A traumatic brain injury patient refused treatment at UAMS Medical Center. Dr. Adam Watkins and 70 other employees forced the patient to undergo fentanyl administration followed by two weeks of dangerous drugs and physical restraint.

The doctors mistakenly claimed the patient fell 34 or 35 feet. He jumped 10 feet. Doctors and nurses claimed they gave the patient no drugs that would cause his odd speech and intoxicated mannerisms. They gave him a cocktail of benzos, fentanyl, psych meds and barbitruats that could have put a small elephant in a coma.

This is a list of the sedating and psychoactive drugs administered in the first 23 hours:

• 1,000 mg levetiracetam at 5:46 p.m. on January 13 (Nathan Ernst, ordered by Sarah Martin);
• 50 mcg fentanyl at 5:51 p.m. on January 13 (Ernst, ordered by Dr. Natalie Applebaum);
• 0.5 mg lorazepam at 2:40 a.m. on January 14 (Lyrex Williams, ordered by Krista Stephenson), not
  documented until January 19;
• 5 mg intramuscular haloperidol at 8:40 a.m. on January 14 (Jacob Langston, ordered by Kindy);
• 1,000 mg levetiracetam at 9:02 a.m. on January 14 (Langston, ordered by Martin);
• Continuous dexmedetomidine infusion from 11:02 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on January 14
  (Langston, ordered by Kindy); and
• 5 mg olanzapine at 3:58 p.m. on January 14 (Williams, ordered by Tyler Rose).

The medical team intermittently claimed the patient was on a “72-hour psych hold.” For no explicable reason, the state employees never filed the petition required under Ark. Code Ann. Sec. 20-47-207, et seq. No judge was involved, and no counsel was appointed to represent the patient.

This writer negotiated the patient’s release after two weeks of confinement and numerous hospital-acquired conditions. The YouTube video posted above was taken three days before the release. We joined in a claim against UAMS and the individuals involved.

Instead of pursuing criminal charges against the persons responsible for the alleged false imprisonment and battery, highly paid state employees are trying to have me treated as if I committed the unauthorized practice of law. They also forbid me from video recording the continuous battery.

The statutory fee paid to counsel representing patients held without consent is $150. The litigation to compel compensation for the medical team’s victims will cost the people of Arkansas a million bucks, easy. Public funds wasted by MDs and JDs run amok.