March 30, 2011 @ 12:30 p.m.
There is no code intended in what I write on this page today.
I would appreciate it if everyone who reads here or who takes an interest, whether malign or benign, in my life would take as much care as possible to be respectful of the privacy of the other people who reside where I am now living. They didn't ask for me to be there.
A few weeks after I got to the Vermont State Hospital, I started reading my chart. I kept seeing one date in particular associated with faxes from the Howard Center in Burlington: 10/20/10. I finally looked through the records sent to VSH from the Howard Center and found that on 10/20/10, without my knowledge, my parents had gone to speak in person with Dr. Sandra Steingard, the medical director of the Howard Center. Here's what Dr. Steingard's report of that visit said:
Howard Center--Physician's Progress Note
# -- 017839-01
Activity -- note to chart
Date -- 10/20/10
Page 1) I met with this patient's parents to discuss her current symptoms and to answer some questions regarding treatment options. I have not treated this patient since 2005 but I did not have permission to discuss her care with them and I told them I was still bound by confidentiality.
Page 2) Patient lives with her parents. She currently exhibits many symptoms of psychosis. She believes that she gets messages from newspapers that are written in code. She has the belief that her ideas were stolen and used in the TV show "Friday Night Lights." She is at times extremely aggressive towards her parents although she has not assaulted them. She has called many of their friends and told them that her parents are abusing her. She has also had visits from the police due to her excessive and hostile phone calls to others. She had a no trespass order for Colchester High School after she had called repeatedly to complain about their curriculum. Mother was also Approached by a local newspaper reported who said she had gotten calls from her home phone number and a woman has told her "I will ruin you."
Page 3) Patient had been in treatment with a psychologist who stopped treatment because the patient would not accept that she was psychotic. The patient is extremely hostile to her parents if they broach the subject of treatment. Parents are divided on the subject of involuntary treatment. Father will not consider applying for guardianship. Both parents have parents who committed suicide and this has an influence on their attitude towards their child and her treatment bit it seems to have impacted on the in different ways.
Page 4) We discussed treatment options. I suggested that when the patient is extremely agitated that they cal crisis for an outreach. I also suggested that begin a conversation with their daughter about acceptable behavior in their home.
Page 5) I am writing this note to alert other clinicians as to the current status in the event that we have contact with her in the future.
sig: Sandra Steingard, MD # 3631
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March 30, 2011
I've left the typos as they were printed in the typed copy of Dr. Steingard's report that had been faxed over to VSH.
I don't know how much more time I have on this computer; somewhere between another few minutes and a half hour.
The only thing in all of the above that I had ever talked to my parents about AT ALL was the show Friday Night Lights. I had only talked to them about it once, about 3 years ago. I had given them some of my scripts to read, and then I'd taken the scripts back and we'd never discussed it.
Everything else that my parents told Dr. Steingard was information that they got from my blog and also from the fact that Judy Kearns, who runs the South Burlington Community Newspaper called "The Other Paper," had been the woman to approach my mother about a message I had left Ms. Kearns. I only called Ms. Kearns a couple of times, and one time was to tell her "If you keep abusing those children and teenagers in the newspaper, I will call their parents and I will ruin you." I meant I'd ruin her reputation; perhaps the language I used was intemperate.
There is no code intended in what I write on this page today.
I would appreciate it if everyone who reads here or who takes an interest, whether malign or benign, in my life would take as much care as possible to be respectful of the privacy of the other people who reside where I am now living. They didn't ask for me to be there.
A few weeks after I got to the Vermont State Hospital, I started reading my chart. I kept seeing one date in particular associated with faxes from the Howard Center in Burlington: 10/20/10. I finally looked through the records sent to VSH from the Howard Center and found that on 10/20/10, without my knowledge, my parents had gone to speak in person with Dr. Sandra Steingard, the medical director of the Howard Center. Here's what Dr. Steingard's report of that visit said:
Howard Center--Physician's Progress Note
# -- 017839-01
Activity -- note to chart
Date -- 10/20/10
Page 1) I met with this patient's parents to discuss her current symptoms and to answer some questions regarding treatment options. I have not treated this patient since 2005 but I did not have permission to discuss her care with them and I told them I was still bound by confidentiality.
Page 2) Patient lives with her parents. She currently exhibits many symptoms of psychosis. She believes that she gets messages from newspapers that are written in code. She has the belief that her ideas were stolen and used in the TV show "Friday Night Lights." She is at times extremely aggressive towards her parents although she has not assaulted them. She has called many of their friends and told them that her parents are abusing her. She has also had visits from the police due to her excessive and hostile phone calls to others. She had a no trespass order for Colchester High School after she had called repeatedly to complain about their curriculum. Mother was also Approached by a local newspaper reported who said she had gotten calls from her home phone number and a woman has told her "I will ruin you."
Page 3) Patient had been in treatment with a psychologist who stopped treatment because the patient would not accept that she was psychotic. The patient is extremely hostile to her parents if they broach the subject of treatment. Parents are divided on the subject of involuntary treatment. Father will not consider applying for guardianship. Both parents have parents who committed suicide and this has an influence on their attitude towards their child and her treatment bit it seems to have impacted on the in different ways.
Page 4) We discussed treatment options. I suggested that when the patient is extremely agitated that they cal crisis for an outreach. I also suggested that begin a conversation with their daughter about acceptable behavior in their home.
Page 5) I am writing this note to alert other clinicians as to the current status in the event that we have contact with her in the future.
sig: Sandra Steingard, MD # 3631
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March 30, 2011
I've left the typos as they were printed in the typed copy of Dr. Steingard's report that had been faxed over to VSH.
I don't know how much more time I have on this computer; somewhere between another few minutes and a half hour.
The only thing in all of the above that I had ever talked to my parents about AT ALL was the show Friday Night Lights. I had only talked to them about it once, about 3 years ago. I had given them some of my scripts to read, and then I'd taken the scripts back and we'd never discussed it.
Everything else that my parents told Dr. Steingard was information that they got from my blog and also from the fact that Judy Kearns, who runs the South Burlington Community Newspaper called "The Other Paper," had been the woman to approach my mother about a message I had left Ms. Kearns. I only called Ms. Kearns a couple of times, and one time was to tell her "If you keep abusing those children and teenagers in the newspaper, I will call their parents and I will ruin you." I meant I'd ruin her reputation; perhaps the language I used was intemperate.