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| Governor John Kasich State Medical Board of Ohio is into pursuing job creation at every turn except the Ohio State Medical Board - where he's never in |
| 25th of Nov, 2011 by User587336 |
| As promised, Governor John Kasich is pursuing job creation at every turn - except the State Medical Board of Ohio - where the most ridiculous cases are pursued against women physicians who object to the wrong medical & orthopedic care being done to themselves, and not being able to get referrals, or their medical records from colleagues. The women are accused of 'making too much of bad medical care.' It's not Ohio law, but it's Medical Board practice. Licenses of good & highly-trained physicians are being taken at every turn, costing the loss of their careers, jobs, and their health - for cases that are not 'cases' in ANY OTHER STATE. And there is no transparency with 'confidential' physician complaints. The State Medical Board of Ohio is an arbitrary self-serving Board that doesn't care about physician jobs, careers, or the waste of their education & training. These same Board Members are only rated as getting the correct diagnosis on their patients 3/4 times (3 out of 4 possible stars) - so they make mistakes. The Ohio State Medical Board does what they want to do with no oversight except the Ohio Court of Appeals - a court that can't get the 'confidential' files to rule on the merits of the cases. Brad Reynolds is not 'on the case,' and Mr. Whitehouse can't answer his phone - for years now. Ohio has the most false physician disciplines & suspensions of any other state in the US - disciplines for unheardof impairments like objecting to 'boys being boys' orthopedic care of fractures. Governor Kasich is aware of the situation, and that there is no 'existing transparency' about anything at the State Medical Board of Ohio. Like McQueary at Penn State, Governor Kasich sees merit in demonstrating the too common human ability to simply stand by silently - inaction being a form of action for the boys - regarding the State Medical Board. In Ohio, we have an unhealthy system of governmental Medical Board hierarchy - where we idealize both the authority and its distanced objectivity - to the exclusion of action with ethics. The physician contact in the Governor's Office is only Brad Reynolds - not he Governor himself - he's too busy with other job packages costing Millions. So it gets to the point where having to finally say 'something' is an impairment in Ohio - a personality disorder for women physicians - who have no criteria for this DSM diagnosis and meanwhile their MENSA IQs are being wasted with Rorschach tests at shopping plazas - courtesy of Carla O'Day - who was the original Demi Moore of CWRU Medical School - continually chasing her youth by flirtations with the younger MD-to-be-Ashton Kutchers. Carla O'Day MD never finished an offical residency program, but she was on the State Medical Board making the rules in the early 1990s - coutesy of Mrs. Celeste - now a lesbian. Even the psychiatrists can't figure out this story. The State Medical Board of Ohio can find a new right Ohio psychiatrist to make anything an 'impairment,' and discuss the sex lives & dating histories of women physicians for days on end in hearings - the physician's legal costs are in the six-figures for this. For women MDs is not about their patient care in Ohio; it's about who they liked or understood (because their wives couldn't understand them), how 'easy' they were for male usage. Psychiatry is practiced differently in Ohio under Governor Kasich and his predecessors. The State Medical Board of Ohio cheats, and the legislators joke about it, but nothing is ever done about it - it's a guy thing - teamwork. So psychiatry can be used as the excuse. In 1998-9, Mr. Tom Dilling – then Executive Director of the State Medical Board of Ohio - admitted that there was a 'stack' of probably 'false' cases at the State Medical Board = A STACK OF JOBS LOST in the health care industry for bad Medical Board administrative practices or errors. These are health careers that Ohio taxpayers helped pay for, as all Ohio Medical Schools are subsidized to a greater or lesser extent by the State of Ohio. Every physician that graduates from an Ohio Medical University is an Ohio investment - a huge one. At the time in 1999, Mr. Dilling offered that a number of the most outrageous cases would be ‘opened’ and resolved with ‘reforms’ – that the ‘confidential’ complaint would be opened as well as all the files, and things resolved with all the facts, but not with damages – to see where things got out-of-control. A costly exercise in the Board correcting itself. If the case was ‘false’ the medical license would just be returned with all privileges, but no damages. And most states at this point are required to pay for the re-training and re-certifications of the physicians that they have wronged - notso Ohio. And the costs of this re-training keep the false physician disciplines to a minimum in 49 other states. All the physicians with these cases agreed in 1998-9, money problems aside, but Mr. Dilling changed his mind - because he found out that he could change the 'confidential' case files ad infinitum until the physician would have to admit 'something' to get his/her license back. No one cares about truth, just the stats of bad physicians - Ohio has the most of those stats - which is not a good thing. There's no time factor at the State Medical Board of Ohio, they just delay until the physician admits something so that they are never wrong. Former State Rep. Jim Trakas admitted in 2000 that the 'confidential' files are changed regularly to keep a case going - they are 'confidential' afterall. GOSH!!!! The State of Ohio has limitless funds to engage in ridiculous quests at the State Medical Board of Ohio - cash flow is never a problem, but common sense is. There's no time limit on how long a case can go on - cases are never dismissed after decades of 'trying to find' a case against a physician wrongly accused - there's no statute of limitations. Nothing comes forward publicly, but the 'confidential' can be the case? Mr. Tom Dilling changed his mind in 1999 about opening these probably ‘false’ cases – for resolution but no monetary liability - so no reforms, or resolutions, happened. The STACK just got bigger - the files continued to grow with letters requesting review of the cases = inventory costs in a financial sense. Many of the 'cases' were not even cases - just rulings by an arbitrary board that changes its own procedures, and case files, all the time. There are no rules of evidence at the State Medical Board of Ohio - hearsay is as good as fact, sexual innuendo as good as evidence. And Governor Kasich will never read this. But the point: reforms at the OSMB were recognized to be NEEDED as of 1998 when Tom Dilling took over - in the Taft era. And it's now almost 2012. In 2003, the Ohio Speaker's Office (Larry Householder) admitted that the 'stack' of cases at the State Medical Board existed – it was a real problem. But that the Ohio Legislature would not currently ok the opening of these 'confidential files' - in the unresolved cases. For most of the unresolved, or false, physician cases at the State Medical Board of Ohio, the verification & confirmation of the 'confidential' complaint is the central problem - the nidus of the case - and it's 'confidential.' If the 'confidential' physician complaint was outrageous, contradictory, and authored by physicians, or patients, with conflicts of interest - then the cases can be thrown out or dismissed. Further, the Ohio law for 'confidential' physician complaints is daily broken by the State Medical Board Members themselves - for their 'friend' physicians. Physicians with 'friends' on the State Medical Board get their 'complaints' as a favor - the Board claiming that it was necessary to open the file to determine if there was a real case. Well it's necessary to open the 'confidential' file to determine if there is a case in all physician cases - not just the 'friend's rule.' The reason that the State of Ohio Legislature does not want to rule - is that there were so many of these wrongful physician cases as of 2003, that the presumed justifiable liability suits that would be filed immediately, would then 'paralyze' Columbus legal channels & capacity - just with the undoing of false physician disciplines & suspensions, and the paying of damages for this practice since 1990. The stack of false physician cases has been growing every since the introduction of 'confidential' complaints - which no other state does because of the problem of liability for anonymous information that then can't be confirmed. And the waste of lives, the inability of these physicians to have a family, decent jobs, or get health care for themselves is the problem. It's takes a village to make a physician, and the IQ wastage is the most horrible part of it - that patient care is not better for this. It's a part of medical training that a physician learn to disagree with colleagues, to debate patient care options, and to realize the difference in the care of even different genders of patients - it's not a psychiatric diagnosis to have to disagree in the workplace. Yet women MDs are taken out for this with some cases goning on for almost two decades, with the Medical Board defending boxes of lies & misinformation - because the women had more information than her male colleagues and that can't happen in Ohio. Apparently, there are MANY cases where the Ohio State Medical Board admittedly has cheated, lied, or 'fixed' the situation - the Ohio Legislature knows & acknowledges this (Senator Grendell). There is no easy procedural way to undo false cases at the State Medical Board of Ohio - or to regain the jobs and lives of those physicians who now want to leave Ohio and resign their license here - but in good standing. The whole Ohio Legislature is involved in covering this 'mess' up however. The physician job industry is critical to Ohio - Ohio trained physicians should be able to practice without unnecessary harassments by the State Medical Board of Ohio for having to try to improve some care standards that haven't been looked at in decades. And the same standards don't apply to women's medical care as to men's, e.g. woman have most of the thyroid illnesses & problems so you have to test for that in the routine blood work on women - all blood work on women patients has to include thyroid panels - notso for males. At Hillcrest Hospital in the Cleveland area, wrist fractures are commonly left to swell to excrescence, not casted with reductions (left impacted or badly angulated) or with adequate padding (all the orthopedics seem to forget the stockingette padding as a cost saving measure) - even in the ER - because the orthopedics are sloppy. The object seems to be to deform women patients as much as they can tolerate, and make the castings as painful and as cheap as care can go - for the nonprofit benefits of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation & Univeristy Hospitals establishment (they own more real estate in the Cleveland area than any other businesses). Then the orthopedics in Ohio don't believe in bone density testing - even in 2011. And they don't believe in what they read in the textbooks either about fracture complications: when fractures are not casted in 24-48 hours in adequate alignment, they go into reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), and every other rare tendon & nerve complication. It takes months, and a medical village, to recover from this, and the patient can lose the extremity - as some have at Hillcrest Hospital in the past 2 decades. No one bothers to look at the orthopedic complications in Ohio, the rates of anything. But back to the problem: In 2003, then Rep Grendell admitted that the Medical Board had cheated on on cases, but so what - Dr. Resnick can straighten these cases out if you pay him a $5,000 retainer to start (but that won't be the estimated cost of undoing these cases). So now the physicians have to pay for the straightening out of cases when they were not allowed to defend themselves in any legal sense in the first place - and Governor Kasich ingores the problem to concentrate on other job packages. Further the State Medical Board still has no guidelines for medical mistake situations or the harassment of female colleagues or patients - the boys can be boys in 2011. The problem: as of 2011 Ohio State Representative & Senators are still convinced that anonymous complaints against physicians at the State Medical Board of Ohio are the way to handle medical mistakes, colleague problems, and patient complaints. 40-plus states have medical mistake laws and no other state does anonymous physician complaints. |
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