State Employees Allowed to Violate Patients’ Constitutional Rights – Attorney Wanted!
Sean Lynn was falsely imprisoned at UAMS Medical Center for two weeks. The 100+ medical staff, administrators and security personnel involved refuse to compensate Sean for the damage they caused him. Surveillance videos taken by UAMS staff were destroyed. The UAMS PD refused to investigate. The Arkansas Attorney General’s Office said it was not their job to help citizens who are forced to use fentanyl and other dangerous drugs. (But the AG is spending tax dollars on a PR campaign called “One Pill Can Kill.”)
UAMS staff, including Nurse Shannon Cobb and Nurse Christian Rosenbaum, threatened to have me, Sean’s mom, removed from the hospital if I video recorded the felonious conduct. The video linked above was made accidentally when I hit the wrong button while putting my phone in my pocket.
Sean wants justice. The courts, law enforcement, and highly paid personnel at the University of Arkansas are throwing up obstacles. Please help.
Contact us at bohemian_books@yahoo.com if you can represent Sean in Federal Court in Arkansas. We are happy to collaborate on a film or video project. I will continue to post from the video I was able to take during the imprisonment at UAMS.
Podcast Episode: Dr. Prashanth Damalcheruvu: Don’t you know who he is?
Pip: There's a phrase that shows up in legal filings and hospital corridors alike — "I was just reviewing the images." A Higher Law has some thoughts on what that actually means.
Mara: This episode covers reporting by LauraLynnHammett on a civil case involving a patient held at UAMS Medical Center, the doctors named in the record, and what supervisory responsibility actually looks like on paper.
Pip: Let's start with the doctor whose name is on the scans.
Dr. Damalcheruvu and the Limits of "Just Reading Images"
Mara: The core question here is whether a supervising physician can sign orders, bill for services, and oversee a treatment team — then later claim zero responsibility for what that team did to a patient.
Pip: The post lays out what happened first: dozens of doctors and nurses at UAMS held a man against his will for two weeks, performed tests without consent, sedated him, and used four-point restraints — often leaving him naked and exposed.
Mara: Dr. Damalcheruvu's court filing draws a narrow circle around his role. His position, as stated in the document, is that he "is a neuroradiologist, and his alleged involvement was limited to reviewing and interpreting diagnostic imaging within that specialty. He did not order, direct, or control the patient's confinement, the use of force, or any aspect of his custodial care."
Pip: The medical record tells a different story. His name is the only physician name attached to over fifteen hundred dollars in CT scans billed in the first twenty-four hours, and he signed a note directing that the patient be admitted to the STICU for continued neuro exams — without asking the patient's consent.
Mara: The sedation piece matters here too. The patient was given Fentanyl and Lorazepam without consent, which Nurse Lyree Williams described as intended to subdue him. No consent form appears in the record prior to the scans Dr. Damalcheruvu approved.
Pip: Half a million dollars a year to supervise residents, and when the residents are the ones named on the treatment team, suddenly the supervision evaporates. That's a tidy arrangement.
Mara: Arkansas regulation is direct on this point. Seventeen CAR Section 140-3104(c) states that "a graduate registered physician shall be considered the agent of his or her supervising physician in the performance of all practice-related activities, including but not limited to, the ordering of diagnostic, therapeutic, and other medical services."
Pip: So the legal framework already answers the question he's asking the court to leave open.
Mara: The post links the full court filing — Damalcheruvu's reply motion — so readers can check the document directly against what the medical record shows.
Pip: A signature on an admission note, a billing record with one name, and a regulation that says supervisors own their residents' actions. The paper trail tends to be less forgetful than the people who created it.
Mara: More on where that trail leads next time.
Resident M.D. Speaks Out After Termination from Arkansas Children’s Hospital
My dad, Dr. Norman H. Kramer, told me a story repeatedly about something that happened when he was a medical resident in Cincinnati.
He had picked up a patient’s chart after the patient underwent surgery and looked at an X-ray. According to my dad, he immediately blurted out, “This man didn’t need surgery!”
The next thing he knew, he was called into the office of the lead physician who had performed the surgery.
My dad said the doctor warned him that if he ever said anything like that again, he would never practice medicine again.
I have heard that story so many times over the years that I have to wonder whether it has influenced the way I view what happened to Dr. Khammad. Maybe it has given me a bias.
But I have also spoken with Dr. Khammad at length. He comes across to me as competent, sincere, and honest. Importantly, he did not know my father’s story before we spoke. When he described what he experienced and his concerns about disagreeing with hospital policies, his account felt authentic to me.
That is what makes this case so personal for me.
My father’s story has stayed with me because it raised a question that goes far beyond medicine: What happens when someone inside an institution believes that something is wrong and speaks up?
Ideally, the answer should be that the concern is investigated. The person raising it should not have to fear that questioning a decision will cost them their career.
That is not what happens at Arkansas Children’s where Dr. Khammad was a resident or at its affiliated UAMS, apparently.
It is a shame that a resident with a grievance against a hospital could not find an attorney willing to take on the Arkansas medical and legal establishment. Dr. Khammad has decided to take them on himself.
I am rooting for him.
Dr. Prashanth Damalcheruvu: Don’t you know who he is?
Dozens of doctors and nurses at UAMS Medical Center held a man against his will for two weeks, performed whatever tests they wanted, used drugs to sedate him, and bound him to a hospital bed, often naked and exposed.
