years to do a minimal of twenty-five years to retire from Wal Mart Stores, Inc. He was one hundred percent vested in Profit Sharing and had a one month vacation allocated per year. No meetings to address any potentail problems at the Tire and Battery Center were brought up by the Team Lead or Management. As of Monday, 9 April 2007, the people of the Tire Shop are playing pranks and making it appear as if Max Rafael Waller is becoming forgetful such as the misplacement of tools and personal safety gear. The suspects are Erick Miron and Mark Castro. Esperanza Lopez was told and never had a meeting to discuss the topics brought to her attention by Max Rafael Waller. Manager Esperanza Lopez was asked to verify this by reviewing the Surveillance video tapes and the request was not honored. Esperanza Lopez, Memebership Manager, was told about the pranks about two weeks ago but no meeting to difuse or address serious matters was conducted. Miguel P Herrera might had spread misinformation but is only a suspect. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= HOW IT ALL BEGAN Sam's Club 6625 12920 Foothill Blvd San Fernando California 91340 Phone:1-818-365-7710 Fax:1-818-365-0690 December 2006 Mehmet Ekinci {A Hatchet Man and sent to "clean House" is no longer there but in Fresno according to Mr Jason Fastner} said that he was replacing everyone in the tire shop or its proper title: Tire and Battery Center according to Jeff Lopez{no longer work there} and Mark Castro{has recanted}and Bill Lang heard indirectly but will deny it. Max Rafael Waller studied all of Wal-Mart policies and found that if that his remark {INTIMIDATION} could be verified then he would get a coaching for making such a remark. The others are scared to tell the truth. Sam's Club 6625 Fidel Jacobo has POSSIBLY EVERYBODY at Sam's Club gathering information given out by Max Rafael Waller and will reward them by promotion and/or a payraise along with illegal surveillance that GROSSLY violates Global Ethics Compliance that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc claims to uphold. They will say they are understaff and this is baseless. Fidel Jacobo might be spreading misinformation through the tire shop boss, Bill Lang. Fidel Jacobo has received a lot of Anti-Union training Bill told Max if the associates do not follow rules let that be the problem of management. Bill Lang is a Team Lead and so he is required to enforce all rules even IF he disagrees. Los Angeles Times C2 Thursday, April 5, 2007 in the Business Section the title is Wal-Mart defend its monitoring If it is proven then it is a gross violoation of the Global Ethics that Wal Mart Stores, Inc agreed to comply when they signed it around 2003 Will Wal Mart Stores, Inc allow inspection of all internal complaints that have violated Global Ethics or stonewall like the White House and the Valerie Plame situation ? The secret for Wal-Mart not getting caught of Fear and intimidation is simple: a lot of unwritten rules so there is no evidence. A lot of non-managers associates will respond by saying they see or know nothing of improper treatment. They will also have selective memory. The Legal Division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc is preparing countercharges and some will be Invasion of Privacy, Defamation of Character, Character Assassination, Destroying Reputation, Intent , Injurious to morale , etcetera, but the biggest will be that this site is ONLY generalizations and especially baseless with no legally verifiable facts. Will the Legal Division have legitimate countercharges ? Yes, but I chose no to type all them and have them ready for a lawyer for effective defense and so it is their problem to figure them out. Duress and Graymail may be part of the defense of Max Rafael Waller along with the usual Freedom of Exprssion afforded by the US Constitution Graymail can be used against US Federal Government and possibly local Law Enforcement. Will Wal-Mart succeed in having Max Rafael Waller discredited by a Psychological Evaluation thereby stigmatizing him as a man with grands delusions ? Is Samuel Robson Walton of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc part of this ? Ensuring that legal cases proving that the rules to ensure to easy terminate people are not made aware? Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has a persistent Legal Divsion that rivals the US Federal Government and has many victories on its belt. It can be verified just ask the New York Times for confirmation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Disingenuous and Duplicitous Legal Division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc To give the Appearance that Max Rafael Waller is causing great harm to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club they have labeled Interview Questions and "Privileged & Confidential" and the Sam's Club University title is More Than A Gut Feeling Participant's Guide A list of interview questions should be deemed Innocuous that is not be Injurious to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club. The so called witnesses are Mr. Fastener and Mr. Lang of Sam's Club 6625. They are so desperate that they will act as like the Valerie Plame case. A print out of this document conveniently did not have a date nor time printed as to give an appearance that is so sensitive. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc WILL improve and better their ways of operating, but it will NOT be easy. They are NOT as horrible as people claim. There is an old saying have friend close to you, BUT have your enemies even closer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam's Club 6625 are doing this tactic as of Wednesday, 4 April 2007 and some members as well. One African-American tried to talk about the union, but Max's reply "You started inserting the talk about the union and so you want to find out what is going on in my head. You wearing clothes so raggedy that your testicles are showing. If you were FBI you would be in trouble for indecent exposure." He left. TACTICS USED BY SAM'S CLUB 6625 / WAL MART STORES, INC Others Associates and one Caucasian-American named Jarrod tried to be his friend. Jarrod in the past ignore him while his friend that came along with him came from another Sam's Club and they enjoy Good Cop and Bad Cop. When enough approaches to friendship have been ignored Sam's Club 6625 will say "Hey everyone tried to befriend Max, but he sent them all away and this shows that he lacks social skills or has some problems and he will not allow us to help in whatever way we can" Can you say Hyena and Benedict Arnold Wal-Mart are excellent at discrediting people through what they have done in over 10 years. They shed Crocodile tears for associates with the courage of not being intimidated. ANOTHER TACTIC OF SAM'S CLUB 6625 / WAL MART STORES, INC Wal-Mart Stores, Inc will protect their Public Relations and Image AT ANY COST INCLUDING MAKING A PACT Loyal Customers, "grateful" associates, and their vendors and suppliers. Members will complain to get Max Rafael Waller and Sam's Club 6625 management will do it without hesitation. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc WILL improve and better their ways of operating, but it will NOT be easy. They are NOT as horrible as people claim. Sam's Club 6625 are doing this tactic as of Wednesday, 4 April 2007 and some members as well. One African-American tried to talk about the union, but Max's reply "You started inserting the talk about the union and so you want to find out what is going on in my head. You wearing clothes so raggedy that your testicles are showing. If you were FBI you would be in trouble for indecent exposure." He left. INTIAL ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT WITH A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION A possible misdiagnosis and initial attempt to discredit through a Psychological Evaluation by Scott Wang MD from Providence Holy Cross Medical Center 15301 Rinaldi St Mission Hills CA 91345 Telephone: 1-818-365-8051 Dr Scott Wang's name could not be found at their website http://www.providence.org/losangeles/facilities/providence_holy_cross/default.htmand he is the one who possibly suggested a Psychiatric Evaluation so a result to Wal-Mart's desire could be used to start discrediting Max Rafael Waller An old white man with a Kaiser Permanente badge and from a Psychiatric Evaluation team from Kaiser never left a business card or a phone number for communication. He looked like an actor from Law and Order portraying a Psychiatrist and impersonation IS illegal and punishable by law. On Sunday, 1 April 2007 Dr Paul R Hladon Kaiser Permanente 13652 Cantara St Panorama City CA 91402 Telephone: 1-818-375-2377 Dr Paul R Hladon reluctantly gave Max two prescriptions: Azithromycin 250MG {Take two tablets daily for seven days} and Ciprofloxacin HCL 500MG{Take one tablet orally two times a day for fourteen days} Only two X-Rays and no blood test done, so how did Dr Hladon know what to prescribe ? He took the medicine and instructions as given. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FBI are also exploiting fear and they have the BSU as their asset. Bill Lang has casually spoken about death and intimidation about how Max will get fired with one more coaching which comes from the FBI and Wal-Mart's Homeoffice in Bentonville Arkansas 72716. Possible causes Max Rafael Waller's fear of possibly dying. Around Wednesday, 21 March 2007 he dragged the rotting carcass of a dog so children would not touch it. It was in front on the Pepsi Bottling Plant in San Fernando California 91340 and its entrance is on Dronfield Ave. He MIGHT have breathed some Bacteria, Germs or other Biological Agents and maybe some Botulism. Also Desiccating{drying} Bacteria. Esther Topete was watering the front lawn at 11261 Sproule Ave, Pacoima California 91331 and was scared. Max picked up a headless Squirrel that had a foul stench and maggots and placed in the garbage bin. Psychiatric Evaluation(S) is a legal tool to discredit a critic so if they can find that a individual(s) has mental problems or unable to cope with life's problem the discrediting tactic will work. A stigma of mental problem is almost impossible to overcome. Being labeled with poor mental health has been used to successfully discredit a critic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTIVITIES BY THE FBI Group Stalking will be denied resulting with the accusser(s) being prejudged or viewed as someone with Visual Hallucinations,additionally, Electromagnetic Harassment or Electromagnetic Pulses will be denied resulting with the accusser(s)being prejudged or viewed as someone with Auditory Hallucinations. Both can be used when someone is driving or walking but when someone is trying to sleep the Electromagnetic Harassment will be used to disrupt sleep and with lack of sleep people's behavior is altered significantly and people end up with the impressions that they cannot handle stress. Electromagnetic Harassment is used to break the will of people who dare to dissent. The FBI has a complete profile of Max Rafael Waller and two weak areas are Anger and Anxiety, so they will create a situation that will end with him having a Fatal Heart Attack and/or Fatal Stroke. The FBI will to DO Sleep Deprivation/disruption AGAINST MAX RAFAEL WALLER. The collaborators of US Law Enforcement are the neighbors around Sproule Ave and Pierce St area Will the FBI be creative and imaginative with this information along with the profile to discredit Max Rafael Waller ? The neighbors around the corner of Sproule Ave and Pierce St in Pacoima California 91331 are collaborating by playing a lot of bass on their speakers and technically their noise is considered Electro-Magnetic Pulses, EMP, since the speakers have magnets energized or powered by electricity. This is why it is vital for them to have people found to be mentally unstable by the legal use of Psychological Evaluation. The FBI will discredit Max Rafael Waller by ALL NECESSARY MEANS as they other Americans like a serial killer Biological and Psychological war along with Electronic from their world famous Behavioral Science Unit or BSU The FBI might HAVE an unofficial pact with Organized Crime and they have been intercepting phone calls and ended phone calls with the help of Time-Warner Cable US Law Enforcement have all of the Internet activities and had yet to find any evidence to charge someone of potentially being an Internet Predator and Pedophile. Sadly the owners of the house at 11261 Sproule Ave, Pacoima CA 91331 are family members and do NOT want to get involved. Su much for family unity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surveillance, Psychotronics and (Gang)Stalking Operations The Xiandos web site is http://xiandos.info/Surveillance,_Psychotronics_and_(Gang-)Stalking_Operations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FBI will cite National Security and not allow the reviews of any US Federal Black Operations. Any damaging evidence destroyed or manipulated before it is declassified. An example is how LTC Oliver North and Fawn Hall destroyed documents about Iran Contra. The Electronic equipment emit Electromagnetic Waves. There is something called Electromagnetic Spectrum that range from low energy to high level energy. Electromagnetic Spectrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ALSTool/EMSpec/EMSpec2.html The Frequencies of the Human Body The Human Body is has certain frequencies with certain organs like the heart and brain have a specific frequency and the emitter or transmitter can be adjusted to slowly damage them and leading to any illness. They will target the respiratory organs, digestive organs, the heart, the brain, and the reproductive organsby trying to matching their frequency range. The result will be mental problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following is something the FBI do not want Americans to be aware of and Electronic Terrorist Activities is one of the Covert Operations. Please visit http://www.mdspec.com to find about transmissions of Electromagnetic Waves from Low Energy to High Energy. