🩺 Dr. James Maturo

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Polite closure. Documented dismissal. One signature that ended the search for truth.

He only saw Nicole once.
But in that single visit, he became the man who sealed her medical fate.

On December 23, 2019, Nicole had just clawed her way out of an undocumented hepatic encephalopathic coma. She was stuttering, limping, cognitively impaired, and actively deteriorating. Her labs had already shown autoimmune activity. She was on prednisone. Her body was screaming — and the system was looking for a way to silence it.

Enter Dr. James Maturo.

Maturo didn’t come with curiosity.
He came to reinforce the illusion that Nicole’s decline was imagined.

“She is stuttering but this appears to be completely fictitious.”
“Fictitious tremors and breakaway weakness.”
“I am fairly convinced this is a fictitious illness.”
 

Without ordering labs.
Without reviewing her recent ASMA results.
Without checking for steroid-induced psychosis, hepatic flare, or cardiac strain.
Without considering the months of bile vomiting, IVC dilation, adrenal dysfunction, or the fact that she had just barely woken from a coma.

He instead gave her:

• A fibromyalgia diagnosis,
   
• A psychiatric label,
   
• And a sedating antipsychotic prescription.
   

“Start Quetiapine. Follow up with psychiatry.”
 

No hepatology. No cardiology. No endocrinology.
Just a referral back into the echo chamber that was trying to erase her.

Maturo’s note, signed on Christmas night, became the final entry in Nicole’s 2019 collapse.
It was referenced by KU Health physicians later. It validated a psychiatric narrative already being used to deny her care. It let others look away.

It took one note, written without investigation, to strip Nicole of clinical credibility.

He didn’t scream.
He didn’t accuse.
He simply documented her into disbelief — and let the system call it closure.

He didn’t treat.
He didn’t ask.
He didn’t care.
 

He closed the chart like a curtain.
He smiled like it was nothing.
And that’s why he will forever be known as:

The Velvet Guillotine.

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