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Andrea Dumlop

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
217 total appearances

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Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

He's in the business of ketamine.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

And less than two weeks after her first visit, Maya was back in his office for a four day ketamine infusion.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

There are a number of moments like this in these videos, where Maya is saying one thing, and rather than accepting her assessment, that her pain is the same as it was before the pricey ketamine infusion, Kirkpatrick overrides it in real time.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

These videos, which were posted on Dr. Kirkpatrick's website, are frankly disturbing.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

One features Maya coming out of one of her ketamine infusions, and she's very clearly in a state of distress and disorientation.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

And Dr. Kirkpatrick is just really something.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

This is an exchange from a later video.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

I can tell you that if a doctor shoved a camera in my daughter's face and asked her this, that would be the last time I set foot in his office.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

The efficacy and necessity of the ketamine that Maya received over the year that followed her diagnosis was a big point of contention at trial.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

According to Beata and Dr. Kirkpatrick, as well as Jack Kowalski and his legal team, ketamine was necessary to help Maya.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

But the exhaustive medical records, as well as Beata's own emails and blog posts, tell a markedly different story.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

On October 23rd, one month after her CRPS diagnosis from Dr. Kirkpatrick, and about a week after her first ketamine infusion, the tone of Beata's blog turns dire.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

She writes, again as Maya, quote, End quote.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

This notion of Maya being suicidal comes up in a later Kirkpatrick video from a follow-up visit where Beata and Jack Kowalski are both present, and which is once again filmed, as Dr. Kirkpatrick put it, to help other kids.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

The theme of death and wanting to die become a constant drumbeat on Piata's block.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

In their follow-up visit with Dr. Kirkpatrick on November 2nd, Beata and Maya don't report much of a change from the ketamine.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

And this visit tracks one of many reports that the ketamine does not seem to be helping Maya.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

Here's Howard Hunter questioning Dr. Kirkpatrick on the stand.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

And despite CRPS not being a fatal diagnosis, in a series of email exchanges where Beata is directing care, coordinating between a pharmacist named John Schott, who appeared to have been a coworker of hers, and Dr. Kirkpatrick, among others, Beata requests that Maya be labeled as terminal.

Nobody Should Believe Me
Revisiting Kowalski Part Two: The Descent

This was about six weeks after her diagnosis.