Complaint Review: Governor John Kasich Ohio

Governor Kasich has spent almost 4 years defending horrible practices, and frauds, at the Ohio State Medical Board - where the Board will put into public records that a woman MD did not 'deserve' a cast on a fracture because she was too 'seductive.'  Governor Kasich doesn't bother to read the crap, he just defends it - which is even stupider. 

The Ohio Medical Board will spend 3 days of testimony, at huge legal expense to taxpayers, discussing a woman MD's 'dates,' because her patient care is above reproach.  They have to 'find' a case because the Medical Board suspended her license for hypothetical provisional that didn't pan out - because there is no due process in Ohio at the Medical Board - it's all for the Governor's 'pleasure.'  The Board wasted the time of a national psychiatric expert on this - for 3 days to discuss the sexual experiences of a woman MD to a salacious bunch of government employees - who got paid to question about a woman MD's sexual experiences. This was pertinent to her patient care?  This expert from NYC that told the Medical Board to stop this rot in 1995 - that case continues because Governor Kasich can't set priorities and standards.  It's for his 'pleasure.' 

Mr. Whitehouse is gone, but the abuses continue - same old, same old.  Women MDs are the stats of bad MDs for the Ohio Board, even when they practice better than average Internal Medicine for Ohio, and have no patient complaints.  Someone has to be disciplined, so it has to be the woman who refused Dr. Nice?  That's a Medical Board case because his wife's family has money?  That's a personal choice, not a state issue.  But Governor Kasich, along with Dr. Nice, doesn't understand the difference - a personal refusal is not a state reportable & disciplinable event.  Nor is it a national event for reporting to the Physician Data Bank. 

'Seductive' when begging for a cast, when she couldn't even comb her hair at the time?  Orthopedics in Ohio, and Governors, must imagine sex where there is none.  The woman MD didn't deserve a license because she wouldn't refer to Dr. Nice, go along with hip-and-knee orthopedics doing wrist fractures, or 'experimental' casts with no evidence that they work?  Who would?  Just because an immature orthopedic at University Hospitals wanted to try it for a publication paper - for his CV - the woman MD was supposed to do this experiment for his career or lose her medical license?  Who would go along with this except a 'talking head,' a robot, or a woman who has completely lost her moral compass = what the Medical Board of Ohio wants & rewards.  

Deans of Medical Schools did not put women MDs through 4 years of Medical School in Ohio to be glorified prostitutes doing anything that the boys want, imagine, or lust for because guys do this - male MDs are not saints.  Or to say 'Yes' to the Governor and have a license at his 'pleasure.'  The Deans did not mean that women MDs would be glorified 'yes' nurses, or male 'escorts' on Rounds.  Governor Kasich apparently thinks, without consultation on this, that a Medical Board that wants this free-for-all is ok - what Ohio wants for 4 more years?  And that means that he's lost his professionalism, his sense of service, and the thought that medicine is a service profession, not a sex provider service for its Members & 'friends.'   

Regarding one of the former Medical Board Members who made a mess in the 1990s: The Deans at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine had trouble with Carla O'Day MD, who Governor Celeste put on the Medical Board to go after her classmates - get back.  The reason - she played the 'Celeste card' through Medical School - skipping classes, flirting with male students when she was married (with 5 kids no less), and then she went after any classmate she remembered as disagreeing with her antics - taking licenses from 1990-3 that still aren't returned.  But Governor Kasich goes along like Governor Celester did, and there's been no review of these cases.  Every case that Carla O'Day MD voted on is suspicious for her 'getting back.'  Where's the common sense in this - letting a woman use the Medical Board for her revengagenda? 

The Deans of Ohio Medical Schools did not ever think that a woman MD would have to say 'Yes' to sex for a medical license in 2013, be able to be complained about 'anonymously' or 'confidentially' (that's asking for sex for licenses), or that they would be disciplined for saying 'No' in regards to issues & choices about their own medical care.  You just can't do what every guy wants, even Governors.  Yet Anita Steinbergh DO is of the make and model where women did this, except that she was too mean ugly to be asked to do the stuff that other women have tried to say 'No' to - she just votes to take their licenses for personal choices that have nothing to do with patient care.  

The woman MD is a threat to patients because she would try to intervene for them and prevent wrong care?  That a woman MD would say 'No' to stupid ideas, surgeries that don't work, jerks that want their egos massaged every minute of every day - is the stuff that women MDs are trained for - to be another point of view.  That a 'No' would be a reason to take a license for 'unknown mental illness,' is from the days when men would put women away for so-termed 'mental illness' so that they could marry again, or to collect the money. It's Victorian literature, to 'unknown mental illness' a career for a woman MD trying to keep a male MD from collecting an insurance fee, or billing, for an unneeded surgery or diagnosis. This is like Roman Empire 'ridiculous,' from the days when the Roman Emperors would be gods.  Women MDs are licensed at Governor Kasich's pleasure?  

The reason that women MDs got in to Medical Schools, in numbers starting in the 1970s, was that the Deans were tired of the boys being boys, but Governor Kasich isn't tired of it.  Women's rights had little to nothing to do with it - the men in power were tired of the abuses of colleague males and the stink of no showers, male hormones, and crude talk.  Governor Kasich wants people serving at this pleasure, like the male MDs want women colleagues 'at their pleasure' or no license.   

The Governor has failed to put some order at the Medical Board (1)continuing to reappoint Members who have already been there too long - Anita Steinbergh DO, (2) not allowing external review of the hundreds of false cases from his predecessors, and (3) appointing a Board that is a joke as to being able to discipline for negligences, or even define standards of care.  Anything that a 'friend' of a Medical Board Member does is defended, complaints about 'friends' are never seen or investigated. 

The Governor does not have a channel of external review of cases with no merit, no Executive Workforce that understands the problem, and he hangs up when women physicians call - he can't meet and discuss the problems with a woman MD for 5 minutes - but you can hear him laughing in the background. 

Deans of Medical Schools did not expect that women MDs would have to have 'aequanimitas' for the trash talk, for the seductive suggestions, for the patient mistakes and errors that were just because the boys were being boys.  Dean of Students Ken Scott, at Case Medical School, told us to improve things in the late 70s and early 80s - that he couldn't change things alone without help from the women students.  Deans of Medical Schools put women students through in order to have another point of view, to say something about the horrors that go on in the name of 'medical care.'  It's time that Governor Kasich started to help out women MDs.  If Governor Kasich can talk to patrons at Bob Evans, he should be able to spar with a woman MD with a MENSA IQ.  Too high for him?