New documents and files obtained by the Stephans last week painted a grim picture of what happened to their son during his final days. "Zero objective Evidence of an infection. Initial suspected diagnosis was Meningitis but the CT scan ruled it out" ~ Dr. Aoife O'Carroll Pediatric Neurologist / Mar 15 2012 As one of the Key investigators on the Stephan File I ask that you forgive my blunt language as I summarize in the simplest of terms the Stephan case. It's more disturbing than you might ever imagine in a free and democratic society. It goes something like this:
Is this the Canada you know? Let's take a deeper look. The Stephans acquired a number of records that were secondary to the primary chart and appear to have been unaffected by the AHS purge of their son's medical records and documents.
Doctors knew Ezekiel did not have Meningitis and they had successfully treated him for potassium toxicity.
Doctors from the Alberta Children's hospital would point the blame squarely at Dr. Sandy Cunningham for lowering Ezekiel's Epinephrine in response to his stabilized blood pressure. Records would show that after placing Ezekiel into the air ambulance, Alberta Children's Hospital staff would triple the dose of Roccuronium being administered to Ezekiel. Crown Prosecutors knew about the cause of Ezekiel's Cardiac ArrestOf all that took place during the prosecution of the parents of Ezekiel, one thing stands out as the most egregious. There is clear evidence that Crown Prosecutors knew everything and intentionally avoided exculpatory evidence. One such example was when Crown Prosecutor Clayton Giles directed Dr. Sandy Cunningham to not speak to the issues surrounding potassium. In the entire 3500 page volume of trial transcripts from the previous trial, there was only two references to potassium. The following statement was one. This clear and intentional avoidance of the obvious medical condition can only be seen as collusion.
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30 Comments
Shannon B
5/26/2019 01:39:52 am
A hemolyzed blood sample will have artificially increased potassium. Generally the lab must be re-run to get an accurate Level.
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Maureen Moss
5/26/2019 12:35:45 pm
It seems to me that the parents of this child have been bullied and blamed for mistakes made by the hospital team.
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Maureen Moss
5/26/2019 07:05:24 pm
This tirade against this couple is SO WRONG!! It is absolutely disgusting! The medical team is blaming the parents for their own foul-up! ENOUGH already! ADMIT YOUR MISTAKES!! This couple has suffered far too long!!
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Sara Sakuma
5/27/2019 12:59:25 am
What a tragic story! Perhaps someone could help the family start a gofundme account.
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Janie
5/31/2019 07:06:56 am
That would be a great idea
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Nancy
6/2/2019 06:18:14 am
There is a funding link at the end of the article
TDB
5/27/2019 10:12:49 am
You are the definition of evil. You killed your son. Instead of being ashamed and saddened, you use it for attention and profit. You disgust me
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Janie
5/31/2019 07:08:07 am
Your a idiot for thinking that!
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Cullen
5/31/2019 08:13:58 am
I agree, This is disgusting. An easily curable condition killed this child because they are foolish enough to think that homeopathic medicine that has ZERO evidence of efficacy (if you do not believe me, look this up in unbiased peer reviewed articles) could solve a deadly infection. If the child was brought in a timely manner, then the administration of medication from the health care workers would not be in question and this family would not be shattered. The victim here is the child, not the negligent parents, they should be ashamed. When weak individuals cannot cope with their own mistakes they will lash out for others to blame, There is no grace in this type of individual. Educate yourselves, read the history of medicine, modern medicine is not to blame, modern medicine is the culmination of generations of great thinkers trying to improve the lives of everyone. The real degenerates here are the ones who pedal unfounded/unproven homeopathic remedies as a solution and the fools who buy into the easily fact checked lies.
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Jill Skriver
6/2/2019 05:46:13 pm
So you too ignore all the evidence that exonerates the parents! Disgusting.
Miriam JOYCE Garbet
6/2/2019 09:02:15 pm
Cullen, you are very foolish and obviously know nothing about this case except what you have read in the media. This family was targeted for reasons you wouldn't even understand.,
Jill Skriver
6/2/2019 05:43:58 pm
Did you read the flippin article??? Cover up by AHS, RCMP, Prosecutors and this charge is false!!!
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Christina Perry
6/3/2019 03:10:09 pm
Oh seriously you think the medical examiner just "chopped up" this little boy for the hell of it. These parents want to blame everyone but themselves. They do not want to accept their responsibility in this situation. Why was there son allowed to get that ill before seeing a doctor??? How long were they gonna wait for these herbal medicines to work? FACT: Their child was deathly ill with an infection. FACT Their child was not taken to a MEDICAL DOCTOR at the first sign of illness. FACT as this child condition continued to go down hill, the child still wasn't seen in by a medical doctor. FACT THESE PARENTS WITHHELD IMMEDIATE AND PROBABLE LIFE SAVING MEDICAL INTERVENTION FOR THIS CHILD FROM THE BEGINNING. HAD THIS CHILD BEEN ALLOWED TO SEE A MEDICAL DOCTOR more than likely a 10 day to 14 day treatment with antibiotics this child would have more than likely survived. Seems to me that refusing to allow your child to have medical intervention should be against the law. You cant without food or water from a child. So why should you be able to withhold treatment
David
6/2/2019 07:06:05 pm
You two belong in prison.
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Miriam JOYCE Garbet
6/2/2019 08:59:17 pm
You, TDB, are an idiot. These people were targeted because the grandfather produces a natural product that helps people with depression and Health Canada has been unsuccessful in shutting them down, so they went after the Stephens. How can you make such a disgusting comment when you only know what the news media has printed and you don't even know the family.
