In everyday life, the rules are simple. If you say something that’s factually untrue — and you know it’s untrue — that’s a lie. But in the courtroom? Different rules apply. The Language Game I’ve been representing myself pro se  against a powerful institution. In that process, opposing counsel filed statements that were, by any ordinary definition, false. Not debatable. Not opinion. Factually untrue and provably so. Out in the real world, we’d call that what it is: lying. But

It Only Made Me Louder. 🔊 Good Intentions, Bad Faith I went to Bon Secours  with good intentions. I wanted to serve patients , build a better clinic , and bring consistent neurological care  to a community that desperately needed it. I thought reason would win out — that someone, somewhere in leadership would realize patients deserved access to care  and physicians deserved a safe environment  to provide it. But instead of accountability, I met retaliation. ⚠️ Retaliation in

I was thrown into litigation while living with PTSD. Begging — begging  — for the award-winning “physician mental health services”  they brag about in recruitment ads. The ones they plaster on glossy brochures. The ones I was locked out of. ✍🏽 When Therapy Wasn’t an Option, Writing Became One Instead of therapy, I started writing. The Workers’ Comp portal  became my therapy journal. As I explained why I was not going to withdraw my case except through a fair settlement, I

💼 Bon Secours Mercy Health: “A Great Place to Work”… If You Stay in Line and Silent I suffered a near-violence event  in my workplace. I was struggling — visibly, humanly, medically. When I tried to use the mental-health services  the hospital proudly advertised for its employees, my own administrators threatened me. When I said I needed help, they didn’t hear pain  — they heard liability. ⚖️ I Followed the Rules. They Weaponized Them. So I did what the system told me to do.

They thought pushing me out would silence me. Instead, they created their own worst nightmare. ⏳ The Joke When the retaliation was at its peak, my sister said something that stuck with me: “They should have just let you go back to work. If you were busy taking care of patients, you wouldn’t have time to be dragging them on social media and filing complaints everywhere.” And she was right. 💥 The Backfire By retaliating, pushing me out, and locking me out of the systems, the