Medical licensure in Ohio should not be about what the woman physician chooses for her own medical care, or if she has to disagree about what she feels from her training is sloppy medical, gyn or orthopedic practices that she doesn't want for herself - but that's what Governor Kasich has continued. And Ohio care is sloppy for women patients.
The Medical Board of Ohio admittedly 'cheats' on physician discipline cases and licensure suspensions - by not having the facts, the criteria, or allowing the legal due process. There's a lot of drinking at the Ohio State Medical Board in Columbus - down the street from 77 South High Street, and in the Medical Board's own expensive building - the legislators are all stacked at high rise 77 so that no one will attend Medical Board sessions.
Physicians in Ohio, particularly women, are not allowed what is termed 'care-to-function' before their medical licenses are suspended - or even after the suspension until they agree to the Ohio Medical Board's solution & resolutions - suspensions for disagreeing about not getting that care-to-function in Ohio. Care-to-function means a new right Ohio psychiatrist in Ohio - six times if necessary - while the blood work is continually not allowed or lost. The lay Members that Governor Kasich has selected wouldn't know malpractice from practice - they have no training in that.
Mr. Tom Dilling, and currently Mr. Rick Whitehouse - the last two Executive Directors of the Ohio State Medical Board - do not believe that women MDs need blood work. Mr. Dilling told me that on the phone in 2005 before he was removed for threatening physicians on the phone to 'admit the case' or face the consequences.
The physician's colleague 'competition' on the Medical Board - the Members - don't want you to get any blood work before they act to take your license in a drunken emergency session based on the fact that you had to disagree with them. The case is fixed - and there's a stack of these fixed cases at the present time - the legislators admit it and the lawyers can't do anything about the Ohio Medical Board.
It took one woman physician about ten years to get thyroid function testing - the cause of her bone pains (not allowed before her license was suspended for making too much of bad care) - and the blood work had to be done at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC after another fracture. And Governor Kasich wants to rule Washington DC - tell them how Ohio does it?
It's not uncommon for a woman physician in Ohio, to have her license suspended for 'provisional' confidential whatever - and then be refused ob-gyn care, blood work, treatment of bone conditions, etc., for years. No one cares that it was unjust or wrong, the other physicians just don't want the appearance of having to disagree with the arbitrary Ohio State Medical Board so they go along; they all agree with the State Medical Board - even the Cleveland Clinic physicians - no matter how stupid. Care is withheld until a confession is signed; until the woman physician admits the Board's case no matter there's not a shred of truth to it.
And after your medical license is suspended for 'confidential, ' you can't get a decent job with medical insurance as no one knows what this 'confidential' is or means. This is post-9/11, and there has to be disclosure - but not in Ohio. At the Ohio State Medical Board, you have to agree to what the Medical Board wants you to have in Ohio - which isn't anything 'medical' - before you get 'care' for anything - and then it won't be for what you have.
When you sign the papers to get your license back, you will have to agree to treatment for what the Medical Board wants you to have - so that they won't be seen to have made a mistake. And even the best of physicians make mistakes about 15% of the time - it's a fact. And the Medical Board is not composed of the best of physicians in Ohio - the Ohio Members have Internet rates of not getting the right diagnosis about 25% of the time on patient feedback ratings - and the lay Members don't know medical from real estate terms.
This taking of a medical license, for disagreeing about the wrong medical care, happens only in Ohio - where the physician's agreement with Ohio practices & mistakes is the litmus test for licensure. You have to change your story that the mistake never happened, like in Once Upon A Time in Storybrooke, and then you can't get care to 'fix' the mistakes. Mistakes in medical care mean that someone has to recognize the problem, and provide care to modify the mistake - someone has to admit that the care was less than perfect and the result 'unanticipated' - however you want to phrase it.
Ohio is particularly bad about women's medical care; thyroid disease is missed all the time, fractures are left to ripen to excrescence so that the male orthopedic physician can try to get an unnecessary surgery. It costs several thousand to cast a fracture, tens of thousands if you do an open reduction or plate - and the hospitals want those open reductions, plates, & pins. So the orthopedics try to manufacture them.
Medical licensure should be about the physician's care of patients - not the autonomous choices that the physician makes about his/her own medical care depending on family history and training. Medical practices, and training, differ depending on the states - what the physician has experienced differs, ie what they know about complications of certain care choices and certain physician's stats.
Physicians should have the right to choose the best care for themselves, regardless of what state the expert resides in, or what the 'friend' physician of the Ohio Board Members wants to do to the woman physician under the guise of care. Yes, medical care is withheld in Ohio until the woman physician agrees to what the Medical Board wants - and even then it is withheld. The Ohio Medical Board is a cottage industry looking to keep up high rates of impaired physicians - it manufactures them in Ohio by withholding normal medical care and making a personality problem of the woman physician who has to disagree - an orthopedic casting problem hence becomes a psychiatric problem - which is unethical in every other state except Ohio.
No woman MD wants to disagree with her colleagues - it's a no-win situation. So the medical care of a woman physician, the choices that she makes for herself, should not be an issue at the State Medical Board of Ohio. Few patients, and few physicians, agree with Dr. Nice orthopedic care most of the time - the standard in Ohio at the State Medical Board. The woman physician in question could not refer more patients to Dr. Nice as she was requested to di as a condition of re-licensure - because the patients refused to go - but Anita Steinbergh DO refused to accept that. Certain physicians are supposed to be referred to for licensure in Ohio - which is illegal. But no legislator goes to the Board meetings...
Women physicians get their medical licenses suspended in Ohio - for decades - for making too much of admittedly bad care; care that the woman physician can't go along with for herself. Care that her patients wouldn't tolerate for 5 minutes is care that the woman physician is supposed to say nothing about.
That a woman physician should consent to treatment is also not always allowed - she gets what the boys & girls want to do to her in Ohio - regardless of consent laws. Medical licensure, under Governor John Kasich, is contingent upon agreeing with the 'boys' in Ohio - the new 'right' Ohio orthopedics, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, obstetricians and gynecologists.
No blood work is allowed women MDs before their licenses are pulled for symptoms such as chronic fatigue, bone pains & fractures - whereas 'care-to-function' is allowed physicians in every other state before any consideration of an impairment. An impairment in Ohio is currently objecting to the 'care-to-function' that every physician needs. And this is not care that any Ohio legislator's spouse, or partner (gay or straight), has to tolerate. Mrs. Matt Lynch (Representative Matt Lynch) gets her blood work.
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