Governor John Kasich promised to reform the State Medical Board practices and licensure of quasi-qualified physicians to do patient mayhem. His solution - to appoint his campaign contributors to the 'prestigious' Board - real estate developers, media mogul spouses, etc - all seats going for the 'auction' contribution of somewheres $25,000 = relatively cheap payback. Considering the power, the appointments should go for at least $50,000 - and the recent appointees were just contributors that he couldn't award with a more 'social' service appointment - to the Ohio Real Estate Board (licensing realtors) or the Republican Spin Doctors Board?
These lay persons - who could be RNs who have been legislators, academic PhDs, and other more qualified candidates (all of Ohio to pick from) - have access to physician & patient confidential information, complaints, and medical information on physicians - they make decisions about cases, medical care standards, hospital and medical facility credentialing. These Ohio Medical Board decisions are not able to be reviewed externally, because everything is 'confidential' - so that the physicians don't know the case against them - and the cases can involve patients or not involve patients - it's not about patient care, it's about politics.
And no one knows what 'law' is ever invoked; impairment is everything from disagreeing about bad care to not referring enough surgical patients to a 'friend of the Medical Board physician' - the minutes are 'confidential, ' the deals are 'confidential.' And this is only Ohio - even Texas has reformed things (Senator Eklund) somewhat regarding 'confidential' physician complaints. Physicians with their licenses under suspension are exhorted to refer to the 'right' physicians, ie friends of Board Members (and real estate developers, etc). The lay Members don't have training in law (Mr. Dick is supposed to supply that angle), ethics, Medical Management (an easy degree) - they have $.
HIPAA does not apply to State Medical Boards, and I don't see Governor Kasich, or Mr.'Dick' Whitehouse, giving their medical information to these people. However well-qualified they are in their chosen fields, they are not qualified to be lay-people on the State Medical Board with votes on physician licenses. Some of them didn't get into Medical School, others had no interest in anything medical - just power. But putting the media spouses on the Board, to do the 'spin' on the false physician disciplines from 'confidential' complaints where colleagues complained after they goofed on a physician's care, or didn't get their personal needs met by that woman physician - is not ok. The media mogul's spouse is now supposed to 'discipline' the woman physician who said 'No' to Dr. Nice & Keith - when she obviously said 'Yes' to a monied husband and didn't bother to go to Medical School. Women who have collected for their 'Yes' are on that Board - or Anita Steinbergh DO who no one in their 'right' Ohio mind would seduce. It's not about morals.
There need to be serious reforms at the State Medical Board of Ohio - and the names in this are just out of a soap opera - 'Dick' Whitehouse makes sure that Dr. Nice gets his potency needs met - that woman colleagues 'understand him because his ex-wife didn't, ' and Anita Steinbergh DO makes sure that it's all covered under the 'umbrella' of 'aequanimitas.' Even the State of Texas has reformed their 'confidential' physician complaint law - after the woman President of the Medical Board was having her husband complain 'confidentially' about her competition - and she was processing the complaints and voting to suspend the licenses - without patient complaints. Patients think that this is the way to go? To get vengeance, anonymous won't get a decision in court or the facts. Even Emily Thorne does it better.
The same is going on in Ohio as is/continues to go on in Texas.in Ohio, the legislative House Speakers from Householder, to Husted, to Buddish to Batchelder have tried to 'hide' the problem of the false cases (they admit the problem exists however & the number of false physician cases is at critical mass), disciplines & suspensions for spite, for not going along with bad care or making too much of bad care in Ohio - the legislators admit the problem but only want the cases opened in a limited way if at all - they don't care that someone lost a medical license that they worked hard for - Ohio can import physicians from any foreign country and regularly licenses more FMGs than Ohio grads - because they 'go along' and don't say anything. That's another of Governor Kasich's appointments to the Medical Board, FMGs - try the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, or Cincinnati - try a pediatrician - someone not totally into sex and of Ohio Medical culture - someone trained in Ohio who grew up here.
Allowing the wrong people access to physician and patient files, allowing Mr.'Dick' to be the person in charge, as the Executive Director of the State Medical Board, of going after woman MDs who don't put out for male colleagues ('dick' rules) - and allowing 'cases' where this is involved as legit - is not ok. The puns on this choice to go after women physicians for saying 'No' are just not even funny - but certainly someone has a sense of humor in Columbus - pick a Joseph, Tom or a John, Ron, Dave but not a Dick - who keeps up with his social websites but can't get back to physicians on his cell. If Dick were only not such a 'd*ck' - there might be a chance for patients, and woman MDs, in Ohio.