One of the doctors who was involved from the start is Assistant Professor Prashanth Reddy Damalcheruvu, M.D.
Dr. Damalcheruvu refuses to pay any restitution to the unwilling patient. The highly paid supervisor of the residents at UAMS claimed in court documents that he did not cause the patient to be confined for approximately two weeks and
subject him to force more excessive than allowed in a maximum security prison. Dr. Damalcheruvu claims that he “is a neuroradiologist, and his alleged involvement was limited to reviewing and interpreting diagnostic imaging within that specialty. He did not order, direct, or control [the patient]’s confinement, the use of force, or any aspect of his custodial care.”
The medical record and rudimentary knowledge of the supervisory role of professors in a university hospital contradict the certified document filed on Dr. Damalcheruvu’s behalf. The charges documented over $1,500 for CT Scans and imaging taken in the initial 24 hours with only one doctor’s name, Davalcheruvu.
The medical record calls the people who forced treatment on the patient the trauma team, SICU team and treatment team.
Dr. Damalcheruvu signed a note that says, “Patient will be admitted to STICU for continued neuro exams.” Dr. Damalcheruvu did not ask the patient’s consent to keep him for observation and further testing. The patient was sedated with Fentanyl and Lorazepam without consent which was, according to Nurse Lyree Williams meant to subdue the patient.
The team used four-point restraints to confine the patient. Dr. Damalcheruvu did not mention any of these restraints in his notes.
There was no consent form in the medical record prior to the CT Scans that Dr. D approved.
The patient did not consent to be treated by the residents and students who were under Dr. Damalcheruvu’s supervision.
“A graduate registered physician shall be considered the agent of his or her supervising physician in the performance of all practice-related activities, including but not limited to, the ordering of diagnostic, therapeutic, and other medical services.” 17 CAR Sec. 140-3104(c).
Dr. Damalcheruvu collects over half a million dollars per year as a professor at UAMS. Then, when his team screws up, he claims no responsibility at all. Don’t believe me? Read it here:
UAMS Doctors and Nurses Lie on Medical Records
More than a dozen doctors and nurses lied on a patient’s medical record. The UAMS “team” agreed to use a narrative that would fit the criteria for a level two trauma, despite the patient repeatedly saying he fell about 10-feet.
What could possibly motivate these medical professionals to lie about the mechanism of injury? MONEY.
The rack rate for room and board in the SICU at UAMS Medical Center is about $10,000 per night. I will repeat that, so you know it is not a typo. The published rate for “bed service” in the SICU is about ten thousand dollars per midnight spent there.
Even if the patient refuses treatment and tries to escape.
To be fair, UAMS typically gives a “discount.” In the case of the exaggerated fall, UAMS tried to collect only $4,300 per night from the patient.
When Medicaid offered to pay, even though the patient told Medicaid that UAMS caused most of his medical conditions and held him against his will for two weeks, UAMS dropped the bill down to less than half the patient-payor price. Nice.
For years, I and the patient, my son, said the doctors at UAMS were merely negligent when writing that the fall was 34 or 35 feet repeatedly. But, representatives of The Doctors Insurance and UAMS have written in letters and court docs that there was no negligence.
OK. Then writing that something that did not happen, a fall from over 20 feet, was an intentional lie. Or it was true.
The only witness to the fall was the patient. He said it was from about 10-feet.
A fall from 34 or 35 feet, barring a miracle, would leave the person with some lacerations. This man had none.
His vitals were well within normal, healthy range. His Glascow Coma Scale was 13 or 14, indicative of a mild TBI.
The doctor who diagnosed the patient’s facial fractures wrote “No need to keep admitted from facial fracture standpoint.”
On the triage report, that can be downloaded below, the only indication for calling this a level one, two, or three trauma activation was that someone who was not a witness to the fall said it was 34 or 35 feet. (Hint: The ladder was 35 feet tall.) There was not a check mark for the doctors’ independent judgment that the injuries were consistent with a level one, two or three trauma.
The doctors and nurses did not ask for the surveillance video taken in the UAMS emergency room be preserved. The doctors and nurses involved knew the patient did not consent to treatment. The UAMS medical personnel and their counsel failed to file a petition that is required before holding a patient without consent. Probably they knew that the judge would not force the patient to stay. They thought, it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
But no one is asking forgiveness. Dr. Damalcheruvu’s attorney said Damalcheruvu was not responsible for the alleged starvation, dehydration and unlawful imprisonment because he is merely the medical professor whose specialty is neuro radiology – the one who was involved with taking and interpreting the CT Scans.
The lawyer for Dr. Joseph Margolick, Dr. Benjamin Davis, and Nurse Britney Beumeler said that he was going to defend his clients by attacking my “character and credibility.”
These defendants should be charged with criminal false imprisonment and battery. The UAMS Police Department refuses to even look at the evidence against the doctors and nurses. Every one involved should lose their licenses, and frankly, UAMS should be shut down.
We are happy to share our evidence with anyone who wants to see it. You can contact me at bohemian_books@yahoo.com or go to the clerk’s office at Pulaski county Courthouse and ask for a copy of the thumb drive filed in the case of Sean Lynn and Laura Hammett v. Board of Trustees of University of Arkansas, et al.
Here is the triage activation survey.
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