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES can cause cancers and tumors to the Human Body with a continous exposure and the FBI know this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-103793 The following is a from Privacy International Freedom of information has suffered other setbacks under the Bush Adminsitration. The September 11 attacks provided justification for the withdrawal of a number of types of government information on the web. The Bush Administration had already been accused of being the most secretive government in many decades. On October 12, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a policy memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act that encourages government officials to deny access to information. At the same time, other "sensitive" information such as the locations of nuclear power plants, chemical hazard risk management plans, pipeline maps, and reports related to other hazards were removed from government agency Web sites on the grounds of national security. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To verify the FBI's LACK OF COOPERATION Please call 1-310-477-6565 and if they respond only with FBI keep on pressing with the question "May I please have your name." If they refuse then ask "Please cite the guidline or policy that states that you do not have to give me you name" The FBI might HAVE an unofficial pact with Organized Crime and they have been intercepting phone calls and ended phone calls with the help of Time-Warner Cable The routine patrols by the Los Angeles Police Department has been NOTICEABLE ABSENT from Dronfield St and Pierce St along Dronfield St all the way to Dronfield St and Arroyo St that Max Rafael Waller walks this route The FBI, MySpace, and Yahoo are master of allowing "technical glitches and other excuses" and this is an example of an almost Orwellian Society. MySpace, Yahoo, MSN, along with others protect White Supremacist willingly! Yahoo,MSN,and Google HAVE betrayed dissenters in China and ARE betraying people in the United States of America, so we live in an almost Orwellian Society. Yahoo will not going to allow irrelevant answers to any topic at their forum and forget that people are smart and will ignore them, thus Yahoo should not censor even moronic ranting. Allow Yahoo users ignore and continue, moreover, Yahoo records their IP Address so what is the problem? MySpace might censor people. You want an example? I am writing about topics not related to the heading. Please read my comments on the headline; Music. What I wrote there is tangential! Max Rafael Waller used to give too much personal information and others that should had NEVER been revealed and might have been used to discredit him or end up with bad publicity. Especially to Bill Lang His brother would say to give to much info and you need to be discreet and Max's mother also agrees. Do not be surprised when they use Cease and Desist for Legal Intimidation that has worked. Will the Legal Division have legitimate countercharges ? Yes, but I chose no to type all them and have them ready for a lawyer for effective defense and so it is their problem to figure them out. Duress and Graymail may be part of the defense of Max Rafael Waller along with the usual Freedom of Exprssion afforded by the US Constitution Graymail can be used against US Federal Government and possibly local Law Enforcement. The US Courts protect men with Power and Wealth. Wal-Mart rivals the propaganda of Joseph Goebbel and hides the truth so easily with over 30 years of practice and refining. The deafeated Thomas M Coughlin has almost 30 years of Wal-Mart's dirt. The New York Times do NOT fear Wal-Mart and in fact I hope they investigate everything stated here Some people are giving the impression that they are from OSHA, Occupational Safety Hazard Agency. Report them because they are breaking the law(s). Samuel Robson Walton and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc somewhat fear the investigative reporting prowess of the New York Times The Code of Silence is not just strictly applicable to Law Enforcement! Public education and priorities will save the United States of America Ensuring that legal cases proving that the rules to ensure to easy terminate people are not made aware? Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has a persistent Legal Divsion that rivals the US Federal Government and has many victories on its belt. It can be verified just ask the New York Times for confirmation. Wal Mart Stores, Inc violate their own Global Ethics policies. Their Global Ethics Office have stated that they only handle Age Discrimination. Read the United Nations Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/principle10.html http://www.unglobalcompact.org/Issues/transparency_anticorruption/index.html http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/anticorruption/iccfccd/index.html?cookies=no Institute for Global Ethics http://www.globalethics.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No evidence has been found to justify surveillance and justify tactics used by the US Homeland Security and local Law Enforcement. PLEASE show all of the information gathered ! Who are involved: the Los Angeles Police Department, the San Fernando Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a lot of associates from Sam's Club 6625 and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The US Air Force Covert Units from Edwards Air Force Base Helicopters from are doing the bidding of the FBI and sending Electromagnetic Waves or Signals You can tell them because the are dark gray with no identifying numbers NOT even the typical US Air Force Max Rafael Waller is a proud Life Member of the Air Force Association Please visit the AFA at http://www.afa.org and Chapter 121 or the Doolittle Chapter. Please visit http://www.myspace.com/uss_america {erased by the FBI}, and http://72.14.253.104/custom?q=cache:STCxJMuHTxQJ:www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/stealth.pdf+Covert+%2B+Edwards+%2B+Air+Force+%2B+Base&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us This is the Code of Silence at its WORST. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is something the FBI do not want Americans to be aware of and Electronic Terrorist Activities is one of the Covert Operations. Please visit http://www.mdspec.com to find about transmissions of Electromagnetic Waves from Low Energy to High Energy. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES can cause cancers and tumors to the Human Body with a continous exposure and the FBI know this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-103793 The following is a from Privacy International Freedom of information has suffered other setbacks under the Bush Adminsitration. The September 11 attacks provided justification for the withdrawal of a number of types of government information on the web. The Bush Administration had already been accused of being the most secretive government in many decades. On October 12, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a policy memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act that encourages government officials to deny access to information. At the same time, other "sensitive" information such as the locations of nuclear power plants, chemical hazard risk management plans, pipeline maps, and reports related to other hazards were removed from government agency Web sites on the grounds of national security. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To verify the FBI's LACK OF COOPERATION Please call 1-310-477-6565 and if they respond only with FBI keep on pressing with the question "May I please have your name." If they refuse then ask "Please cite the guidline or policy that states that you do not have to give me you name" Censorship on the internet The FBI, MySpace, and Yahoo are master of allowing "technical glitches and other excuses" and this is an example of an almost Orwellian Society. MySpace, Yahoo, MSN, along with others protect White Supremacist willingly! Yahoo,MSN,and Google HAVE betrayed dissenters in China and ARE betraying people in the United States of America, so we live in an almost Orwellian Society. Yahoo will not going to allow irrelevant answers to any topic at their forum and forget that people are smart and will ignore them, thus Yahoo should not censor even moronic ranting. Allow Yahoo users ignore and continue, moreover, Yahoo records their IP Address so what is the problem? MySpace might censor people. You want an example? I am writing about topics not related to the heading. Please read my comments on the headline; Music. What I wrote there is tangential! The FBI{twice} were given via e-mail, max_rafael_waller@hotmail.com, the following pertaining to Max Rafael Waller; Social Security Account Number, Driver's License Number with expiration date, Home and Work Address with their telephone numbers. The rules of grammar, writing, are not the same as those for speaking. ===================================================== Dr Robert Louis Pritchard of Los Angeles Valley College is credible with integrity and a consumate professional. Dr Pritchard will be teaching US Constitutional Law in the fall of 2007. PLEASE TAKE HIM AND BECOME AN INTELLIGENT THINKER! ===================================================== MySpace is ensure that the name Max Rafael Waller is not found on their MySpace search "powered" meaning paid by you guessed it! mainly Google. ===================================================== Max Rafael Waller is a PROUD Life Member of the Air Force Association{US Air Force} and the US Naval Institute. A former N.J.R.O.T.C. cadet at San Fernando Senior High School and alumn of Les Prestigians ~ Class of 1983. US ARMY 1984-1988 Active duty ===================================================== US President Dwight David Eisenhower told the truth about the US Military-Industrial Complex. General of the Army Eisenhower was a great military man but found out that fellow Republicans did not have to obey his orders. President Ronalnd Wilson Reagan is dead, but President George Herbert Walker Bush is still alive. Do you think the President George Walker Bush would bust his dad to save his legacy ? Heroes Theodore Roosevelt and James Earl Carter, Jr or Jimmy Carter. Earl Warren was a great progressive Republican Governor of the State of California and one of the best Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The US Constitution has been on a steady decline with the Warren Burger US Supreme Court that began around 1969. Employment Lawyers Be patient or visit http://www.myspace.com/max_rafael_waller and make your own conclusion !

