I Asked for Therapy — They Gave Me Aggressive Litigators

💼 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.

I filed a workers’ compensation claim — not for money, but for treatment.

I wanted therapy so I could heal and return to work.

I wanted a safe clinic environment, not one that had already broken me.

Instead of help, they sent lawyers.

They answered a doctor in crisis with subpoenas, denials, and deadlines.

On paper, they celebrate physician wellness.

In practice, they punish those who need it.

🏆 The Hypocrisy of Healthcare Awards

Screenshot from Bon Secours Mercy Health’s website highlighting its 2024 award for Physician Mental Health Services.

Awards are easy.

Access to care should be too.

But they replaced care with cruelty and compassion with confrontation.

They turned my injury into their billable hours.

💣 From Care to Combat

I asked for therapy.

They gave me litigation.

Then they called me litigious.

That’s the word they use to shame you for surviving.

They sent an army of corporate litigators to fight a physician with PTSD — and then had the audacity to act like I was the problem.

Every motion, every letter, every threat was meant to wear me down.

When a hospital system retaliates, their weapon isn’t a baseball bat — it’s lawyers.

Their punches come wrapped in subpoenas and cc’d to HR.

Their bruises don’t show up on skin; they show up in court dockets.

⏳ The Beating You Can’t See

They’ve been beating me with the legal system for almost a year.

When they refused to let me return to work, and their insurer refused to pay me, I filed for unemployment.

Not because I wanted money — but because I needed to live.

To keep my family afloat.

They couldn’t even allow that.

They changed their story again and again.

Each time I found a path forward, they blocked it with more lawyers, more filings, more retaliation.

They turned my recovery into a revolving courtroom.

Every step toward healing became another hearing notice.

And when I finally thought maybe I could move on with my life — they fired me.

🚫 The Non-Compete Noose

Then they expanded my non-compete clause so broadly I can’t even work in the region.

Either I honor it and stay silent, or I fight their legal machine again.

Every chance they have to do right, they choose to do wrong.

And every time, they use their lawyers — their endless, obedient army — to do it.

💸 The Price of Retaliation

After retaliating, pushing me out, and trying to stop me from working anywhere else, they’re now demanding $150,000 from me — due in two weeks.

So here I am, forced to contemplate yet another courtroom just to survive:

bankruptcy court.

If there were a court for moral bankruptcy, they’d be first in line to file a claim — because they’ve already met the criteria.

🕊️ Still Standing

But I’m still here.

Still standing.

Still speaking.

Still refusing to shut up.

Because what they call litigious — I call alive.

They sent lawyers to break me.

But I found strength in my own voice.

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