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One year after our family's story appeared in The Dallas Morning News, I reflect on trust, patient advocacy, hospital transparency, and what I learned while searching for answers after my eleven year old son nearly died.

Discover why Dr. Melinda Threlkeld's case at Methodist Charlton Medical Center raises questions with just 12 hours of CME after a tragic patient death.

Services indicate that multiple Methodist hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth area have repeatedly received deficiencies.

When people hear about medical malpractice, they often think the story ends with a hospital discharge, a lawsuit, or a settlement headline. What they rarely see is what happens after, the daily vigilance, the fear, the permanent changes to a child’s body and a parent’s mind.

Silence can be the clearest admission of all Methodist

The Question Every Parent Should Ask Before your child ever steps foot into an ER, ask yourself: If something went wrong, would this hospital tell me the truth— or would it tell me a story that protects itself?

We Trusted Methodist—And Our Children Paid the Price

While Methodist Southlake publicly celebrates a Leapfrog “A” safety grade, they are privately refusing to release critical records about the care that left my 11-year-old son in ICU with septic shock. Despite a federal investigation confirming internal failures, the hospital continues to block discovery, deny responsibility, and bury the truth. This is not transparency. This is a wall. And we’re still fighting to break through it.

What Methodist Southlake Doesn’t Want You to See

On December 23, 2023, we rushed our 11-year-old son Nicholas to the emergency room at Methodist Southlake Medical Center. He had a fever, vomiting, tachycardia, low blood pressure, dehydration, and abnormal lab results. He had recently recovered from the flu but was suddenly ill again. We trusted the ER to recognize the warning signs. We were sent home in under two hours. Two days later, Nicholas was admitted to Cook Children’s Hospital in septic shock. He required ICU care,

By Reasa Let’s be honest: if a parent ignored what this doctor ignored, they’d be in handcuffs. On December 23, 2023, we brought our 11-year-old son, Nicholas, to Methodist Southlake Medical Center with clear symptoms of a serious medical condition: vomiting, dizziness, high fever, and an inability to urinate. The ER physician, Dr. Teresa A. Proietti, DO, at Methodist Southlake was the ER doctor on staff. She ordered labs and reviewed his vital signs. What she saw should have

By Reasa When our son Nicholas nearly died from septic shock following a visit to Methodist Southlake Medical Center, we expected at least a conversation. An acknowledgment. Maybe even accountability. Instead, the very first thing Methodist did was deny. They denied anything went wrong. They denied that their staff failed to follow protocols. They denied that the doctor involved, Dr. Teresa Proietti, even worked for them. In their legal filing, Methodist wrote that they are “

By Reasa On December 23, 2023, we took our 11-year-old son, Nicholas, to the ER at Methodist Southlake Medical Center because we trusted Methodist. He had a fever, was vomiting, dizzy, and couldn’t urinate. We were scared. But we believed he was in good hands. We trusted the hospital. We trusted their emergency room doctor, Dr. Teresa A. Proietti, DO. We were wrong. Dr. Proietti never came to speak with us about Nicholas’s lab results. She had the nurse tell us that his labs

By Reasa It started with a cough. One minute, Nicholas was lying in his hospital bed. Next, he began coughing, then suddenly vomiting an entire pint of blood. I was holding the vomit bag. I caught it. And then I watched his face go pale as he looked at me, not panicked, but calm. So calm it scared me. Then he said: “Mom, can you see it? The Lamb of Jesus? I can see him. He’s a brown lamb.” He wasn’t afraid. He wasn’t crying. He was seeing something beyond the rest of us. In t

By Reasa Selph In April 2024, Methodist Southlake Medical Center was cited by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for violations of federal emergency care law. According to official documents, the hospital failed to meet the minimum standard of care required under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) during a pediatric emergency visit in December 2023. What the CMS Findings Reveal Following a complaint survey and medical record review, CMS con

Dr. Teresa Proietti, the ER physician who discharged Nicholas just before he went into septic shock, recently told Texas lawmakers that providers who “minimize abnormal results and send patients home” are dangerous. Her words—nearly a confession—mirror exactly what she did to my son. We’re making sure this contradiction is on record. When physicians say one thing and do another, families like ours pay the price. This fight isn’t over.