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Shauna
5/27/2019 02:12:20 pm
The writer of this article lost me when he claims the ME was “instructed” to find meningitis. I’ve worked in the MEO system and that’s simply BOGUS! The body tells the story of the death and no pathologist will be instructed or coerced to make something up for a political agenda. If there was no meningitis, there would be no evidence at autopsy and the autopsy report would be accurate. I’m assuming the writer is suggesting the pathologist was bribed or threatened? Caring so little about his job and reputation that he would follow some contrived threat? Where is the writer’s evidence of this? An expert from the MEO will likely stand in place of the pathologist who doesn’t live here anymore. This person has moved away and now has a job elsewhere. This is not the only court case that he would be involved in. Every grieving family who aren’t in the media spotlight wants the ME at their disposal. Can you imagine someone trying to move but being flown back to Alberta for every autopsy they did which is in the courts? And appeals? That’s a ridiculous expectation.
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JB
5/28/2019 12:27:56 pm
Please explain the MULTIPLE medical examiners who have admitted and confided that they are directed NOT to look for certain causes of death...
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Shauna
5/28/2019 05:45:35 pm
So we are talking apples and oranges. If you understood the system completely, you’d know that. Alberta is where this incident occurred. The death was in hospital. This is likely Completely different from your US experiences. In Alberta, autopsies performed at the ME office are done by forensic pathologists. In certain very rural areas in Alberta, as well as our neighbouring province of Saskatchewan, a medical examiner or coroner can be either a town physician (only allowed to do select autopsies) or even a lay person who used to work in law enforcement (with additional training)!! This is also the case in the US. Many (I believe MOST) states are under the coroners system. There, we are comparing apples and grapes. But a medical examiners system (which you attest is your governing system) is still very inferior in the US. I don’t doubt that a physician or a state coroner could be unreliable and biased. They don’t require the 12 years of school a forensic pathologist has under his/her belt in Alberta. Their bias could be to a criminal investigation (if their qualifications were in law enforcement) or there could be a simple lack of specified training if the individual is a medical doctor, so they might protect their own. I can buy that.
Cullen
5/31/2019 08:37:46 am
Vaccines do not cause deaths or autism. The very few deaths historically are result of reaction to medication which can happen with anything in our world, its tragic yes but life is full of tragedy. Dont blame vaccines or a corrupt medical system.
Rachel
6/2/2019 10:36:35 pm
Shauna- no baby died in Alberta of measles. I checked because it was such a ridiculous claim that would be bloody front page news. It didn't happen, but everyone *always* knows of one.
Shannon
6/2/2019 06:10:24 am
Not sure what kind of world you live in my dear, but if the hospital did something negligent, they will cover it up. This is common knowledge. A friend of mine lost her baby at birth due to negligence of the hospital. When in court, it was pointed out how certain sections of the monitor strip had been cut out. It's people like you, with blinders on, who make it easy for hospitals to keep messing up & covering it up.
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Jill Skriver
6/2/2019 05:51:01 pm
Do you seriously deny that there wouldn't be a concerted effort to defer implications that the Dr screwed up, mistakes made and cover ups were essential? I have personally seen the tragedy of these screw ups, so take off your rose colored glasses and join the real world.
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Trish P
5/29/2019 06:13:01 am
To quote the article: "If this case is successful, it will lead to forced medical fads being forced on our children. As parents it is our right to act in our children's best interests." So ironic. This family who had a dying child thought that their imaginary treatment was the best direction for him, and want people to give them money to find quacks who will support them. These parents should own up to their mistake so that their other children and other families they are misleading will be safe from quackery that leads to dead children. How many children have to die unnecessarily because of the medical fad that this family is embracing as truth? This is a shameful promotion of a type of an ineffective treatment/pseudomedicine that this family would monetarily benefit from, as they try to sell their lunacy to other families. How many children have to unnecessary die?
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Kristina Cody
5/30/2019 08:10:17 am
The medical records show that a CT of the brain was done which in NO way rules out meningitis. A spinal tap is a must to rule that out and there wasn’t one done because he was very sick and unstable. A potassium of 6.4 in a slightly hemolyzed specimen is essentially normal. It would NOT cause an arrhythmia. Who interpreted these notes/results? so bogus it makes me sick.
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Shauna
5/31/2019 10:39:24 am
Cullen, I was trying to give the writer some benefit of the doubt even though the conspiracies were flowing like water from a tap! I am COMPLETELY agreed with you. But I live in Alberta and worked at the medical examiners office for years. So I can only speak of what I know. I can’t believe that anyone doing an autopsy would be coerced, biased or irrelevant as the writer states. It flies in the face of the public service. It flies in the face of becoming a super-specialist. But, there is an anger and denial part of the grieving process and sometimes affixing blame (warranted or ridiculous) helps parents find peace and gives them strength to move forward.
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Yolanda
6/1/2019 10:50:38 am
This makes me sick! As a bacterial meningitis survivor in edmonton alberta, this story maddens me everytime I see more on it.
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Shirley ann
6/2/2019 08:30:30 am
What is frustrating is the fact that homeopathy medicine is allowed to make billions of dollars per year from people. There there are so called doctors selling this stuff and false information and studies. This family paid a heavy price for their belief.
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Helena Wagner
6/2/2019 09:19:47 am
This whole trial is rediculous!!! Biased people destroying a family!!!
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Tara Rockson
6/2/2019 10:57:06 am
I find it a tad alarming that this family is continually dragging the death of their son out over years. Be it their fault (which I believe it is-total negligence on their part) or the systems fault, let the poor kid Rest In Peace.
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n
6/3/2019 09:06:08 pm
they should go to jail and lose rhere kids
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