DNR pressure or shenanigans

Pressured to sign DNR. Ignored or falsified DNR.

251 documented testimony clips

These testimony clips are drawn from interviews conducted by CHBMP with families and survivors. Each clip stands as evidence and remembrance. We share them to honor those who came forward, to seek accountability, and to ensure these experiences are never forgotten.

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“"my husband would say, budesonine every four hours, one milligram of budesonine every four hours won't hurt her... Ivermectin won't hurt her. No. But it won't work... They did give me one round of remdesivir that I did not want... they had me listed as a DNR the whole time I was there as a DNR... we were quite clear that that was not the case.”
From the testimony of Gail Seiler
DeteriorationEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsExperimental DrugsFamily Decision ExclusionNo Informed ConsentPatient Rights ViolatedProtocol Driven CareRemdesivir Use
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“"As soon as he was put on vent, palliative care started coming in and bothering us. We even said we do not want palliative care. They continued to come in and started suggesting that we do a DNR to protect his good heart as they were wanting to harvest when this was all done. Again, we kept telling them we do not want palliative care. They continued. Every every day, somebody would come in acting all caring and trying to push for a DNR. Later several weeks later, a doc different doctors would walk in and say, he sure is a tough old guy. Meaning, what was taking so long for him to die?... Because Scott and White is a teaching hospital, They were experimenting and just trying to make excellent insurance, and I don't know what else to add.”
From the testimony of Sammie Hosch
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“"Every every day, somebody would come in acting all caring and trying to push for a DNR... meaning, what was taking so long for him to die? And he was tough. He was he was a healthy man...”
From the testimony of Sammie Hosch
Denied AlternativesEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionForced Palliative CarePatient Rights ViolatedProtocol Driven Care
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“"They continued to come in and started suggesting that we do a DNR to protect his good heart as they were wanting to to harvest when this was all done. Again, we kept telling them we do not want palliative care... I believe that Because Scott and White is a teaching hospital, they were experimenting and just trying to make excellent insurance...”
From the testimony of Sammie Hosch
Denied AlternativesEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsExperimental DrugsFamily Decision ExclusionFinancial IncentivesForced Palliative CareInsurance ImpactPatient Rights ViolatedProtocol Driven Care
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“"And instead, eventually, your organs are gonna begin to shut down when you're on heavy drugs like that for that long. ... And I think they were planning to do that the next day.”
From the testimony of Ed Hodges
DeathDenied AlternativesDeteriorationForced Palliative CareNegligence ClaimsPatient Rights ViolatedSuffering Accounts
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“"He had, signed a a do not resuscitate order, which at that point would, you know, have been completely useless to try to resuscitate him. I'm very grateful that I got to spend about an hour or so, hour and a half maybe at the most, with him. And I was with him holding his hand, talking to him when he passed. And, I could not shake this horrible guilt feeling that I brought him there. You know, I picked that hospital. Maybe a different hospital would have been better at at one point before he was, on a ventilator, he asked me to look into whether he could go to a different hospital because he was so unhappy there. And, they told me they wouldn't they said they wouldn't release him, and they said no other hospital would accept him in the condition that he was in. So there was no way that he could go to another hospital.”
From the testimony of Ed Hodges
DeathDenied AlternativesEmotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedProtocol Driven CareVentilator Use
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“"they had taken me into a room and asked me to sign a DNR, and I said absolutely not.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
Denied AlternativesEthical ComplaintsForced Palliative CareNo Informed ConsentPatient Rights Violated
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“"And I forgot to mention a few weeks prior to this, they had taken me into a room and asked me to sign a DNR, and I said absolutely not. Absolutely not. And they told me that if they tried to resuscitate him, that they would break his ribs and that it would be disastrous.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
Denied AlternativesEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights Violated
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“"the doctor said that, you know, his lungs were collapsed and his heart kept stopping. And so we felt like that he didn't want to be, you know and he already had the DNR. They just did not honor it. And I feel like that was for money. I I truly do. I I know that sounds awful, but they knew what his wishes were.”
From the testimony of Jim Thiehoff
Ethical ComplaintsFinancial IncentivesPatient Rights Violated
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“"And until you can sit with both of those facts, you really cannot understand what has happened through this hospital homicide.”
From the testimony of Carolyn Carroll
DeathEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionLegal ActionsPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological ImpactSuffering Accounts
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“"So Baylor's trying to cover this. This. Baylor's trying to cover this up. They're still up to the same shenanigans.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
Advocacy EffortsDenied AlternativesEthical ComplaintsLegal ActionsPatient Rights ViolatedVaccine Mandate Impacts
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“"I can't quite you know, I mean, they're lying. You you can't say someone doesn't have a fever in their septus and they're dying. ... my husband did not have a DNR, so why weren't you doing everything possible to save him?”
From the testimony of Michael E. Pilgrim
DeathEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionNegligence ClaimsPatient Rights Violated
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“"They asked me about a DNR, and I said I didn't think he had one... they resuscitated him, and I'm thinking, apparently, he wanted to go. They should have left him, but I guess that's what the DNR is about.”
From the testimony of Ricky Patterson
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“"So we signed no vents, no DNR. Well, we decided to go home.”
From the testimony of Sheryl Ann Contreras
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“"I'm like I said, first of all, why'd you put him on a ventilator? He signed to do not vent. Well, we didn't find that in his file. I said, it should be. We've signed it at your hospital.”
From the testimony of Sheryl Ann Contreras
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“"I told the doctor specifically this was a result of the COVID nineteen, vaccine, the Pfizer vaccine that he had. And the doctor did not wanna hear it. He said he must have tried to swallow a pill, and, he must be suicidal. And I said he's absolutely not suicidal... we had a DNR on him... and that was something that I know Dan did not ever wanna be on a ventilator, but he was already on a ventilator.”
From the testimony of Daniel Van Ackeren
Communication FailuresDeathDenied Vaccine Injury CareEmotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionNo Informed ConsentPatient Rights Violated
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“"The doctor tried to persuade us to persuade Claire to be intubated, and then, they started giving him that medication... I said to him no. We agreed that we would not do that.”
From the testimony of Clare Wiersma
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“"basically, she was bullying me, and I said no. I refused. I was not gonna change him to a DNR. And she said, fine. If you won't change him to a DNR, if your husband has a cardiac arrest, I'm not doing CPR on him even though he is a full code. I said, you can't do that. It's in my husband's chart. He's a full code. This is these are his wishes. She goes, I'm not gonna do it.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
Communication FailuresEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological Impact
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“"And she and then for the next twenty five minutes, she tried to bully me into changing my husband's directive. He was a full code. She tried to get me to change him to a do not resuscitate... I said no. I said he was very specific that he wanted life saving measures, and that includes CPR, and he's a full code... and those two doctors convinced my husband that he should let them consider the ventilator, as a last resort... They basically scared my husband and bullied my husband because when he went in there, he didn't wanna be on a ventilator. And they made him agree.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
Denied AlternativesEthical ComplaintsForced Palliative CarePatient Rights Violated
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“"But they never gave him anything to eat? Nope. Or as long as you know the whole put in. They sent food in and set and the food went right back out because he wouldn't eat. And they kept telling me he needs to eat, and I'm like, how how can I make him eat? Like, look at him. He's, like, sleeping or with the I mean, I couldn't even get him to eat. I mean, I would try and bring food from home, try and bring things that I knew he'd like. No. He wouldn't eat at all. And I kept saying every day I'd say, he's not eating. He's not eating. And they go, well, he needs to eat. He needs to eat. And I'm like, I can't make him eat. Like, I can't They didn't do anything about it. No. They didn't do anything about it till the an internal medicine lady said he needed a feeding tube. And then she she more than likely, she saw he was a DNR, so never pursued it. I don't I mean, that's just my speculation. But, then I went to the patient concierge and said, you know, nobody's listening to me. And then the next day, they put the feeding tube in, and he had improved the night. I think a little too little too late.”
From the testimony of Reynolds W. Grant, Jr.
Communication FailuresDeteriorationEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionNegligence ClaimsPatient Rights ViolatedSuffering Accounts
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“"And at that point, my son heard the nurse say, talking to another nurse say, well, he's a DNR. And my son turned to me and goes, did you make him a DNR? I said, hundred percent no. No. I'd never, never said that. I never signed anything. I never ever wanted a DNR. [...] And after my son and I talked, that's what we said. I mean, that was their opinion that he was not going to get better. He was in a tremendous amount of pain, and comfort care was our only choice. And so that's what we ended up having to do.”
From the testimony of Reynolds W. Grant, Jr.
Denied AlternativesEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionForced Palliative CarePatient Rights Violated
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“"They oh, that same morning, they said your mom signed a DNR. And she didn't. She was out of it. So she was a DNR, and then they had made us sign a, agreed that she's a DNR for them to release her out of the hospital. We were forced to sign it so so that we could get her to get out of there.”
From the testimony of Mary Brion
Ethical ComplaintsNo Informed ConsentPatient Rights Violated
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“"They told me if I did not agree to the possibility of him going on a ventilator, then they would just take him out of ICU and put him in an on another floor. And I didn't I didn't feel like he was gonna get much care on the other floor. So, I did agree to that, in the case that he should need it.”
From the testimony of Hunter Harms
Denied AlternativesFamily Decision ExclusionForced Palliative CarePatient Rights ViolatedVentilator Use
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“"They they said they wanted me to do a DNR on him, and I didn't wanna do that. But they they said that that would be the best thing. They they just said that was part somewhat of the protocol going on palliative care. So I did agree to that, but it was reluctantly.”
From the testimony of Hunter Harms
Emotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionForced Palliative CareNo Informed ConsentPatient Rights Violated
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