State Medical Board of Ohio Richard Whitehouse Esq., Executive Director takes medical licenses for 'confidential' complaints from colleagues who are c

5th of Jan, 2012 by User181347

Governor Kasich knows the problems at the State Medical Board - he campaigned to 'fix' them. But the 'confidential' physician complaint system continues - where a complained about physician can't defend themselves or even know what they are accused of for decades - the physician is supposed to admit the 'confidential' - whatever that is. Things would end in 5 minutes if the physician could defend themselves properly - know the accusation and who signed it. Whole cases can be for just 'making too much of bad care' - just reporting the problems. Bad medical care is the norm in Ohio, and any business moving here will not be happy - we have Governor moonstruck - off on himself. Meanwhile piles of hearsay lies about physicians, with no names attached, are put into public records - at cost to the state. One physician has boxes about her, with not one truth - it is all imagined, exaggerated, and invented. The imaginations of people at the State Medical Board of Ohio are limitless - like in the Bradley Cooper movie, they seem to be on drugs. And how can anyone admit a constantly changing 'confidential' complaint? How can a woman physician be 'seductive' with two swollen excrescent wrist fractures? The Medical Board of Ohio will believe ANYTHING in it's quest to destroy any decent physician's life and future - it's not about patient complaints, it's about who you know. With the 'confidential' complaint system - everything else about the physician is unconfidentialed; their dating history, their medical history, their educational achievements made fun of, etc. for public amusement and jokes. Senator Grendell has some jokes about how the Medical Board cheats - he's really 'sensitive' about telling them in front of the physician's mother too. It's just a joke, as it's not his life, and he doesn't CARE about how much money is wasted this way, or his staff. You are supposed to say that it's just a CME problem when an employer asks, well it isn't and lying is beneath any legislator in any state except Ohio. Senator Grendell has got the most out-of-it staff around; not a clue about how any other states do things at their Medical Boards or about the reforms needed in Ohio. And because of the reciprocity of medical licenses, things have to be done in sort of the same ways at these Medical Boards. No one denies their fees, just their use of them in Ohio. And eventually this abuse will lead to a National Board system - and what's going on in Ohio will be the reason given to the public. Then the State of Ohio won't get these fees. For women MDs - their Fellowships are destroyed - destroying the best in Ohio - no achievement is too undoable. They will call the American College of Physicians feeding them a pile of lies, ie Mr. Tom Dilling did this and it continues under Rick Whitehouse - who has no understanding of women's medicine and the care problems in Ohio. Dilling thought that all women were bipolar; no criteria required - he hated women - women MDs were top of the list. The Governors seem to pick Executive Directors that hate women. As MDs we get through medical training to change outdated care, to make things better, and if we try to ask for the 'right' care for ourselves - our medical license in Ohio is pulled. You are just supposed to use aequanimitas, to 'understand' and accept the bad care - it makes for a lot of psychiatry consults for bad care. The pill-mill physicians are only capitalizing on the bad care outcomes of the other physicians - there's a lot of that in Ohio. Why Governor Kasich only targeted that group is unknown; they are just doing the scut care that no other physician will do as pain management does not have a procedural code = bottomfeeding in the medical money hierarchy. The Ohio State Medical Board is into destroying every physician except for themselves and their 'friends.' And the roster changes very little as there are no appointment term limits. Everything is outed to get a case that isn't in the 'confidential' complaint = a real case. No one knows how many false cases are started as 'fishing expeditions' - but there are hundreds each year where the 'confidential' does not allow the checking of the facts before things get out-of-control. And this is done to very well educated people; physicians. When the Board doesn't find a case, and there are no patient complaints, there is no resolution possible - the stack of these cases just accumulates and Governor Kasich doesn't have a clue as to even the numbers and the costs. Every other Board is on a budget - notso the State Medical Board of Ohio. There is no way to reverse a wrong judgment, pay the physician damages or get the physician back to practice - every other state has this recognizing that about 10-25% or more of the time - the Medical Boards are wrong - they are given the wrong information. The physicians on the State Medical Board of Ohio make mistakes, or wrong diagnoses in patient care, about 25% of the time = their Internet ratings = probably paid for advertisement. The real rate of Medical Board, and Member, medical mistakes is probably more like 50% - they are never the best physicians, but they are the measuring stick for everyone else. There's no way to dismiss a false case, the Medical Board just tries to find another case or won't answer the phone - they need another 'go' and another 'go' and it never ends, ie the 'goes.' Governor Kasich thinks that Brad Reynolds is on the case, and he can't answer any question about the State Medical Board that you ask - he knows nothing. And the Governor won't discuss the problems with any physicians. With women MDs this 'confidential' can be other