June 19, 2007 by SUM.

When I arrived on Wednesday at the Evergreen Medical Center for my appointment with Dr. P. I had to fill out at first some paperwork because this was my first consultation with him. I didn’t have to wait for a long time to see Dr. P.

Before I met with Dr. P. a male nurse took my measurements, pulse and heart beat. Dr. P. himself looked at my thumb and asked me right away whether it hurts. After I had told him that it doesn’t hurt, he said, “it’s dead“ and “it could be a fungus.” Thereafter he told me that the medication is expensive and can cost about $600.00 and asked me, what I think should be done. I thought his examination is quite strange. I mentioned that maybe something could be wrong with my blood, and he replied, “The blood is okay.” I was more stunned. I knew that I neither had been a patient of him before nor had he asked me when my blood had been tested the last time; and everybody knows that blood conditions can change rapidly. I also told him that one of my uncles had had cancer on his thumb, and he said to me that he had never heard of this.

I actually started to feel that his examination was lacking more than competency.

I requested that my nail should be tested for a fungus. He gave me a clear plastic bottle and told me to cut the dead nail after it had grown out and bring it back to his office for analysis.

When I left his office my worries were not erased. They actually persisted because of his poor treatment.

After I had left his office, I went to the Microsoft company store to buy some software for a neighbor. A neighbor had given me a package of biscottis on Tuesday, the day before I visited Dr. P.’s office. He said to me that he and his wife had made the biscottis, and he asked me whether I could get him two Microsoft programs from the company store. Since I’m a former Microsoft employee and a member of Microsoft Alumni, I can buy Microsoft software up to a certain limit. I can give the software to others, but I cannot make a profit of it. But I can get the money back I paid for the software. Therefore I bought some software for my neighbor with whom I thought I had a decent neighborly relationship.

On that day I bought the software, gave it to my neighbor and received from him the exact amount I had paid for the software. When I saw him, I showed him my thumb and told him that I wasn’t satisfied with the service I had received today from Dr. P. Therefore I asked him whether he could recommend a good dermatologist in this area. He told me that his whole family goes to a physician in Woodinville and promised to send me his name per email.

Later I talked to other people about my office visit with Dr. P. And they, too, thought that his examination didn’t seem right.

I pretty much decided after this consultation that I wanted to consult with another physician, a dermatologist.

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June 19, 2007 by SUM.

As I mentioned in post Crest Night Effects - Part XVI, I not only developed injuries shortly after undergoing some preventive medical procedures in Bellevue, I didn’t receive adequate treatment either, after consulting with several physicians in this area who supposed to examine the cause of these injuries.

I’ll shortly describe my experiences concerning this matter in chronological order, too.

At the beginning of November 2004 I consulted with Dr. F. from the Bellevue Women’s clinic. Since a mammogram was due, Dr. F. wrote a referral for it. She also recommended a bone density test. A bone density test helps to detect the early stages of osteoporosis (decreased density of normal bone). Therefore I received from her two referrals: mammogram and DEXA scan. Both medical procedures were done within a month (November and December 2004); twice I was exposed to medical machines using x-rays (radiation).

The mammogram was done in November, and the bone density test at the Overlake Hospital facilities on Wednesday, Dec 8th. Though I had to wait for the DEXA scan in section 260, for the actual medical checkup I was summoned to room 200, which was outside section 260. While I was waiting in section 260, I saw nobody inside this area leaving this section for being examined at another location. Every person before me was called to a room inside this section. No wonder that I felt a bit uneasy.

When I left section 260, two women greeted me. It appeared to me that one of the women spoke with an accent, and at some point I thought I heard them speak in a foreign language with each other. They both operated the machine while asking me some questions. They also asked me a few questions about my operation in 1976. I not only had almost died that year because of a physician’s negligence, in the same year one of my cousins lost his life in a very dramatic way.

After these two procedures Dr. F. notified me that both checkups hadn’t come up with any health problems.

But suddenly in middle of January 2005 I noticed that a third of the top of my nail from my left thumb had turned grayish-black. Since I hadn’t injured myself, I was stunned to see an almost black nail. Therefore I knew that something else must have caused the discoloration. And at that time I had no idea what could have been the cause of this injury. But I was worried because I remember my mother telling me that my uncle Alfons had had cancer on one of his thumb, and he had to undergo radiation treatment.

Immediately I made an appointment with a physician to have my thumb examined. I called a family physician, Dr. P. on Monday, 17th January and received an appointment at his practice on Wednesday the same week. Later I’ll describe my office visit with Dr. P. and other physicians in other posts.

Here I would like to mention that during the following months I developed other symptoms of radiation overexposure. And I’ll describe these experiences in more detail, too. Keep in mind I wasn’t undergoing any radiation therapy; I only had undergone some preventive medical procedures at the end of year 2004 (mammogram and bone density test).

