Andrea Dumlop

I asked pediatric hospitalist Dr. Becks what the implications of this label might be.

There are doses of pain medications you can use at home legally because now there's a lot more restrictions as well in cases of palliative care, hospice care versus just a child who may need pain medication.

Maya was receiving many medications at home in addition to her ketamine infusions.

Beata's emails with Dr. Kirkpatrick and John Schott discuss high doses of pain medications, including powerful opioids such as OxyContin and Dilaudid.

In a November 2nd email, the day of her follow-up with Kirkpatrick, Beata asks about giving Maya fentanyl.

Beata also frequently asked Dr. Kirkpatrick to step in with others, including asking him to speak to John Schott about labeling Maya as terminal, which did eventually make it onto one of her prescriptions.

She also asked Dr. Kirkpatrick to intervene with Maya's GI doctors to request that Maya be put on TPN, or intravenous tube feeds.

In a pre-trial deposition, the pharmacist John Schott said he only added the terminal label to Maya's prescription after a phone call with Dr. Kirkpatrick.

Dr. Kirkpatrick didn't have much of an answer for this on the stand, other than to say that it was outside of his scope to label a patient as terminal.

Dr. Kirkpatrick maintained that he didn't authorize pharmacist John Schott's notation that Maya was terminally ill.

Kirkpatrick also noted in an email to Beata that when asked for a second prescription from another pharmacist with a terminal label, that he wasn't willing to do it because it was beyond the scope of his practice.

However, he didn't seem to shy away from the idea that Maya was at risk of death.

Here he is in the Netflix film explaining an exchange he had with Beata.

The specter of Maya's death is consistent on Beata's blog.

On November 4th, she writes, Every day is the same as the one prior or worse.

I'm losing hope and I often ask God to let me die because I cannot handle this anymore.

This is not fair.

I don't want to live this way anymore.

I would rather die.

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