Arizona's own Dr. Death
Dr. Hott retaliates against a patient after his patient filed a complaint against him claiming that complaints constitute an act of harassment. Dr. Hott hired private investigators to dig up dirt on his patient and illegally obtained, distributed and published a nude, sexual photo of his patient. Dr. Hott repeatedly asked a Maricopa County judge imprison his patient claiming that a patient exercising their First Amendment right to free speech constituted as an act of harassment. This is the new trend in Medical Malpractice defense--physicians trying to criminalize patient complaints.
This is one patient's horrific surgical experience with Dr. Jonathan Hott. Not only did he perform an unnecessary spinal surgery, but he smashed her vertebrae in the process. The patient was left in agony, abandoned and forced to find another surgeon to try and fix the mess Dr. Hott left after crushing her spine. She has undergone multiple surgeries since and lives in chronic pain because of Dr. Hott's incompetence.
After this patient filed a complaint against Dr. Hott and challenged the lies he wrote in her medical records, Dr. Hott hired multiple private investigators to dig up dirt from his patient's ex-boyfriends of over 15 years ago and even obtained a sexually suggestive, nude photo the patient took of herself in the privacy of her bedroom some 18 years ago. Dr. Hott distributed and published this photo to multiple parties and is now available to the entire world. Dr. Hott also illegally revealed and published her medical records in a public record violating her HIPAA rights. His patient had to request the Court to seal her medical records, as a result.
Dr. Hott hired a vicious attorney who spent 2020 drowning her in legal paperwork, and threatened her that if she kept defending herself they would release all of her medical records to the public. Dr. Hott's lawyer repeatedly asked Commissioner Popham in Maricopa County to imprison Dr. Hott's patient for the words she used in her court pleadings defending herself claiming her words constituted acts of harassment. This is a new and disturbing trend in medical malpractice defense across the country. Doctors are trying to criminalize patient complaints and trying to get criminal charges filed against patients claiming filing complaints against them are acts of harassment and any further complaints should include punishment by a prison sentence.
Filing a complaint against a physician is not an act of harassment. It is free speech protected by the First Amendment. Every patient has a Federal Right to challenge the contents of their medical records and file complaints against their physician.
Dr. Hott wants to destroy the rest of this patient's life and her livelihood because she had the audacity to file a complaint against his horrific lack of surgical skills and challenge his lies. What physician would ever turn on a patient in such a despicable, hateful and harmful way?
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