Complaint Review: Governor John Kasich - Columbus Ohio

Orthopedics in Ohio get a free ticket to abuse women patients: they can cast whenever they want, without cast padding so that the cast eats through the skin and they get a procedure (or flesh-eating bacteria), they can cast without training for that fracture (hip-and-knee guys can do wrist fractures - outside their area of expertise - and botch them), and the Members of the State Medical Board go along because it is their 'friends' doing this bad care. 

So when you complain, the complaint goes to the orthopedic for him & his neighbors to counter-complain - AGAINST STATE LAW.  But who cares about the State Medical Board of Ohio breaking State Law?  Certainly not Governor Kasich - he only goes after 'pill mills.' 

When the woman MD doesn't like the orthopedic eating pizza while caring for her fracture, not casting in the correct alignment, with the correct reduction or materials, then she gets ordered to multiple serial psychiatric evaluations to 'find a case' against her. 

The hospital in question - Meridia Hillcrest - did not have the correct equipment in the ER to reduce this fracture.  The orthopedic would cast in the ER because he did so few hand and upper extremity fracture that he did not STOCK THE CASTING MATERIALS IN HIS OFFICE - too lazy.  This is done to women MDs with NO PATIENT COMPLAINTS. 

Outpatient care is ok, but not if the MD can't stock the materials to do the care, have the right equipment to set the fracture, or the 'right' help.  Wrist fractures in the past REQUIRED at least over-night hospitalization - the reductions often slip-out and have to be re-reduced.  The 'help' in most Ohio physician offices is untrained, and worse than in any law office (where you have to have extensive computer skills).  This goes for University Suburban Green Road office also - where the 'help' are not trained medical assistants or anything close.  Ponsky, Stellato, and Lacey don't have 'good' help - they botch what the physicians don't.      

One case at the Medical Board has gone on for 20 years, 7 ordered evaluations without a 'case,' and over $500,000 spent in a 'fishing expedition' - without changing the ADMITTEDLY BAD ORTHOPEDIC PRACTICES AND CARE IN OHIO.  There are some fractures that STILL NEED OVERNIGHT CARE because of extensive bleeding, angulation, or the bone problems of the patient.  There were no vital signs ever taken on the woman MD except at Mayo Clinic.   

Governor Kasich thinks this is 'funny' too - just like his Medical Board, ie to order a woman MD to evaluations and discuss her dating history, sexual preferences, and why she didn't like Dr. Nice.  She didn't 'like' Dr. Nice because he was supposed to do orthopedics, not a flirtation - he was married with 2 children like Rupert Sanders and in the POSITION OF POWER.  Dr. Nice's wife - who works for Howard Hanna and puts on her resume that she married an orthopedic - went along.  The woman MD never 'touched' Dr. Nice - he was bald, fat, paunchy, and short = the prototype of every Ohio orthopedic includes one or more of the 3 attributes. 

The hip-and-knee guy should have referred the fracture to one of the hand orthopedics - but the woman MD did not 'deserve' care if she did not like his care.  Who's kidding who that this guy is a bit PATHOLOGIC and needs some attitude readjustment?  Orthopedics don't have to be TEAM PLAYERS, but women MDs do.   

The woman MDs of Ohio deserve better; a Governor who cares, and is at least AWARE of what is going on at the State Medical Board of Ohio.  Ohio taxpayers should not be funding this abuse of women MDs for 20 years or more.  This is not the job of Brad Reynolds in Constituent Affairs - he hasn't a clue.

The problem is gross abuse of power by male practitioners, and globally poor care of women patients by male physicians who then expect the Medical Board to 'mop up' their orthopedic mistakes by suspending the woman MD's license - so that she can get Board ordered therapy by a 'right' Ohio physician to accept the bad orthopedic care in Ohio.  All cases not having patient complaints, and going on over 2 years at the State Medical Board of Ohio, need EXTERNAL REVIEW.  There is no statute of limitations at the Ohio State Medical Board - false cases can go on without ever getting dismissed - and the funding is NEVER QUESTIONED. 

The lies that Drs. Nice & Keith put on the chart should have been recognized by a second grader, or at least a fifth grader, but definitely by the Members of the State Medical Board of Ohio.  Accepting just any complaint, not matter how blatant the lies & misstatements, is not ok for an ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD.  There's supposed to be some maturity of judgement in Members of a State Medical Board.  Then the Ohio Medical Board only approves psychiatric experts that will tell them what they want to hear - no matter how much cheating or fabrication of diagnoses. 

That's not psychiatry, and the inability of a hip-and-knee guy to correctly assess, or set, a wrist fracture is just common sense.  Dr. Nice was asked to call the Hand Orthopedic Department of the Cleveland Clinic as he had trained there - he refused because the woman MD did not deserve this care and he didn't HAVE TO CALL - she had to refer herself with HIS temporary cast on?