The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Hospital mistakes kept secret

By Alan Judd, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 5:00 a.m. Sunday, November 20, 2011


http://www.ajc.com/news/hospital-mistakes-kept-secret-1233859.html



Vino Wong, vwong@ajc.com

Georgia has tightened the secrecy surrounding some of the worst mistakes that occur in hospitals: patient suicides, sexual assaults and surgical errors.


The short, troubled life of Matthew Reese ended in what should have been a safe haven: the psychiatric hospital treating him for depression.

Reese, 27, was transsexual and preferred his identity as a woman: Sonya Michelle. As a man, he served prison time in his late teens after molesting a younger boy. By the time he entered SummitRidge Hospital in Lawrenceville, friends say, he was intent on taking his own life, and on Sept. 24 he hanged himself with a sheet from his hospital bed.

State officials will investigate whether mistakes by the hospital enabled Reese's suicide. But their conclusions, and even how they conduct their inquiry, may remain forever confidential.

I grew up partly in Lawrenceville. Lol it's not a place you see making the news very often. It was a pretty backward place when I lived there, and I can't imagine trans people being treated well there even now.

Quote from: Felix on November 22, 2011, 04:06:57 PM
I grew up partly in Lawrenceville. Lol it's not a place you see making the news very often. It was a pretty backward place when I lived there, and I can't imagine trans people being treated well there even now.

Well the Alanta area doesn't have the best reputation for caring for Trans Folk, case in point was that of Trans Man Robert Eads.

and covering up of errors and complications is still the SOP for medical providers hell bent on litigation reduction (even if it means possible conspiracy charges).