Blue Situation
2013.09
by John Smith
Veteran Misdiagnosed, Only
Caught When VA Benefits Sought
Bobby Russell spent almost 9 years believing that was sick. During that time he intentionally distanced himself from his family. He planned any paid for his funeral.
It was when he tried to get benefits through the Veterans Administration that he found out he was misdiagnosed. But to make matters worse, after the 2004 test that resulted in a positive result a "confirmatory test" was ordered and the results were negative. However the doctors relied only on the one positive test.
It was not until the Veterans Administration denied benefits that this came to light. Continue reading
WN.COM
2013.09.02
Stars and Stripes
Bobby Russell received HIV treatments for
almost eight years before receiving a
shocking diagnosis: He never actually had
the virus that causes AIDS. Now the 43-year-old Lexington man is suing the doctors and others at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, The UK-affiliated Bluegrass Care Clinic, and the Fayette County Health Department for medical malpractice.
Russell, 43, claims the defendants were negligent in misdiagnosing him and negligent in failing to order the appropriate tests for HIV. Continue reading ...
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Rachael Quigley
2013.09.03
HIV LAWSUIT: WRONGLY
DIAGNOSED WITH HIV
VETERAN BOBBY RUSSELL
SUING KENTUCKY HOSPITAL
AFTER BEING "EMOTIONALLY
DAMAGED AND MENTALLY
DESTROYED"
"It's just the most difficult thing I've had to deal with my entire life," he told
Lex18. "I feel like I was lied to."
Speaking to the Lexington Herald Leader, he said: "I feel like I was sentenced to a crime I wasn't guilty of. I have intentionally put distance between my family and my friends because I thought I was dying, and I didn't want my nieces and nephews see me deteriorating. " I thought I was dying. Emotionally, mentally, it destroyed me. It just destroyed me. In 2009, when things got really bad for me, suicide was a strong option for me."
Continue reading ...
2013. 09.13
Kentucky Man Bobby Russell
sues after alleged HIV Mis-
diagnosis: "It's just been the
most difficult thing I've had
to deal with my entire life".
Bobby Russell said none of his doctors
reviewed a test following his initial
diagnosis that may have revealed he actually was not HIV positive. Continue reading ...
Office of Medical and Scientific Justice
Hollywood, CA
2013.08.27
Kentucky Man Claims He Was Misdiagnosed With HIV
A Lexington man is suing the University of Kentucky Medical Center, The Bluegrass Care Clinic, the Fayette County Health Department and a long list of doctors who allegedly mis-diagnosed him and treated him for a sexually transmitted disease he didn't appear to have.
According to the lawsuit filed in Fayette Circuit Court Friday, the appropriate confirmatory tests performed since Russell's initial diagnosis in 2004 have showed either negative or indeterminable results.
Russell is seeking an undetermined amount of money for what he describes as a life-altering diagnosis. He says the medication has taken a toll on his health, and following his doctors' advice, he has avoided relationships with people who do not have the disease.
Russell's attorney, Jonathan C. Dailey, of Washington D.C. said he doesn't think Russell's diagnosis is an isolated case. I believe the testing protocol they use at UK is probably used for most patients," he said.
Continue reading ...
Opposing Views
2013.09.02
Evan Bleier
Kentucky Man Bobby Russell Suing After
Doctors Misdiagnosed Him With HIV
A Kentucky man filed a lawsuit alleging
medical malpractice after doctors treat-
ed him for HIV almost eight years even
though he didn't actually have the virus
that causes AIDS. Bobby Russell, 43,
filed the suit against the doctors and others at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, the UK-affiliated Bluegrass Care Clinic and the Fayette County Health Department.
According to Russell, the defendants were negligent in misdiagnosing him and failing to order the appropriate tests for HIV. "I feel like I was sentenced to a crime I wasn't guilty of," Russell said. I have intentionally put distance between my family and my friends because I thought I was dying. I didn't want my nieces and nephews see me deteriorating. I thought I was dying ... Emotionally, mentally, it destroyed me. It just destroyed me. It just destroyed me. In 2009, when things got really bad for me, suicide was a strong option for me".
Jonathan C. Dailey, the lawyer representing Russell, said a full battery of tests for HIV was never conducted. "The fact is that the standard-of-care protocol methodologies for HIV testing were never done," Dailey said. "By failing to follow the standard protocol, and telling him that he was HIV positive, telling him that he could only have relations with HIV-positives, then that damage has been done. You can't that back. That's the critical part of this case." Continue reading ...
Office of Medical and Scientific Justice
Hollywood, CA
2013.09.04
Bobby Russell, received treatments for almost
eight years before receiving a shocking diagnosis:
He never actually had the virus that causes AIDS.
Now the 43-year-old Lexington Man is suing the
doctors and others at the University of Kentucky
Medical Center, The Bluegrass Care Clinic, and the
Fayette County Health Department for medical
malpractice.
Russell, 43, claims the defendants were negligent
in misdiagnosing him and negligent in failing to order the appropriate tests for HIV.
