Dr. Katherine Louise Maietta, MD

Your nurses advice was to expose myself to a virus possibly COVID19 and bring it into your building, I'd compare it to playing Russian rollet, especially now. There are classes available for medical staff specifically on how to deal with veteran patients with PTSD. It counts as college credit hours. I would be willing to pay for both you and your nurse to go. I cannot be the only injured veteran in your care. I believe I told you about the care we receive at the VA and why we seek care elsewhere. I'm sure as a civilian they react similar in high amounts of pain. I had told you it was worse than a broken bone which yes I have experienced. You were also paged twice for an emergency from Loyola hospital that day but you did not respond, I can only assume the nurse was in charge of those alerts and said nothing. It would be devastating to me to find out you knew but did not care. In the code of ethics you cannot chose to push a patient aside and not treat them for any biased reason… whatsoever not race religion political affiliation or if you personally do not like them. Why in all these years was there no problems whatsoever? All these years where I've told you horror story after story of suicide attempts not being able to go see Dr. Yang or a dentist without being medicated or completely unconscious or one by one more death more bodies added to the pile that I carry daily. I wish I had stayed or had a way back, things made sense. They don't now. The one standing by is a resident. There's a video on YouTube called America's Veteran Crisis: Abandoned At Home. It's exactly what happens and what has happened. Something should be done in hospitals and family practice on how to deal with veterans, how we react when threatened, in pain, or how when reaching for help in a severe situation and being abandoned triggers a certain response either violent or suicidal. 22 a day die. And anything can be a trigger. If that's not worth educating staff about PTSD in veterans I don't know what else is. I would rather be back with my brothers and sisters than where I am now. In a huge way I've never left.