More than 50 patients and family of at least one reported suicide victim sues Toledo Clinic Cognitive Center for falsely diagnosing Alzheimer's disease on them. The hoax resulted to months of needless treatments, emotional and physical damages to the patients.
The suit was filed at Lucas Country court. The center employed Sherry-Ann Jenkins as director and was allowed to make diagnosis on patients even though she didn't have any state licences. Using her husband Dr. Oliver Jenkins' credentials, they authorized treatments, tests, and billing of their patients who believed they had Alzheimer's disease, Fox News reports.
To make matters worse, the complaint claims that the Toledo Clinic knows that Jenkins does practice quack diagnosis on patients, and that they know she lacks credentials to be doing cognitive treatments including Alzheimer's disease. The complaint filed on Jan. 30 states "Sherry-Ann Jenkins lacked training, education, licensing, and credentials."
However, the false diagnosis already damaged more than 50 patients in the process. Since Alzheimer's disease is a sickness that is burdensome for the family of patients, devastated individuals have sought solutions and prepared for the thought of imminent death. For one, Shawn Blazsek was moved to prepare his wife and son for his coming death - he even took time to ready a stash of sleeping pills for suicide if his memory starts to fade, according to NY Daily News.
After nine months of endless treatments and misdiagnosis, Blazsek went to have second opinions and found that he didn't have Alzheimer's disease after all. But one case of suicide happened to Gary Taynor, a U.S. Air Force vet. After learning from Jenkins that he had the disease, he shot himself dead on January 2016.
Though Jenkins did have a doctorate degree on physiological science, she didn't have any medical license, which makes her treatments and diagnosis illegal. The Toledo Clinic Cognitive Center is closed. At least $1 million compensation should be given to each patient. The defendants are still quiet about the lawsuit.
