Dear Supporters of the Medical Blacklisting Prevention Act:
Laura Belt was 46 years old. She went in for a routine hernia repair. She came home with stool draining from her incision. She sent pictures. She made video calls. She begged for help.
She was told it was normal.
It was not normal. It was a bowel perforation. It was sepsis. It was death.
While Laura was dying at home, a nurse went back into her electronic medical record and added a fake entry — documenting a prescription that was never ordered, a call to a doctor that may never have happened. Falsified. After the fact. To cover what was done — and not done — to Laura Belt.
Laura Belt died on May 15, 2024. She was a daughter, a friend, a life cut short by a system that chose paperwork over her. May she rest in peace, and may her family find justice. We see her. We will not forget her. She is survived by her family, who are now fighting in court for the accountability the medical system refused to give her while she was alive.
Stories like Laura's are finally breaking through to mainstream media. The New York Post, Fox News, and others are covering what patients have known for years — that medical providers dismiss, deny, falsify, and cover up. The public is paying attention right now. This is the moment to demand change.
This is not an isolated incident. This is a pattern. Patients are denied urgently needed care. Their concerns are dismissed. Their records are falsified. And when they die or deteriorate — the paperwork is cleaned up to make it look like everything was fine.
Laura Belt deserved the truth. She deserved treatment. She deserved to live.
So do the rest of us.
We need federal legislation NOW. We need accountability NOW. We need the Medical Blacklisting Prevention Act passed at the federal level — because what happened to Laura Belt is happening every single day to patients who have no idea why they cannot get help.
Share, share and share again. Tell everyone you know: https://www.change.org/End_Medical_Blacklisting
In Laura's memory and hope,
Amy