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June 12, 2007 by SUM.

Last Friday I wrote fife lawyers in this area an email and informed them of my malpractice and product liability claim. Though I received an answer from two of the lawyers I had written, neither one of them is interested in helping me to pursue my claims. But one attorney gave me the name of another attorney to contact. I wrote this attorney an email message yesterday, too. In the next few weeks I’ll focus on contacting lawyers and pointing them to my website where they can get some essential info about my claims.

While I searched for attorneys in this area and reading articles about malpractice suits in the newspapers, I read the article “What the state didn’t know about doctor, malpractice suit” in the Seattle Times. Reading this article reminded me of my own malpractice encounters after consulting with physicians in the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond area. I not only got severely ill after some preventive medical procedures, I didn’t receive correct treatment either.

All this was very frightening, and I thought that I needed to report this at least to the Department of Health and an insurance company. Though I didn’t pursue any legal actions, I know I had to report the injury and mistreatment to someone who is responsible for overseeing the health care system. For me it was ‘the right thing to do.’ But after having read this article, I’m not sure anymore whether it was sufficient to report the incidents only to the Department of Health and an insurance company who didn’t investigate the case properly.

I’m coming to the conclusion that I should have taken legal steps in these cases, too. I’ll describe some of the malpractice incidents, in a chronological order as they happened, on this website, too, under the theme ‘malpractice.’

And I’ll keep you informed about my claims against the UW dental school and the company who manufactured Crest Night Effects and/or sold the product.

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May 22, 2007 by SUM.

As I have already mentioned in my last Crest Night Effects post I have to find a reliable lawyer who will support me in my pursuit of justice. Yesterday, I found the letter from Dr. G. in my files, which were, since moving my household last year, not properly filed yet.

After posting this article I’ll contact lawyers to find out what kind of possibilities I have in my pursuit of justice.

Dr. G. wrote her letter on June 3rd, 2005 and she mailed copies of her letter to two other physicians at the UW dental clinic. Her letter consisted of three pages and two copies of scientific papers on ‘dental erosion.’

Without going too much into her letter, I believe a lawyer needs to examine this letter more closely, I noticed a few errors in it. Here I would like to mention only two major errors. One major error was that she assumed that my diet and health history had been constant over the years, which is not the case. And the other major error was that she wrote in her letter that she had based her findings on a different product from Crest tooth whitening.

The product she referred to in her letter was also from the brand Crest, but it wasn’t the product that I had applied to my teeth in July 2004. She confused Crest Whitening Strips with Crest Night Effects, which is a totally different product.

During her examination she actually had not asked me for a sample of the product that I had applied to my teeth. She actually didn’t know the product that I had used and made an assessment that was faulty from the beginning.

As I have mentioned already in my previous posts I should never have been transferred to her. After I had read her letter, I couldn’t believe that I received such a letter from a physician working at the UW dental clinic. Her errors were obvious and her assessment based on the wrong facts. She ended her letter telling me that I could give her a call if I have questions.

Since I experienced a wrong transferal, a bogus examination, and a faulty assessment based on the wrong facts, I chose not to contact Dr. G. or any other UW dental clinic employee.

But the UW dental clinic kept on sending me the invoice that I refuse to pay. Reasons for not wanting to pay the invoice are described in this post and the previous ones.

For quite some time I received the invoice directly from the UW accounting center. Lately, I receive letters from a collection agency based in Tempe, AZ.

The amount of the bill has slightly increased, and it wouldn’t be a financial burden for me to pay it, but in my opinion it is not appropriate to pay a bill that has been wrong from the beginning.

So, here are the two matters I need to tackle with. I have to tackle with an incorrect invoice from the UW dental clinic send to collection and a company whose product has damaged my teeth.

After posting this article I’ll contact lawyers myself, but if you know of a reliable lawyer who works in the legal fields that I need help in, please forward this article to this person so that they can read it and decide whether they want to contact me.

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May 10, 2007 by SUM.

I have to keep on writing about this matter because I need a reliable lawyer who will support me in my pursuit of justice.

So far I’ve not been compensated for the pain and damage caused by this product. Additionally, the wrongful treatment at the UW, not to mention the suffering that I endured because of it, had as a result a bill from the UW dental clinic that I refuse to pay because of reasons outlined already in my previous posts.

I’m pretty much convinced now that someone instigated something against me and due to this person’s influence in this area others have partaken in it. What I’ve experienced here is not only unacceptable and corruptive, it is just plain wrong.

For a few years now I’m experiencing constantly some kind of deception, misinformation, and wrongful treatment when visiting physician offices. Therefore I’m writing about it publicly instead of just keeping it locked away in my private journal.

