The State Medical Board of Ohio states that officially they have a confidential' ANONYMOUS PHYSICIAN COMPLAINT SYSTEM where anyone complaining about a physician, care problems, or hospital system, won't have their name (s) known or any liability for a false claim assessed. This system' actually is confidential' only if the physician doesn't have friends' on the State Medical Board in Ohio the right' physicians in Ohio (with multiple patient complaints in a dead' file) get their complaints so that they can defend or file an anonymous counter-complaint.
This is what happened to me in 1991, when as a physician-patient I complained about fracture care attempted by a physician untrained in and unable to do the care, and a hospital where they didn't have the proper equipment to reduce or care for the fracture in the ER Hillcrest Hospital of Mayfield Heights Ohio. And instead of fining the hospital or telling the physician not to do care that he wasn't trained in (hand surgery), my medical license was taken for making too much.' And I couldn't even get the medical records from the hospital or physician any documentation of care that made any coherent sense (office dates & care were made up and who would know because everything is so outpatient').
My CONFIDENTIAL complaint to the Ohio State Medical Board was given to Hillcrest Hospital in 1991-2 so that they could accuse me of an impairment' that I couldn't handle the bad care — not in any state law as an impairment. So certain physicians in Ohio get their patient complaints so as to correct their files, and most do not but the system isn't confidential, ' fair or objective, and this makes malpractice insurance rates higher for all as no one knows what really happens with all the disciplines, etc - the facts. And my case' that I complained about a deficient situation was put ahead of piles of cases against physicians with multiple patient complaints. The Ohio Board finds a scapegoat' and table the confidential' complaints of physicians the Board Members know; the Hearing Officer system is a joke of talking heads.
Ohio medical licenses are lopped off like heads in French Revolution guillotines; for not sending colleagues enough patients, disagreeing with a colleague, being late with child support payments (ex-wives can make confidential' complaints and say anything), or for just making too much' of a problem that the Board doesn't think is a problem. Anything goes at the State Medical Board of Ohio, and you can't get the confidential' file to prove this medical license fraud; the file is continually changed and State Representatives admit that and laugh as this fuels legal costs and pays for the legislative legal lobby.
Most other 49 states don't have anonymous complaints, or won't investigate such complaints, and none keep complaints confidential' after it becomes obvious that the complaint was a lie as has happened with my case where the State of Ohio keeps wanting psychiatric goes' at me for saying No' to and finally reporting Dr. Nice - while admitted the falsification of the case??? In front of State Reps/Senators. They admit that they can't prove my case but won't dismiss it after 16 years. They can just order 'evaluations' on Ohio physicians with a new 'right' psychiatrist for existing, even though the Board is not your physician, and your medical insurance won't cover this misuse of psychiatry for politics.
There are built-in abuses for the physician complained about in these Ohio pseudo-investigations where the complainer insists on anonymity' the exaggerations (putting your name on a document means that because you are liable' you are more careful about details and facts, and that the facts can be verified publically) can't ever be proven but aren't disallowed, the inability of objective witnesses to step forward before years of time have elapsed (16 years in my case), the inability to verify the complaint before investigation and discipline of a physician (then you are trying to reverse an injustice while they try to find something else wrong and you have to pay for rehab & rechecking of your skills as Ohio doesn't do damages), the inability to correct mistakes in a timely manner, and the lack of due process which occurs with that kind of complaint or physician censure. And finally physicians WITH NO PATIENT COMPLAINTS are tabled in this way, leaving medical care in the capable hands of physicians in Ohio, like Dr. Timothy Nice and Dr. Carla O'Day, with multiple confidential' complaints.
Our office had over a dozen complaints about Dr. Nice's care and behaviors, and Geagua Hospital (Chardon, Ohio) took him off the active staff roster for care complications and behaviours during this time 1990-2. I'm being 'punished' for saying something about what a lot of physicians, hospital systems, and patients have noticed.
Even Governor Taft tried to get Carla O'Day MD investigated in 2005 and it was a 'rain dance' of any investigation; an investigation among 'friends.' And in Ohio no physician or Member of the State Medical Board can admit a mistake with the lack of mistake laws (which 35 other states have to prevent abuse of a patient or physician-patient with a missed diagnosis what I had causing my bone pains). Besides botching care or missing diagnoses, the complainers or counter-complainers could have asked the physician out on a date, expected personal' things or the fulfillment of personal needs, ' expected patient referrals in double digits but no one, not even the public that this system' is supposed to protect knows the issues (what any 'case' is really about) and what the State Medical Board of Ohio is doing; what types of complaints and who they are investigating or not investigating. It's all anonymous.
