Governor Kasich, and Mr. Whitehouse, need to stop the personal suspensions of Ohio medical licenses for physicians who disagreed with Carla O'Day MD, or her friends, angered her in some petty way in Medical School, or don't know what they did wrong as the situation is 'confidential' and doesn't involve the physician's patient care. That's why physician complaints can't be 'confidential' - the complaints that were co-authored, investigated, and run by Dr. O'Day in 1990-3 - cases still unresolved for lack of a case against the physician.
Earth to the State Medical Board: there are cases in the Cleveland area that the Cleveland area medical community can't solve - the physicians will never be rehabilitated in Cleveland medicine and the independent psychiatrists involved have said for years that these physicians can't work in Cleveland or in Ohio - because there are real personal hatreds, agendas, etc. Of medicine as practiced by certain practitioners in the Cleveland/NE Ohio area. NE Ohio is a difficult place, and a political place, to practice medicine.
The 'confidential' files have to be opened of those Cleveland cases, as was recommended in 1998-9, and there has to be an external review of all cases where Carla O'Day MD co-authored complaints of other physicians - cases where the physicians didn't have any patient complaints at issue. The Cleveland area physicians are not going to clean up the mess - the standards will have to change in Columbus about starting investigations into physicians for the conflicted reasons of Board Members. The Medical Board of Ohio is supposed to be about patient complaints - not colleague issues.
That's why physician complaints can't be 'confidential' in Ohio - the colleague complaint problem that then happens - because no one knows what the issues are then, and there's no procedural bail-out for the State Medical Board to admit that they made a mistake after the fact of being had for six figures times 5.
In making access for patients to anonymously file complaints against physicians, the State of Ohio has opened a Pandora's box of complaints by not well-meaning colleagues for funny, ridiculous, and non-patient care reasons - for the personal agendas of the Board Members and their friends.
No physician complaint should be anonymous, or 'confidential, ' in any state - the extreme education of a physician, and the complexity of medical care, merits that the physician be allowed to defend themselves out-in-the-open, and bring other witnesses to the situation before 20 years - whether Carla O'Day MD hates you or not, whether Anita Steinbergh DO hates you or not. And that hasn't been the case in Ohio for 20 years - the Board Members are political appointees and their agenda is political & self-serving. Lance Talmadge MD is on the Ohio Medical Board to make sure that Ohio legitimizes third trimester abortion; doesn't go after any physician doing abortions.
But the situation in at least one physician case should not be going on - and taxpayer's should not have paid over $500,000 for this false case - which was Carla O'Day MD's personal agenda with this colleague. It would have been less costly if Carla O'Day MD could have met with the physician and screamed and yelled at her for whatever - but she wouldn't and hasn't been willing to do so for 20 years - even for money for her time.
My first suggestion to Mr. Whitehouse is to mandate that Carla O'Day MD sits down with this physician and her attorney - who knows her husband - and see if things can get straightened out as it wasn't about this physician's patient care - she took the leftover patients that Carla O'Day MD threw at her from the ER at Hillcrest - the patients no one else would admit or take care of. It's a caste world in NE Ohio medicine, where only certain physicians take certain patients and the rest get the leftovers that don't promise big money. The Cleveland Clinic doing a radical cyctectomy nets $250,000 and the physicians tell the patients that upfront.
Even the Ohio Medical Board admits that the one case is a local Ohio fight, but won't know the half of it without opening the 'confidential.' The physician doesn't know how she angered Dr. O'Day - but it's something personal and 'confidential.' Ten psychiatrists won't be able to untangle it without the 'confidential' complaint and some truth - but it started about 30 years ago in Medical School for sure. The Ohio taxpayers & the Governor should not be playing along.
The fact is that medical licenses in Ohio have been taken for false complaints filed, or co-authored by Board Members, using the State Medical Board for their own purposes since 1990 = what was going on in Texas until 2011 is still going on in Ohio. And these particular Board Members then run the case against their classmate colleague physicians - to the death.
Carla O'Day MD (Streepy in Medical School), since 1990, has authored complaints against, and continued to manipulate cases, of physicians that she knew in Medical School - for personal reasons -where the physicians don't know what they did to deserve her misplaced interest five psychiatric evaluations later.
If Carla O'Day MD's divorce papers (her marriage to Magistrate Streepy) were not sealed, there would be ample reasons for not allowing her to be an author of colleague MD complaints - her credibility, her nastiness, and motives are never called into question in Columbus. It's questionable if any MD should have behaved as she did during her divorce. And Governor Taft tried to get at this in but the physicians involved with her false complaining were not allowed to testify at the investigation - so the investigation was 'inconclusive.'
The fact is that it has been legal for State Medical Board Members in Ohio to author complaints against physician colleagues, without patient issues or patient complaints, and to do the 'dirty' investigations of these colleagues, without normal due process - to put these 'cases' ahead of other cases with multiple patient complaints. The money is provided.