Who's your daddy? Answer's at the drugstore (What Do you Think?? About That. )? 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Answer's at the drugstore Pharmacy chain markets DNA paternity tests in 30 states nationwide Pierre-philippe Marcou / AFP - Getty Images file New at-home DNA paternity tests require samples of cells swabbed from the cheeks of the child, the alleged father and, ideally, the mother. View related photos Video Who's your daddy? DIY paternity test debuts March 27: A new type of at-home medical test can reveal a child’s paternity. But is it a good idea? NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports. Today show Most popular • Most viewed • Top rated • Most e-mailed Giada De Laurentiis has a baby girl! 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And Wendy Lieb of Lewis Center, Ohio, made certain she wasn’t going to be a grandmother quite yet. In all three situations, crucial genetic information altered the lives of the people involved. And in each case, it came not from a doctor or other medical source, but from a $29.99 kit on a drugstore shelf. Reid, Turley and Lieb are among more than 800 customers who responded to the first wave of marketing for do-it-yourself DNA paternity tests sold as Identigene by Sorenson Genomics of Salt Lake City. 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help with a summary? Last Rites for Indian Dead by Suzan Shown Harjo What if museums, universities, and government agencies could put your dead relatives on display or keep them in boxes to be cut up and otherwise studied? What if you believed that the spirits of the dead could not rest until their human remains were placed in a sacred area? The ordinary American would say there ought to be a law—and there is, for ordinary Americans. The problem for American Indians is that there are too many laws of the kind that make us the archeological property of the United States and too few of the kind that protect us from such insults. Some of my own Cheyenne relatives’ skulls are in the Smithsonian Institution today, along with those of at least 4,500 other Indian people who were violated in the 1800s by the U.S. Army for an “Indian Crania Study.” It wasn’t enough that these unarmed Cheyenne people were mowed down by the cavalry at the infamous Sand Creek massacre; many were decapitated and their heads shipped to Washington as freight. (The Army Medical Museum’s collection is now in the Smithsonian.) Some had been exhumed° only hours after being buried. Imagine their grieving families’ reaction on finding their loved ones disinterred° and headless. Some targets of the Army’s study were killed in noncombat situations and beheaded immediately. The officer’s account of the decapitation of the Apache chief Mangas Coloradas in 1863 shows the pseudoscientific nature of the exercise. “I weighed the brain and measured the skull,” the good doctor wrote, “and found that while the skull was smaller, the brain was larger than that of Daniel Webster.” These journal accounts exist in excruciating detail, yet missing are any records of overall comparisons, conclusions, or final reports of the Army study. Since it is unlike the Army not to leave a paper trail, one must wonder about the motive for its collection. The total Indian body count in the Smithsonian collection is more than 19,000, and it is not the largest in the country. It is not inconceivable that the 1.5 million of us living today are outnumbered by our dead stored in museums, educational institutions, federal agencies, state historical societies, and private collections. The Indian people are further dehumanized by being exhibited alongside the mastodons and dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. Where we have buried our dead in peace, more often than not the sites have been desecrated. For more than two hundred years, relic-hunting has been a popular pursuit. Lately, the market in Indian artifacts has brought this abhorrent activity to a fever pitch in some areas. And when scavengers come upon Indian burial sites, everything found becomes fair game, including sacred burial offerings, teeth, and skeletal remains.One unusually well-publicized example of Indian grave desecration occurred two years ago in a western Kentucky field known as Slack Farm, the site of an Indian village five centuries ago. Ten men—one with a business card stating “Have Shovel, Will Travel”—paid the landowner $10,000 to lease digging rights between planting seasons. They dug extensively on the forty-acre farm, rummaging through an estimated 650 graves, collecting burial goods, tools, and ceremonial items. Skeletons were strewn about like litter. What motivates people to do something like this? Financial gain is the first answer. Indian relic-collecting has become a multimillion-dollar industry. The price tag on a bead necklace can easily top $1,000; rare pieces fetch tens of thousands. And it is not just collectors of the macabre° who pay for skeletal remains. Scientists say that these deceased Indians are needed for research that someday could benefit the health and welfare of living Indians. But just how many dead Indians must they examine? Nineteen thousand? There is doubt as to whether permanent curation of our dead really benefits Indians. Dr. Emery A. Johnson, former assistant Surgeon General, recently observed, “I am not aware of any current medical diagnostic or treatment procedure that has been derived from research on such skeletal remains. Nor am I aware of any during the thirty-four years that I have been involved in American Indian . . . health care.” Indian remains are still being collected for racial biological studies. While the intentions may be honorable, the ethics of using human remains this way without the full consent of relatives must be questioned. Some relief for Indian people has come on the state level. Almost half of the states, including California, have passed laws protecting Indian burial sites and restricting the sale of Indian bones, burial offerings, and other sacred items. Rep. Charles E. Bennett (D-Fla.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have introduced bills that are a good start in invoking the federal government’s protection. However, no legislation has attacked the problem headon by imposing stiff penalties at the marketplace, or by changing laws that make dead Indians the nation’s property. Some universities—notably Stanford, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Seattle—have returned, or agreed to return, Indian human remains; it is fitting that institutions of higher education should lead the way.Congress is now deciding what to do with the government’s extensive collection of Indian human remains and associated funerary objects. The secretary of the Smithsonian, Robert McC. Adams, has been valiantly° attempting to apply modern ethics to yesterday’s excesses. This week, he announced that the Smithsonian would conduct an inventory and return all Indian skeletal remains that could be identified with specific tribes or living kin. But there remains a reluctance generally among collectors of Indian remains to take action of a scope that would have a quantitative impact and a healing quality. If they will not act on their own—and it is highly unlikely that they will—then Congress must act. The country must recognize that the bodies of dead American Indian people are not artifacts to be bought and sold as collector’s items. It is not appropriate to store tens of thousands of our ancestors for possible future research. They are our family. They deserve to be returned to their sacred burial grounds and given a chance to rest. The plunder of our people’s graves has gone on too long. Let us rebury our dead and remove this shameful past from America’s future. 0 comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) __________________________________________ Recently Dugg Stories The Covers Project The Covers Project began as a simple idea to help listeners discover new music by showcasing covers of famous songs. Users can search for their favorite artists and listen to different renditions of their songs online. 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What Makes AMERICA so GREAT???? This is not my own work....but this article is written so well that all I can do is pass it on to the rest of you...Although there are many great things about America, that were left out of this article.....its still a fantastic piece of literature GOD BLESS AMERICA.......AND ALL THAT STAND WITH HER! 10 things to celebrate - Why I'm an anti-anti-American By Dinesh D'Souza http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/c/a/2003/06/29/IN290713.DTL America is under attack as never before -- not only from terrorists but also from people who provide a justification for terrorism. Islamic fundamentalists declare America the Great Satan. Europeans rail against American capitalism and American culture. South American activists denounce the United States for "neocolonialism" and oppression. Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country. But in this country itself, there are those who blame America for most of the evils in the world. On the political left, many fault the United States for a history of slavery, and for continuing inequality and racism. Even on the right, traditionally the home of patriotism, we hear influential figures say that America has become so decadent that we are "slouching towards Gomorrah." If these critics are right, then America should be destroyed. And who can dispute some of their particulars? This country did have a history of slavery and racism continues to exist. There is much in our culture that is vulgar and decadent. But the critics are wrong about America, because they are missing the big picture. In their indignation over the sins of America, they ignore what is unique and good about American civilization. As an immigrant who has chosen to become an American citizen, I feel especially qualified to say what is special about America. Having grown up in a different society -- in my case, Bombay, India -- I am not only able to identify aspects of America that are invisible to the natives, but I am acutely conscious of the daily blessings that I enjoy in America. Here, then, is my list of the 10 great things about America. -- America provides an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy. Rich people live well everywhere. But what distinguishes America is that it provides an impressively high standard of living for the "common man." We now live in a country where construction workers regularly pay $4 for a nonfat latte, where maids drive nice cars and where plumbers take their families on vacation to Europe. Indeed, newcomers to the United States are struck by the amenities enjoyed by "poor" people. This fact was dramatized in the 1980s when CBS television broadcast a documentary, "People Like Us," intended to show the miseries of the poor during an ongoing recession. The Soviet Union also broadcast the documentary, with a view to embarrassing the Reagan administration. But by the testimony of former Soviet leaders, it had the opposite effect. Ordinary people across the Soviet Union saw that the poorest Americans have TV sets, microwave ovens and cars. They arrived at the same perception that I witnessed in an acquaintance of mine from Bombay who has been unsuccessfully trying to move to the United States. I asked him, "Why are you so eager to come to America?" He replied, "I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat." -- America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country, including the countries of Europe. America is the only country that has created a population of "self-made tycoons." Only in America could Pierre Omidyar, whose parents are Iranian and who grew up in Paris, have started a company like eBay. Only in America could Vinod Khosla, the son of an Indian army officer, become a leading venture capitalist, the shaper of the technology industry, and a billionaire to boot. Admittedly tycoons are not typical, but no country has created a better ladder than America for people to ascend from modest circumstances to success. -- Work and trade are respectable in America. Historically most cultures have despised the merchant and the laborer, regarding the former as vile and corrupt and the latter as degraded and vulgar. Some cultures, such as that of ancient Greece and medieval Islam, even held that it is better to acquire things through plunder than through trade or contract labor. But the American founders altered this moral hierarchy. They established a society in which the life of the businessman, and of the people who worked for him, would be a noble calling. In the American view, there is nothing vile or degraded about serving your customers either as a CEO or as a waiter. The ordinary life of production and supporting a family is more highly valued in the United States than in any other country. America is the only country in the world where we call the waiter "sir," as if he were a knight. -- America has achieved greater social equality than any other society. True, there are large inequalities of income and wealth in America. In purely economic terms, Europe is more egalitarian. But Americans are socially more equal than any other people, and this is unaffected by economic disparities. