Doctors and nurses at UAMS tortured my grown son for two weeks, then sent him a bill for over $46,000.

We filed a civil claim against the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences last August.

It is not a malpractice case. It is a case for false imprisonment and for the bodily injuries and emotional distress caused by the University’s employees, with the approval of the highest levels of management. Many of the culpable employees are paid over $525,000 per year, and they intended to take all their victim’s assets for UAMS to divvy up amongst them. Those salaries clearly can’t be satisfied by taxpayers alone. And the insurance companies? Too stingy, too lawyered up. So when an uninsured man with assets stumbles through their doors, the opportunistic vultures like Dr. Mary K. Kimbrough and Dr. Joseph Margolick make damn sure he doesn’t walk back out on his own.

What they did is allegedly criminal. But UAMS has its own police department, and UAMS PD refused to even look at the video evidence the victims offered to provide.

UAMS also took surveillance video of the non-consenting patient attempting to escape, sometimes butt naked. (UAMS often refused to give him a gown or shorts — seemingly a perverse control tactic.)

HIPAA starts to look like a polite suggestion when you’re already violating someone’s most basic human rights. And with cameras only in the halls, who knows what private videos might exist — for personal thrills or for corners of the internet no one wants to imagine.

The videos Mom took were subdued compared to the majority of the horror show that went on non-stop for two weeks. (Ya, the brain surgeons at UAMS deprived a TBI patient of uninterrupted sleep for two weeks.)

UAMS allowed the man to leave without further battery after 14 days, upon the oft-reiterated and clearly stated threat of legal action. Dr. Joseph Deloach told the victims that General Counsel had been consulted, along with other department heads and the ethics committee, and they admitted there was no legal authority for the doctors and nurses to hold my son.

The captive’s blood work looked much better when he was first taken to the hospital by ambulance. By UAMS’ own records, he was not delirious and could communicate clearly. UAMS caused his sodium level to fall to a dangerous level, which they then used as the purported excuse for keeping him in the $4,700-per-day room. A few days after his release, his sodium was in normal range again. He had a fully intact left ossicular chain when he entered the hospital. UAMS disrupted the tiny bones by slamming his head into walls while trying to prevent him from escaping. His right ear is also half what it should be, which has left him 75% deaf.

Maybe Lead Attorney for UAMS Sherri Robinson thought we had no recordings of the ordeal. Nurses had ordered me to stop making a record of the imprisonment several times. They failed to cite a statute or policy number, so I hesitatingly took a few videos and recorded our telephone conversations when I was by the equipment I needed. You can watch the videos on YouTube, here.

Mrs. Robinson denied all our allegations. Quote:

Respondent denies each and every material allegation contained in the complaint.
Respondent denies that it was negligent in treating Claimant Lynn.
Respondent denies that it treated either Claimant in any unlawful manner.
Respondent specifically denies that it or any of its employees, agents, officials or representatives took any action or inaction that caused either Claimant any harm.
Respondent specifically denies that it or any of its employees, agents, officials or representatives are liable for any damages as alleged in the complaint.

Mrs. Robinson propounded interrogatories and requests for production of documents, to which we responded, objecting to overbroad and burdensome requests but tailoring a reasonable response to each. You can download our response here.

Now, without answering our first set of interrogatories yet, and while denying there are any surveillance videos taken by UAMS that were not overridden, the UAMS attorney wants to limit the number of interrogatories and requests for documents that we make. She also wants to set time limits for motions and other discovery before she even gives us one answer or document.

She waited until the Thursday before the July 4th weekend to raise this. I wrote an email to her saying I have doctors’ appointments to address adhesive capsulitis in my right arm, and that minutes earlier, I learned that my mother-in-law passed away. I said I did not know when I could get my supplemental responses and next set of requests to her.

Fifty minutes later, she sent this email:

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Dear Mrs. Hammett and Mr. Lynn,

I believe that this case would benefit from some added structure through the imposition of discovery limitations and a scheduling order. I intend to file a motion with the Commission making this request. I proposed a limit on discovery as follows: each party may propound 100 total interrogatories, 50 requests for production, and 50 requests for admission, and take 10 depositions. I am also asking the Court to set a scheduling order that contains a discovery deadline, a motion deadline, a motion hearing date, and a final hearing date should one be needed that includes a deadline to disclose the names of witnesses and list of exhibits prior to the hearing date.

Please advise by the end of the day whether you object to this request, so that I may include the information in my motion.

Thank you for your time.

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About three hours later she sent this:

“I am sorry to hear about your health issues and your mother-in-law. Prayers for your family.”

Nothing about taking an extra day to get back to her on her request for a stipulation.

But what did I expect. She compared her mother having a broken wrist to my son being poisoned with a potentially deadly two-week-long infusion of Fentanyl, Barbiturates, Lorazepam, Diazepam, and any other pam the staff thought would be fun; catheterized against his will, re-catheterized after he pulled the first tube out, re-catheterized after he pulled the second tube out, starved, dehydrated, tackled, and raped.

Hey, if anyone knows an attorney who is willing to take on doctors at UAMS, my son wants legal representation for his claim at the Claims Commission and for a suit that has not yet been filed against the individuals involved. Many of them have malpractice insurance — which may or may not cover the personal injury claims.

He does not want to be pro se, because damn, revisiting something this vile is like crawling back through shattered glass.

Shoot me an email at bohemian_books@yahoo.com with an offer to meet and I’ll pass it on.