MY NAME IS EVELYN JULY/2025

 

My name is Evelyn

This is my Story!

This is my Truth!

I had the grave misfortune of needing emergency care and eventually being hospitalized for a life-threatening bacterial infection!

I also had Sepsis!

This bacterial infection had been relentlessly and viciously attacking my body.

Upon arriving to the Emergency Room, I was placed onto a gurney with high fevers of 103 and rising still and extremely high blood pressure with a high and rapid heart rate.

Before the Emergency Room, while still at home, my blood pressure and heart rate were dangerously high and alarming.

On a hot and humid summer day, I was freezing!

Despite multiple layers of shirts, sweaters, pants and jackets with a huge pile of blankets covering me, I was still freezing cold and with a strange inability to get and feel warm.

Knowing my body well + reliving previous experiences of sicknesses and pneumonias, I realized that time was was of the essence and that I needed to get to the hospital immediately!

The ambulance arrived and rushed to the Emergency Room of the hospital. 

And, dear friends, thus began my journey of sickness, strength, courage, resilience, prayers and faith!

It was in this medical unit, at the hospital, that I survived the unexpected and traumatic experiences as an inpatient at the hospital who needed appropriate and emergency medical care that I did not receive in any kind of appropriate, acceptable and expedient manner!

It was also here, on this medical unit, I lay confined to a bed in this medical unit and I somehow survived the actions and inactions of persons who flaunted medical degrees as doctors, who chose physician misconduct in the highest forms and on multiple occasions, chose to be negligent in the highest form on multiple occasions and performed tasks of medical negligence in the highest form and, also, on multiple occasions!

I will explain in more detail.

From the Emergency Room, I had arrived on the medical unit later that same Thursday.

It was later that same day I met the 3rd year resident doctor and the new intern, the intern whom had just started his rotation at this hospital.

It is July, when the new doctors come into the hospital.

As most patients realize these new doctors are completely oblivious in knowing the hospital and especially obviously never learned proper, adequate and helpful 

doctor-patient communication skills and patient care!

These 2 doctors and the attending physician, who were assigned to me, did not give me, as their patient, the medical care and treatment that was protocol or warranted and most certainly chose not to give me proper, adequate and needed treatment and care!

What rattled me on my 1st night on that medical unit was learning that this 3rd year resident doctor left the hospital without re-ordering the necessary IV antibiotics which were started in the Emergency Room, did not order any of my routine medications, did not order my allergy medicines, did not order my blood pressure medications, did not order my pain medications , did not order my respiratory medications and did not order any of rest of my medications and treatments prescribed medications needed to stabilize my several medical conditions!

This 3rd year resident doctor, the intern and the attending physician (whom I met on Friday morning) were responsible for my treatment and my care while I was a patient in that hospital.

Their actions and inactions, their negligence and their misconduct could have cost me my life, while still under their care and an inpatient in the hospital.

In my fragile and sick condition(s) I still fought with everything in me to stay alive and conscious.

And I prayed!

These doctors chose and owned their misconduct, chose and owned their negligence!

It was their choice to use their positions, their authority and their power as physicians as weapons to harm me medically, verbally and emotionally!

In my sickest, weakest and most vulnerable state, these 3 doctors chose to harm me in my sickest, weakest in my most vulnerable time, while I lay sick with a life threatening bacterial infection which also led to Sepsis.

As I lay so sick in that hospital bed, in this hospital, in the hospital these 3 doctors who were the first medical team who were assigned to me (the attending physician, the 3rd year resident doctor and the intern doctor), brought pain, abandonment and trauma to me as I still lay so sick in the hospital bed, in the hospital room, at the hospital!

I chose to go home, still feeling sick and with the added trauma, trauma I never wanted, never deserved, I most definitely did not need!

I, myself being sick with this bacterial infection and sepsis did not really have a choice but, to seek medical care.

The confusion of waiting those few days for the blood cultures to come back just reaffirm the medical information I had been trying to tell the doctors since Day 1.

The tested medical information that derived from the blood cultures showed what I had always suspected, I had a bacterial infection with the highest probability that I had Sepsis as well!

As a patient that had been so sick which required acute hospitalization, I was baffled, shocked and hurt by the toxic and destructive behaviors aimed towards me by that 3rd year resident doctor, the attending physician and that intern for scaring me, abandoning me and for the trauma still alive within me, trauma induced by the destructive behaviors of three doctors who had power, authority and positions within a hospital and allowed to happen to me through little to no oversight!

I was confined to that hospital bed while I was a patient in that medical unit in the hospital.

These doctors’ actions and inactions were responsible for not only treating me with total lacks of respect and dignity but, they failed to realize I was a person, a human being!

These doctors failed me, the hospital failed and the Healthcare System failed me!

The hospital and the Healthcare System allowed these 3 people with medical degrees that identified them as doctors to deny medical care to me, deny needed antibiotics and other needed medications and treatments!