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this egalitarianism a century and a half ago and it is, if anything, more prevalent today. For all his riches, Bill Gates could not approach the typical American and say, "Here's a $100 bill. I'll give it to you if you kiss my feet." Most likely, the person would tell Gates to go to hell! The American view is that the rich guy may have more money, but he isn't in any fundamental sense better than anyone else. -- People live longer, fuller lives in America. Although protesters rail against the American version of technological capitalism at trade meetings around the world, in reality the American system has given citizens many more years of life, and the means to live more intensely and actively. In 1900, the life expectancy in America was around 50 years; today, it is more than 75 years. Advances in medicine and agriculture are mainly responsible for the change. This extension of the life span means more years to enjoy life, more free time to devote to a good cause, and more occasions to do things with the grandchildren. In many countries, people who are old seem to have nothing to do: they just wait to die. In America the old are incredibly vigorous, and people in their seventies pursue the pleasures of life, including remarriage and sexual gratification, with a zeal that I find unnerving. -- In America the destiny of the young is not given to them, but created by them. Not long ago, I asked myself, "What would my life have been like if I had never come to the United States?" If I had remained in India, I would probably have lived my whole life within a five-mile radius of where I was born. I would undoubtedly have married a woman of my identical religious and socioeconomic background. I would almost certainly have become a medical doctor, or an engineer, or a computer programmer. I would have socialized entirely within my ethic community. I would have a whole set of opinions that could be predicted in advance; indeed, they would not be very different from what my father believed, or his father before him. In sum, my destiny would to a large degree have been given to me. In America, I have seen my life take a radically different course. In college I became interested in literature and politics, and I resolved to make a career as a writer. I married a woman whose ancestry is English, French, Scotch-Irish, German and American Indian. In my twenties I found myself working as a policy analyst in the White House, even though I was not an American citizen. No other country, I am sure, would have permitted a foreigner to work in its inner citadel of government. In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist. This notion of being the architect of your own destiny is the incredibly powerful idea that is behind the worldwide appeal of America. Young people especially find irresistible the prospect of authoring the narrative of their own lives. -- America has gone further than any other society in establishing equality of rights. There is nothing distinctively American about slavery or bigotry. Slavery has existed in virtually every culture, and xenophobia, prejudice and discrimination are worldwide phenomena. Western civilization is the only civilization to mount a principled campaign against slavery; no country expended more treasure and blood to get rid of slavery than the United States. While racism remains a problem, this country has made strenuous efforts to eradicate discrimination, even to the extent of enacting policies that give legal preference in university admissions, jobs, and government contracts to members of minority groups. Such policies remain controversial, but the point is that it is extremely unlikely that a racist society would have permitted such policies in the first place. And surely African Americans like Jesse Jackson are vastly better off living in America than they would be if they were to live in, say, Ethiopia or Somalia. -- America has found a solution to the problem of religious and ethnic conflict that continues to divide and terrorize much of the world. Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians, all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other's homes in so many places in the world? The American answer is twofold. First, separate the spheres of religion and government so that no religion is given official preference but all are free to practice their faith as they wish. Second, do not extend rights to racial or ethnic groups but only to individuals; in this way, all are equal in the eyes of the law, opportunity is open to anyone who can take advantage of it, and everybody who embraces the American way of life can "become American." Of course there are exceptions to these core principles, even in America. Racial preferences are one such exception, which explains why they are controversial. But in general, America is the only country in the world that extends full membership to outsiders. The typical American could come to India, live for 40 years, and take Indian citizenship. But he could not "become Indian." He wouldn't see himself that way, nor would most Indians see him that way. In America, by contrast, hundreds of millions have come from far-flung shores and over time they, or at least their children, have in a profound and full sense "become American." -- America has the kindest, gentlest foreign policy of any great power in world history. Critics of the United States are likely to react to this truth with sputtering outrage. They will point to long-standing American support for a Latin or Middle Eastern despot, or the unjust internment of the Japanese during World War II, or America's reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime. However one feels about these particular cases, let us concede to the critics the point that America is not always in the right. What the critics leave out is the other side of the ledger. Twice in the 20th century, the United States saved the world -- first from the Nazi threat, then from Soviet totalitarianism. What would have been the world's fate if America had not existed? After destroying Germany and Japan in World War II, the United States proceeded to rebuild both countries, and today they are American allies. Now we are doing the same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Consider, too, how magnanimous the United States has been to the former Soviet Union after its victory in the Cold War. For the most part America is an abstaining superpower; it shows no real interest in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world. (Imagine how the Soviets would have acted if they had won the Cold War.) On occasion the United States intervenes to overthrow a tyrannical regime or to halt massive human rights abuses in another country, but it never stays to rule that country. In Grenada, Haiti and Bosnia, the United States got in and then it got out. Moreover, when America does get into a war, as in Iraq, its troops are supremely careful to avoid targeting civilians and to minimize collateral damage. Even as America bombed the Taliban infrastructure and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped food to avert hardship and starvation of Afghan civilians. What other country does these things? -- America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth. This point seems counterintuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty. Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best. The millions of Americans who live decent, praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen. By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil. There is no modesty in this, because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue, it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. Thus a free society like America's is not merely more prosperous, more varied, more peaceful, and more tolerant -- it is also morally superior to the theocratic and authoritarian regimes that America's enemies advocate. "To make us love our country," Edmund Burke once said, "our country ought to be lovely." Burke's point is that we should love our country not just because it is ours, but also because it is good. America is far from perfect, and there is lots of room for improvement. In spite of its flaws, however, American life as it is lived today is the best life that our world has to offer. Ultimately America is worthy of our love and sacrifice because, more than any other society, it makes possible the good life, and the life that is good. Dinesh D'Souza's "What's So Great About America" has just been published in paperback by Penguin Books. He is the Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. E-mail: thedsouzas@aol.com.

medical law/ethics class? what kind of medical lawsuits do you find interesting? i have to do a paper on a medical case of some kind, but i dont really know where to start! because i find law boring, i want to work on a case thats interesting! are there any cases you know of or topics you could suggest that you are interested in? it could be malpractice cases, personal lawsuites against health care industries, ect. for example i have a classmate that is doing her paper on a case about the misdiagnosis of ADHD in children. thanks for any suggestions!

Medical Malpractice - Negligence - Prescribing wrong medication? I'm doing a paper for my medical law and ethics class, and I'm writing a paper about a medical assistant prescribing medication to a patient without a doctor's knowledge, that in turn caused the patient to go into anaphylactic shock and die. Could criminal charges be brought against the medical assistant (for manslaughter or murder), or would this only be a civil case (wrongful death), or both?? Thanks!

What about Citibank ethics? To whom it may concern: I have a right to know who lied to the dfeh I, Damari Stratford filed a complaint with the DFEH, Ann Luekeman did the investigation. After the case was closed I requested a complete copy of all materials submitted to the DFEH at Ca. Dept. of Fair Employment and Housing, 111 N. Market Street, Suite 810, San Jose, Ca 95112. When I received the copies, the names of the employees and the attorney at Citibank were crossed out in black ink. I feel I have a right to know who said what and why they lied about me. I feel I have a right to know the name of the attorney submitting these false statements about me. Please forward me a copy with out the names being crossed off, at no charge to me since I have already paid for a complete copy. I have reported these people to the New York Bar Association and I can’t go forward without the name of this lawyer which submitted false statements. I am not pursuing a complaint against the DFEH, as the Attorney General’s Office has asked me, I simply want the attorney General to ask Ann Luekeman for the name of this attorney so I may file a complaint for unethical and unprofessional conduct by Citibank lawyer and employees, again the DFEH made their decision with false statements from Citibank employee Kathleen Munoz and Jeff Ursino, which were the two people interviewed by Ann Luekeman.. The Attorney General, Edmond G Brown suggest that I contact the California State Bar, the DFEH director and my California Legislature representative and although I have contact the Governor, Senator Boxer, Assemblymen, Mayor, President, Office of OTS and many, many others, no one has stepped up to help me. I have been asked by the following agency for the name of the attorney in question for unprofessional conduct: State Bar Of Nevada, Rob W. Bare, Bar Counsel, on 10/15/07 The State of New York ,Supreme Court Appellate Division, Third Judicial Dept., Albany, NY, 12207-2109 has forward my letter to , Diane Maxfield Kearse, Chief Counsel, Grievance Committee for 2nd & 11th District in Brooklyn, NY 11201 On 10-10-07I I was sent a letter form, Louis Romaine, Investigator at Renaissance Plaza, 335 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY asking for the complete name of the attorney in question but since his/her name were blocked out I need this information sent to either him , me or both. Thank you, Damari Stratford 