I didn’t receive an answer from the dean of the UW dental clinic, but I received a letter from Dr. G. who just repeated her conclusion, which she had told me already during her bogus examination. As soon I find her letter in my files I’ll write about it.

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May 2, 2007 by SUM.

In one of my earlier posts I wrote that I mailed a letter to the dean of the UW dental clinic on 16th May 2005. In the letter to the dean I stated the following reasons for my request to have the charge of $240.00 canceled.

1. Receiving an incorrect referral (which I didn’t know at that time) from the UW School of Dentistry to Dr. G. at the Oral Medicine Clinical Services on Feb 7, 2005.

2. Dr. G. didn’t use appropriate methods and technological equipment for the examination of my teeth for the reasons why I had contacted the UW School of Dentistry from the beginning.

3. Dr. G.’s reasons for the damage to my teeth were based not on scientific knowledge and the correct use of current technology, but on feelings.

I also wrote that I considered her physical examination and her conclusions neither scientific accurate nor appropriate for a research school.

Additionally, I added that it was not appropriate from Dr. G. to tell me that my perception was incorrect. Dr. G. had told me during the bogus examination that my teeth must have been damaged before I used Crest Night Effects. But I knew that my teeth had looked quite different before I applied Crest Night Effects on my lower anterior teeth.

I also wrote that I had visited a dentist office in Bellevue after I had consulted with Dr. G., and the dentist had confirmed that the damage to my teeth must have occurred after I had taken the x-rays in February 2004. Additionally, I mentioned that Dr. G. hadn’t followed-through with her words. Up to that time I had neither received a phone call nor a letter from her telling me whom else I could contact for further examinations at the UW dental clinic.

Now, two years later I’m writing about this case, after not receiving appropriate service and correct information. Over time it became obvious to me that Dr. G. had a hidden agenda. But she isn’t the only one and is involved in this matter, too. I’ll continue writing about this matter in other posts, but I like to mention here that this ordeal has additionally caused me harm not only financially, but in areas that I’ll confront later.

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April 23, 2007 by SUM.

After dentist Dr. C. had told me that less abrasion is noticeable on the x-rays taken in February 2004 than the ones he had taken, I called Dr. G. at the UW office. Up to that time I had neither received a phone call nor any written information from her.

I called her on Tuesday, 22nd March, and left the message with her answering service to let me know whom I could contact at the UW so that I could proceed with my Crest Night Effects case.

In the following weeks I received an invoice for $240.00 from the UW. I’m not sure when I received the invoice for the first time. I believe the invoice was dated on March 15th.

After not hearing anything back from Dr. G. and receiving an invoice that I found not only unjust for the actual service received but also for the misguided transferal, I decided to write the Dean of the UW dental school a letter to object the invoice.

I sent the letter to the UW dental clinic on 16th May 2005 per registered mail. In my next posts I’ll write about this letter and the letters I received thereafter from the UW dental clinic.

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April 19, 2007 by SUM.

Before I continue with the other bizarre incidents concerning the consultation at the UW dental clinic, I must correct one of my previous entries.

I visited the dentist’s office in Bellevue on 16th March and not a couple weeks before I consulted with Dr. G. at the UW dental clinic. I thought I had visited him a couple weeks before I consulted the UW dental clinic, but had only forgotten to write down my encounter with him in my journal. But I wrote it down when it actually did happen, which was on March 16th.

I had told the hygienist at Dr. C’s dental office that I had been in contact with the UW dental clinic because of the damage to my lower teeth. But as of this day I had not heard back from Dr. G. whom I had asked for a name of another dentist at the UW clinic who could carry out actual tests with the product Crest Night Effects.

Though Dr. G. had told me that she would call me back and let me know which other dentist I could consult within the UW dental clinic, I had neither received a phone call nor a letter from her.

Dr. C. who had made some x-rays of my frontal teeth on that day said to me after comparing the x-rays taken in February 2004 and the ones he had taken “I see some abrasion, but less what you have now.” And he added that I should go back to the UW dental clinic and consult with a dentist from the reconstructive department because he also thought that I had been set up with the wrong person.

Since I didn’t have an answering machine nor an answering service I wasn’t sure whether Dr. G. may have tried to call me to give me the contact name for another dentist who I could contact at the UW dental clinic. I neither received a phone call nor a letter from her up to this day.

I had canceled my answering service with my phone company because I have had no use for it at that time, but I had not replaced it with my own answering machine. But on that day I decided to go to Computer City and buy a simple answering machine so that someone could leave a message.

Irrespective of not having an answering machine the encounters at the UW dental clinic were bizarre and everything what followed thereafter. And I’ll write about this in my next posts.

