A Quote That Says It All

Posted by Reasa Selph

I wasn’t looking for irony this week, but it found me. I came across public testimony submitted to the Texas Legislature by none other than Dr. Teresa Proietti—the ER doctor who discharged Nicholas from Methodist Southlake two days before he landed in septic shock.

In her written comment for the April 2025 hearing on HB 3794, Dr. Proietti criticized the growing use of mid-level providers (like nurse practitioners and PAs), warning lawmakers:

“Multiple times they are negligent in caring for patients… they often try to minimize abnormal results and send the patient home even when that is not the correct course of action.”

Let that sink in.

This is a doctor publicly making a statement that it’s dangerous when providers downplay critical labs and send unstable patients home and then doing exactly that herself. With an 11-year-old. With my child.

I’d ask if she’s okay reading her own testimony aloud, but I suspect even she knows the answer.

To be fair: no one expects perfection. But when a physician publicly warns about reckless behavior, and then engages in it herself well, that’s not just poor judgment, in my opinion, that’s textbook hypocrisy. How can she be creditable?

Her own words now raise important questions: Did she know better? (She did.) Was she aware of the risks? (Yes, according to her own statement.) So why didn’t she follow the standard of care?

Her public admission, made under no pressure, in a forum designed to influence health policy supports what we’ve argued all along: she knew what the right thing looked like, and she didn’t do it.

This isn’t just a contradiction. It’s a liability.

We’re working with our legal team now to formally submit this to the proper channels, because it deserves to be on record. In the meantime, I’m sharing it here because transparency matters, and because I promised we wouldn’t stop telling the truth.

If you’re following Nicholas’s story, thank you. This isn’t over. And some of the most important pieces are still falling into place.

—Reasa