1291 Ord Gove Ave Seaside, Ca 93955 I strongly feel I was fired for putting my daughter first, please help us reach our goal of 100,000 signatures. What kind of manager fires you while ill? Thank you, Damari How did Citibank make the list of the: “BEST 100 companies for Working mothers”????????? Court date is coming up on June 14,2007 All signatures will be forwarded to Senator Barbara Boxer Why does Citibank lie to clients about firing me? They have told their clients that I left to work for my husband, that I am on vacation, that I don’t work Saturdays, anything but the truth. They even lied about me calling in sick yet my time card proves I was there and my time card was approved by the supervisor. Please help us, how does the little guy fight Corrupt American Companies? Working mother and Citibank ethics Working mother at Citibank, how did they make the list of the “Best 100 Companies for Working Mothers? Fired for putting daughters needs first? Fired via UPS, 12 days before Christmas?please forward to anyone that could help us, thanks. Keep this story going so we can get help. Tell a friend to tell a friend, how else can the little guy fight corporate America? Please help us if you can along with the Senator, this letter was sent to the Senator: To: Senator Barbara Boxer, Feb. 18, 2007 Also: Jason J Chan, 1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240 San Francisco, Ca.94111 Regarding your letter of February 5, 2007, thank you. You state that you will submit a formal inquiry to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and that this may take up to 4-5 weeks. In that case I have taken the liberty to put together this binder as to hopefully speed up the process or maybe just so you have it to review. In this binder I can show the Jeff Ursino was not fair and equal to all the employees and although others violated policy I am the only one he fired. Citibank did not follow their own policy much less that of the Ca. Labor laws and codes. I don’t believe that Citibank has been honest with their clients as well as the DFEH and DOL. Citibank did not submit a new statement regarding 11/15/05 to the DFEH and seem to stand behind their “ bad Information”. I worked the day they state I called in and supposedly stated that I would be out the rest of the week, not true. What else is branch 915, Jeff Ursino, Kathleen Munoz and their corporate attorneys in New York willing to lie about?Please help us get to the truth about why Jeff really fired me. Why does Citibank stand behind Jeff and his lies and much more? The teller that left about $10,000.00 out is still working their and to my knowledge was not written up and yet this was worse for the bank than me just wanting to care for my daughter and having my doctor call in for me.Jeff made error after error with the write ups and the firing procedure of Citibank. Why did Jeff Ursino and Citibank feel I wasn’t worthy of an exit interview? Why was I fired at home and not at my place of work? Why was I not given a verbal or informal warning as is Citibank policy? Please go through or have someone review my notes and proof of their dishonesty. Please help us and all those wrongfully terminated by corporate America.. It is time for Corporate America ethics Reform. Senator Boxer if I had been a bad employee I would have just walked away but I wasn’t. I have letters from clients that truly appreciated me and my work and even Citibank has acknowledge that I was great for the Carmel branch, so why fire me and throw me out like yesterdays trash? Because Jeff Ursino just didn’t like me and was out to fire me from the moment he threaten me with job abandonment before I had ever missed a Saturday. Why? As I told Dr. Lowell and all the other doctors I have seen, “this just doesn’t make sense!” I have spent the past 14 months fighting for my rights, please help me and my family, we need more moms like me that want to be their for their children and teenagers are children. I look forward to hearing from you, thank you so very much for writing back or at least someone from your office, thanks Jason J. Chan. Sincerely, Damari Stratford Home 831-583-9077 Fax 831-393-9464 AS OF 4/21/06 SENT TO THE GOVERNOR I SPOKE WITH THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF CITIGROUP TODAY, IT WAS ADMITTED THAT THERE WAS SOME WRONG INFORMATION GIVEN TO THE DFEH REGARDING THE 15th and17th OF NOVEMBER, 2005. CITIBANK WILL BE SENDING IN A “NEW’ RESPONSE DUE TO NOT DOING THE INVESTIGATION THOROUGHLY THE FIRST TIME. SO WHAT ELSE ARE THEY NOT DOING THOROUGHLY OR ETHICALLY? THANK YOU As of 2007 they never submitted the correct information A BETTER EXPLANATION Mother fired by Citibank for no good reason I am searching for an Employment Attorney willing to work on a contingency basis. I was fired while I was out sick, the managers states in a note added to my personnel file that he had called me to see if I would be coming into work on Dec. 13th but yet with my letter of termination he returned to me the faxed in doctors note, faxed in at 3:44p.m. on 12/12/05 by my doctor, which clearly stated that I would be out from 12/12-12/16/05. He sent me my letter of termination thru UPS, which arrive on 12/15/05. The manager knew that I was out on work related stress and I had a workers comp case pending. The manager states that I was fired for not complying with my warning and I asked how I could comply if I wasn’t there to comply so then I get a letter from HR stating that I was fired for failure to follow the call in process but my doctor had called in for me on the 12th due to my stress level and blood pressure. The doctor had spoken to the supervisor on the 12th so they were aware that I wouldn’t be in on the 13th and my doctor has the notes on my file that she had made a call in for me. Citibank did not follow their own procedures when they fired me. The EEOC has given me the right to sue and the letter arrived on 2/17/06 so my 90 days have started. The DFEH has also launched their own investigation which Citibank received notice on 1/23/06 and should be responding to the notice any day now, (as of 3/8/06they haven’t responded). I had an outstanding performance history with the bank; I had worked there for 4 years 2 months 6 days. I was the head teller one of the notary and the only Spanish-speaking teller. I have at least 40 letters of support from Citibank clients and I can prove that the manager was not equal with all the employees and although he was aware of the teller cooking the books under the direction of the supervisor none of them were put on corrective action yet I was written up for missing my first Saturday and then again when I missed my 2nd Saturday although I had a doctors note to be out of work due to my blood pressure and stress brought on by the manage and the unfairness in treatment. I had been threaten with job abandonment but at that time I hadn’t missed any work long enough to be accused for this. Citibank violated code 132A of the worker comp law and I do have an attorney for that but they are unable to deal with all the other issues. I have a strong feeling that the manager never told HR that my doctor had called in for me nor did he share my doctors note with them, he is to get approval from HR before firing me yet fired me by 4:30 pm or so, I had also emailed him that day at 1:45 pm and explained that my doctor had spoken to the supervisor and faxed in a note, again he was aware that I wouldn’t be in. The manager had called my cell phone and left a message at about 10:25 am, he states that he called because I hadn’t called in a half an hour prior to my shift, which started at 8:30 a.m., why did it take him 2 hrs before calling me? And I would bet that the supervisor had made arrangements to have a teller there to cover my shift since my doctor called her. Please help my family and I. Sincerely, Damari Please forward to anyone willing to help us, thanks> March 8, 2007 To: Senator Barbara Boxer Also: Jason J Chan, 1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240 San Francisco, Ca.94111 Dear Senator Barbara Boxer, On, 3/7/07, I received a notice from Citigroup, HR Communications Unit in New York, regarding Corporate benefits for January 2007, I have included a copy with this fax to you.. I am at the point that I feel this is harassment, why, because Citibank fired me on 12/13/05. It is very upsetting to me every time I receive these notices, it is a constant reminded of everything I have lost due to the unfair and unequal treatment of employees by Jeff Ursino and Citibank. I have already been sent my 401K check due to my termination, I am not contributing to this program so why does Citigroup keep harassing me with these notices. Remember that last October, 2006, Citigroup sent me a letter ( 10 months after firing me) thanking me for 5 years of services and looking forward to 5 more years, why, they fired me. I would have made it to 5 years, as I had no plans to leave the company, but I was fired 12 days before Christmas via UPS. That notice was again just another reminded of what could have been and what I have lost. Please ask Citigroup to stop harassing me with these notices for they are very upsetting to me. Also, on 3/7/07, I received a letter from your Director of Constituent Services, Eric Jose Vizcaino, regarding a letter I sent you and it states that my concerns are being forwarded to the Director of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Suzanne M Ambrose, for her review. Again, Citibank attorneys explained to the DFEH, how and why they fired me and as I pointed out to you in an earlier letter, Citibank lied to them about me calling in on 11/15/05, Citibank states that I called in and said I would be out the rest of the week. Again this is a lie, I worked that day. Sheri Paulo, Employee Relations manager of New York for Citigroup, had told me that they said this due to being miss informed , when I brought this lie up to her attention, she said that they had been given bad information and that they would correct this by sending in another statement to the DFEH, and to my knowledge they never did and instead stand by their lie. I have sent you a copy of my time card for that week and other information regarding their statement to the DFEH. Why does Citibank tell the DFEH that I was fired and Ronan of the US Dept. of Labor that I am still employed. They also told Ronan that they would send me a letter explaining how I am still employed, but I never received this letter, why? Last June, Citigroup gave me stock, which I refused due to being fired and Chuck Prince office acknowledges receiving my letter explaining that I had been fired and that I should not have been issued the stock and they took the stock back. I have also sent you a copy of that letter in the black binder which I sent to your San Francisco office, did you receive this binder? Please , Senator Boxer, please help us get to the truth, it is as if Citibank doesn’t know what the left hand is doing or the right hand is doing, please help stop the harassment. How many more letters am I going to be sent by Citigroup informing me of everything I have lost. Sincerely, -----Original Message----- From: ClubMom Posted by: Damari | Saturday, June 09, 2007 at 08:47 AM Richard, Perhaps you could explain what it is that Digger, James, Lonewaco, or myself posted that you find "discreditable." Posted by: California YankeeCalifornia Yankee | Friday, February 23, 2007 at 01:40 PM After researching the article about citibank assisting illegal aliens was no way to be true in my findings, unless proven otherwise I will find your California Yankee discreditable. Posted by: Richard Provencher | Friday, February 23, 2007 at 08:52 AM The Monterey County Herald Attn: Herald Executive Editor, Carolina Garcia 8 Upper Ragsdale Monterey, CA 93940 cgarcia@montereyherald.com (831) 646-4306 Ms. Garcia, I have attempted through several sources to clarify my position regarding my unfair treatment by my previous employer, Citibank. I had no previous plans to leave my position as Head Teller at the Citibank branch in Carmel. After 4 years of employment with the company, the unfair and unequal treatment of employees led to medically supervised work-related stress. The manager of the branch then accused me of job abandonment which led to my termination via UPS delivery on December 15, 2005, while I was at home on medical leave. Subsequent to my termination, I received numerous correspondences that referenced me as terminated, no longer with the company, and as a former employee. My 401K and pension have both been forwarded to me. However, when interviewed by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Citibank representatives reported that I was terminated due to not personally reporting my