Afterword

I described the use of helpless patients to extract large sums of money from insurance companies (and Medicare as most patients are elderly) as a form of human trafficking. There is another insidious aspect, and more evil. That is the infliction of psychotropic drugs on people without regard for the damage they do even if - especially if - they are used on people who have some mental instability.

My experience is that under the influence of these drugs a person may behave in a seemingly normal manner without being at all aware of their actions. I was told that during I was often awake and talking with visitors and hospital staff, eating and drinking and talking about a program on the television. I have no memory of any of it.

I used to wonder about the numerous 'mass shootings' that occur so often, particularly the ones by school-aged children. I long suspected a link to the drugs. In fact I have examined dozens of them and have found only a couple in which the perpetrators were not verifiably using prescribed psychotropic medications, in almost every case multiple drugs simultaneously. I also have observed that representatives of the Medical Industry vigorously deny a connection.

Of course they do.

Recently a young nurse in Massachusetts killed her three young children and then jumped out a second-floor window of her house, nearly killing and permanently crippling herself. She had never before given any indication of aberrant behavior or mental illness, beause there had not been any. She trusted the Medical Industry and took drugs prescribed by a doctor who was presumed to be competent to diagnose and treat her. Her lawyer described the drug cocktail she was using, it contained all of the ones used on me and several others. Given the well-documented circumstances I have no doubt at all that she was completely unaware of her actions. Three children dead and a mother crippled - physically and mentally - for life because of a doctor who, like the doctor at Hospital C, not only should not be practicing medicine but should be in prison.

Some years back a friend experienced an eventually fatal interaction with the Medical Industry. A bright and beautiful young woman in her twenties, born to wealth and privilege but never let it go to her head - kind and courteous to all regardless of their station in life. For reasons I never knew - we weren't that close - she began to see a shrink. He prescribed various medications and she experienced periods of stable behavior punctuated by occasional commitments to a mental hospital. The last time I saw her she was in her early thirties and was taking more than a dozen medications. Our paths diverged and I saw her less often and eventually not at all for months at a time. One day I saw her obituary. Dead at 53. I later learned that there was some question as to whether it was suicide or accidental overdose but I know why she died. She died because she trusted the doctors and there is no one to hold the Medical Industry accountable. The Medical Industry has much to answer for. As do those who cover up the crimes and profit from them.