McLean Hospital — Local services in Belmont

I am so disappointed This with this hospital and the treatment they did not give my husband who was crying out and begging for help. He was physically assaulted by another patient and they refuse to release his name so we can file criminal charges against the Individual also. He was placed for voluntary treatment and was actually happy since I have heard great things about this place. They placed him on a dual diagnosis floor where most of the individuals were there mainly for detoxing. He said he was happy with that and hiw he didn't have to suffer in any way from the detoxing. He continued to express how he had a very serve case of bipolar and wanted to be reevaluated for his medications and they told him they didn't do that it couldn't accommodate him there. I have been so disappointed with how the medical filed have been lately with trying to get him help. I have been with him fir 13 years and over the last 2 years I'm so disgusted because aren't these the places where they are suppose to help you and go when ur in a time of need. He told them numerous times he wasn't ready to come home and they continued to ignore his pleas for help. Henalso boxed for numerous years and has been experiencing issues with his head. He has recently told me that he feels something is seriouly wrong. We have asked that they also look into this by running test or telling us how to go about addressing these issues. I am not a doctor but i know him and i see how he is being affected and yhe changes. And i have been noticing things and behaviors that have never seen before. He also told them that and hownconcerned henwas and Just before they threw him out on the street he told them he was going to go into the bathroom and kill himself and the doctor said don't talk like that. When the first thing they should have done was to call 911 and get him some help if they didnt want to do there jobs. I expressed numerous times how we thoughtbwe were doing the right thing by asking for him before he had another mental breakdown and bipolar episode. And I told them they didn't want it to come to that because I have seen him when he does lose it and it's not a pretty sight. I was told one thing by the case worker and then my husband was informed differently. They offered him a bed to go to the phycatric unit but said we could not guarantee him a bed. Why couldn't they hold him on the unit he was in for the time being until a bed was available? Also he was offered to be able to go to the b other unit then a staff member told him it was an all female until so he was unable to be placed there. He is and was a liability and they turned there backs. Don't get me wrong I know he can be difficult but that's why we have these places and I'm sorry if you can't deal with it then change your job. It's not his fault he has this disorder. They were going to release him with mo medications and told hom they couldn't help provide a way home. Also why was he confined to his bedroom after the fight with the other patient. They didn't confined him to his room. When the argument started with the other patient staff was all standing there present and witness him give my husband a right hook and they called security who then stormed and surrounded my husband who did y raise a hand to the other patient. He threw his coffee at thin after he was assaulted. I have been by this man's side for 13 years so I'm well aware of his disorder and it is vert severe I have to usually battle with the doctors due to the high doses of his medications but when he is properly placed on them they work. He is able to function to the best of his ability and lead anormal life. So now we have to start over again and from the beginning since they didn't want to do there jobs the right way. Every case is different butnfor once I wish someone w I understand...

McLeans is in the business of deliberately crippling people. What they do is about as sick and evil as it gets. They held me prisoner and tortured me for four days all based on the word of my recently jilted ex-girlfriend.

I was with my girlfriend for almost nineteen years, and we owned a house together. When I discovered she was having an affair, I ended the relationship. She and her lover called the police and told them that I had been to see a psychiatrist, and that the paperwork for my commitment was on the way. There was no psychiatrist, and there was no paperwork. At the time I was fully employed, with no criminal record and no history of mental illness.

On the word of my ex and her man hating therapist, Aurelia Palubeckas, McLeans labelled me as a delusional psychotic. I begged them to call my witnesses and they refused. They knew perfectly well what they were doing. They were creating a record for my ex to use in the fight over the house. Alton Williams, the psychiatrist who admitted me, went on to teach a course in how to use mental health records in civil litigation.

The staff at McLeans perform what they call “checks” where they peer in on you every fifteen minutes. It in itself is a form of torture, but they also make enough noise when they do it to be sure that you do not sleep.

The quid pro quo at McLeans is well known. If you take your drugs, you get to sleep, and if you do not, you get awakened every fifteen minutes. They wanted me to take Zyprexa, which kills brain cells. Zyprexa leaves it victims wandering around in haze while their brain tries to compensate for the damage.

Fernando Rodriguez-Villa, the sadist supervising me, also ordered me to submit to daily blood tests. The blood they took was never tested, they did it for the psychological effect of turning me black and blue.

