St Luke's Hospital
Doctor: Kolecki And Scoblianko
Denied specialist given psychiatrist instead, now I have serious lung and brainstem damage
Hospital Complaint About: St Luke's Hospital - Kolecki And Scoblianko
Author: Undisclosed
Hospital Service: I almost Died
Occur date: Sep 29 2002
Post date: Jul 06 2011, 06:34:11 AM
Doctor Complaint: Kolecki And Scoblianko - St Luke's Hospital
In August, 2002 I had a heart attack. When Dr. Kolecki did an angioplasty he told me that I had a prior heart attack In March, 2000 when St. Lukes released me telling me that I did not but right heart damage was there. In September, 2002 I woke to severe chest pains similar to pneumonia. I was also not able to use my right arm or leg. I was admitted to the hospital - first Palmerton then transferred to St. Lukes. I was told it was not lungs but my heart instead. I went thru 3 more admissions after that all with the same problem which did not let up. In January, 2003 Dr. Kolecki released me telling me that he knew what was wrong and I would have to go back to my family Dr - Dr. Zhou. In March Dr. Zhou sent me back to Palmerton then on to St. Lukes under Dr. Scoblianko's care. In April, 2003 he did it again and the entire 6 months I was gasping for air. I demanded a lung doctor and the brought in a psychiatrist instead who drugged me into submission for my 5th cardiac cath - this after a nurse tried to make me take every drug on my list. In June, 2003 I say Dr Burlew a lung doctor practicing out of the same hospital. He did a test in his office and when it came out that I was only breathing at 68% after all those months, he threw tyhe test away and "documented" that there was no problems.
Well, 13 doctors later I left the area for medical care and was informed - after several tests on my lungs which all doctors connected with St. Lukes insisted "did not exist" that I had serious damage from pulmonary embolism and brain stem damage from living with prolonged low O2 levels. Now I am trying to exist on less than 50% of my income because they told the insurance company it was all psychiatric - although they never had evaluated my lungs or had a full psychiatric eval done so my insurance company stopped my claim even though they had been documenting other health problems were causing me not to be able to work but the doctors suddenly recinded health problems. I have to crawl up my stairs because I can't walk due to muscle deterrioration from long term low O2 and can not afford any other living arrangement.
These doctors and hospital totally destroyed my life.
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