The hospital and the Healthcare System allowed them to falsify medical charts, to give prognosis and reasons that had been created out of convenience, not at all being the reasons my health was so abnormally and negatively impacted by a bacterial infection which led to Sepsis!

On my 1st night (Thursday night) my blood pressure and my heart rose to a high, dangerous and life-threatening levels. My oxygen saturations were dipping down as low as 80, and continued to go down.

I am grateful for my night nurse who was alert and knew emergency protocol. My nurse knew the danger signs of a sick, dangerous and life threatening emergency. My nurse acted quickly, safely and without hesitating!

My night nurse immediately contacted the doctor on call who, in turn quickly exercised the necessary life saving measures.

This doctor did everything within her power + the assurance I received the emergency care I needed.

This on-call doctor helped me to return to an acute, but medically stable condition.

This life saving (on call) physician restarted the IV antibiotics that were ordered and given to me by IV in the Emergency Room. IV fluids were also given to me.

This on call doctor ordered medications and other medications and treatments that helped me and stabilized on that frightening first night on this medical unit.

With these life-saving emergency measures my vital signs remained stable enough and I fell asleep assured by this doctor’s actions!

As I toddled off to sleep, I was comforted by knowing prayers worked and realizing God’s Peace and Protection were enough!

What was absent in the care and treatment by the 1st team of doctors was their own blindness of not seeing “ME”, me, a person, a human being, who they hit hard at me in my sickest, weakest and my most vulnerable time of my life!

These doctors’ self-absorptions, their own self inflated egos and their lifeless disregard for their patient, ME, Evelyn, I could only presume that they thought I was not worth the trouble of treatment and care and not at all worthy of being treated as a person, a human being!

These 3 doctors chose to cause me medical harm, emotional distress and trauma at my lowest, my sickest and in a highly vulnerable state!

These 3 doctors’ blatant refusals to treat me, Evelyn, with respect, with dignity, with honor and with courtesy and care was obvious and alarming!

Their actions and inactions showed that they had absolutely no concern for treating me, for caring for me, treating the disease that brought me to the hospital and lacked any concern for my well-being and for my life! 

These first doctors chose “not” to give me the needed safe, appropriate, effective treatment and care at the time of when I needed it the most!

These are a few examples of what I, as sick as I was, had to cope with as well:

Physician Misconduct, 1 example:

The 3rd year resident doctor chose, with her words and with her own inability to listen to what I, her patient, was telling her of what is going on in my own body.

This doctor dismissed me as if I were a bag of garbage as her anger reach pitches that were higher in volume than her demeaning, belittling and condescending words!

Physician Negligence: I example

The 3rd year resident doctor and the intern left the hospital without ordering any of my medications, without ordering the IV antibiotics and without placing the necessary order to Respiratory Therapy!

As I previously wrote of my alert and experienced night nurse who immediately contacted the doctor on call who flew into action, saving my life! 

I do say with utter and definite confidence that my night nurse and the on-call doctor both saved my life that evening!

Medical Negligence: 1 example

I was confined to a bed in that hospital room in the the hospital for approximately 4 nights and three days. I forced myself with this new symptom of extreme dizziness to carefully and slowly make it to the bathroom in my hospital.

This, as sick as I was and still am, it took everything in me to just make it to the bathroom!

I did it anyway!

Being confined to that bed without getting up at all and with that peri – thing which collected my urine into a canister, I was later appalled that no steps were taken, a Lovenox injection to prevent blood clots (I am allergic to Heparin) or those inflatable boots were ever used to protect me from getting blood clots!

I am home! I was discharged from the hospital approximately on Tuesday, almost 2 weeks ago.

I wanted and needed to be home!

These are demands I have placed for the people who choose to treat people, human beings as insignificant matter that do not deserve the right to be treated as people.

I say to those people loudly and without hesitation:

I am a person, a human being.

I am to be treated as a person, a human being with respect, dignity, courtesy, care, and assured that I matter!

My voice matters, my words matter, my rights are to be observed and not trampled on, what I want in my life matters and always will be respected and followed.

I, as a person matter and my life matters!

I realize I do need help and I do get sick more and need medical attention more than most people!

Knowing all of this, my life still matters! 

Though I am grateful for all of the help I receive, it in no way means I settle for bad behavior among helpers, medical professionals or even doctors!

Bad behavior, medical negligence, physician negligence and physician misconduct should never be tolerated no matter who it happens to!

I will not accept and/or settle for bad conduct, negligence and bad behavior especially among medical professionals.

I am grateful for so much.

It does not mean accepting, settling or tolerating anymore all types of negligence, bad behaviors or misconduct!

I, and every patient/person needs and deserve better!

I am grateful for so, very much!

I am beyond appreciative for every one of you who prayed for me, sent me comforting words and wishes and I am touched by the love and support from all of you!

I am grateful for all of you loving, supportive, wonderful human beings who now hold a cherished and safe place in my heart and in my life!

Thank you, all of you!

With sincerity, love, prayers and gracious gratitude,

Evelyn (Pinto)

July/

2025