Maybe if Governor Kasich were not so busy expecting to be figured out, he might have noticed the abuses of the 'confidential' complaint at the State Medical Board of Ohio - an abusive system needing reforms for decades as colleagues go after their competition 'confidentially.' And not one legislator seems to get the game. Earth to Governor Kasich, you might need to be understand your kids instead of them trying to understand you = adult behavior = Psychology 101 in college (maybe not in Ohio).
If a woman MD wants to marry a certain guy MD, or have an affair d'coeur, a guy MD who's interested in some other woman MD - just file a complaint against that woman MD at the State Medical Board and her life will be ended as she knows it - just like Carla O'Day MD did in the early 1990s when she was apparently into Dr. Nice. Because those 'confidential' complaints are just changed until some case is found, even if originally it wasn't a case - that physician's life will never be the same or get back to her Fellowship in St. Louis.
The Medical Board of Ohio has no way to dismiss a false case that they have acted on, so they never give up and mandate that you admit their lies or never have a license again. Board Members & legislators, and case workers, tell you to lie - and it depends what the lies are - if you can sign them, say them without choking, or live with them.
Just ask Jim Trakas how many times these 'confidential' complaints are changed - he's now in the business of doing it at the Ohio Cosmetology Board. If Carla O'Day MD couldn't have a life, then no one deserved a life, and if she couldn't study, then other women MDs were to have their licenses suspended to level the playing field. 'Confidential' colleague physician complaints are the new age way to go at your competition - and they are very effective in Ohio. And they were in Texas until just recently - when the Medical Board was sued for this.
Anyone that Carla O'Day MD ('Streepy' in Medical School) hated was 'confidentialed' in the early 1990s, when she was a Medical Board Member. And Carla collected for these vendettas from Hillcrest Hospital and maybe other health care system facilities - she was the 'goto' gal to fix bad care things that the guys did at Hillcrest - and she was rewarded with the ER Directorship. NO ONE DENIES THIS. Dr. Anita Steinbergh, who thinks that women MDs should understand males with 'aequanimitas,' is her successor in this practice; she didn't get into medical school so she likes going at women MDs who did, and she's not to blame for anything.
Dr. Carla O'Day got on the State Medical Board because she could 'handle' Mrs. Celeste, and Governor Celeste didn't have a clue; she was the 'pillow-talk appointee' and the Senate Health Committee approved her. . .as they have continued to re-approve Anita Steinbergh DO four times (20 years on the State Medical Board this year), and Governor Kasich will probably re-approve her again. There are no term limits, and credentials don't count - just read the New York Times bestseller list and be glued to your cell phone if anyone asks a question.
Maybe if Governor Kasich wasn't so needy he would have time to consider and appoint someone new to the State Medical Board of Ohio - a campaign promise not made good on. Maybe he should talk with Anita Steinbergh DO, or try having a dinner conversation with the pro bona 3rd trimester abortion guy Dr. Lance Talmadge.
To understand, rather than to be understood, is part of the St. Francis prayer - it is adult behavior that the Governor has yet to set a standard for. Male physicians then want to be 'understood,' and 'figured out,' and the Medical Board of Ohio expects that women MDs will do this for male colleagues -who don't have to do medicine, refer, consult or send records - they have 'friends.' Women physicians must use Oslerian 'aequanimitas' to deal with male MDs and their outrageous comments & demands, and if William Osler knew about this misuse of his term - he would projectile vomit from the grave.
Dr. Timothy Nice (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) is an example, he expects that women MDs and patients 'understand' him as his wife (or ex) doesn't. The office staff tells you this nonsense - while they smoke and party. And his wife has him figured out, but the women MDs have their licenses taken for this in Ohio - the 'confidential' complaint that he files about them. Dr. Nice doesn't have to refer, consult, cast (cast padding goes to the polo ponies), send records, or discuss - he has 'friends' on the State Medical Board - and he does - no one denies this. And he's still practicing - a disgrace. Mr. Whitehouse defends him for 6-figures plus in Ohio taxpayer monies. Dr. Nice can get any women MD's license suspended that he wants; Anita Steinbergh DO & Lance Talmadge MD are two of his many friends.
Making too much of admittedly bad care - which shouldn't be going on in any state - is a reason to suspend a medical license in Ohio. Noticing bad care is an 'impairment' in Ohio - where there are no medical mistake laws. Instead of getting himself figured out, Governor Kasich should have figured this out, by himself, and put through medical mistake laws. Male physicians get their 'confidential' complaints so that they can get back; just like in Texas where the Board gave a male physician the complaint of two nurses and he went after them. But in Ohio this is legal - you can beat a woman MD up in an office at MetroHealth.
The Texas Medical Board has had to stop abuses of the physician anonymous and 'confidential' complaint system. Their Board President, just like Carla O'Day in 1990-93, was using the 'confidential' complaint system to have her husband complain about her competition - it was completely legal. Carla O'Day MD would sign the complaints herself, as a Medical Board Member, against classmates from CWRU Medical School - complaints that she expedited - nothing better to do?
But if Governor Kasich would give good example maybe some of this might stop, and maybe he would have noticed the problems at the State Medical Board that he needed to be focused on so that a woman physician wasn't continuing to fracture from so-termed 'psychiatric' bone problems - a colleague 'confidential' complaint suspension. When male physicians can't cast your fractures, or order the blood work, they get your medical license suspended. When Governor Kasich can't get anything passed, he's just misunderstood.
Everything at the State Medical Board of Ohio needs a new right Ohio psychiatrist - no blood work is allowed for women physicians, no casts, no family life, and no 'figuring out' - that's only for males in Ohio. Thyroid problems - the woman physician doesn't 'deserve' blood work per the ex-Executive Director Tom Dilling.
And thyroid problems are ubiquitous in Ohio for some reason, and they can go to papillary cancer of the thyroid - but who cares as the State Medical Board hopes that women physicians who don't sleep with Dr. Nice just die of the fractures or the untreated thyroiditis. It's not about fair, it's about statistics.
If the Governor had immediately unconfidentialed all the unresolved cases - they would ALL be over at this time. Because most of these 'cases' are blatantly false - just no knows what the case about - including the Ohio Court of Appeals - to dismiss permanently. There's no oversight of the State Medical Board; no review of their decisions and cases - it's all 'confidential' like oil company bids were in Alaska at one time. There's been a 'stack' of false MD suspensions & disciplines since 1999 - some former classmates of Dr. O'Day - but Governor Kasich expects to be figured out instead of figuring things out for himself. Does he need a tutor?
If the Governor would just grow up, maybe the male MDs, and the State Medical Board decisions, would 'grow' up. In the meantime, stacks of careers are wasted on decisions made on 'confidential' that can't be verified or see the light of any review panel. Hearings are endless, findings of fact get stupider and more ridiculous on round #2, even when the Ohio Court of Appeals throws the case out. But the loss of careers, lives, and other adults being able to have a life and give understanding is the tragedy.