Name of Victim: John Springer
Age of Victim: 59
Sex of Victim: Male
What Is This Testimony About: Hospital Protocol Death
State: OK
Name of Hospital(s) victim was admitted to (List All that apply): Pratt Regional Medical and OSU Medical Center
Did the victim survive? No
Date of Death: 12/02/2021
Contact Name: Peggy Rice Springer
Relationship to Victim: Wife
Was the victim a military Veteran? No
Was the victim considered special needs, or did they have any kind of disability? No
Was the victim admitted to the hospital? Yes
County Hospital is located in: Pratt County KS, Tulsa OK
Date Admitted: 11/10/2021
Was the victim isolated at any time during hospitalization? Yes
Does the victim or family feel they were treated differently by hospital staff as a result of disclosing their vaccination status? Yes
Was the victim or family pressured to sign a Do Not Resuscitate? Yes
Was the victim physically restrained? Yes
Was the victim deprived of food and water while in the hospital? Yes
Was victim placed on a ventilator? Yes
What medications were administered to the victim by doctors or hospital staff? Antibiotics, Anxiety Medications, Ativan, Blood Thinners, Blood Pressure Medications, Dexamethasone, Dexmedetomidine, Fentanyl, Lasix, Morphine, Midazolam, Oxygen, Pain Killers, Paralytics, Precedex, Propofol, Remdesivir, Sedatives, Vitamin C
What medications did the hospital explicitly refuse to administer to the victim? Budesonide, Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Prednisone, Vitamin D, Zinc
Has this incident been reported to any agency such as VAERS, HHS, JACHO, Medical Board or others? Yes
Place of Death: Hospital
Would you be interested in participating in podcasts or other media? Yes
They Mocked Me While He Died: The Hospital Homicide of John Springer
John Springer was 59, a husband, a father, a man who deserved care, compassion, and the chance to come home. Instead, Peggy remembers walking into the hospital with hope and leaving with the conviction that the people sworn to heal her husband participated in his destruction. Peggy’s testimony is raw, heartbreaking, and incandescent with the rage and grief of someone who believes her loved one was murdered inside a medical institution.
From the start, Peggy faced the tactics many families now recognize from the hospital playbook: isolation, refusal of treatments the family trusted, relentless pressure to accept the hospital’s “standard” approach, and an atmosphere that treated patients as problems to be managed rather than human beings to be saved. John was admitted to Pratt Regional Medical and later transferred to OSU Medical Center on November 10, 2021. He was isolated from family, physically restrained, sedated, intubated, denied basic nourishment and denied the medicines the family requested like vitamin D, ivermectin, budesonide, hydroxychloroquine, zinc. All while being put on a regimen of sedatives, paralytics, remdesivir, fentanyl, dexmedetomidine and other drugs that Peggy says robbed him of the ability to fight for his life.
Perhaps the most searing moment Peggy recounts is how her plea for ivermectin, a medication used safely and effectively by many clinicians treating COVID, was met with cruelty and contempt. Peggy asked, and the doctor sneered, “You’re husband is not a horse,” a mocking line that cut through any pretense of care. Peggy insists that doctors who used ivermectin treated hundreds of thousands of patients without those patients dying, and that the reflexive refusal and ridicule from the medical team was part of a deliberate pattern: deny alternatives, ridicule families, and push only the incentivized protocols. Peggy’s account shows how mockery was not incidental but chillingly emblematic of a system that dehumanized both patient and family.
The arc of John’s care, as Peggy tells it, follows the worst patterns of institutional betrayal: communication shut off, requests ignored, families gaslit into believing death was inevitable, and pressure to accept Do Not Resuscitate decisions. All while the patient was sedated, immobilized, and unable to advocate for himself. Peggy describes heavy sedation, repeated doses of opioids and paralytics, aggressive ventilation, and the withholding of treatments the family believed would help. The result was the irreversible decline of a man who should have had options and advocates on his side.
When John died on December 2, 2021, Peggy did not accept a neat, clinical explanation. She felt that the hospital’s actions were intentional and that their refusal to provide different, earlier, or supportive treatments contributed directly to his death. Peggy’s language is unequivocal: she believes her husband was killed in the hospital, and the humiliation of being mocked while pleading for life-saving options has become a central wound in her grief. She brings forward a moral judgment as well as a factual one: that what happened in those rooms was not the tragic outcome of an untreatable illness but the predictable result of a playbook that deprioritized life-saving alternatives and punished dissenting families.
Peggy’s testimony is not an isolated cry. It echoes across thousands of similar accounts collected by survivors and families who say they watched loved ones die after being deprived of informed consent, alternative therapies, and basic human dignity. Her story calls out the cruelty of a system that weaponized protocols and blocked treatments, often while substituting sedatives and institutional “comfort” measures for robust, varied medical care.
This is why Peggy came forward: not only to mourn John but to demand the truth be preserved and amplified. She wants the world to know how it felt to beg for a therapy and be ridiculed for it; she wants others to know that families were silenced and that many lives could have turned out differently if different choices had been allowed. Her account is both a personal lament and a clarion call for accountability.
Betrayal Project USA stands with Peggy. Her story will be preserved, amplified, and used to press for reform so that no other family faces that mockery at the bedside of a dying loved one. If you or someone you love experienced similar harm, please share your testimony at betrayalprojectusa.org the victims’ voices are what build the case for justice, accountability, and fundamental reform.