There are longstanding cases at the State Medical Board in Ohio that have absolutely nothing to do with patient care, the woman MD was a threat to patients only because she wouldn't refer enough to the Dr. Nice's - who take women to surgery preggers and do knee replacements where they hit the popliteal artery - putting the woman into shock, but getting huge fees for the hospital involved - you have to use the ICU, the vascular surgeons, the cardiologists (Dr. Botti), and the hospitalizations go weeks instead of days - fill those beds. A lot of bungled care in Ohio is to get a surgery - where the cast eats through the hand, or the fracture isn't reduced, or the replacement was put in the wrong way and got infected - how convenient - just like the Foley catheter with barbs on it to rip the urethra and 'get the guy back' - for not being a 'good' patient. It's a new saga - THE GOOD PATIENT. Medical care can be done in a way to 'look good, ' but be horribly wrong - but the Kasich Board Members will never figure that out - and Anita just hates women MDs - not her fault of course.
Governor Kasich can certainly do better by physicians, and might get more contributions from physicians if their licenses weren't being continually taken for saying that they can't agree to the bad care that goes on, or that care for themselves. When a physician doesn't want that care for themselves, but would sell it to a patient, it's not good care.
Making too much of bad care that the Medical Board in Ohio has decided to 'pass' on - as their 'friends' are doing it - is a reason for licensure suspension in Ohio - not in the law, but in the practice of an autonomous arbitrary Board with each Member out for themselves. Physicians, in becoming MDs, don't relinquish the power of consent to their medical care - that they have the 'right' to ask for consultations, referrals, and proper care in a timely manner without anyone getting back - without revenge as in the popular nighttime soap - for not wanting Dr. Nice care, Dr. Keith experimental, Dr. Lafferty blood work, etc.
The consent form should be also allowed for the Medical Board ordering of serial 'goes' at women physicians - serial psychiatric evaluations at non-medical sites ie above Chinese restaurants in rundown shopping centers, at Community Centers outside Columbus. These evaluations are done by physicians who can't find other work, and who promise the Medical Board to say or diagnose what the Medical Board wants - diagnosis by the real estate developer or the Republican media spin doctor's wife - just order another 'go.' The spin doctor's spouse is now a crucial vote as regards serial 'goes' at woman physicians - ugh!
It's one thing to say that it's ok if patients want this care, but another to force a trained physician to go along with bad care for themselves, or their patients, because of bad people on the State Medical Board. Women MDs do not have personality disorders because they say 'No' to fulfilling Dr. Nice's personals, to Dr. Keith's 'experimental' casts, to Dr. Lafferty saying that women physicians don't merit blood work as they just 'have problems with men, ' or to inappropriate appointees having access to their medical files full of mistakes, misinformation, and garbage - all the kitchen sink went into files in one physician's case - everything about anything except her medical fracture care. All the excuses are phrased in sexual, sexist, and crude terms - this crude writing goes into cases where the woman physicians are judged 'seductive' or that they 'asked for bad care' and bad boy behaviors. They couldn't do it better in porn writing = Ohio State Medical Board cases against women who say 'No.'
The legislators involved in Ohio case are also Governor Kasich appointees: Senator Eklund and 'Bridie' Matheney (who can't add the 'math' of this kind of corruption in terms of human suffering as long as she gets to have her husband and two kids). Senator Eklund is doing bills on Mexican immigrants getting to drive without Ohio licenses, and Matheney is concerned with cyber-security - neither are concerned with what is going on in physician offices and at Hillcrest Hospital - where physicians can walk around for 3 weeks begging for a cast for themselves while everyone laughs - including the Administrator that sold the hospital to the Cleveland Clinic for his future.
It's all in a day's work in Columbus, but that no one is doing anything about the 'confidential' physician complaint mess, or the quality of the Medical Board appointees (Members & Executive Directors). Ohio deserves better than what Dick is managing - with less of 'dick' innuendo and nonsense. Patient care is a serious responsibility, and a 'trust' that should not be taken lightly by a Governor who hasn't got a clue - and Representative Boehner thinks that Governor Kasich should be giving lessons to Washington D.C.? It's all a game of golf apparently - the Tiger kind.
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