Funeral

November 17th 2017 12:59pm.

Today is November 17th 2017, and this morning we laid my grandma to rest. I am very hurt by this, but I wanted to let everyone know that we are seeking justice for her. My family is under the impression that my grandma’s life was prematurely taken because of neglect on part of her doctor and my aunt and my mom have already taken the steps to file a lawsuit accusing Dr. McGuire of negligence. Now I know this might seem drastic, but based on some information we know we believe this is the best thing to do. While this will not bring my grandma back, or heal the pain that was caused, it might protect someone else’s relative from the same fate. Now here is why we think it was negligence.

1. if you go back few posts you will see that I mentioned a doctor telling my grandma that her valve was badly calcified, just a few months after Dr. McGuire said her valve looked amazing. (Severe calcification does not occur in a matter of months, meaning that Dr. McGuire was dishonest with his report).Why did he not catch this?
2. The first time my grandma went to the hospital and Dr. McGuire said he already saw the poor report from the doctors, and ordered another echo scan for her he also told us he would recommend her for Silver Spring Hospital Center to see if she was a candidate for TAVR and he never did. Why did he not follow up? Also when we told him that she was having symptoms of shortness of breath why did he not get the process for TAVR started if he knew it would take a long time? Why did he take so long to even reccommend this treatment?
3. My grandma was diagnosed in the hospital with multiple organ failure, but this was something that was new to us (aside from her primary care doctor telling us a few days before that she had kidney failure). If Dr. McGuire did blood tests and urinalyses on her everytime he saw her why did he not catch this?
4. My grandma died from Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis and this was a diagnosis that Dr. McGuire NEVER made, it was made by a doctor at Olney Hospital. Why did he not make this diagnosis?
5. In the final days of my grandmas life she lost her appetite and was in so much pain that the doctors had to put her own morphine. She was in such agonizing pain because of multiple organ failure, which Dr. McGuire did not catch, but her doctor at the hospital Dr. Sandy told us was related to her heart condition. Why was this something that Dr. McGuire did not pick up on?

A pattern that can be seen with Dr. McGuire is a series of missteps that lead to my grandmother’s death. I am not one to play the race card, but Dr. McGuire was a white male doctor dealing with a black patient and the black family of the patient. I am not calling him racist, but the medical industrial complex has been known to treat black patients less fairly leading to thousands of preventable deaths of black men and women. I personally believe my grandma was a victim of this. I am really struggling to understand how this happened to our family, I honestly never imagined this happening to us. I thought this only happened in movies or in article we read in school. I am really shocked. I guess it doesn’t matter how educated you are, how much money you have, or how good your insurance is, racism seems to transcend all of that.