Dr. Villa refused to tell me when I would be released. On the day I was released he came into my room and told me that I would not be released until I told him what was going on. I sat there silently until he left.

A short time later Djana Paper, the attractive social worker on my case, came in. She sat down on the bed next to me, leaned back and pushed her breasts out. She said she wanted to help me. Sleep deprivation torture makes you desperate to reach out to anyone who will listen, and I told her about the abusive relationship I had fled. She said, “You must be really angry.” I said, “I guess so.” She said, “You must really want to hurt her.” I sat there silently until she left.

When I got home, I looked at the needle marks on my arms and collapsed on the floor of my kitchen sobbing. Over the next six years I spent a lot of time curled up in a fetal position on the floor.

McLeans collected $1,500.00 a day from my health insurance, by claiming that my signature was on file to authorize the payment. My signature was not on file to authorize the payment, and when I learned about the deception I told them so. They collected anyway. It is a criminal offense to make a knowingly false statement in an application for insurance benefits, under M.G.L. c. 175H, but that did not stop them. The doctor who committed the insurance fraud was Joe B. Flores.

McLeans gets away with it by crippling their victims so badly that they do not recover in time to sue. I was the first one of their victims to ever file suit.

I filed my complaint six years later, when I had recovered enough to deal with the horror of it; after the statute of limitations had passed. Their vicious attorney, James Hamrock, retaliated with a motion to have my professional licenses pulled, armed with the finding that I was a delusional psychotic. Eventually my claim was dismissed on statute of limitations grounds.

These people are predatory monsters. If you care about someone, send them...

I partook in a weight loss study trial about 10 years ago. It was run by their star resident,Dr. Harrison Pope. Now at the start, things were pretty standard. Had the usual routine visits with tests and then I eventually started taking the study drug.

It wasn’t until about halfway through this study where I began to get manic. Now before this, I had issues of mood and anxiety. So perhaps this exacerbated it. However, I was not informed exactly what this drug was. It was a double blind study. And I did understand that to begin with. But I didn’t know just how bad it would get.

This drug unlocked dormant bipolar disorder that I had been dealing with most of my young life without realizing. It turned me into a hypo manic mess. They tried to bring me off with a drug regiment. But I didn’t trust them and didn’t take anything else. Again I take responsibility for that part. But when you realize you’re taking amphetamines more or less, you doubt anything else doctors throw at you.

I got wrapped up in myself. Had verbal spars with people in public. Was way too much around my friends. I turned into a lunatic. Never had this before said drug. This was the catalyst that changed my brain chemistry forever.

I lost myself at that point and was pressured into voluntary admission to a psych ward. Ofc not at their hospital. This was due to them realizing the liability of said trial and how just not informed I was of it. It was a sneaky move. But I caught on that later.

Pope ofc being the renowned doctor he was couldn’t have any blemish on his perfect record. He didn’t care. He was covering his own a**. Along with his snarky intern that always spoke to me like I was five.

I ended up in Melrose Wakefield hospital for one week and couldn’t leave sooner because it was a holiday. Absolutely a joke. Three days there was more than enough. Prison it was. Thankfully I got out more or less with my wits intact.

During this time I lost myself completely. Lost friends, prospects of work and most of all, a bit of my soul.

I saw the cruelty and weaponized incompetences that is the American Health Care System and I’ve had nothing to do with it ever since. I will not put my trust in any doctor ever again. Permanent CPTSD that has not healed and me dealing with mood swings for the rest of my life. But good ole Pope gets to keep his 7 figure salary and retire competently. The Pharma company I’m sure had no issues from this either.

The only solace is that my case prevented another poison pill from entering the market. So many still remain and do not help anyone except cause liver and heart damage.

I don’t wake up In a cold sweat thinking about this these days. I’ve taken steps to heal and be a stable as I can be. But the scars are there.

And I suggest strongly you stay far away from this Institution. It is frankly a mental asylum that has some nice buildings. Just evil.

Thankfully I am and will live a better life. But I lost at least five years of personal growth from this place. And I’ll never forgive anyone who was involved. You’re all evil.

Perhaps with recent events, it’s time people really took action against these folks and most of all, don’t be afraid to speak up.

You’re lucky I didn’t have the voice I have now. Because you would’ve gotten the biggest lawsuit...