absence, but rather having medical documentation reported by my physician. When interviewed by the U. S. Department Wage and Hours Division, Citibank representatives reported on August 8, 2006, that I was still an employee of the company and that a letter indicating such would be forwarded to me. To date, this letter has not been received. I have continued to be in contact with several clients that have stated that Citibank representatives indicated that I was either on vacation, or that I voluntarily resigned in order to work with my husband in his new business. This is absolutely untrue. It was my intention to continue my employment as the benefits were extremely important to me, as well as to my family. Clearly, there has been a gross misrepresentation by Citibank, either to its clients or to the U. S. Department Wage and Hours Division. It is my position that I was unfairly terminated by Citibank. The unscrupulous behavior of Citibank and its representatives, locally and at the corporate level, is unacceptable. It is also my opinion that if a corporation as large as Citibank is representing itself on a local level, the local management and staff should act accordingly. A large part of the attraction of the Monterey area is the sense of community that is felt here on a day to day basis. If Citibank is allowed to misrepresent its actions to clients and government agencies, where will the corporate takeover end? Sincerely, Damari Stratford dcsbears@aol.com dcsbears@aol.com wrote: Subject: Re: Your message to the governor was received THE GOVERNOR HAS WRITTEN ME TWICE AND SAID HE WOULD HELP,, CITIBANK HAS LIED TO THE DFEH AND US LABOR DEPT WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION AND TO THEIR CLIENTS ABOUT MY STATUS, I NEED HELP, HOW CAN I FIGHT WHEN THIS CORPORATION IS TELLING LIES AND HAS ALL THE LAWYERS THEY NEED AND I CAN'T AFFORD ONE. HOW MANY TIMES ARE THEY GOING TO GET AWAY WITH MISTREATING EMPLOYEES ON 8/8/06 RONAN FROM THE US DEPT OF LABOR WAS TOLD BY A CITIBANK ATTORNEY THAT THEY WOULD SEND ME A LETTER EXPLAINING MY STATUS AS STILL AN EMPLOYEE, I HAVE YET TO GET THIS LETTER, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO PUT A LETTER TOGETHER IF THEY ARE TELLING THE TRUTH? YOUR OFFICE AS WELL AS THE FIRST LADY'S OFFICE HAS CALLED ME BUT WE AREN'T GETTING ANYWHERE. IT HAS BEEN 7 MONTHS SINCE I FIRST WROTE THE GOVERNOR. CITIBANK ATTORNEYS HAVE CANCELLED 2 DEPOSITIONS AT THE LAST MINUTE THE LAST INE THEY CANCELLED WAS AFTER TALKING TO THE US LABOR DEPARTMENT,WHY? MY JOB WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO MY FAMILY AND I PLEASE HELP ME AND MY FAMILY AND ALL THOSE BEFORE ME THAT HAVE BEEN WRONGFULLY TERMINATED BY CITIBANK FOR NO GOOD REASON WHY IS EVERYONE SO AFRAID OF CITIGROUP? WHY CAN'T I FIND AN ATTORNEY WILLING TO STAND UP TO THEM ON A CONTINGENCY BASIS? I VOTED FOR THE GOVERNOR AND I NEED HIM NOW PLEASE CALL ANN FROM THE DFEH AT 408-277-1916 THEY TOLD HER THAT I HAD CALLED IN ILL ON 11/15/05 AND THAT I TOLD THEM I WOULDN'T BE IN, THIS IS A LIE I WORKED THAT DAY AND I CAN PROVE THIS WITH MY IME CARD, THEN THEY SAY THEY MADE AN ERROR PLEASE CALL RONAN AT 415-744-5590 EXT 226 FROM THE US LABOR DEPT TO VERIFY WHAT CITIBANK ATTORNEYS SAID. THE ONLY REASON THEY OFFERED ME FMLA IS BECAUSE I FILED FOR DISABILITY, BEFORE THAT THEY HAD PAID OUT MY FINAL PAYCHECK, FIRED ME VIA UPS, SENT ME COBRA INFORMATION. PLEASE HELP US PLEASE SEE THAT THE GOVERNOR GETS THIS EMAIL AND ASK HIM TO MAKE A CALL ON MY BEHALF CORPORATE AMERICA NEEDS TO TAKE BETTER CARE OF THEIR GOOD EMPLOYEES AND NOT ALLOW A MANAGER WITH BAD SKILLS TO FIRE SOMEONE JUST BECAUSE HE WANTS TO SINCERELY DAMARI STARTFROD MOTHER WIFE HUMAN BEING AND I VOTED FOR THE GOVERNOR I MATTER TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CITIBANK IN CARMEL LIES TO CLIENTS ABOUT WHY I AM NOT THERE. THEY TELL PEOPLE THAT I AM ON VACATION OR THAT I LEFT TO WORK FOR MY HUSBAND INSTEAD OF TELLING THEM HAT THEY FIRED ME AFTER MY DOCTOR FAXED IN A NOTE AND CALLED IN FOR ME TO PROTECT ME FROM HAVING MY BLOOD PRESSRE RISE. JEFF URSINO AND KATHLEEN MUNOZ LIES TO ANN AT THE DFEH AND THEIR LAWYERS LIED TO THE US DEPT OF LABOR. KATHLEN WAS DOING THE OVERDRAFT ON HER DAUGHTERS ACCOUNTS AND REFUNDED HER OWN DAUHGTER MONEY WHILE THE MANAGER WAS ON VACATION. SHE LIES ABOUT BEING FIRED FROM WELLS FARGO, SHE LIED TO THE WORKERS COMP PEOPLE AND WILL LIE TO ANYONE. KATHLEEN HAD INSTUCTED THE OTHER TELLERS TO COOK THE BOOKS BY HAVING THEM PUT IN FALSE REFEERALS AND JEFF URSINO DID NOTHING ABOUT IT BUT I GOT WRITTEN UP FOR MISSING WORK WITH A DOCTORS NOTE. THEY STATE TO ONE AGENCY THAT I WAS FIRED AND TO THE OTHER THAT I AM STILL EMPLOYED, THEY STATE I WAS FIRED FOR NOT CALLING IN YET I WAS RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO HAVE MY DOCTOEOR CALL IN AND FAX MY NOTE IN DUE TO THE STRESS AND HARRASSMENT BROUGHT ON BY JEFF AND CITIBANK, WHERE ARE THE ETHICS IN THIS COMPANY NOW THEY ARE TELLING MORE LIES TO THE DEPT OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING JEFF TELLS THEM WHY I WAS FIRED AND THEIR LAWYERS TELL THE US DEPT OF LABOR THAT I AM STILL EMPLOYEED PLEASE HELP US GET THIS STORY OUT TO THE WORLD IF IT ISN'T TOO MUCH TO ASK:) HOW DO YOU FIGHT LIARS, HOW DO THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT CITIBANK IN CARMEL 831-624-8258 CALL AND ASK THEM WHERE I AM ASK FOR KATHLEEN AND ASK HER WHY SHE LIES THIS WOMAN WAS HAVING CITIBANK PAY FOR HER DAUGHTER OVERDRAFTS AND HER A TELLER REFUND HER OWN DAUGHTER MONEY WHILE THE MANAGER WAS OUT ON VACATION SO WHY SHOULD ANYONE BELEIVE THIS UNETHICAL PERSON JUST AS JEFF URSINO THE MANAGER OF THE CAPITOLA BRANCH LIES TO HIS BOSSES TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK BETTER PLEASE HELP US WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME HOW DO YOU FIGHT A CORPORATION LIKE THIS Extra! Extra! Read all about it! DAMARI AND CITIBANK HERE IS THE TRUTH!! To set the record straight! Damari was fired by Citibank in Carmel! Damari did not leave the bank to go work for her husband!!!! DAMARI HAD NO PLANS TO LEAVE CITIBANK! DAMARI PLANNED ON STAYING FOR ANOTHER 16YRS. THE BENEFITS WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO HER FAMILY!! DAMARI WAS FIRED VIA UPS WHILE AT HOME ILL DUE TO WORK RELATED STRESS BROUGHT ON BY THE MANAGER AND THE UNFAIR AND UNEQUAL TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEES ALONG WITH BEING THREATEN AND HARASSED BY THE MANAGER FOR JOB ABANDOMENT. SEVERAL OF Citibank clients have TOLD HER that they have been told by the staff at the Carmel branch : THAT SHE LEFT TO GO WORK FOR HER HUSBAND! THIS IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE!!!! What else will they lie about? Are they ashamed of what was done?? WHY DO THEY FEEL THEY NEED TO SAY SHE LEFT TO GO WORK WITH HER HUSBAND ( I DO NOT WORK FOR MY HUSBAND) ( I DO NOT WORK FOR JND PLUMBING) (NOR AM I ON VACATION) INSTEAD OF JUST TELLING THE TRUTH ? IS THERE ANYONE IN THE CARMEL BRANCH THAT COULD SWEAR TO THIS? NO! You can reach Damari at dcsbears@aol.com ENOUGH WITH THE LIES CITIBANK!!! IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS PLEASE SEND HER AN EMAIL CITIBANK TOLD THE US LABOR DEPT WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION , ON 08/08/06 THAT I AM STILL AN EMPLOYEE YET I HAVE LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS THAT CLEARLY USE THE WORDS TERMINATED NO LONGER WITH THE COMPANY FORMER EMPLOYEE AND MY 401K AND PENSION HAVE BEEN SENT TO ME AS OF 8/24/06 I HAVE YET TO GET THE LETTER FROM CITIBANK WHICH EXPLAINS HOW I AM STILL AN EMPLOYEE! HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO WRITE A LETTER IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH HOW CAN THEY SAY TO THE US DEPT OF LABOR THAT I AM STILL AN EMPLOYEE YET THEY TELL THE DFEH THAT THEY FIRED ME FOR NOT CALLING IN, WHAT IS THE TRUTH CITIBANK?????????? CITIBANK STATES THAT I WAS FIRED FOR NOT CALLING IN YET MY DOCTOR CALLED IN FOR ME THE DAY BEFORE AND ALSO FAXED IN A NOTE FOR ME WHICH THE MANAGER RETURNED TO ME WITH MY LETTER OF TERMINATION. THEY KNEW THE DAY BEFORE THAT I WASN'T COMING IN SO WHY WOULD HE CALL TO ASK IF I WAS COMING IN IF IT WAS CLEARLY STATED ON THE NOTE AND TOLD TO THEM BY MY DOCTOR TO PROTECT MY HEALTH JUST MORE LIES BY THE CITIBANK STAFF IN CARMEL Posted by: DAMARI | Friday, September 01, 2006 at 08:56 AM CITIBANK ATTORNEY TOLD THE US DEPT OF LABOR WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION THAT I AM STILL AN EMPLOYEE AND THAT THEY WILL SEND ME A LETTER EXPLAINING THIS TO ME BUT YET I HAVE ABOUT 9 DOCUMENTS WHICH CLEARLY READ THAT I WAS TERMINATED PLEASE HELP ME AN EMPLOYEE OF CITIGROUP IS SENDING ME EMAIL WITH A VIRUS ATTACHED! WHAT ELSE WILL THEY DO? WHY DOES CITIBANK IN CARMEL LIE TO THEIR CLIENTS ABOUT WHY I AM NO LONGER AT THE BANK? ARE THEY ASHAMED OF WHAT THEY DID TO ME? THEY KNOW VERY WELL THAT I DID NOT LEAVE TO WORK WITH MY HUSBAND THEY FIRED ME VIA UPS AND I AM ON DISABILITY DUE TO THEIR TREATMENT, THREATS AND HARASSMENT Why hasn’t Citibank responded to the Dept. of Thrift Supervision and what else will they lie about to the Dept. of Fair Employment & Housing ? Citibank Ethics?! Please post & forward my story I need your help, please help us get this story out, please forward to everyone you know. Why do the employees at branch 915 in Carmel, Ca., tell their clients that I left the bank to go work for my husband, instead of telling them the truth which is that I was fired on 12/13/05 via UPS & their HR- Connect One system has me as an active employee out on disability and now I am an active employee on leave of absence with pay. So, am I fired or on leave of absence??? If I am on leave of absence then why don’t they say that instead of lying to the clients and telling them that I left to work for my husband. I don’t work for my husband, I am not allow to work , I am ill thanks to Jeff Ursino and Citibank treatment. Why won’t they tell the truth to the clients and what else are they lying about? Are they ashamed of what they have done? Perhaps I should take out an AD in the local paper and tell the community the truth myself? Why do these employees tell clients that they aren’t allow to talk about why I am not at the bank, but yet when they do talk about it they lie!! On 5/31/06 Sharon Law Tucker sent me her new business card and asked me to call her because she had miss placed my phone number during the phone call she mentioned that it was Laura Richardson which told her a few months ago that I left to work for my husband, is there anyone at the Carmel branch that can tell the truth??? The letter I’ve include with this email is from a concern client of Citibank My question is will the teller be fired and if not why not? This teller left out about $10,000.00 in the unlocked front drawer 2 different times with in a two week period and had two shortages in one year, one for $100.00 and the other for $450.00. Where the cash drawer is concern two employees signed the vault book stating they witness her put the cash away, obviously not true. One of these two employees had the bank pay for her daughters overdrafts and the manage was aware, against company policy. This teller entered false referrals into the systems to make the banks numbers look better and this was done under the supervision and direction of the supervisor, when I brought this up to the manager none of the three tellers which input false referrals were written up, falsifying bank documents and no write up but I get written up for missing a Saturday, why? Unfair and unequal treatment by the manager. Where are the ethics? As I’ve stated, the unethical employees still have jobs and I get fired after the manager receives my email on 12/13/05 at about 1:45 p.m., and he acknowledges receiving it, it clearing answers his question/comment that he was calling to see if I was coming. The email states that my doctor had called in and spoke to Kathleen: as well as faxing in my doctors note which the manager returned to me with my termination letter received two days after I had been fried with no check, with no break down explanation, no vacation pay, misleading information and so on, note clearly stating my disability time off. Did he read the doctors note? Did he let upper management know that my doctor had call and faxed information? The manager called I returned his call but he was with a client. I requested to communicate via email and I emailed him, Kathleen and Human Resource, so why was I fired sometime after he received my email and the end of the day if he was just calling to see if I was coming in and if not to contact HR? Unfair and unequal treatment. It makes no sense. Why weren’t the labor codes followed? Did he get HR permission to fire me? Why then wasn’t my check included with my