Complaint Review: Anita M. Steinbergh D.O. - Westerville Ohio

Anita Steinbergh DO has been on the State Medical Board for almost 20 years.  Her 'best' case is taking the medical license of a women MD for objecting to the wrong care of herself and reporting the problems in care - that her fractures were left uncasted, unreduced, without padding, without x-rays, until the fractures collapsed.  And no blood work was allowed - because the Medical Board Members don't know about blood work.  This woman MD lost her license for this, objecting to the wrong care of herself, and only reported things after months of lies, bad care, and lost blood work.  University Hospitals physicians goofed, Dr. Nice goofed, and Dr. Suppes & Dr. Robert Botti tried to cover it up by alleging that the woman MD had 'dementia' - when she tests a MENSA IQ.

Anita Steinbergh DO basically hates women MDs - we are not allowed care or a life, or to argue with her.  She can't hold her own in a conversation with a women MD - she has to be right.  When you meet with her she tells you what books to read (ICEBOUND), how to think, what you should have (a nice bipolar personality for the Medical Board stats - when you have no criteria), that you should feel 'sorry' for Mrs. Nice (who finally separated from Dr. Nice), that she is not responsible for you being threatened by male MDs who goofed, and that you should lie for her to get your MD back and get back to work.  Licenses are taken for decades while she changes the 'confidential' complaint.  When she can't do anything - because you won't lie for her - she gets on her cell phone and walks away.  And what lies will cover this up? 

And she teaches DO medical students this.  Dr. Steinbergh has no differential diagnosis about a women's medical problem.  No blood work is allowed women MDs who complain about the boys being boys at the Medical Board.  None.  She doesn't know about thyroid function tests, that thyroid disease can cause bone problems, or what thyroid tests to order before your get your medical license taken.  Women MDs get their licenses taken and they don't need blood work.  You can't discuss that you didn't get lab work with her - it doesn't exist. 

The differential diagnosis of multiple fractures without stress is long: thyroid disease, multiple myeloma, malignancy, parathyroid disease, etc.  Fractures are not a psychiatric disorder - except at the State Medical Board of Ohio.  And yet NONE of this was done, or allowed, for a woman physician whose license she has voted against for almost 20 years - she had to have a personality problem because she would not refer to Dr. Nice or go along with his bogus care. 

And the medical students she works with should ask why a white woman physician, with more training than Dr. Steinbergh, should not be allowed blood work and fracture care by a tertiary center orthopedic who knows about bone disease - not a hack who does hips and knees when he can get them at Hillcrest Hospital in suburban Cleveland.  And Dr. Nice is a hack who was asked to only temporarily cast and refer - because he doesn't do wrist fractures enough.  Dr. Nice was kicked out of Geauga Hospital before 1990, for abuses of trying to care for orthopedic problems that he had no experience with - like wrist fractures.

Dr. Steinbergh has mandated 6 psychiatric evaluations, or goes, on this woman.  Won't listen to Andrew Skodol MD - who did every test on her in 1995-6; Dr. Skodol only co-writes the DSM.  Dr. Steinbergh would not allow Dr. Skodol to do thyroid function tests and a medical workup; he had to give the Medical Board a report sans anything medical - so that the case could be fixed.  When Dr. Steinbergh wants, everything is 'psychiatric,' and your grade with be that way if you don't go along.  But you will not learn anything.  Yes her only crime was trying to go to the orthopedic offices to discuss that something 'else' was wrong as symptoms, and fractures, kept occurring.

Dr. Steinbergh needs to grow up and learn a differential diagnosis, allow women MDs a practice and a life, and stop mandating Dr. Nice care for women MDs - who don't want to be 'easy' for his personal needs.  Dr. Nice still has a license, still inflicts his personals on colleagues, and still does very bad orthopedic care.  Yes, this woman MD was naive - but that was all she was guilty of.  And she asked Nice & Keith, & Botti to refer her to the Hand Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic or University.  Because getting through the gauntlet of the hospital ERs is very difficult - and she knew what she fractured.  This woman MD has a phone number, but this is not psychiatric.  She does not need a seventh psychiatric evaluation with DR. RESNICK - who does criminal forensic psychiatry, not women's health - she needs treatment of her bone & thyroid problem - by someone who knows how to do it and is not threatened by the State Medical Board of Ohio.