"Denied"?

Alex

We all know people never die under a doctors care, we know nothing, they
have all the answers. Toxic drugs are our only source of long term
health, treating drug induced disease with more drugs makes perfect
sense and effective treatment can only be shown in studies, just because
100's of studies have been found to be fraudulent we have to assume all
the current ones are good. The millions of studies the toxic drug makers
paid for prove this.
  You all are such suckers

I don't know if we ever do.  My understanding from a distance,
as neither a lawyer nor an American, is that it becomes public
knowledge when/if it is used as evidence in a trial.

Revised letter to the Editor, Los Angeles Times

In response to your article "A Mother's Denial," medical records from
three separate pediatricians state my daughter had clear lungs. She did
not present with the chest pain or blue lips and nail beds indicative of
life-threatening pneumonia at any doctor visit. Records from her last
medical exam on May 14 show Eliza Jane had no cough or respiratory
congestion. A series of chest Xrays taken in the ER did not reveal why she
was dying. After careful examination of her lungs during a May 18 autopsy,
the coroner could not determine a cause of death.

One month and no determined cause later, the coroner's office called her
primary pediatrician, Dr Paul Fleiss, demanding to know if he knew about
my book and HIV status. Even after discovering my testing history and
controversial work, it took 12 more weeks for the coroner to decide my
daughter died of AIDs-related pneumonia.

We have questions and concerns about the coroner's findings and hope to
clarify these via an independent investigation due in three weeks.
Interested readers may follow the unfolding story at www.ejlovetour.com

Christine Maggiore

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My end of recent correspondence with LA Times Readers' Rep Jamie Gold
(surely one of the most patient individuals on earth):

Hi Jamie,

Below please find a new revision of my letter. I've used a few more words
to clarify the statements about my daughter's medical records and our
experiences at the ER. To make up for this, I've cut out other sentences.

With regard to our conversation yesterday about the content of my
daughter's medical records, could you please let me know if the Times
actually has copies of these records? From my understanding, her records
are not public information and the Times reporters cite from the autopsy
report and interviews with her pediatricians. I think it's important to
note that the coroner's office does not have my daughter's complete
medical records. They never requested records from her last two doctor
visits, and as such, this information is not included the autopsy report.

With regard to the Time's requirement of third party witnesses to events
not attended by reporters, as I mentioned during our phone conversation
yesterday, a neighbor who followed us to the ER can substantiate the
experiences referred to in my letter. This man stayed there with me and my
husband for several hours, including the awful moment when the attending
physician at the ER apologetically stated they could not determine from
x-rays, a spinal tap, CAT scans or other tests why our daughter was
dying.

That and the following statement from the hospital report may be enough to
settle our disagreement on whether the ER found no cause of death after
examining a series of chest Xrays. The attending physician wrote: "I feel
that [there] may be [a] rather high likelihood that the patient may have
Haemophilus Influenza. Nevertheless, it is just speculation on my part at
this point and the case will need to be referred to the coroner's office
to help determine the cause of death."

If you will provide me with a fax number, I will send you my daughter's
medical records from the pediatrician visits mentioned in the autopsy
report along with the summary statement of the attending physician at the
ER.

I would also appreciate knowing if either reporter disputing my account of
events at the hospital ever interviewed the ER doctor before going to
press. The timing of any interview concerns me as I doubt it would be
possible to get an unbiased account of what happened that night with our
story having been told from one perspective on the front page of the
Times.

Regarding the Time's claim that the coroner's office does not disclose
information by telephone, as I reiterated yesterday, Dr Changstri very
kindly called my husband the week of our daughter's memorial in reply to
his request for an update and explained that they still had not determined
a cause of death for Eliza Jane. She also outlined what steps they were
taking to investigate further. Her remarks about investigating poisions
and chemical toxins as a potential cause was so disturbing to me, I
immediately phoned a friend who works in law enforcement and told him what
Dr Changstri said. He is available to verify our conversation about Dr
Changstri's remarks if needed to substantiate the sentence summarizing
this event.

Again with regard to the assertion the coroner's office does not share
information by phone, Denise Bertone called our home on the morning of
Tuesday September 13 and disclosed the coroner's determination of death to
my husband. When I got the news from my devastated husband, I phoned our
lawyer and reported what Denise had told us. I'm sure our attorney recalls
this conversation.

Jamie, if the Times still wishes to disregard our experiences at the ER
after considering the above mentioned information, will you please let me
know as soon as possible? I'd also appreciate knowing if the Times still
stands by the claim that the coroner's policy is no disclosure by phone.
If so, can you help me understand how your reporters managed to write an
article that included the coroner's determination of death before my
daughter's autopsy report was finished? As I recall, Dan Costello
contacted me for comment on his completed article Thursday September 15.
Following his call, I phoned my attorney who spoke with him that same day.
The autopsy report was not ready until Friday September 16; Denise Bertone
called to confirm it was finally available as of that Friday morning. When
I asked Dan if he had a copy of the autopsy report during our first
contact, he said he did not, and stated the same again the week of
September 19.

With heartfelt thanks for your patience and help (and kindness under
duress),

Christine Maggiore