Thanks for leaving the comments. We have heard many former patients, and colleagues, speak of Stephen Schneider’s skill as a doctor and caring bedside manner.

This case involves accusations that there were also careless prescription practices at the Schneider Medical Clinic that led to harm of patients. A jury will have to decide the merits of those accusations.

As I have said in the EAGLE’s comment boxes previously (why are those comments not attached hereto?) … I never talked to Dr. Schneider but I did observe him making rounds at the Haysville Nursing Home.

Visiting my mother there, I noticed that Dr. Schneider was unfailingly polite and interested in all people he talked to at the nursing home whether his patients or not. In fact I recently asked a former nursing home staff member at a Haysville store about this and received a positive endorsement.

Accolades were certainly not give to most doctors who visited patients in the nursing home. In fact, most doctors refuse to go to nursing homes. Patients have to be transported to the doctors’ offices or hospitals no matter how much pain they are in.

There is probably easier kinds of medical practice than dealing with the elderly, veterans who abuse drugs, other people who somehow become addicted, etc. Of course people are patients in nursing homes for all kinds of reasons, age, strokes, health failures of some kinds.

Even so, the staff do try to make nursing homes as cheerful as possible under the circumstances.

Thanks to doctors like Dr. Schneider with an upbeat, caring personality, these end-of-life cases are made as comfortable as possible for these people whose lives are dribbling away and who only want to pass away comfortably at the end.

Why can some lawyer who apparently has a mind prejudiced by lack of knowledge and experience go after one person or persons he views as having done something wrong and wring the case out in public?

The number of deaths is inconsequential. Many if not most of these very suffering people are going to die sooner, not later, in nursing homes or by themselves in agony of some kind.

If I hadn’t visited my mother regularly in the nursing home and still visit there on Sundays long after my mother passed away, I wouldn’t be aware of this sub-world of physically and mentally hurting patients … and not all elderly.

Thankfully there are a few doctors like Dr. Schneider who actually visited these nursing homes, injured veterans, elderly patients, etc., to assist staff to try to maintain “hurting people” in some kind of terminal comfort.