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April 19, 2007 by SUM.

If you followed my description of the events that pertains to this case you’ll maybe get the feeling, too, that I was not only misinformed but also given inappropriate service or you’d think inadequate.

With time I felt that I was purposefully directed in a demeaning position where I was humiliated and mocked.

I found it also puzzling that nobody cared to take a look at the product itself. Nobody of the attorneys or dentists I had contacted asked me for a sample of this product.

But at the end of last year when I had my teeth cleaned at a dental office in Redmond, the hygienist who cleaned my teeth asked me to give her a sample after I had told her what had happened to my lower teeth. She said to me that she hadn’t seen this product and I handed her an application. I should have asked her what she wanted to do with the sample, but I didn’t at that moment. And I haven’t seen her since.

I had bought at Costco one package that included two packages and each contained 14 applications. Since I stopped using this product after I had noticed that it had damaged my teeth many are left over.

In my next posts concerning this matter I’ll continue writing about the other bizarre occurrences that followed after the consultation with Dr. G. at the UW dental clinic.

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April 13, 2007 by SUM.

Before Dr. G. started with her examination, we chatted a little bit about personal matters. She asked me in which area I was born in Germany, and she told me that her husband had gone to a German High-School in Marburg. I had visited Marburg a few times when I lived and studied in Giessen at the Justus-Liebig University.

After the initial chitchat she asked me a lot of questions, which pertained to the questions that I had already answered on the questionnaire. As I had stated previously I didn’t understand why I was compelled to answer questions about ‘pains for different aches.’ But that may have been her specialty. I just knew that I didn’t consult the UW dental clinic for being questioned about ‘pains for different aches.’ I always said to anyone I had met there that I needed to have the damage to my teeth examined and confirmed that Crest Night Effects had caused the damage.

I told her that I had my teeth examined and x-rayed at the LWTC a few months before I used Crest Night Effects. I gave her the info from Dr. R. from Vancouver and the time-frame when using Crest Night Effects. But I forgot to tell her that I had my teeth cleaned and partially x-rayed at a dental office in Bellevue a couple weeks before I consulted with the UW dental clinic.

I had visited the dentist office in Bellevue only one time and that was a couple weeks before I had my appointment at the UW dental clinic. When I visited this dental office, I had brought with me the x-rays from the LWTC. The dentist in Bellevue compared the x-rays taken on that day at his office to the ones taken last year at the LWTC, and he said to me that he sees a difference between the x-rays taken in February 2004 and January 2005. He also suggested that I consult with a physician at the UW dental clinic to examine the damage and cause to my teeth.

Dr. G. examination was mostly conducted in an oral way, but she looked briefly at my teeth and asked me to grind my teeth on blue tape so that she could determine my grinding pattern. After I had grinded my teeth and moved them forth and back in a very forceful way (actually overdoing the grinding) on the blue tape she took a picture of my teeth that were now covered with blue stains. Dr. G. didn’t inquire about any x-rays. She didn’t ask me whether my teeth had been recently x-rayed, she didn’t ask for the x-rays from the LWTC nor did she wanted to have my teeth x-rayed, again.

Her questions were focused solely on what I ate and drank. So, I told her about my eating and drinking habits, which are very healthy and are neither unusual nor damaging to my stomach. Afterwards she said that she felt that having stomach acid, eating a Vitamin C tablet every 4 hours (I chew three Vitamin C tablets a day), and the age had caused the damage.

After she had told me her reasoning for the damage to my teeth I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I had mentioned that I have had an esophagus reflux problem in the past, but that had been in 1996 and it wasn’t an issue anymore. After I had taken medication at that time and having changed my eating habits thereafter including not smoking anymore I didn’t have this problem anymore. But I told her that I had sometimes a little bit of stomach acid, which I was able to control with just taking one Tums tablet. And that was not a major problem because it didn’t happen often.

I found her reasoning unbelievable and everything what followed thereafter, too.

She also acted like that the damage had existed before I used Crest Night Effects. I told her that I wanted more tests done therefore I offered to be a guinea pig so that they do tests on my teeth while applying the Crest Night Effects under supervised conditions. Her reply was that she had to talk to someone who is more knowledgeable and she’d let me know. When I left her she told me that she’ll contact me and she asked for my phone number, which I gave her.

When we parted on that day, I told her that I didn’t accept her explanation and that I wanted a supervised test done. On my way out the desk clerk told me that they would bill my insurance company.

Afterwards I just knew that this had not been the right place to visit. I was very unsatisfied not only with this encounter, but with everything that followed thereafter. However, I had no idea what would follow. Therefore in my next posts I’ll describe the other events that are part of this case and are additionally very unpleasant and alarming.

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