The Chase's Guardians page received this anonymous message:
"To the page administrators,
This
is a throwaway account. I cannot give you any further information about
me. This is NOT my real name. But I work at JDCH and due to my position
and job I have gotten to see a lot of what has been going on
surrounding Chase's situation. I want to share what I know because I am
so strongly against anyone so much as touching Chase with a ten foot
pole. This is what I know - rumor or otherwise - and whether you share
it with your followers or not is up to you.
-Chase's father has
not actually met with Dr Birken. From what I understand from his
scheduling nurses, they are being ushered in without needing to
establish a new patient relationship. Thursday will be their first
meeting.
-Dr Birken will cut Chase no matter what Chase says or
does in office. I have worked with Dr Birken in his office before and he
is a very no nonsense doctor who will do whatever he has to in order to
get done what he feels should be done. He has pressured patients and
parents into unnecessary or excessive procedures in the past and I have
no doubt he will have Chase forcibly restrained and put under anesthesia
without regard to Chase's medical history. Birken is NOT one of the
more well loved doctors in our hospital system and that he has agreed to
do this does not surprise me. You WILL NOT stop this by trying to reach
out to Birken's office - but you WILL make a big difference through the
hospital itself. If you can convince them that their general image will
be tarnished or that they may face lawsuits they may bar Birken from
taking Chase as a patient.
-Hospital administration is threatening
staff that chooses to participate in any sort of walk out, protest, or
refusal to come in/work with the patient. Nobody in Birken's office is
allowed to call off sick on Thursday. They have said that they will
place anyone who participates in any acknowledgement of Chase's
procedure on leave or will outright fire them for insubordination and
violation of HIPPA (because by refusing to come in, protesting, or
refusing to work with Birken or Chase they are acknowledging that he is a
patient who will be in that day - it is a VERY fine line but the
hospital believes they are within their rights).
-There is talk of
secretly rescheduling the procedure to TOMORROW (Wednesday, June 10) or
even to Friday. It's said that one of the administrators
is even considering having Birken be called to "emergency surgery" later
today so that Chase can be circumcised, but I do not think this will
happen.
-Regardless of when the procedure occurs the hospital will
likely hire additional security detail and may also ask the police to
be present all day on Thursday. This may mean additional risk for
protesters, so those who do choose to protest should bring cameras and
be prepared to be as open and obvious about being peaceful as possible.
-Currently
the hospital is directing all questions about the case to the director
of corporate communications, Kerting Baldwin - and that's only because
if it's going to one person then all phone calls and emails can be
systematically ignored if they are not "important". I have been told
that comments on the Facebook page will likely start being deleted soon
(within 24 hours) and that they may shut down commenting entirely.
-Despite
discussing taking precautions, hospital administration does NOT think
that there will be much to worry about on Thursday. They are PREPARING
for the worst but I have personally heard one of the upper level admins
say that they would be shocked if there were "more than one or two of
those crazy, smelly hippie moms with misspelled signs whose kids are
homeschooled and unvaccinated". That comment will probably stick with me
forever. It was wrong on so many levels."
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