One day after Maya Kowalski, the teenager at the center of a $220 million lawsuit against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital took the stand, the doctor who prescribed ketamine treatments for her Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, or CRPS, testified in court.
Maya Kowalski, the teenager at the center of a $220 million lawsuit against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital took the stand
On Monday, Maya told jurors, the day her mother took her own life, she had a sickening feeling that something bad had happened. The Kowalski family is suing Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital claiming its actions and the actions of DCF drove Beata Kowalski to take her own life. The Kowalski's say the hospital medically kidnapped Maya and battered her while in their care. The Kowalski’s say they took Maya to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in October 2016 when she was experiencing a flare up of pain from CRPS.
Maya said, during her three months in state custody at the hospital, there was a 48-hour period where she was isolated in a hospital room. Maya said staff wouldn't help her go to the bathroom and, instead, tried to see if she could actually walk, but she couldn't."They left me there for 48 hours under surveillance, which they did not tell me about. They had a commode in there, and they just put it far enough away from the bed.
Attorney Mark Zimmerman, who represented Maya when she was at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, said he felt as if the facility, and, in particular, social worker Catherine Bedy, tried to put up barriers for him to access Maya. "The hospital personnel, and specifically this one social worker, was limiting her freedom…Why that was? I didn’t know. But that was clearly her goal to isolate this child from her family and her lawyer," he said.
She went on to described how she met Maya and accused her mother, Beata Kowalski, of having Munchausen by proxy, but admitted she was not an expert on the disease and stated she had only worked with three similar cases. Bedy said she saw Beata Kowalski demand ketamine for her daughter. Although the hospital says it believed the ketamine treatments were too dangerous, Bedy admitted that the facility did not take into consideration that Maya had been prescribed the ketamine treatments.
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