Melissa Jane Long

Monday, September 16, 2024 Dear Melissa J. Long, ...Looking for a Malpractice Plaintiffs' attorney in Huntsville who's not already in the pocket of some local doctor...Can anyone help...PLEEEZE !!!... ...Was scheduled for a crucial biopsy to determine if the adipose layer over my mesente...ric artery had in fact developed into a carcinoid. On the very morning of the scheduled biopsy, the surgeon (Dr. Siripurapu), apparently found a note from Dr. Green (Heart Center) in my chart suggesting I not have any surgery until after she "clears me"...At the last minute, Dr. Siripurapu bowed out...I never got the biopsy. Dr. Green (a heart specialist) was a new doctor to me whom I saw only one time; her tech gave me an EKG, and Dr. Green ordered a Pet scan. She had determined that I may have a blocked artery and told me over the phone that she wanted to do an angioplasty. I looked into the risk potential...It seemed to me that an angioplasty was at least as invasive as the abdominal biopsy I had been scheduled for. (And, as my record will show, I've had several general anesthesia procedures over the last several years without a whimper of difficulty.) Dr. Green "discharged me" (after sabotaging my biopsy) for being "rude" on the phone...Fine...So now what am I supposed to do about my potential carcinoid? Wait until it metastasizes? My entire family is a "poster child for cancer"...so declared Dr. Makemson to my mother some 12 years ago. My brother died, age 20, 1978, astrocytoma. My father died in '84, multiple myeloma. My mother, now deceased, had basal cell carcinoma. On her face. My sister has had the same, and recently had surgery for this, for the third time, in the same location. On her face. Below her eye... So, yes, I've been waiting for the shoe to drop. Please understand the picture here : Dr. Green effectively sabotaged a very crucial biopsy that was to detect whether or not I had cancer, then discharged me for being "rude" to her, and left me hanging...Perhaps the "rude" part had something to do with my telling her that doctors are "Merchants of Death"...I don't know...Gee...Shame on me. (When I met her, Dr. Green made some really bizarre attempt at neurolinguistic patterning: Shaking my hand & staring into my eyes for an unusually extended time...Wait...Here's the punchline : She made the same motions twice, within about a 10/15 second period...The very same motion...Really strange !)... Meanwhile, while Dr. Green is playing the NLP game, I could very well have a serious carcinoid issue that, if I wait too long, could metastasize. My whole family has had more than our share of medical incompetence, here in Alabama, and my sister is barely hanging in there... And I'm still waiting for the shoe to drop. ~ James Ballard