"I feel like I was sentenced to a crime I wasn't guilty of," Russell said in an interview. "I have intentionally put distance between my family and friends because I thought I was dying, and I didn't want my family to see me dying. I didn't want my nieces and nephews see me deteriorating. I thought I was dying ...
"Emotionally, mentally, it destroyed me. It just destroyed me, " Russell said. "In 2009, when things got really bad for me, suicide was a strong option for me."
Jonathan C. Dailey, the lawyer who represents Russell, said no one ever conducted a full spectrum of tests for HIV. "The fact is that the standard-of-care-protocol methodologies for HIV testing were never done," Dailey said. "By failing to follow the standard protocol, and telling him that he was HIV positive, telling him that he could only have relations with HIV positives, then that damage has been done. You can't take that back. That's the critical part of this case."
Uk spokesman Jay Blanton wrote in an email that, "as a policy, we do not comment on pending litigation." (Bluegrass Care Clinic, an infectious disease and HIV/AIDS clinic, is affiliated with UK's medical school.)
Greg Hines, a spokesman for the Fayette County Health Department, had no comment but said the matter has been turned over to legal counsel.
Dailey was the attorney for Terry Hedgepeth, a man who sued a Washington D.C. clinic in 2005 because it had mistakenly told him five years earlier that he was HIV positive. That case was settled in 2012 about a year after the D.C. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that medical patients who are given incorrect information from their doctors about a life threatening illness can seek recourse through the courts for emotional distress.
Russell's suit doesn't seek damages for emotional distress, but Dailey said that is included in seeking relief for compensatory damages. Continue reading ...
Office of Medical and Scientific Justice
Hollywood, California
October 31, 2013
Attorney Describes Flaws with HIV Industry
After successfully representing clients including
Terry Hedgepeth, Washington D.C. Attorney
Jonathan Dailey now represents Bobby Russell
who, after receiving HIV drugs and treatment for
almost eight years, learned that his doctors had
diagnosed him with HIV. Now, the 43-year-old
Lexington man is suing the doctors and others
at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, the
UK-affiliated Bluegrass Care Clinic, and the Fayette
County Health Department for medical malpractice ...
Mr. Russell's story is posted at OMSJ.
...Beth Ely interviewed Mr. Dailey in this revealing interview - not just discussing the Hedepeth or Russell cases, but widespread incompetence related to the testing, treatment, and diagnosis of patients throughout North America and Europe. Continue reading ...
The Huffington Post
2013.09.03
Hunter Stuart
Bobby Russell,
U.S. veteran,
Files lawsuit claiming
HIV Misdiagnosis
A U.S. veteran living in Kentucky is suing
after a hospital allegedly misdiagnosed
him with HIV in 2004. Since then, Bobby Russell, 43, has taken a powerful cocktail of drugs to combat the virus, has had sexual relationships with HIV-positive partners. "From 2004 until the present day, they never tested him properly for HIV according to the standard of care," Russell's lawyer, Jonathan C. Dailey, told The Huffington Post over the phone Tuesday morning. "He had some immune deficiency issues going on , but it wasn't HIV." Continue reading ...
Wopular
2013.09.01
by Greg Kocher
Lexington Man's Lawsuit Says
Doctors Misdiagnosed, Treated
Him For HIV
Bobby Russell received HIV treatments for almost eight years before receiving a shocking diagnosis: He never actually had the virus that causes AIDS. Now the 43-year-old Lexington man is suing. Click to continue reading ...
Liberty Voice
2013.09.02
Stasia Bliss
Mistakes happen. We are humans
and we can mess-up. Even doctors
as they are not gods, nor are they
all-powerful and all knowing, though
we sometimes treat then as such
A man was misdiagnosed with HIV and lived as such for 8 years. He was stirred to finally speak out following a mighty wake up call into the truth. What can the lesson of his experience teach and offer to each one of us? Will we equally give our lives away to the voice of doctors and medical reason? Will we sacrifice living fully for the advice of another? Or will we choose today to create the life we desire by living fully in the now, present moment?
As fair as Bobby Russell's lawsuit may seem, will it empower others, will it empower him? That is the only question worth answering in this case. Misdiagnosed with HIV, cancer, heart disease, shyness, unworthiness or poverty - we ought to all be stirred as this man is now - to speak out for our authentic truths, lingering just below the surface of our expressed reality. When it's time to wake up - life hands us a cup of "full", and it's up to us if we spill it or drink it up. Continue reading ...
sNEWSSi
WTVQ ABC Lexington
2014.09.15
A big court ruling involving a Lexington man who
claimed UK doctors mistakenly told him he was HIV
positive only to find out nearly a decade later he wasn't. The question before the court: was the suit filed in time?
Fayette Circuit Judge Thomas Clark said it has been too long for Bobby Russell to sue for medical malpractice. Back in 2004, Russell said Doctors at ... continue reading
WOPULAR
Inquisitr
2013.09.02
HIV Misdiagnosis Lawsuit:
Lexington Man Discovers
He Never Had The Virus
An HIV Misdiagnosis Lawsuit has come from a Lexington Man who never had the virus.
