Anita Steinbergh DO has for 14 years been a principal participant behind carrying on a false disciplinary action against me at the State Medical Board of Ohio. She and other Members have been derogatory and crude in public statements (that I should feel sorry for Mrs. Nice when Mrs. Nice, and the State Medical Board, know Dr. Nice has wandering eyes and targets women ie he 'met' me outside his office window), emotionally abusive in their demands of what is expected of me to get my licenseback (undergo unending goes, monitoring, etc.), demanded that for my license to be returned that I refer to Dr. Nice and have 'aequanimitas' about his 'expectations'/comments, and finally not allowed me blood work, standard fracture care or treatment of a bone and thyroid condition - which can't be admitted.
They haven't allowed me a decent job in medicine, because no one can hire me. I'm 'impaired' with an IQ over 150 and more degrees than anyone on the current State Medical Board of Ohio.
For the last decade, she and other Members have put out the bulletin to the whole US that I don't deserve medical care, made up symptoms of bone pains (and the seriousness of fractures), and just need the right Ohio psychiatrist to find some diagnosis that I have no criteria for to get everyone, including the State Medical Board and the State of Ohio, out of liability for destroying a good physician's career and health. Admit the case is the matra at the Sate Medical Board of Ohio, where nothing is about medical care.
Finally the blood work/bone density was done revealing a serious untreated thyroiditis, osteoporosis, and other endocrine problems in 1999 — but all the State Medical Board is concerned about is another go at me and that I write letters objecting.
My case at the State Medical Board of Ohio, that I'm impaired as a physician for disagreeing about negligent care done to me, has gone on for 15 years = the worst case of injustice in Ohio State Medical Board history.in 1991, I complained in good faith that outpatient fracture care of wrist fractures, which used to be a hospital admission in the 1980s, is not going o.K.in Ohio. It's still awful in many community hospitals, including Hillcrest, and not much better at University Hospitals of Cleveland.
There were no patient complaints about me, and no one, to this day, knows what I did to merit this except disagree with very stupid physicians who don't know their stuff. The system has finally gone so wrong that it takes the licenses of innocent physicians, who complain that even they can't get decent care. Dr. Steinbergh has never been able to discuss the medical issues that I complained about; just that I should have Osler's aequanimitas, read bestsellers such as Icebound, and admit the lies to end the mess that the Board Members made which I can't do as my Medical Mutual won't pay for evaluations of me for this purpose. Bad care is what the State Medical Board is supposed to prevent by enforcing standards of care.
Dr. Steinbergh and the other women Members let male physicians get away with outright lies on medical records, huge harassments verbally (Catholic girls are easy, seductive) and physically (beating in Dr. Keith's office at Metro) of women colleagues, no blood work, consultations, or referrals on women-physician patients (other than for her and the other State Medical Board women Members), and not even having to do casts on fractures, order appropriate x-rays or physical therapy.
I needed an EMG on my R wrist as I was being beaten up in Dr. Keith's office in 1992, but Ohio orthopedics don't have to order EMGs. There's nothing that male physicians have to do in the State of Ohio per her. And my admission to medical school (Case Western Reserve University) required far higher standards than her DO degree in Ohio. She, and the other women Members, haven't let me have a life, a marriage the only relationship that I've been allowed is a fantasy of Dr. Nice's.
Since 1993, Dr. Steinbergh has been voting on my case at the State Medical Board of Ohio - for disagreeing about the wrong fracture care and no workup of a metabolic bone condition and voting against my medical license; that I'm impaired because I made too much of bad care - not that the male physicians are impaired or need to do a better job. This was a colleague disagreement over care principles which needs a non-disciplinary track at the State Medical Board as in other states, ie Minnesota. The medical license was suspended when I tried to find out what happened with my fracture care and what the blood work showed (because I might sue and the care was compensable). Dr. Lafferty's blood work has never surfaced, just the preliminary tests done at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Nice and Dr. Keith refused for two years to sit down with myself and my family to explain their care, or even to sign off officially on the case, even though both were fired many times, so that some other orthopedic could try to help me. There was not one blood test drawn in Ohio that was processed before 1999, and my medical license was suspended in 1992 so that I couldn't finish the workup at the Mayo Clinic (or order my own blood work). My credibility was completely destroyed. The bone/thyroid problem is hereditary if you take a medical history which no one, not even Medical Board Members, did.
Objecting to the wrong care is not a physician impairment under current Ohio law - the law has been 'stretched.' Dr. Steinbergh and other Members refused to allow me care to function, or to defend myself, before suspending/resuspending my Ohio medical license (1992,1996-7) saying that I didn't deserve care or due process. So from 1992-7, I got no medical care in any state except minimal fracture care in NYC, not even ob-gyn care, as every physician was afraid to contradict the Ohio State Medical Board.
There were no patient complaints against me. To this day, the complaint about me remains confidential, though it is for certain signed by my medical/orthopedic colleagues, not allowing me to defend myself or know who my accusers were = even the Ohio Court of Appeals couldn't get the file in 1993 to review the case and what was going on (for reforms). They had to send the case back to the State Medical Board. The care was/remains admittedly negligent, with theboys being boys, but hertake and that of the other Members has been that I should take the discipline, be monitored (when my care of patients was not the problem), and just admit a pile of lies and that Iasked for bad care. For 15 years, this blame me game has continued, while underserved areas of Ohio, not the Hillcrest/University area of Cleveland, need Board Certified physicians. Governor Strickland doesn't care.
This case needs to be reviewed for reforms: (1) that Ohio needs mistake laws (as in 35 other states) where unanticipated outcomes are admitted with plans for consultation and referral so as to a missed diagnosis; (2) that physicians disagreeing with other physicians have a non-disciplinary pathway to resolve disagreements about care paradigms that don't prove to work (ie serious wrist fracture care as an outpatient); (3) that woman physicians disagreeing with male physicians about women's medical care issues are not ordered to unending evaluations, rehabs, and disciplines; (4) that all physicians have access to their complaint files in a timely manner so as to resolve problems/misunderstandings/misinformation, get medical care themselves, and resolve malpractice, hospital staff and licensing issues fairly (these costs are passed on to patients); and (5) that cases of physicians with no patient complaints, no drug issues, and no abuse of alcohol (except in Dr. Nice's mind) don't happen.
Dr. Steinbergh needs to start giving me a chance, discuss the real care issues (does she know the blood tests for thyroiditis?), discuss what is really behind this case, and discuss dismissal and my returning to practice in Rhode Island where someone can use me, won't beat me up and will allow me to get my bone condition treated. It needs to be soon.
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