Richard Pareles

Review of McLean Hosptial

McLeans is in the business of deliberately crippli...

McLeans is in the business of deliberately crippling people. What they do is about as sick and evil as it gets. They held me prisoner and tortured me for four days all based on the word of my recently jilted ex-girlfriend.

I was with my girlfriend for almost nineteen years, and we owned a house together. When I discovered she was having an affair, I ended the relationship. She and her lover called the police and told them that I had been to see a psychiatrist, and that the paperwork for my commitment was on the way. There was no psychiatrist, and there was no paperwork. At the time I was fully employed, with no criminal record and no history of mental illness.

On the word of my ex and her man hating therapist, Aurelia Palubeckas, McLeans labelled me as a delusional psychotic. I begged them to call my witnesses and they refused. They knew perfectly well what they were doing. They were creating a record for my ex to use in the fight over the house. Alton Williams, the psychiatrist who admitted me, went on to teach a course in how to use mental health records in civil litigation.

The staff at McLeans perform what they call checks where they peer in on you every fifteen minutes. It in itself is a form of torture, but they also make enough noise when they do it to be sure that you do not sleep.

The quid pro quo at McLeans is well known. If you take your drugs, you get to sleep, and if you do not, you get awakened every fifteen minutes. They wanted me to take Zyprexa, which kills brain cells. Zyprexa leaves it victims wandering around in haze while their brain tries to compensate for the damage.

Fernando Rodriguez-Villa, the sadist supervising me, also ordered me to submit to daily blood tests. The blood they took was never tested, they did it for the psychological effect of turning me black and blue.

Dr. Villa refused to tell me when I would be released. On the day I was released he came into my room and told me that I would not be released until I told him what was going on. I sat there silently until he left.

A short time later Djana Paper, the attractive social worker on my case, came in. She sat down on the bed next to me, leaned back and pushed her breasts out. She said she wanted to help me. Sleep deprivation torture makes you desperate to reach out to anyone who will listen, and I told her about the abusive relationship I had fled. She said, You must be really angry. I said, I guess so. She said, You must really want to hurt her. I sat there silently until she left.

When I got home, I looked at the needle marks on my arms and collapsed on the floor of my kitchen sobbing. Over the next six years I spent a lot of time curled up in a fetal position on the floor.

McLeans collected $1,500.00 a day from my health insurance, by claiming that my signature was on file to authorize the payment. My signature was not on file to authorize the payment, and when I learned about the deception I told them so. They collected anyway. It is a criminal offense to make a knowingly false statement in an application for insurance benefits, under M.G.L. c. 175H, but that did not stop them. The doctor who committed the insurance fraud was Joe B. Flores.

McLeans gets away with it by crippling their victims so badly that they do not recover in time to sue. I was the first one of their victims to ever file suit.

I filed my complaint six years later, when I had recovered enough to deal with the horror of it; after the statute of limitations had passed. Their vicious attorney, James Hamrock, retaliated with a motion to have my professional licenses pulled, armed with the finding that I was a delusional psychotic. Eventually my claim was dismissed on statute of limitations grounds.

These people are predatory monsters. If you care about someone, send them anywhere else.