It was encouraging (but disappointing) to read about the altered medical records in NYC hospitals. Apparently, altered records have become our societie's "norm". I was seriously injured during a "simple, early, preventative bunionectomy" in October, 2006. I hadn't even gone to the DPM for treatment of that foot, (but the other one! The injury was immediately denied, but the Dr. told us I had an "extra tendon" in my foot. Medical staff then told me I'd been put on protocol and they couldn't let me go home. They sent me home, "We made a mistake", but the problems were immediately noted. That same DPM then reinjured my big toe, by forcibly pushing it outward, (attempting to reset it in his office), which caused a lengthwise crack through the toe. He continued to document everything was fine, but it certainly was not. While I'd been told by the second physician, "It was cut at the wrong angle & substantially too short, one bone's slipped inside the other, and a tendon's either missing or too short", he didn't document this. A physician from FL. began calling me, stating I'd visited his website(?!) and it was discovered he'd previously been in prison for medicaid fraud. I've now endured four surgeries on that foot, a foot that's left me in chronic pain and with permanent disabilities that now runs through my calf. None of the subsequent physicians documented the truth of my comments on the immediate dysfunction and pain in the tendon of the big toe, the seemingly "twisted" second and third toes, nor the pain and tightness in my arch and ankle. None of the physicians later documented the tightness in my calf, which began a year and a half ago. I have literally felt my lower leg encounter ankle and calf tearing, from the tightness that began and radiated from my foot. They've blamed my weight and inactivity. I don't believe any of them fixed the main issue(s), which were probably planter plate injury with severe tendon and ligament damage. I couldn't find an attorney, and even the Illinois State Medical Board of review worked dilligently to cover for my physician. They certainly worked together to switch my xrays (in a physician's office recommended by an attorney!) I don't know where to go for an honest evaluation and treatment. I'm barely walking. It's bad enough the injuries occurred by that DPM, let alone to have them denied then covered up, and then to encounter severe neglect, and face permanent dysfuntion! Thank you for working for the people.