I have your letter dated 17 June (it seems to have arrived less than a week ago that could be the mail service) dismissing my complaint against Dr. Copeland. It is exactly what I expected but I try to check all the boxes. I personally don't give the proverbial fig what you do with it but am sending you a letter refuting Dr. Copeland's denials. Whether or not you forward it to him I again don't care.

No reply is expected. You have closed the case and where you are concerned so have I. I merely wanted your letter to document your action. This final letter will also become part of my files - do what you want with it. If you want to forward it to Dr. Copeland be my guest. Congratulate him on getting away with it. I gave you facts and he gave you vague rambling provably false excuses. Your action suggests that either you did not bother to read the information I provided, did not believe it, or just don't care. I suspect the latter is the case.

Dr. Copeland begins his letter by (smugly it seems to me but what do I know?) stating that he no longer works for the hospital and that the hospital is closed and thus cannot consult the records. Quite convenient and some might wonder whether in closing a very profitable hospital someone is covering their tracks. In any case I HAVE THE RECORDS. I also have witnesses who can testify to his conduct. His letter is a rather small sample to judge by but I got a paranoid narcissist vibe from it.

Clearly the previous hospital erred but those were legitimate medical errors which included an erroneous assumption of an anoxic brain injury. My brain is as good as it ever was but my nervous system has been severely damaged by his use of psychotropic medications administered with no medical indication. The adverse effects of such drugs are well documented and my condition is consistent with their (mis)use. Sedation is the proper action and does not cause neurological injury. My condition is due entirely to the egregious actions of Dr. Copeland. I can believe that he acted out ignorance - judging from his other actions - but that is no excuse.

His statement that I required restraints for my own protection, while accurate since patients under various drugs do indeed attempt to pull wires and tubes and get out of bed but Dr. Copeland stated to my family members that it was for the protection of his staff. Furthermore wire and strips of torn bedding are not proper restraints - products manufactured for the purpose should be used.

His statement that physical therapy improved my condition until I was able to be discharged is false. I had zero therapy until the last two weeks when my family members demanded that he allow me become fully conscious and make it possible for me to be taken home. As I stated in my letter if they had not removed me I would have soon been dead or beyond possibility of any recovery. I had no speech therapy and needed none once the drugs were reduced sufficiently for me to become cognizant.

Dr. Copeland's statement that he examined me and spoke to me every day is false. As I stated in my letter I asked day after day to have him see me and he never came. To this day I have never seen him. As I said if he was there while I was either sedated or dissociated then I was unaware of it and anything that I said or did. As for his assertion that he saw me on the days when I requested his presence it is a lie. I was visited daily by family members who told me that he refused to accompany them to my room but stayed in his office and they had to stand outside as he had another person in the office. Furthermore I have been told by a reliable source that he was sometimes absent from the hospital working at another job. And as I said before "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus". There is no reason to believe anything he says.

As for my "slandering" him apparently he apparently confuses the meanings of words as much as he does medicine. I insulted him and would to so to his face if I ever saw him. I made no false statements on those websites and I did not stalk him or impersonate him as he told his lawyers. If he considers stating provable facts slander that is his problem. The victimsofacch.org site is up to this day and while he may deny what I wrote there I would invite him to sue me. I have no money and can't even afford a lawyer but as I said I will endeavor to show up and if he can prove any of it is wrong I will take it down.

As for his statement than I must not be too bad off as I constructed websites not longer after being released from the hospital. Since he seems confused about numerous other things he may be unaware that it is possible to maintain a website without much physical effort and I don't have much. I was sufficiently outraged at what he had done to me to do so.

As for lawyers refusing to take my case lawyers in Jonesboro and the area simply stated that they would not sue a Jonesboro hospital for the obvious reasons. A couple of lawyers in Memphis indicated that I had a good case but before I could find one willing to take it the statute of limitations ran out. And as the good doctor is well aware unless a patient is dead or severely mangled and it's a watertight case few lawyers will take it. There is too much money in the easier ones and class actions but in any case not one said it was a weak case.

I observed that the Google reviews for that hospital - despite frequent spam 5-stars by hospital staff - were abysmal. They describe the atrocious treatment and behavior of hospital staff and injuries to patients and Dr. Copeland is mentioned by name in some of them. I have copies of those as well.

As Columbo would say just one more thing. Arkansas Continued Care Hospital (ACCH) was only technically a hospital - it was a recovery and rehabilitation facility and nothing more. It did not accept emergency patients, had no intensive care or critical care facilities, and surgery was not performed there. In fact no patient in imminent danger of death was admitted and a patient whose condition deteriorated should have been immediately returned to a regular hospital. Only in the most extraordinary or unforeseeable circumstances would a patient die there. Yet an average of twenty patients - many of them well below average life expectancy - died there each year. Does Dr. Copeland care to explain that? He was the "chief medical officer" and as far as I know the only doctor employed there. A reasonable person would strongly suspect that Dr. Copeland responsible for some if not most of those deaths.

I could go on but I have more important things do. Dr. Copeland seems by his actions and words (remember that I have never seen him in person) to not be especially bright and arrogant to boot. Such people rarely change and as long as they're getting away with their bad behavior why should they?

By the way I neglected to tell you that I sent my letter and documentation to the attorney general and governor. A copy of your dismissal letter and this response will also be sent to them. Whether they will do anything I have no idea and at this point don't particularly care.