Dr. Kenneth Brown This is Me

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1. 1. BRH Physician Directory

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   Published on: 4/25/2004   Last Visited: 4/25/2004

   Dr. Kenneth Brown
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   Dr. Kenneth Brown
   
   Emergency Medicine
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   Dr. Kenneth Brown
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   Dr. Kenneth BrownBartlett Regional Hospital
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   Dr. Kenneth Brown is an Emergency Medicine specialist at Bartlett Regional Hospital.
   
   He attended the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and completed his residency there in 1992.
   
   Before moving to Juneau in 1997, the doctor worked in the Emergency Medicine Department of the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Dr. Brown, who is fluent in Spanish, also served on the clinical faculty at the University of New Mexico Hospital, working with a culturally diverse population, supervising residents, and participating in weekly resident case presentations.
   
   While at Lovelace Medical Center the doctor served as Chair of the Trauma Quality Assurance Committee and his duties included facilitating the development of the Center's trauma program.He also served as Acting Medical Director for the Los Ranchos New Mexico Fire Department/EMS program.
   
   Dr. Brown is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support and Pediatric Life Support and is a member of the American College of Emergency Medicine.He has published several professional research papers and participated in numerous professional presentations.
   
   He and his wife Sherri have one child, Hunter.

2. 2. Henrico Doctors' Hospital - 2002Forest1Committee

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   Published on: 1/1/2002   Last Visited: 6/29/2008

   Kenneth Brown, M.D.General & Vascular Surgery

3. 3. www2.ocregister.com

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   Published on: 1/19/2008   Last Visited: 1/19/2008

   In the last days of her life, "It was one thing after another," said Kenny Brown, 26."Everything was caving in on her."
   
   Including, her family says, the system itself.
   
   FREE FALL
   
   Kenny Brown says his mother's medical condition was diagnosed five years ago.A lifelong, pack-a-day smoker, Brown immediately quit.
   
   It did not slow the course of the illness.Brown's breathing became labored.She found it hard to climb stairs.She was eventually forced to carry oxygen tanks and the tubes that hooked to her nostrils embarrassed her.She felt people were staring at her.Eventually, she stopped going out in public.
   
   "Years ago she said, 'I'm not going to be one of those people walking around with an oxygen tank.It's not going to happen to me,' " Kenny Brown said."And it did happen to her."
   
   Last March, Brown's doctor told her she needed to leave her job as the assistant manager at the Starbucks store on North Tustin Street and East Meats Avenue in Orange.She would also need a double lung transplant, he said.
   
   Kenny Brown said his mother took disability last March and began the seven- to nine-month process of testing and paperwork that might qualify her to get on the lung transplant list at UCLA Medical Center.By November, Brown said, his mother qualified for the operation.She merely had to give her consent.
   
   But she hesitated.
   
   "She was scared," Kenny Brown said."She felt like she was going to be a burden before, during and after."
   
   Brown had always been "the strong one on the block.She didn't like to depend on others," Kenny said.The operation would have required 24-hour care for at least four months.
   
   As Brown hesitated, a letter from Starbucks' insurance company, Aetna, arrived.Her policy had been canceled as of Nov. 30.On Jan. 1, Starbucks terminated her employment.
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   Finding an additional $350 per month for COBRA, the government-mandated 18-month continuation of Brown's Starbucks health insurance plan, seemed out of reach.
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   The two were sweethearts at Westminster High School and raised two sons, Kenny and Derrick.
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   Kenny Brown says that for a day or two after the divorce, Sally Brown was very quiet.
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   Kenny Brown says his mother was told by UCLA doctors that neither COBRA nor Medi-Cal, the state public insurance fund, would pay for a lung transplant.
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   So too should Medi-Cal, except Kenny Brown said his mother was told she would have to wait two years to join the program.
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   Was Brown misled by an uncaring bureaucracy or did the former barista fail to understand her rights?
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   There is significant paperwork involved that Kenny Brown said "frustrated and confused" his mom.
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   Kenny Brown said his mother suffered from depression in the final weeks.Yet suicide - something Brown, a Catholic, described as "a sin," - seemed unthinkable.
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   Brown did not leave a suicide note.Her car was found running, keys still in the ignition, near where she jumped above the freeway.
   
   Did Brown think about the people she put at risk on the freeway below?
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   Kenny Brown said he felt enraged by some of the Internet comments that followed news of his mother's suicide - comments chastising Brown for the danger she posed to others.
   
   "These people have to think that this could happen to anybody," Kenny Brown said.
   
   Not all survivors blame Brown.