Most states have abuse laws where you can't leave a patient being abused without reporting the situation.in Ohio if you report bad orthopedic or medical care, you have your license pulled for 'making too much of bad care;' for seeing the abuse and problems that you were trained to correct. As in the HG Wells Country of the Blind story, in Ohio any sight means that you need counseling.
There are no medical mistake laws, so mistakes happen and are covered up. Not reporting something that has no real material effect is one thing, looking the other way while fractures don't have casts and patients aren't allowed blood work is another - even for a medical license. No neglect is too bad to look the other way for in Ohio - it's the country of the blind.
Everything at the State Medical Board of Ohio is 'confidential' - so bad care is covered up for friends of Board Members. Against state law, friend physicians get their patient complaints and counter-complain or go after the complainer's license - so the care is never improved. Physicians that can't do medical, orthopedic, or surgical care can do counter-complaints against colleagues than can.
Women MDs are not allowed proper casting of fractures (because they are 'seductive' that way), physical therapy, blood work or a medical license if they don't like the game. Dr. Angelo Licata is now withholding care of bone problems so that the Cleveland Clinic shoulder department can get more fractures - and it's working - he just orders a yearly TSH and a biennial vitamin D if the woman physician complains - and the women MDs continue to fracture with that care. Is that what Dr. Licata is teaching medical students? One hopes not - because someone deserves better care and a better workup in 2012. And the insurances will pay for better care if one has a moment to do it in between continuous drug company dinners and lectures. But the Cleveland Clinic doesn't want that money - they just want the procedural monies.
That's how the Cleveland Clinic gets their business; let the patient fracture is the mantra - the medical students & residents need the experience seeing fractures that should be prevented in 2012. The black help will help by watching while women MDs try to move 300lb OR beds for 'kicks' - it's 'prejudice' to have maintenance do their jobs. The bone meds are for the drug company honorarium talks - not women MDs.
Three metabolic bone physicians does not get one treated at Cleveland Clinic; more cost-effective to do nothing - they won't interfere. Dr. Chad Deal will let women MDs fracture no matter how high the Fracture Index - he does only what the Medical Board tells him to do without a second thought or even a first. Women physicians just have to have 'aequanimitas' about this - per Anita Steinbergh DO - a Medical Board Member who needs a mental status exam - needed one 20 years ago before she got appointed to the State Medical Board. And she will probably be reappointed this year for a fifth term, as Governor Kasich hasn't a clue.
The situation at the State Medical Board of Ohio is Kafkaesque and critical - where women physicians are supposed to get treated so that they don't notice that the orthopedic is not thinking correctly, and hasn't ordered any cast material - just a party tray from a local deli. Cast padding, Dr. Nice saves that for the polo ponies - and the elderly patients that he mostly cares for don't notice the difference.
The ERs run by Dr. Carla O'Day's Emergency Service just put women physicians in conference rooms and make them watch the orthopedics and staff eat pizza. Dr. O'Day knows where to get good pizza. Dr. O'Day was on the State Medical Board for awhile in the 1990s, and no care is too bad for a colleague of hers from Medical School. Dr. O'Day wants her competitors continually psychiatrically evaluated at state expense = every classmate's dream of getting back at the A student who can pass the tests that no one else can (creepy Streepy) = state subsidized bullying of women physicians who just want a life. Carla O'Day MD is one toned bully.
There are many problems, and many mistakes in Ohio care, but leaving fractures uncasted, bone conditions untreated, and punishing women physicians by making them take Rorschach inkblot tests where the answers are not recorded, publishing diagnoses on them that don't exist and that they have no criteria for, and continuing to let them fracture without treatment of a serious bone condition that they have — needs to stop. But Dr. Licata isn't going to treat the bone condition. This isn't about ethics, it is just plain stupid.
The evaluations of women MDs produce diagnoses that don't exist, which are published at state cost on the Medical Board's website - where nothing is too false to leave out-of-print. Women MDs are continually overtested at every juncture in Medical School and training - so having any new findings of psychiatric fact would be pretty suspect if any Medical Board Member thought about it; but how many times can a woman physician be psychiatrically evaluated and tested in Ohio? - the number is over 5.
Rorschachs shouldn't be ordered at local shopping plazas above Chinese restaurants, and evaluations of women physicians shouldn't be done at Columbus day care community centers in the play rooms. And no state, or court, uses Rorschach testing anymore - it's medieval - but not in Ohio. Governor Kasich doesn't know this however - he's still trying to figure things out; he knows how to manage a State Medical Board? First off, you don't let everything be 'confidential' or things are really screwed up.
Governor Kasich campaigned to fix the horrendous problems at the State Medical Board of Ohio - and so far he's done nothing but make things worse. And physicians are dying because of it, call his office to ask that he please look at the problems, and he's doing nothing - the contact is Brad Reynolds (talking head #1).
There is a stack of false Medical Board cases that were all supposed to be opened in 1999 for REFORMS. There are physicians with licenses suspended for nothing more than objecting to the admittedly wrong of themselves by practitioners totally 'out to lunch' about anything regarding women's medical care.
There is no other State Medical Board that does these things. Physicians are trained to recognize wrong vs right care, and to say something to save patients or themselves - not to lose their licenses for trying to stop ADMITTEDLY bad care and behaviours. Someone needs to clue in Governor Kasich that women with fractures are not 'seductive.'
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