I realize it’s hard to believe someone, i.e. R. Kirk Huntsman, convinced Morgan Stanley that driving up to schools, sending criminally incompetent dentists and employees inside to zap them with as much radiation as possible, restrain children and perform dental procedures with or without consent, then bill the taxpayer was a great idea. But it happened.
Below is an update on the lawsuit filed by Darren and Stacey Gagnon on behalf of their son, who was traumatized by Reachout Healthcare mobile dental clinic employees in Arizona. Imagine the stuff that was too “hot” to include in the following piece.
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PHOENIX – December 3, 2012
As we first reported back in June, a mobile dentistry operation is being sued by an Arizona family. They allege their special needs son received unnecessary dental work at school.
Tonight, we revisit the Gagnons, to see how their son Isaac is doing, and update a case that may have already forced the state to make changes in the way dentists do business.
The first time we met the Gagnons, Isaac was kept from our cameras because they might scare him.
This time, we got a chance to watch Isaac color a picture for his friend's birthday party.
Isaac gets night terrors after what happened to him.
"He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder… he was a very fragile emotionally child in the first place," says mom Stacey Gagnon.
Fragile in the first place because Isaac was adopted after surviving severe shaken baby syndrome.
"He was horribly injured as an infant including five skull fractures."
But Isaac had come a long way with the Gagnons.
"We saw this little boy emerge who loved tractor trucks and run and play in the dirt."
That ended about a year ago.
"October 4th, Isaac was seen by a dentist at school," says dad Darren Gagnon.
A dentist from Big Smiles, a part of Reachout Healthcare America, treated Isaac inside his school's art room.
"He says you know the dentist man got me… we didn't know what had happened."
Reachout paperwork in Isaac's backpack showed the boy had been given two pulpotomies - or baby root canals - and 10 X-rays. Something his parents say they never approved. Isaac's mother called Reachout for an explanation.
"They told me it was a training error on their part," says Stacey.
Everything the Gagnons allege is part of this lawsuit they filed against Reachout, Big Smiles, and two dentists.
It alleges among other things, battery, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and racketeering.
"We found out from the school they had actually held Isaac down for somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 to 45 minutes, that they physically restrained him to do the work on him because obviously he was in a lot of pain," says Darren.
The two dentists named in the lawsuit include Doctor Ralph Green who works at Reachout Corporate offices in north Phoenix -- and Doctor Alvin J. Coon, who performed the work on Isaac.
Morgan Stanley
I believe the editorial's characterization of my dental practice as a scam was misleading and irresponsible. It is simply not true.