professional colleagues who they have refused to 'service' for personal understanding, for office staff & space needs, or patient referrals; anything can be converted into a generic 'impairment' at the State Medical Board of Ohio. It has nothing to do with reality. Dr. Carla O'Day - on the Ohio Medical Board until 1993, even though she never completed a formal residency program and had one of the messiest divorces in Ohio legal history - went through a medical class list from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine - signing complaints and overseeing the investigations of classmates - who had no patient complaints, but didn't like how she ran (or didn't run) the ER at Hillcrest Hospital = not well. She threatened the Deans in Medical School, and was a political student that rarely used the library. People who just were not her BFF in Medical School were targeted, and she participated as the lead investigator in these cases even though it was a conflict-of-interest. She profited with the official title of ER Director Hillcrest Hospital, and the contracts = the money. Board Members can profit from Medical Board cases in Ohio, and it is all 'confidential;' no one has the facts to question anything, and no court can overrule Medical Board decisions - they can't get the files. Any patient that goes near Dr. O'Day at Southwest General is a stupid fool - you deserve what you get or if she drags you into Rocky River Municipal Court for calling about questions. She is a monster who started out as a prison social worker; she knows how to destroy you as only the worst of criminals would know - she's very street smart and an accomplished liar. In Ohio, you just have to disagree with a medical care paradigm that is outdated to run afoul of the State Medical Board of Ohio; everything out-of-date is allowed. Any physician who goes near Dr. O'Day for any medical care takes their medical license into their hands, ditto Dr. Timothy Nice, and Dr. Michael Keith of MetroHealth. At MetroHealth students, residents & attendings should stay far away from Dr. Keith; when a mistake happens he will want you to get counseling so that you don't sue, and put it on the chart (talk to your mother if need be about his not being sued), and all he has to do is try to salvage the care - but he won't. Dr. Keith doesn't know about lab work - you have to explain - and he doesn't really believe in bone density testing - try explaining that to him as at one MD tried. This complaining about MDs that are a physician's competition was also happening at the State Medical Board of Texas and they finally stopped it, or some of it, but not in Ohio - the Board Members can complain about classmates, colleague physicians, business partners, spouses, or physicians that they made the wrong diagnosis on, etc. To this date, Governor Kasich has appointed no one new to the State Medical Board of Ohio - Mr. Whitehouse remains in place covering up. Status quo: no change. Fractures are allowed to ripen to excrescences, lab values for thyroid panels only have to include a T4 (not even a medical student would get away with this), and the 'confidential' can be from physicians/others who just don't like the physician as he/she had to disagree about a care practice or the behaviors of some physicians. The Governor does nothing; and confidential physician complaints are used in only ONE other state for good reasons. And Texas, even with a Governor on the run, has managed to at least put a slight reform law into effect; they can't take anonymous complaints, but the physician(s) hitting on the woman MD can still file a 'confidential' complaint. Confidential physician complaints have no place in 2012 - if a person can't sign a complaint with a name then the complaint is not verifiable. Other witnesses can't come forward to give their testimony about what was really going on - and that is not the task of a psychiatrist to figure that out. But to have a Medical Board insisting on repetitive psychiatric evaluations, when 5 evaluations have no problems except when the Medical Board cheated, is wrong. Repetitve psychiatric evaluations in normal people cause emotional damage. The Medical Board of Ohio should not be diagnosing physicians, mandating treatments or evaluations that are just political. There are criteria for psychiatric evaluations & diagnoses, criteria for medical problems, and standards for fracture care and thyroiditis diagnosis. The Medical Board of Ohio thinks that you don't have to do blood work on a physician patient - it's all psychiatric. And you can't leave physicians with abnormal thyroid values - it can go to cancer or lymphoma = they don't care. And there's an epidemic of thyroid problems in Ohio, teens getting thryoid cancers, and no labs are ordered until the last minute IF the physician knows the labs to order. The Medical Board of Ohio accepts just a T4 as a thyroid panel - and you only need one of those in 20-some years. Women MDs don't 'deserve' blood work, but every other 49 states allow care-to-function before taking a woman MD's medical license. Every other state Governor Kasich. That Governor Kasich doesn't 'get' what's going on is the sad part. Until then, one can only ignore the physicians that will sell out another physician for money: Dr. Carla O'Day, Dr. Tim Nice, Dr. Michael Keith, Dr. Fred Suppes, Dr. Robert Botti, and Dr. Tozzi (podiatrist). They know the other names to avoid - names that the physician(s) they complained about never knew. Physicians, spouses, etc can complaint about physicians in Ohio even though the physician does not know the complainers - never saw them. That's pretty stupid - to take medical licenses based on complaints signed by names that never knew the person being complained about.

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