Karie M Pennington

I had some issues with Missouri Baptist Medical Hospital at the end of my mother's life. My mother was terminal and had undergone some very dangerous, and ultimately futile heart surgeries when she was already terminal from end stage COPD. After the surgeries the hospital put her through a month of... terrible procedures that prolonged her suffering needlessly. The time came to put an end to her suffering. This process was long and difficult, to put it mildly, and in the end the hospital really started to give me problems and make the decision bestowed on me much harder than it already was. I was near a breaking point holding the family together through this process, while having to be the primary decision maker, and having the doctors hound me about worrying about their own liability issues. The doctors kept trying to drag the process out, and it was putting an enormous amount of stress on me and my family as they were not respecting our decision. Karie came to my rescue. She put the doctors and those causing me grief in their place with one phone call, and that allowed me to spend my final day with my mom and family in peace. Words can't express how much this meant to me. Lawyers get a bad wrap as being dishonest and only caring about their bottom line. I can assure you 100% that Karie is not like that at all. I have known her since 2001 and if you ever need a compassionate, passionate, caring human being to handle your legal needs, she is the one. This goes way beyond a recommendation. This comes from my heart and soul. Thank you Karie for being there for me when I needed it the most.