It has been legal for Ohio State MD licenses to be taken for 'making too much of bad medical care' done in part by a Medical Board Member's ER, and her friends (Carla) - because she was multi-tasking and not running things in any good way. Carla O'Day MD is not stupid, but always doing too many things, and with too many commitments (2 husbands, 5 children, two careers, multiple attempts at residency training, dragging colleagues into court for calling her to get her to discuss, etc).
Carla O'Day MD didn't have the training, or the maturity, to be on the State Medical Board in 1990-2. But she did know the Celestes, and Governor Celeste used her to micromanage his wife - wrong choice for wrong reasons. Governor Celeste should have straightened out his marriage, and the gender identity issues of his then wife, before running for Governor - it wasn't a secret that there were problems - and Carla O'Day MD couldn't straighten them out, but she used things for her personal agendas.
Problem: Dr. O'Day won't ever sit down and discuss things - so you can find out how to NOT interfere with her program - even when asked by other 'friend' physicians and offered payment to sit down and discuss - because the arguments are making a mess of the State Medical Board and costing the taxpayers money to train physicians that she then trashes.
Carla O'Day MD (Streepy) - and putting this on the web was not anyone's first choice - got into Medical School at Case Western Reserve University under a 'special' program - where the Deans for awhile admitted students from other 'tracks' of training (nurses, social workers, lawyers, Case professors of whatever, etc.) thinking that they would make good physicians for some reason. It was an attempt to make medicine more broad thinking.
So Carla O'Day MD (Carla Streepy), when admitted to Medical School was a prison social worker by educational choice & job training - and didn't take half the science classes that most of the other students had taken before she got admitted - her admission to Medical School was 'special' - she was put ahead of other straight science major students in the selection process.
Carla Streepy had street smarts, and a tough side, and used this when more straight-arrow students irked her that they studied and took the classes seriously - which she didn't. As the librarians pegged Carla Streepy, she was a 'political' student - admitted for political reasons and never quite buying the gestalt of Medical School - so she never finished a residency in anything although she started several. Retraining professionals doesn't always work.
Carla O'Day (Streepy) MD regularly skipped classes at Case Western Reserve University Medical School, made fun of 'straight' students, and didn't fit the 'bill' of being an older wiser student who could have helped the classes that she was part of - she didn't bring the 'maturity' factor and the Deans soon found that out.instead of being the married mother of 5, she was on the prowl like a new-age Demi Moore, competing with other woman students for the attention of fellow students nearer her children's age.
Because what is now the Celeste Research Building was in planning stages & then under construction, and state monies were involved, Carla Streepy (later O'Day) manipulated the situation at the Medical School.in fact she got away with more not doing things the 'right' way than most - because she knew people - like Governor Kasich she had a book of contacts.
Per one source, she would threaten the Deans and she lied about things causing patient problems on the wards. At times, meeting up with male fellow physicians who wanted to 'kill' her for making a mess of a patient's care, you had to do the woman-thing and calm the waters. It wasn't the 'physician children' medical students who got away with things, it was the very crooked-arrow 'special' students, who had gotten admitted for all the wrong reasons, who got away with things at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ie not having to tow the mark and be a part of the Medical Student culture. So she apparently hated MD's children, for their being part of the culture and fitting in - but she didn't try.
The problem for the physician licenses of those that somehow wandered into her ER, or onto her radar in professional life, was that she parlayed things with the Celestes to a Medical Board Membership in 1990-3. And for ER job contracts, would then promise that the hospital, and certain physicians, would not be bothered by the State Medical Board. Her 'protection' was part of the ER subcontracting package. So certain physicians could then threaten that they had their own personal 'contact' on the State Medical Board in Ohio - which they did, and continue to have in her continued unofficial role at the Medical Board.
Special things were promised to certain Hillcrest physicians when Carla O'Day MD's group got the ER contract, and then she was made the Director of Emergency Services after certain Medical Board services.By ability, Carla Streepy O'Day MD is/was a social worker - that's the kind that don't do heavy science well, or appreciate those that do, and who don't manage ERs well unless they get some post-graduate training that isn't on-the-job.
The State Medical Board of Ohio needs to openly review all cases of physician discipline for not going along with Dr. Carla O'Day's agendas - those cases where the physician was judged impaired in a local fight of personalities without patient complaints.
There are apparently more than one of these cases in the stack of false physician suspensions and disciplines - cases where the investigation was even a waste of money but politically (monetarily for Carla O'Day MD) motivated.
Mr. Whitehouse, the Cleveland Medical Community is not going to straighten out these cases that were manipulated by Dr. Carla O'Day MD. And her lack of credibility, if you consider her messy divorce and piles of problems with male colleagues - to the point where she could not finish a residency program - does not qualify her to author, run, or further manipulate physician cases at the State Medical Board of Ohio - her influence needs to be over - as Governor Taft tried to effect.
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