A provider should never be allowed to submit records to a disciplinary body while refusing to provide those same records to the patient.
The Washington Dental Accountability Project (WADAP) began from my own experiences involving Bridle Trails Dentistry, Redmond Endodontics, and Premier Periodontics. What started as an effort to understand my own dental treatment, obtain my own records, and ask reasonable questions about my care turned into something much larger.
Based on my records, correspondence, litigation filings, regulatory complaints, personal experience, the records produced, the records not produced, the communications provided or withheld, and the reasonable inferences I believe arise from the conduct of the involved providers and entities, I believe my experience raises serious concerns about dental accountability, patient-record access, professional responsibility, continuity of care, retaliation, abandonment, and the culture surrounding patient complaints in the dental profession.
Patients Should Not Have To:
- Fight for months to obtain their own health records
- Make repeated written demands simply to receive what is required by law
- File regulatory complaints or pursue litigation just to access their own information
- Be punished, abandoned, or ignored for asking legitimate questions
- Face retaliation for filing complaints, pursuing legal rights, or seeking accountability
This website is intended to document my experience, educate patients about their rights, provide information about RCW 70.02 patient-record access, and create a public venue for patients to understand and report similar concerns. Patients should not be punished, abandoned, retaliated against, stonewalled, or forced into litigation simply because they attempted to obtain their own health records, ask questions, or hold a provider accountable.
Patient Rights
Information about your rights under Washington law, including RCW 70.02 record access actions.
Record Access
Guidance on preservation of records, regulatory complaints, templates, and practical examples.
Public Record
A documented account of my experience and a platform for other patients to share similar concerns.
Pattern Recognition
A place where patterns can be seen, concerns documented, and accountability discussed openly.
This website is also intended to serve as a public record of my experience and a platform where other patients may eventually be able to share similar negative experiences with dental providers. Patients deserve a place where patterns can be seen, concerns can be documented, and accountability can be discussed openly.
The Washington Dental Accountability Project (WADAP) was created from the belief that patient rights are not theoretical. They must be enforceable. Dental providers should be transparent, accurate, accountable, and responsive when patients request their own records or raise legitimate concerns about treatment, documentation, informed consent, continuity of care, or professional conduct.