You've heard of self diagnosis, where people look up odd changes in their health on the internet and try to guess what's wrong with them. When a paid physician checks you out and not only gives you a misdiagnosis but also lets you believe you have a socially embarrassing and life-threatening virus for years, something is seriously wrong.
That's what happened to 43-year-old Bobby Russell, who had been given treatments for the virus that causes AIDS for eight years. He is now suing the medical staff at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, as well as the Fayette County Health Department, for malpractice and the loss of nearly a decade of his life. Continue reading ...
Reality Wives
2013.09.02
A Lexington man is suing the
University of Kentucky Medical
Center, the Fayette County Health
Department and a long list of doctors
who allegedly misdiagnosed him and treated him for a sexually transmitted disease he didn't appear to have.
Bobby Russell, 43, told Lex18 he has lived the last nine years believing he was HIV positive. During that time, he has taken powerful medications and only had intimate relationships with HIV-positive people, to avoid spreading the disease, he said. Continue reading ...
mdjunction
2013.09.02
by Rachael Quigley
KY VET BOBBY RUSSELL wrongly
treated for HIV+ for 9 years. Suing!
Veteran who was wrongly treated as
HIV positive for NINE YEARS is suing hospital after being "emotionally and mentally destroyed"
A veteran who was led to believe he was HIV positive for nine years is suing the hospital, health department and doctors, it emerged today. Bobby Russell, 43, from Kentucky, has spent almost a decade of his life on heavy medication, avoided his friends and family, only had intimate relationships with people who were HIV positive and became so depressed he considered suicide. Continue reading
AWAKE NAIJA!
2013.09.03
Kentucky Man Sues After Alleged
HIV Misdiagnosis
This is something I would like anybody
reading this article to take really seriously.
When you get a HIV test done, it is meant,
first of all, to happen in three steps. You are
meant to be COUNSELED. A trained health
personnel is meant to give you a talk about what HIV is, what the test will be like, what either result means and how it will affect your life going forward. It should last anything from 5-10 minutes depending on the questions you ask or your state of mind. You are only meant to get TESTed after this test. Now when the result is out (negative or positive), you are meant to be given another (POST TEST COUNSELING) on how to proceed with your life.
Even if the result is NEGATIVE, it is NOT meant to be a big hurrah. You are meant to have another test in two weeks to be certain you are free of the virus. Same thing if you are found POSITIVE. Either way, the idea is to be certain that the first result is accurate. Continue reading ...
barstoolsports
New York City
2013
This has honestly gotta be the most fu**ked up
situation ever. A little f***** up science and
some messy paperwork and this guy ends up
b**** deep inside AIDS b**** for like 10 years.
I can't even begin to think of a settlement that would appease me. And I'm assuming that he didn't end up contracting AIDS by the way this article is written, but good luck trying to tell that to the next healthy guy you try to F. "Full disclosure, I thought I had AIDS, but I didn't, but because I thought so I f***** 3 dudes with AIDS for 10 years, but don't worry I'm clean." Yea, sure thing pal. Might as well just stick to your life with Fake AIDS because there's no going back now. YOu're like Brooks in Shawshank.
Institutionalized by your Faids. Can't assimilate back to real life after a decade of HIV sex. Continue reading ...
Atasteofcreole's Blog
Surviving in Today's world
The 43-year-old veteran, of Lexington,
says, that for nine years, he has had sex
only with HIV-positive men and taken
powerful, unnecessary medication that
harmed his health. Russell says he even
contemplated suicide and prepared his
funeral arrangements.
A Kentucky man is suing the medical center that allegedly misdiagnosed him as HIV-positive in 2004.
For nearly nine years, Bobby Russell, 43, says he had sex only with HIV-positive men and too powerful, unnecessary medications that harmed his health. He says he contemplated suicide and prepared for his own funeral arrangements before learning he never had the virus.
"It's just the most difficult thing I've had to deal with my entire life," Russell said as he cried to local station LEX18. Continue reading ...
How Positive Are You
New York
2014.09.14
by Beth Ely
Xtra: Bobby Russell Fights Dismissal
of His Kentucky Lawsuit, Still Contests
His "HIV Test" Results - and You Can, Too!
Urgent! You can make a difference ... Bobby Russell, recently interviewed by "How Positive Are You" co-host David Crowe on his "The Infectious Myth" show, is raising funds to appeal ...
This system has an effective monopoly on "HIV/AIDS" testing and treatment on eastern Kentucky but no accountability to patients on how reliable those tests are. Continue reading ...
The Grid
2013.09.03
BOBBY RUSSELL MISDIAGNOSED
AND TREATED 8 YEARS FOR HIV
Imagine living your life carefree
then one day you are told by a
physician you trust, that you have
HIV. You gather your thoughts
together, and make attempts at
planning for the new life you will embark on, one that will be more costly, and filled with various medications.
This is what happened to Bobby Russell now 43-years old in 2004. Under the instructions of physicians, Russell took his medication, which was up to almost 12 pills a day, and only engaged in sex with HIV positive men, two which were long-term relationships. He contemplated suicide and planned his own funeral.
This is how Bobby Russell lived his life for almost 8 years. Continue reading ...
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