letter of termination? Aren’t I to be fired at the location which I work? Were my rights violated when he had Kevin send me my termination letter, did he know I was getting fired prior to me receiving my letter? March 25, 2006 Dear Ms. Deloney, I would like to take a moment and thank you for responding to my comments regarding Damari and the manager. I am sure that you are a very busy and important person and I appreciate your time. Damari is truly missed at the bank, since her unfair termination by the manger, the atmosphere at the bank is boring to say the least. Damari added life and laughter and she enjoyed serving the customers. I feel deeply, that the manager made a huge mistake in dismissing her while she was ill. What kind of a manager would dismiss an employee while they are ill? As I say this, I now have further concerns about another teller name Andrea. I was in the bank and was told that she has injured her knee and will be out of work for about six weeks. I’m sure that Andrea has a doctors note as Damari did, I hope that the manager doesn’t make the same mistake and decides to terminate her and mail her a letter before she returns as he did Damari when he terminated her instead of waiting for her to get well and return to work. Although I would understand if he were let her go as she spends most of her time at work doing her homework , reading and she isn’t available everyday. Andrea will move on, on her own to become a teacher, this is what she goes to school for two days a week. By her going to school, I feel this puts a strain on the staff. I understand that the rest of the tellers along with Kathleen are now having to work six days a week and Kathleen is running a window: she doesn’t have the charm or customer service skills which Damari offered the bank. We go into the bank often and we rarely see that manager. I feel that it would be in the best interest of the bank to find a permanent manager as soon as possible, one whom appreciates competent employees as Damari. Frankly, I don’t understand how a temporary manager was given the authority to dismiss an employee such as Damari with her wonderful skills , talents and dedication to her job. Therefore my concerns are now for Andrea whom doesn‘t compare with the kind of service Damari offered your customers. As I stated before, the other tellers spend too much time speaking to customers about personal things and shopping on the computer instead of banking conversations. I frequently witness them reading and eating while at their windows: this is very unprofessional. I feel it would be in the best interest to Citibank to launch a complete investigation on the manager, as you stated would be done and seriously consider removing him from Carmel. In my opinion since he arrived the atmosphere is tense and if I can sense it I am sure that other customers do. This manager has taken all the personal touch and charm out of the bank and I feel the employees fear for their jobs: no one should have to work under those conditions. Keeping this manager at this or any branch is sure to destroy you business. Again, thank you for your letter and taking the time to look into this situation. Sincerely, Clifford Bagwell In a letter dated 01/06/06,Citibank states, Pursuant to Section 1089 of the Ca. Unemployment insurance Code, regarding notification of changes in employment status, please be advised that your employment was terminated on 12/13/5 for failure to follow call in procedures RE Section1089 and other codes which Citibank may have violated Other codes they may have violated labor code section 208, 226, 226.3,201.25,2441, 2800,2802,2926,2927,6400,3602(6),3852,2922,civil code 47(c) I was fired on 12/13/05,it states that each employer shall notify the employee immediately, yet I didn't find out until 12/15 as I received my notice of termination via UPS on12/15 When I was fired I was not supplied with "copies of printed statements or materials relating to claims for benefits by Citibank. Citibank claims that I didn't follow the call-in procedure yet my doctor called on 12/12 & faxed in a notice which stated that I would be out from the 12th-16th. Jeff claims that he called me to see if I was coming in on 12/13 at 10:25am,almost 2hrs after my shift started, he states that if I wasn't coming in that he wanted me to contact HR to inform them of my extended absence. How does one go from calling to see if I'm coming in & ask me to call HR to Jeff stating & deciding that I should be fired yet in my email to him at 1:45pm on 12/13 it states that the doctor had spoken to Kathleen & faxed in my doctors note which he returns to me w/letter of termination. How does he justify terminating me? I was out on work related stress and my blood pressure, my doctor called for me to keep my stress & blood pressure down, as far as not calling in I had my doctor call: the call was made for me to protect my health. Why wasn't it stated in my termination letter that I failed to follow the call in procedure. Why does Citibank state to the DFEH that I called in on 11/15 & said that I would be out the rest of the week yet I worked on the that day & the supervisor approved my timecard on 11/22. What else are they not being honest about? Why are the employees which falsify bank documents & break policy still have jobs? CITIBANK IS NOT BEING HONEST WITH DFEH THIS IS A LETTER I SENT MY GOVERNOR Dear Governor, First Lady and Staff, I have been awake since 1:05 a.m. I was having a difficult time sleeping again due to my conversation with Ann Lueckeman from the DFEH. Ann and I spoke on 3/08/06, Citibank apparently faxed in their reply on 3/07/06. Ann read to me some of the statements that Citibank made on their reply Citibank states: that I called in on 11/15/05 and that I stated that I would be out the rest of the week, this is a lie!!! I happen to have my time card for the week ending 11/19/05 and it clearly shows that I worked the 15th, I was off the 16th and I worked the 17th and that I was out sick on the 18th and 19th and that the manager approved my time. Citibank states that I refused to work on Saturdays but they don't mention that I, unlike them, was willing to meet them half way. Citibank is not telling the truth. To further support that I was at work on the 15th and 17th I have my journal notes with specific times of things that occurred on those two days. How does an honest and ethical person fight against unethical people who lie? How can I protect myself if I can't afford an attorney and I can't find one to work on a contingency basis? The other night, on TV, my husband and I heard that the government spends 4 million to train wasp and I can't get help from The White House or our Senators or Congress, to defend myself against a corporation which is taking advantage and lying about this situation? The only one that has offered to help is the Governors office and although I appreciate the letter and the call from the Governors office this does not get me an attorney. I have diligently search for assistance to no avail. I am now begging for help, I can't continue to loose sleep and live on anxiety medication; this situation is wearing on me. Again, please, is there anything more that you or our government can do to help my family and I, for this wrongful termination? Why is Citibank lying? I feel like I am going to have another panic attack and I had to resign to taking medication to calm down. This is totally and completely unfair, unjust, wrong and no one should have to go through what Citibank has put my family and I through. I only wonder how many other wrongful termination's Citibank has gotten away with because people are afraid to go up against them or just don't have the money to fight and protect them selves? My husband and daughter are worried about me and so am I. PLEASE HELP US. I don’t know what else to do and I don’t want to give up. Sincerely. Damari AS OF 4/21/06 SENT TO THE GOVERNOR I SPOKE WITH THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF CITIGROUP TODAY, IT WAS ADMITTED THAT THERE WAS SOME WRONG INFORMATION GIVEN TO THE DFEH REGARDING THE 17th OF NOVEMBER, 2005. CITIBANK WILL BE SENDING IN A "NEW' RESPONSE DUE TO NOT DOING THE INVESTIGATION THOROUGHLY THE FIRST TIME. SO WHAT ELSE ARE THEY NOT DOING THOROUGHLY OR ETHICALLY? DAMARI I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOUR OFFICE AS I WAS TOLD I WOULD BE CONTACTED PLEASE FOLLOW UP WITH ME, THANK YOU A BETTER EXPLANATION Mother fired by Citibank for no good reason I am searching for an Employment Attorney willing to work on a contingency basis. I was fired while I was out sick, the managers states in a note added to my personnel file that he had called me to see if I would be coming into work on Dec. 13th but yet with my letter of termination he returned to me the faxed in doctors note, faxed in at 3:44p.m. on 12/12/05 by my doctor, which clearly stated that I would be out from 12/12-12/16/05. He sent me my letter of termination thru UPS, which arrive on 12/15/05. The manager knew that I was out on work related stress and I had a workers comp case pending. The manager states that I was fired for not complying with my warning and I asked how I could comply if I wasn't there to comply so then I get a letter from HR stating that I was fired for failure to follow the call in process but my doctor had called in for me on the 12th due to my stress level and blood pressure. The doctor had spoken to the supervisor on the 12th so they were aware that I wouldn't be in on the 13th and my doctor has the notes on my file that she had made a call in for me. Citibank did not follow their own procedures when they fired me. The EEOC has given me the right to sue and the letter arrived on 2/17/06 so my 90 days have started. The DFEH has also launched their own investigation which Citibank received notice on 1/23/06 and should be responding to the notice any day now, (as of 3/8/06they haven’t responded). I had an outstanding performance history with the bank; I had worked there for 4 years 2 months 6 days. I was the head teller one of the notary and the only Spanish-speaking teller. I have at least 40 letters of support from Citibank clients and I can prove that the manager was not equal with all the employees and although he was aware of the teller cooking the books under the direction of the supervisor none of them were put on corrective action yet I was written up for missing my first Saturday and then again when I missed my 2nd Saturday although I had a doctors note to be out of work due to my blood pressure and stress brought on by the manage and the unfairness in treatment. I had been threaten with job abandonment but at that time I hadn't missed any work long enough to be accused for this. Citibank violated code 132A of the worker comp law and I do have an attorney for that but they are unable to deal with all the other issues. I have a strong feeling that the manager never told HR that my doctor had called in for me nor did he share my doctors note with them, he is to get approval from HR before firing me yet fired me by 4:30 pm or so, I had also emailed him that day at 1:45 pm and explained that my doctor had spoken to the supervisor and faxed in a note, again he was aware that I wouldn’t be in. The manager had called my cell phone and left a message at about 10:25 am, he states that he called because I hadn’t called in a half an hour prior to my shift, which started at 8:30 a.m., why did it take him 2 hrs before calling me? And I would bet that the supervisor had made arrangements to have a teller there to cover my shift since my doctor called her. Please help my family and I. Sincerely, Damari Home 831-583-9077 all calls to this number are screen please leave a message, Cell phone 831-236-0112 Again please help us Sheri, (4/22/06) The reason the conversation came to an abrupt ending is due to my frustration with this issue, yes I was upset and angry and my stomach was turning and my chest tightening, I had it get off the phone and calm down and I took some Xanax to calm the anxiety attack which I felt coming on. As I explained on the phone, I have lost 25 pounds since Jeff Ursino first threaten me with job abandonment, I don't sleep well, I grind my teeth , I have gone to the emergency room for chest pains and a heart doctor and so much more. I have nightmares. From my house I see Highway 1, a constant reminded of the unjust done to me. I have seen about 10 different doctors and I have been given about ten different medications, I have been seeing a therapist every Friday since Nov. 2005 and I have only missed 2 appointments with him. My job was very important to my family and I, I have cashed in my IRA and 401k, my pension is on the way, I have sold some stocks at a lost to insure I have funds and