Re: Braces Without Parental Signature

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 03:40:17 -0600,
daleypenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Penny) wrote:

>My Ex-husbands girlfriend recently took our 13 yrs. old daughter to an
>orthodontist- signed consent forms, hippa and contractual forms to
>have procedures completed without my prior knowledge or parental
>consent.

I'd sue her *** for that and more ......

It also involves butts ......



>
>The day this occurred both my ex-husband and myself were in court.
>Our 13yr. old daughter had no information for contact purposes and
>ex-husband refused to cooperate with information until her braces
>came apart within 48 hours after procedure was completed by
>orthodontist.
>
>Emergency numbers were called-found on a bottle that the orthodontic
>company supplied for rinsing- staff not available to repair dental
>work on our daughter during the weekend and could not tell me whom
>applied the braces.
>
>The next business day I found the orthodontist who completed the
>procedure- he is a Senior Partner in the firm- checked our daughters
>records and said the girlfriend misrepresented herself to him as a
>"legal stepparent" which he understands now that she is not married
>to my ex-husband and had no right to sign any of the dental forms for
>procedure.
>
>The orthodontist and I discussed the lack of parental signatures and
>permission (we have joint legal custody in NY)- and his response was"
>How would he know" . To my knowledge- the orthodontist would be
>calling my ex-husband in to sign all of the consent, hippa and
>contractual forms that his girlfriend signed- originals the next
>business day.
>
>The orthodontist wants me to sign a release of records form that he
>had his staff write before I pick up our daughters records. The
>orthodontist is going to continue working our daughter he states
>unless someone tells him not to...
>He understands that my attorney will not let me sign anything without
>reviewing the release form which we do not still have at this time.
>The orthodontist insists that "they"- the girlfriend and my
>ex-husband made a mistake and- the second business day we discussed
>the release form he says he talked with my ex-husband and he had
>"Verbal" permission to complete procedures on our daughter before
>they were completed.
>
>Please advise.

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