Instead of humane and compassionate treatment, doctors, hospitals and the legal system are treating epilepsy patients with little or no regard for their condition.
Here are some chilling examples:
A Dearborn doctor falsely diagnosed hundreds of kids with epilepsy and was richly compensated ($350,000 extra!) for “bringing business tothe hospital.” Many of thechildren were put on dangerous drugs that made them sleepy and in some cases suicidal.
A British man was abused by Christian Brothers, and locked in a mental hospital for 33 years as an “epileptic”.
A woman in Pittsburgh was handcuffed, shackled and restrained during an epileptic seizure because the police suspected her of being on cocaine.
A hospital in England admitted that a doctor misdiagnosed epilepsy or over-prescribed drugs for 170 children.
A woman had her Dilantin level ramped up – due to erroneous blood tests — and she ended up in a different hospital…
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