I am Not Paranoid - A Hatecrime Against a Patient

An emergency room doctor wrote that I was crazy on my chart instead of treating my physical symptoms. https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantnelson313

I am extremely upset because I do not have auditory hallucinations or psychosis or voices in my head. These are detrimental accusations to put on somebody's medical record. I can not believe I have had to endure so much judgement since March of 2023 due to this absurd mistake during my desperate attempt at catching my mother poisoning me, which was all proven the very next day. Desert Regional staff refuses to help me in removing these lies even though there is no evidence to what this man wrote outside of him writing it. You can't quote a patient and call them psychotic when they have a sore throat from poisoning without finding the cause of the sore throat as I do not have a mental illness. This is ridiculous.

On March 26, 2023, Desert Regional Medical Center Emergency Room in Palm Springs, CA wrote several mistakes on my chart that I recently noticed on my medical record. Just when I finally have the courage to tell the police about my family's abuse and harm to me I came across this medical record. These mistakes included a quote I did not say about "hearing voices telling me to kill myself," and the misdiagnoses of "psychosis" and "auditory hallucinations." My symptoms were physical and not psychological. I did not hear voices and these mistakes assume that I was in a paranoid state of mind when I was not paranoid. I knew my mother was harming me in some way and this was proven the next day at another emergency room.

The Desert Regional Medical Center doctor, Grant Edward Nelson, wrote on my chart that everything I was stating was paranoia and not based on reality when I actually begged my mother to take me to the emergency room. Not only did I not make the statement about "hearing voices telling me to kill myself" but another man walked by my bed in the hospital and stated "they're telling me to kill myself, I'm not going to kill myself." This sounds like an actually paranoid person and maybe the staff got me confused with somebody else.

The doctor stated about how I said someone was going to rape me and wrote this off as paranoia when I was referring to someone that actually threatened to rape and murder me on a daily basis when my mother was married to him. He was in the vicinity, sexually assaulted me in the past, strangled me when I was 17 and was in contact with my mother at that time and still is today. I asked my mother to help me put him in jail finally but she was still allowing him to come to her apartment and drop off food and watched his dog. This man was my step father and he isolated me, wouldn't let me have friends, talk online or on the phone. He would have his marine friends watch me at school and he drove around looking for me when I was outside away from home. He continued to abuse me through fear using finances during college and after until I could become financially independent. I cut all contact with him permanently in 2019 when my mother divorced him because I told other people what he did. However, she remains in contact with him and still refuses to stand up for me.

The doctor assumed that everything I said was psychotic and paranoid when I was very specific, which I believe is considered a hate crime against women or myself. I was not psychotic and I was correct in my suspicion of poison and toxicity as proven the next day at Eisenhower Emergency Room where I arrived with less than 60% oxygen.

There was no medical reason for the staff to assume paranoia as I was not on drugs and I do not have a mental illness. The ER did not test me for anything to even cause "psychosis" and discharged me as a paranoid patient with a sore throat and insomnia. They put my life in danger by sending me back to the apartment without a proper diagnosis of the cause of the symptoms. The doctor is basically taking my criminal family's side against me by making false assumptions and incorrectly quoting me.

Now I am trying to file complaints to receive help to the Office of Civil Rights and the Medical Board of California. I have been seeking an attorney to help me get these mistakes removed.

The doctor also wrote "admits to smoking weed" as if that was relevant. The drug test was negative so obviously it hadn't been in at least a week. Everything with Desert Care Network is about how I'm some sort of incompetent, irresponsible person that doesn't know my own body and comes to the emergency room for something "I did to myself" or "I'm paranoid." Obviously I was not smoking weed when my throat was hurting from poison and I couldn't breathe. It also doesn't give me "psychosis" or make me "hear voices" so they're not getting away with writing some other crazy person's mental illness on my chart. I asked for a tox screen. They're lazy and negligent.

Is that the doctor's if, then statement? If you smoke weed then you "hear voices" telling you to off yourself and have "auditory hallucinations?" That's his diagnosis? What a prick.

This ER doctor did not test me for #pregnancy! He sent me back to a dangerous environment when I could have been #pregnant and I almost died the next day. I am just learning all of this in 2025. He ruined my life!

I came into the emergency room because I care about my health and I want to have a baby and my mother was poisoning me and this doctor wrote that I was "psychotic, "heard voices" telling me to commit suicide and had "auditory hallucinations." None of this was true nor was it relevant to diagnosing me with the toxin. I asked for a tox screen and I told him why I knew my life was in danger and he just wrote me off as crazy or a drug addict. This is disgusting. This doctor does not care about women and babies or if their lives are in danger. He would rather call me crazy then call the police or send me to another hosptial. I could have gone without the less than 60 percent oxygen the next day and my mother could have been arrested.