all this because I was fired and I don't know how long I will be ill and I have bills. I have spent hours doing paper work for things such as unemployment, disability, activating credit protection dealing with connect one, Met Life. health insurance and more. I don't know how my benefits are being paid, I am not being directly billed and no one sends me the information I requested. I have lost my employee rate on my credit card and I still have to make payments to one of them. Can you imagine arriving home and seeing a UPS envelope addressed to me from Kevin Squires only to open it and find a letter from Jeff terminating me. Every time I see a UPS truck I feel I will be getting more bad news from Citibank. I did call him, he was with a client, I called his cell phone, he didn't answer, I emailed him, he received it and didn't respond but instead fired me, he lies, he returns my doctors note which stated the time I would be off, they lie to the DFEH, why wasn't the research done thoroughly in the first place, why were both of my write ups sloppy with incorrect dates and information? I wasn't fired for my performance, Jeff just wanted to hurt me more and this was his way. I was told that the center didn't have enough employees for some one to have Saturdays off but even though the center is short staff he fires me and allows Andrea to be out every Tuesday and Thursday but yet we were short staffed. I can't believe that all of this has happened to me for being ill and yet other employees did things that were more of a risk to the center than being out ill. I am sorry for raising my voice at you, I hope you understand it isn't directed at you, it is about the situation which Jeff created. I can't deal with more paper work and I don't trust anything Jeff or Kathleen say, they are unethical and will say anything to make themselves look good. At this point I will not be reading the attached Arbitration policy which you attached to this email, I can't deal with more paper work, I will research other avenues and continue to tell my story since I can't sleep. Met Life denied my long term disability but yet didn't talk to any of my doctors and I need to deal with that and other issues. Thank you for you time, Sincerely, Damari SENT TO SHERI PAULO 5/01/06 Hello Sheri, I received your phone call and all I want to know is what is it that we need to speak about? I don't understand what we have to say to each other. I feel that you and Citigroup will stand behind Jeff Ursino no matter what really happened. Jeff states that he called to see if I was coming in 2 hours after my shift was to begin and if not to call HR. I did call him and emailed him but he ignored that and fired me. He returned my note which stated that I would be out and yet called to see if I was coming in, did he not read the note he returned with my letter of termination and did not Kathleen let him know that my doctor called in at least I did something about it and my doctor and I were just protecting my health. Why did they lie? You said that they got bad information and now will submit a new response to the DFEH why not check your facts first before submitting information to the DFEH? why, because Jeff Ursino couldn't tell the truth. Hope to hear form you soon. Sincerely, Damari God bless us all AS OF 5/3/06 ==CONNECT ONE OF CITIBANK STATES THE I AM ON LEAVE OF ABSENCES WITH PAY AND THAT I HAVE 163 HRS OF VACATION TIME 80HRS OF HOLIDAY PAY AND 96HRS OF SICK TIME YET I HAVE LETTERS WHICH STATES I WAS FIRED ON 12/13/05 05/06/06 ==IS THIS APPROPRIATE? SEARCHING FOR A CHAIR ON CITIGROUP TIME, I BET HE DOESN’T GET FIRED!AND ALL THE OTHER ONES DOING PERSONAL SEARCHES ON CITIGROUP TIME, I BET THEY DIDN’T GET WRITTEN UP OR HARRASSED AS I DID FOR BEING ILL AND WANTING TO PUT MY DAUGHTER FIRST!!! ronald.a.walter@citigroup.com I am interested in buying a good condition mid-nineteenth century Shaker rocking chair. Ron Walter office - 212-559-4393 home - 212-752-8453 fax- 212-793-3402 given my insurance back, why? Why did Citibank wait to the last day to respond to the DFEH and then fax in there reply with false information, they had 45 days or so to get their facts right so who gave them the false information and why? Why didn't they check their facts first? I was fired then the status was changed to active employee out on short term disability the on leave of absence? Why was my 401k sent to me? If I am an active employee why was the rate changed on my employee credit card? Why did HR tell connect One that they had made an error yet I have a letter of termination and one letter that was sent over night to make sure that I did not return to work on 2/01/06? Why did the bank not follow their own firing procedure? If I was fired why do I have all that vacation, sick leave and holiday time. Why was I sent a check for my vacation time and then they rolled over the time to the 2006 year? Why can't I get an answer to my question regarding who is paying for my medical, dental, vision? Why is Met Life now billing me for premiums for the Life insurance policy which I carry for my husband and also mine? I WAS AT COSTCO (5/17/06) WITH MY NEIGHBOR AND RAN INTO RICHARD WHITE HE MENTIONED THAT HE HAD GONE INTO THE BANK AND MISSED SEEING ME THERE, WHEN HE ASKED WHERE I WAS THEY TOLD HIM I HAD LEFT CITIBANK TO WORK WITH MY HUSBAND, 5/19/06 My daughter and I were at Ross to day and we ran into another Citibank clients, we said hello and he said that he had gone into pay his credit card bill and when he asked about me he was told that I had left to work for my husband, yet again another lie from Citibank in Carmel. I gave him my address and asked him to put this in writing and mail it to me, he said he would get the letter out to me on Saturday Dear Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 01/28/06 My name is Damari Carollo Stratford, my daughter, Leah Carollo, attends Seaside High School and I wanted to personally thank you for visiting the school on Friday, January 27, 2006. My husband, Jeff Stratford and I have a small plumbing business named JND Plumbing, Inc., we, as a company, we donated money to the volley ball team to purchase 36 warm up uniforms for the girls. My daughter was on the freshman team and I was team mom and proud of it. I never missed a game and I drove to all the away games with team players in my mini van. I made sure they had sandwiches, fruit and water for all the away games and water for all the home games and practices. On, December 13th, Citibank in Carmel, California wrongfully terminated me. On, Dec. 15th, 2005 I received a letter via UPS telling me that I had been terminated on the 13th. At the time I was terminated I was in the middle of a pending workers comp case which wasn’t denied until Dec. 21st, 2005, this is in violation of code 132A of the workers comp law. Also, I had been out of work since the 6th of December with a doctor’s note, 2 notes that excused me from work from the 6th thru the 16th. I was out due do work related stress and anxiety. My doctor called in for me, upon my request, spoke to Kathleen and faxed in my doctors note on 12/12/05. According to HR, Chrys Smith, I was terminated for ‘ failure to follow call in procedure’ on 12/13/05. My doctors note which had been faxed in on the 12th was returned to me with my letter of termination from Jeff Ursine, acting manager of the branch. The note clearly stated that I would be out from the 12th thru the 16th. I went and spoke to an attorney in Salinas, California and after about 45 minutes to an hour of listening to what I had to say, they took the case on a contingency basis. Also, I have filed a complaint with the EEOC and they have launched an investigation on my behalf. I was not allowed an exit interview, which is their policy, nor was I ever asked to turn in my keys, which is also their policy. I was a very good employee and my reviews can prove this, one of them even stated the I ‘ Greatly exceeded expectations’. I was the Head teller, a Notary and the only Spanish-speaking teller. Before some one is terminated they are, per their own policy, to consider the employees performance. I worked the for 4 years 2 months and 6 days. Please take some time and read the pages I have sent you and also forward it to your friend Oprah because when you and her speak people listen. This situation has caused my family and I emotional and financial burden and I need some help. Corporate America needs to be kinder to their employees and more understanding of their personal needs. I am currently on disability and the legal system is too slow, I need help now. Due to loosing my job I can no longer offer the athletes at Seaside High School the financial support that I was willing to give them but I will still give my time. We need more parents like me, please help me. DAMARI Dear Office of Thrift Supervision. RE: letter dated 06/05/06 Case # 0505382006 Citibank advised you that Human Resources and Employment Legal Departments have handles this internal matter. How did they handle this matter? They lie to clients about why I am not there. They tell clients that I left to work for my husband, this is a lie. Lisa Austin from Citibank Benefits departments states that when I come back to work they will set up payments for arrears regarding my benefits yet how can I go back to work if they fired me? Citibank states in a letter to a former clients on 3/13/06 that they would like to thank her for the comments on “our former” employee. Citibank lied to the DFEH and they are telling lies to clients, what else will they lie about? Citibank never offered me FMLA, violated Labor codes and this is all I get? I would like details of what was said. If Citibank will lie to the DFEH and clients they will lie to you also. You say you can’t provide me assistance but Citibank gets away with lies, wrongful termination, etc. I was not fired at work I was fired while at home, ill with a doctors note. How can they get away with ruining my life and lying to clients about it. Their Human resources department has had me listed as terminated, then on short term disability and now on leave of absences, so which is it? Am I suppose to go back to work there when my doctor releases me from disability. If I am an active employee on leave of absences then why did they send me my pension, change me employee rate on my credit card and make me do something with my 401k? Would you kindly ask them what my status is ? Sincerely Damari To whom it may concern, 10/03/2007 A CRY FOR HELP Please help the little person fight corporate America and their lies and false statements On, Feb. 16, 2006 someone representing Citigroup Inc at One Court Square, 14th Floor, Long Island City, NY 11120, submitted a rebuttal to Ann Luekeman, Consultant for the Department of Fair Employment and Housing at 111 N Market Street, Suite 810, San Jose Ca 95112, and the statement entered is false and full of lies . Ann Luekeman also conducted the interviews for the investigation and was also lied to by Jeff Ursino and Kathleen Munoz during their interviews. I feel that the case needs to be investigated due to the fact that the DFEH made their decision with false statements submitted by Citigroup attorney and their employees. Sheri Paulo, the Employee Relations director for Citigroup was aware of the false information submitted yet even though they/she said they would submit a new statement they did not and stood by the lies knowing they were lies. I was wrongfully termination, harassed, by Jeff Ursino, and I can’t understand how an attorney lies to the DFEH and then they aren’t held accountable. This is unethical behavior on all those whom lied and I have to pay for their lies. Citigroup violated several Ca labor codes in the process of firing me nor did Citibank follow their own firing procedures. I was not offered FMLA until months later. I am begging that someone out there will help a mother who was simply trying to work be a mom and a wife making a honest living yet the manager and supervisor both lied as well as the Citigroup lawyers. Their lawyers requested more time to answer the DFEH yet submitted false information and this is unethical, please help us. I have been on disability since I was fired on 12/13/05 via UPS, I did not know I had lost my job until 12/15/05 because I was out on a workers comp pending case when I was fired. Violation 132A.My last pay check was direct deposited into my checking account, it was not included with my letter of termination. I would like to know who submitted these false statements for Citicorp and or Citibank and Citigroup. I don’t have a team of attorneys as they do or the funds to hire the right attorney to get to the truth. Please help us. Sincerely, Damari Stratford 1291 Ord Grove Ave Seaside, Ca 93955 831-236-0112