Justin Pederson

Address Unknown

M. Moran
J&L Teamworks
651 N. Cherokee Lane, #B2
Lodi, CA 95240
RE: Alleged Debt to College Medical Center, Ref. # 4186657, Acct. # 20048314
Dear Mr. Moran,
It has come to my attention that your company believes I owe it a sum of
$3152.83, possibly after being sold some type of assignment of debt by College
Medical Center. While I personally find this quite humorous, I take no joy in my
duty of informing you that, frankly, you have been had. The alleged debt is the
result of medical costs that in turn were the result of gross negligence on the
part of College Medical Center, and I deny any responsibility in incurring these
costs.
On August 15, 2015, I was placed on an involuntary 72-hour hold in
accordance with Section 5150 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code at
the order of a Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) officer, as he felt that my
mental state constituted a danger to myself. In the Involuntary Patient
Advisement form I was given, a registered nurse by the name of Edwin states:
you wanted to hurt yourself, you were determined to be a danger to yourself
per LBPD officer (emphasis mine). Please find attached to this letter a copy of
said form. Unfortunately, to my knowledge it is not required for a police officer to
have any sort of medical training or knowledge of how to diagnose mental health
disorders, and there were no paramedics present. Yet this nurse felt that, despite
any and all statements I made to him directly during admission to the facility,
that the diagnosis that the police officer provided was grounds enough to hold
me there. I assert that the police officer in question misunderstood the situation
he was presented with, and as a layman in the field of medicine made an
unreliable and inaccurate diagnosis of my mental state, which the nurse Edwin, a
medical professional, accepted unquestioningly. I see in this an act of gross
negligence on the part of Edwin, who, if he had made his own assessment or
listened to any statement I made, should and would have recognized that I was
mentally stable, discarded the inane ramblings of an amateur psychologist
driving a noisy black-and-white car, and released me immediately. The situation
can be likened to a firefighter determining that a citizens leg is broken although
it is not, then delivering that citizen to a hospital where the primary care team of
professionals proceed to set the patients leg in a cast and forbid him to walk
for the following four weeks, not once bothering to take an x-ray.
The situation would be no more absurd, and the citizens denial of responsibility
for the costs of such treatment no less justified, than are my own.
In summary, the likelihood of your company receiving any form of
payment from me is unfortunately comparable to that of a block of frozen water
retaining its solid state after five minutes in the underworld. I suggest you seek
compensation from the nurse Edwin, or the police officer whose lack of expertise
gave rise to this alleged debt. However you may decide to proceed, I request

that you cease and desist all correspondence with me. I deny any and all
involvement in this matter.
Sincerely,
Justin Pederson