Kalliope
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Many will remember the horrible Karina Hansen case from Denmark. A young woman with severe ME who got sectioned and taken from her family's care to undergo treatment from psychiatrists Per Fink and Nils Balle Christensen. They believed she suffered from functional disorder. Her family was not allowed to see her for over three years. The story has been told in among other Unrest. (Karina is now back home with her family).
Her GP Stig Gerdes reduced her medications when becoming her doctor after she finally left institutional care. This led to him losing his licence to practice as doctor.
Stig Gerdes and patient advocate Bente Stenfalk have gotten access to Karina's journal from the institution Hammel Neurocenter. It's over 1.000 pages.
They have written a summary in Danish and have permission from Karina Hansen to share it publicly. They have done so in an open Facebook group called Karina-sagen (The Karina case).
It's heart breaking to read what Karina was put through.
Here is a google translation of the summary. This is shared with permission from Bente Stenfalk. I've made some minor adjustments to the translation for clarity. Am a bit foggy headed, so it's far from perfect, but please feel free to tag me and ask if something is unclear.
(ETA: The summary is quite big, so has been divided into the first three posts in this thread)
Analysis and comments on journal from Hammel Neurocenter
We have been allowed to read Karina Hansen's journal from Hammel Neurocenter (12/2 2013 - 27/8 2014) and to distribute our analyzes and comments + a summary.
Sincerely
Stig Gerdes and Bente Stenfalk
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Regarding forced hospitalization and misdiagnosis, by Stig Gerdes
The journal shows the following:
December 12, 2013: The reason for the admission is that the diagnosis is unclear. According to the Functional Disorders Research Clinic, it is similar to functional disorders and the patient is transferred to Hammel Neurocenter for further assesment and treatment.
Upon admission, the inpatient physician's examination of Karina Hansen showed that she was relatively unaffected, and moved freely in bed. There is eye contact and she responded to being spoken to. There are signs of anemia. There are no bed sore or anything immediately noticeable.
Blood tests at hospitalization show nothing acute, there's light deficiency due to iron deficiency and slightly reduced albumin.
Comment:
These journal notes describe a relatively unaffected patient, which does not warrant forced entry, forced detention, forced treatment, forced medication, and refusing contact with family and friends for 3 years and 8 months.
Karina's diagnosis was ME (myalgic enchephalomyelitis) determined by 2 hospitals and 3-4 competent doctors and she was receiving correct treatment for an ME patient in her parents' home. Therefore, there was no reason why Holstebro municipality or the Research Clinic interfered in the case. Karina was not dirty and unwashed as the Research Clinic claimed, and she also wore clean clothes and was in clean bedding on the day of hospitalization on 12/2 13 according to her parents. Her language was also intact.
Per Fink's statement in "The Psychiatry's Dilemma" at the DR (TV documentary)i, that Karina Hansen was in very poor state and that it was reflected in the blood tests, is directly untrue. Had Karina been as ill as Per Fink stated, she should have been in an intensive care unit and not a neurocenter.
Karina Hansen should never have been hospitalized, and not at all forcibly, there was nothing that justified it !!!
Furthermore, the record confirms that Karina's mother Ketty does not have Münchausen by Proxy. By also giving Ketty a misdiagnosis, the Research Clinic shows what a substandard and wrong diagnosis system they are using.
Finally, I would like to express my surprise that the Research Clinic, with the blessing of the health authorities, has treated Karina Hansen so scandalously. It should get consequences.
There is no doubt that Karina's forced admission was an experiment for the Research Clinic to prove that their diagnosis and treatment are sublime. This failed to the same extent that all previous experiments world wide failed!
I will refer further to Bente Stenfalk's analyzes and comments below.
VH
Stig Gerdes
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Her GP Stig Gerdes reduced her medications when becoming her doctor after she finally left institutional care. This led to him losing his licence to practice as doctor.
Stig Gerdes and patient advocate Bente Stenfalk have gotten access to Karina's journal from the institution Hammel Neurocenter. It's over 1.000 pages.
They have written a summary in Danish and have permission from Karina Hansen to share it publicly. They have done so in an open Facebook group called Karina-sagen (The Karina case).
It's heart breaking to read what Karina was put through.
Here is a google translation of the summary. This is shared with permission from Bente Stenfalk. I've made some minor adjustments to the translation for clarity. Am a bit foggy headed, so it's far from perfect, but please feel free to tag me and ask if something is unclear.
(ETA: The summary is quite big, so has been divided into the first three posts in this thread)
Analysis and comments on journal from Hammel Neurocenter
We have been allowed to read Karina Hansen's journal from Hammel Neurocenter (12/2 2013 - 27/8 2014) and to distribute our analyzes and comments + a summary.
Sincerely
Stig Gerdes and Bente Stenfalk
***
Regarding forced hospitalization and misdiagnosis, by Stig Gerdes
The journal shows the following:
December 12, 2013: The reason for the admission is that the diagnosis is unclear. According to the Functional Disorders Research Clinic, it is similar to functional disorders and the patient is transferred to Hammel Neurocenter for further assesment and treatment.
Upon admission, the inpatient physician's examination of Karina Hansen showed that she was relatively unaffected, and moved freely in bed. There is eye contact and she responded to being spoken to. There are signs of anemia. There are no bed sore or anything immediately noticeable.
Blood tests at hospitalization show nothing acute, there's light deficiency due to iron deficiency and slightly reduced albumin.
Comment:
These journal notes describe a relatively unaffected patient, which does not warrant forced entry, forced detention, forced treatment, forced medication, and refusing contact with family and friends for 3 years and 8 months.
Karina's diagnosis was ME (myalgic enchephalomyelitis) determined by 2 hospitals and 3-4 competent doctors and she was receiving correct treatment for an ME patient in her parents' home. Therefore, there was no reason why Holstebro municipality or the Research Clinic interfered in the case. Karina was not dirty and unwashed as the Research Clinic claimed, and she also wore clean clothes and was in clean bedding on the day of hospitalization on 12/2 13 according to her parents. Her language was also intact.
Per Fink's statement in "The Psychiatry's Dilemma" at the DR (TV documentary)i, that Karina Hansen was in very poor state and that it was reflected in the blood tests, is directly untrue. Had Karina been as ill as Per Fink stated, she should have been in an intensive care unit and not a neurocenter.
Karina Hansen should never have been hospitalized, and not at all forcibly, there was nothing that justified it !!!
Furthermore, the record confirms that Karina's mother Ketty does not have Münchausen by Proxy. By also giving Ketty a misdiagnosis, the Research Clinic shows what a substandard and wrong diagnosis system they are using.
Finally, I would like to express my surprise that the Research Clinic, with the blessing of the health authorities, has treated Karina Hansen so scandalously. It should get consequences.
There is no doubt that Karina's forced admission was an experiment for the Research Clinic to prove that their diagnosis and treatment are sublime. This failed to the same extent that all previous experiments world wide failed!
I will refer further to Bente Stenfalk's analyzes and comments below.
VH
Stig Gerdes
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