MEDICAL OPINION COMPLIMENT SLIP

LETTER FROM HEATH HOUSE HOSPITAL dated June 1999

I received a telephone-call at work on 11.30 a.m. June 11th 1998, from the Private Psychiatrist and was told I had to go to Hospital the next day or I would be made to go. It was stressed I had NO choice. (This was the Private Psychiatrist that Dr A could not remember, as stated in the NHS Complaint' yet he named her in the Medical Opinion.)

This also was the first I knew about this part of the treatment so it came as a complete shock.

I  asked many times for time to do what was necessary for my practice before going to hospital  which was refused, on 3 occasions,

with the promise that the Health Authority would take control of it  for me.
 I rang the Dental Advisor in the Health Board and he confirmed this and he also said he would do all in his power to help

and would also contact my accountant AND ring my receptionist the next day.
 

I was suddenly being told, by TELEPHONE, that I had such a severe Mental Illness that I had to go, with no warning, to a Psychiatric Hospital, over 90 miles away, by 9.00am the next day.

 I was not told a diagnosis or any other reason as to WHY I had to go at such short notice.

I was told I HAD to go or would be MADE to go if I refused, i.e. sectioned.

I was told that I had no choice, I had NO OPTIONS and ALSO now had to make an instant decision to trust and believe that treatment or not.

I never for a minute have believed that a doctor would MAKE UP such a diagnosis so casually, so I stupidly in hindsight believed that I HAD to go.

I retreated under the reception desk. I cannot explain the feelings I had. The complete hollowness, the despair, and the loneliness that suddenly came over me. I could not think clearly. I asked about my practice and was repeatedly assured ALL WOULD BE DONE but that I HAD to go to Hospital by the next day and to ring the dental Advisor of the Health Authority, a Dr CWW , which I did, and he ALSO promised assistance, he said he WOULD TRY to arrange a locum and said he would contact my receptionist/ accountant the next day, which he did not do.
            I remember no contact with Dr A so I went home totally numb, my mind in chaos, to prepare for something I never knew I had and I went to hospital the next day.

I never ever believed that I would be totally destroyed by making the wrong decision based on the intentional lie by Dr A and the Psychiatrist and Dental Advisor.

life in hospital