From 15 January to about 28 March 2021 I was confined to the Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. During this time the physician responsible for my care was guilty of gross malpractice which resulted in my permanent disability.

As part of his treatment I was given (without my knowledge) a number of dangerous and injurious drugs, which the doctor was not qualified to prescribe. I was tied to a bed with wires for days and not administered physical therapy for weeks. This treatment left me permanently disabled and experiencing chronic pain. It was only after my family removed me from the facility over the strenuous objections of the management that I began to recover.

With one definite and perhaps two other exceptions the staff treated me in a most demeaning and dehumanizing manner. They stood outside the door of my room and laughed and joked about things I said while under the influence of a mix of psychotropic drugs which made hallucinate. One of them, a man, berated me when, too weak to move, I was unable to cooperate in changing my position on the bed, instead picking me up (he was big) and dropping me where he wanted me. I was left tied to the bed (wrists and ankles wired to the frame) totally naked and uncovered. My left arm was twisted in an unnatural position and - despite being only marginally conscious - I was vocalizing expressions of severe pain. When my sister came in and demanded they rectify the situation the nurse present at the time reluctantly did so, remarking that it was my fault because they "couldn't keep a diaper on him". The fact that they even complied with instructions to tie me hand and foot to a bed with wire (rather than actual purpose-made restraints) is disgraceful. I wore the same dirty gown for days at a time and had a nonfunctioning telemetry device (it was turned off most of the time and only one or two of the sensors were attached) hanging around my neck and constantly becoming tangled with a feeding tube that was only being used for administering medication.

That these people acted as they did does not surprise me, given their appearance. Uniforms were anything but uniform, there were rarely two that came close to matching, appearing to be a random collection of whatever parts were available. Most did not seem to be especially clean (but then neither was the environment) and neither did the wearers. Since the hospital is at present involved in a lawsuit (Jackson v. Arkansas Continued Care Hospital of Jonesboro LLC et al) apparently a wage and labor dispute it would seem that not only does the hospital employ low quality personnel but doesn't even pay them enough.

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