Complaint Review: Governor John Kasich Ohio - Columbus Ohio

Referrals to friends of Medical Board Members are mandated conditions of medical licensure, or re-licensure, in Ohio under Governor Kasich - as it has been under Governors Strickland, Taft, Voinovich and Celeste.  It's a boy's club in Columbus. 



Anita Steinbergh DO has been present at every discussion of this in a particular case, at the State Medical Board of Ohio, since 1993 - that this woman has to 'refer to Dr. Nice' for her medical license and doesn't she feel sorry for his wife?  Well, 'No' on the referrals (can't do as it sets a dangerous precedent for other women physicians even if the women DOs will do it without a thought), and 'No' on feeling sorry for the equally pathologic wife - who goes along with Dr. Nice preying on the neighbor's kids for personal attentions & understanding.  Keeping a husband from 'hitting' on the neighborhood is a wife's job - and even Tiger Wood's wife finally got the message.



The woman MD, not being a stupid DO, has refused for 19 years to do this, and almost thrown up at the suggestion that she do so after what she reported about Dr. Nice to the State Medical Board.  The lawyers have been equally shocked, appalled & astounded at what physicians will do to other physicians - they thought that physicians had to have some ethics. 



From taking money 'off the top,' to starting a procedure without checking the bone saw, or that this is a procedure that he has ever done before - if you name it - it has happened with Dr. Nice.  And Hillcrest Hospital does not require that Dr. Nice demonstrate either (1) competency in a procedure or specific fracture care (number of cases & results), or (2) show on a checklist that Dr. Nice has ever done that specific operative procedure, or care, before even ONCE.  There needs to be a moment of pause built into Dr. Nice care.   



This woman physician had a list of reasons that she could not continue to refer to Dr. Nice - including that he does not have to consult, refer or send medical records because he has 'friends' on the State Medical Board of Ohio, and that he wants you to 'understand' him as his wife doesn't/didn't.  That's a no-brainer comment as to what is really going on; even a second-grader would get that that thought or suggestion doesn't sound 'right' - and refuse to take a ride home with Dr. Nice.  And the woman physician's malpractice insurance said 'no more' Dr. Nice referrals or consultations - or they couldn't cover her stupidity and bad judgment. 



How many cases does Dr. Nice have to botch before it's bad care that the Medical Board can admit, how many woman physicians have to have their medical licenses taken for finally saying something?  And having about 12 patients screaming to you about Dr. Nice this-and-that, is enough to drive any sane MD to try to go to his office to try to discuss - which is not capital crime, or shouldn't be, or a reason for medical licensure suspension in Ohio - Dr. Nice has had patient family members at his house in Gates Mills trying to shoot him with good reason.     



When Dr. Nice leaves a fracture uncasted, or cuts a popliteal artery during a routine knee replacement surgery, it is the referring MD who hears about it, and who gets co-named in the suit - the women MD who wrote the surgical clearance because that patient's regular internist wouldn't when he heard that Dr. Nice was going to be the surgeon.  Earth to Anita, Earth to Lance, Earth to John Kasich - come in please! 



The Ohio State Medical Board should not be setting any conditions of specific 'right' physician referrals with medical licensure - that is an insurance, surgeon record and training, patient and family decision - not the MD doing the medical clearance by-default's decision.  It's a condition that can't be met, and then can be used to take that women physician's license again - for not doing the Ohio conditions.  Governor Kasich doesn't GET THIS? 



When they can't find a 'case' against a particular physician at the State Medical Board of Ohio, they set unreasonable 'conditions' for re-licensure; when you can't meet the conditions, they have their case that they couldn't prove or get the physician to admit.  It's a nasty Board; prisons have better standards for admission.  But, there's no MD/DO who can guarantee so many referrals to 'right' Ohio physicians, and no woman MD should have that condition put into her licensure equation and conditions - and certainly under Governor New-Age Kasich = the equivalent of California's Governor Brown and Rhode Island's Governor Chafee = the moonbeam crowd beamed back to Earth. 



This is fraud, and all involved KNOW that it is fraud = the referring to Dr. Nice.  But Anita Steinbergh DO can do 20 years of fraud because everything is 'confidential' at the State Medical Board of Ohio - and you can't tape these meetings so that the Governor can know what is REALLY being discussed, and he doesn't attend the meetings to SEE what is going on.  And who would want to; listening to these meetings once, or being present at several of them, just sends the lawyers to Columbus bars questioning any sanity or justice in Ohio - people that usually don't like to drink are suddenly questioning the Kafkaesque in the weirdest places.  The lawyers can't stand the illegality of the discussions at the State Medical Board of Ohio - they don't want to go near the State Medical Board of Ohio buildings even to file appeals - they'd rather be fired.

 

Governor Kasich you need to do something about what Anita Steinbergh DO, and friends, expect of women physicians before they license, or re-license, them in Ohio.  Listen in on a few Ohio Board meetings & discussions - or send equally useless Brad.  If you want to seek care with Dr. Nice, that is your problem, but most patients won't go near his office or staff.  And if you want to insist that women physicians refer to certain 'right' Ohio male physicians - maybe you could run for Governor in another state?  But don't take your daughters near these guys or you might be questioned for child abuse.