As I observed earlier, errors by the first two hospitals (AMMC and SBMRC) created the situation in which I found myself. That is another matter. Responsibility for this matter rests entirely on ACCH and Dr. Copeland.

On 15 December 2020 I was, except for a blocked blood vessel, healthier than average for a person of my age. On the morning of 15 December the first thing I did was 100 pushups, something I repeated later in the day on most days. This was a daily activity. I walked over a mile most days, weather permitting. I worked in an office building where my duties required me to go up and down the stairs a minimum of a dozen times a day. On weekends I did manual labor on my rural property, for more than eight hours a day.

My work required me to maintain the information technology infrastructure (which I built) for which my employer depended on for an annual revenue of millions of dollars. Today, if my physical condition allowed, I could return and resume my work with little difficulty. I would in fact still be employed there if I had not been necessary for them to end my employment due the need to replace me after an absence of more than three months.

To demonstrate that the diagnosis at St. Bernards was in error, I can today sit at a computer and write code with the same ease that I could before, albeit with considerable difficulty in typing. Within a few months of my discharge from the hospital I had updated my computers to the current development environment I had been working with and was again able to write complex code. I can build a website and write a a JavaScript library, MySQL database, and a PHP class to manage it, as fast as I can type. Unfortunately my ability to type is severely compromised. When I was in high school I could type 50 words per minute on a manual typewriter. Now even operating a computer is a laborious task because of the impairment of my physical functions by the drugs administered to me by a doctor who should not be practicing medicine. Sadly, he has more than likely done considerable damage to others in the nearly two years it has taken me to recover as much of my health as I have.

About six months after my release I for the first time attempted to do pushups again. On the first day I was unsuccessful, the next day managed one. Today, about a year later, I can do thirty. Once a day. It has taken that long to rebuild my body to this degree. WITH NO MEDICAL TREATMENT WHATSOEVER. The only damage is to my nervous system and some difficulty in retaining recent memories.

Do you understand that? Had I remained in that hospital, subjected to the treatment that Dr. Copeland obviously had no intention of changing, I would be at best in a vegetative state or more likely dead. The only difference between my being dead and being alive and nearly normally functional is ESCAPING FROM THE CLUTCHES of Dr. Copeland and the hospital. My recovery, to the present extent, is due solely to NOT BEING UNDER THE 'CARE' of Dr. Copeland.

Dr. Copeland and the hospital were entrusted with the routine and relatively simple task of overseeing the recovery of a patient from an injury, and instead left that patient permanently unable not only to work but to care for himself.

Whatever the negligence of misconduct of the other hospitals, Dr. Copeland should have made an effort to ascertain my condition before doing anything other than what was necessary to keep me alive in in good physical health. Obviously he did not. He should have consulted a doctor with proper education and experience if he was unsure of his diagnosis or actions needed to preserve and restore my health. He failed to observe even minimal principles of prudence and caution.