Governor John Kasich abuses at the State Medical Board continue - physicians have their licenses suspended by physician Members who couldn't show up for class at CWRU School of Medicine - after not allowing colleagues to Columbus, Ohio
Governor Kasich has yet to get the message that there are problems at the Ohio State Medical Board - where women physicians have their licenses taken by colleagues who can't do a differential diagnosis of bone pains & order the correct blood work - so no blood work is allowed. It's not about blood work at the prestigious Ohio State Medical Board; it's about who you've dated or scored with, and did you do it with Dr. Nice and why not ie why don't you like him in this way?
Two whole days in the 1990s were spent discussing the dating life of that woman physician - at taxpayer's cost = why the high sales taxes in Ohio. This was a woman MD who didn't have enough 'experience' for the Board's liking - heavy sexual stuff was not there - she didn't sleep around with multiple partners like an 'easy' Catholic girl should. And expert from Columbia-Presbyterian who co-authored the DSM had to be flown in to testify for her - and waste his time on going through her dating life - not her patient care. And ? this was why they took her into Medical School? Anita Steinbergh DO wanted to know about her dating life; prim Anita. The question is why? And that the case is not over.
Because of the 'confidential,' Members go after colleagues who they hated in Medical School, with no information, and the rest of the Medical Board Members - talking heads that seem to be on Prozac or Abillify - ask no questions. Ever go to a Medical Board meeting Governor Kasich?
Everything at the Ohio State Medical Board is about stats of bad physicians, even if the physicians disciplined have done nothing wrong to patients, do not do drugs, are up-to-date on CME, and their alcohol use wouldn't help support a liquor store in any way - a taste at a wine tasting on a Saturday evening - no parties on week nights, no nothing except trying to do her job.
And the Ohio legislators all benefit from this and other cases - in hiding the facts. Jim Trakas blocked discovery in one case, got rid of a woman office worker who tried to get the physician's file from the State Medical Board (a really loyal worker for his office, and a looker besides), and he's now hiding the facts at the Ohio Cosmetology Board - at a salary of over $90,000 for his silence. What happened to the office worker that he lateralized - no one knows. Tim Grendell got appointed to be a Geauga County judge, out of sequence, because Governor Kasich owed him for not opening up the case about what was going on with a woman physician's license in his district. So Grendell will now hide the facts in court. Dolan was favored to run for Cuyahoga County Executive - he saw the file - but no one else can get it.
No one knows why at least one woman's medical license has been suspended for 19 years - unheard of in any other state even if the physicians have killed a patient - and this woman had no problems with patients. Mr. Whitehouse can't be gotten on the phone for 6 years now. In 1999, there was an offer to open the files, and this was rescinded after the Board admitted that the woman MD was probably unjustly suspended - the Board's admits this but has no procedural policy to undo the mistakes of past administrations & staff. The Board wanted another 'go' at the case because the evidence was that the Board acted without due process or common sense.
The only offer in the last 10 years - have 2 days of evaluations with a guy that hangs out with serial killers in his office most of the time - the patients in the waiting room are killers. The last two appointees for Cuyahoga County, Senator Eklund and Representative Lynch, owe their appointments/job solely to Governor Kasich - so they are loyal partisans. And neither believe in medical mistake laws or that physician complaints at the State Medical Board should not be confidential. Texas is the only state still doing this, and they had to do partial reforms - complaints have to be about patient care, not that a colleague is competition - in September, 2011 - notso in Ohio.
No physician, or lay person, who couldn't get to class in college or Medical School should be on the Medical Board. All of Dr. Carla O'Day's decisions, and the cases she ran, have to be reviewed. Governor Taft tried to start this in 2005, but the review was internal, and no physician who has had to disagree with Dr. O'Day was allowed to testify - the results were not conclusive, but they were not good, and nothing more has been done to right the wrongs that Dr. O'Day did. All her cases from the 1990s have to be externally reviewed - she lied about colleagues as her way of getting ahead. Since Medical School she's done this - which is why she's not on staff at University Hospitals of Cleveland. But she's gone after the physicians that she couldn't go after in Medical School while on the Medical Board.
But the naivete of Governor Kasich is astounding. The false cases continue, there are stack of physicians without licenses for no real reason except that they disagreed with someone powerful, and the mess is getting bigger every day.