Even Dr. Nice's 2 kids think I'm the 'bad woman' and I sent him over 10 notes saying that I wasn't 'interested' and that he had a wife, had my mother try to speak with him, and sat down with him 10/1990 that he 'had a very lovely wife' and I was a colleague ONLY = there wasn't anything more that I could have done to try to make the situation CLEARER; Dr. Nice is a first class sleaze and I don't feel 'sorry' for Mrs. Nice who goes after women that he targets without cause (her article about me in The Sun Press).
There is no review of Medical Board decisions; the State Court of Appeals strikes down the obvious miscarriages of justice, as they did in my case, but won't hear or dismiss the case because Ohio Courts won't/can't censure or admit that the State Medical Board of Ohio is corrupt and fakes evidence. The piles of quotes given to the State Medical Board of California in my situation were entirely fabricated, never said ONE of the statements, and the letters were written only because I asked both orthopedics to sit down and discuss that I couldn't work the way that they left me but if I said this in person, I was seductive.' Only one Member of the State of California Medical Board questioned these rather obvious lies/quotation she-saids — and he didn't pursue his line of questioning to clear the matter up. No one questions other State Medical Boardsl; was never allowed to defend myself in any way.
No case illustrates the problems in Ohio more than the injustice that has happened to me over the last 18 years where the physician-complainers against my license left my fractures uncasted, refused to order blood work, made all sorts of sexually-laced comments over weeks and months, expected patient referrals for orthopedic surgeries, and in general abused the situation even for 1990-2 rules. And I was the only physician involved in my situation with no patient complaints.
Women physicians are advised not to seek medical licensure in Ohio with this anonymous' system, not to get medical care in Ohio if they are ill (as it's a game' to not allow the woman physician care-to-function' and make her look inappropriate or obsessed with trying to get the right' care, and then complain about her anonymously to get rid of the competition'), to hire a lawyer if you need to write a letter or call a colleague who has botched care, and to advise patients that if they don't like a friend of the Board's care that their names will be published as two of my patient's names were when they refused to return to Dr. Timothy Nice (they didn't even file a complaint and have their names in public records).
The Federation of State Medical Boards needs to look into the problems of the anonymous confidential' complaint system in Ohio, and get the statistics on how many false cases and disciplines are occurring. Federal institutions like the Army, Navy, and Air Force need to be able to get these files to judge for themselves the legitimacy of some of these personal' complaints & disciplines a Federal review so that physicians falsely complained about can join the Armed Forces where things aren't anonymous. Currently in Ohio Dr. Nice and other friends' of Ohio Medical Board Members can get their confidential' files at the Board, but the Armed Forces can't get these files to judge a physician's worthiness for service; things are confidential' for the Armed Forces but not Dr. Timothy Nice of Mayfield Heights Ohio.
The confidential' Ohio system allows the statute of limitations to expire on abuses and malpractices that the Board should be looking into and dealing with at least in non-disciplinary improvement ways (as in Minnesota). The physicians that file a counter-complaint usually have self-serving or exhaust the statute of limitations reasons to do so in this ol' boy system. Once a woman gets into the anonymous complaint system her reputation and child-bearing years will be forfeit the Medical Board of Ohio doesn't care that you don't have a life unjustly, they just want statistics.
States that need physicians are advised to contact Governor Ted Strickland to review some of the cases of FALSE PHYSICIAN DISCIPLINES in Ohio for not going along' or fitting in' (sleeping with Dr. Nice, which Mrs. Nice should have had no worries about as I don't do that for licenses or hospital privileges) so that physician medical licenses can be cleared to work in another state, in the Armed Forces, or for the Indian Health Service. Governor Strickland needs to be doing some improving of the system' in Ohio in between lobbying for Obama.
My case has involved falsification of psychiatric evaluations and testing, ie a Rorschach test with no answers, and multiple goes' at me to try to find something wrong with my personality. Now I'm supposed to go to a 6th go' and say that everything's fine' and my health is fine' and everything will mysteriously go away for the physicians in Ohio that can't do orthopedics, blood work and can waste the life of a good physician so that I can't sue them 18 years later it was all about money and the taxpayers had to pay for this farce which Representative Dolan and State Senator Grendell just laugh about while they try to arrange another go' at me. The bone condition remains untreated, my thyroid problem causing the bone condition was left untreated for probably over a decade because the Members of the State Medical Board of Ohio didn't know what tests I needed, so that I got no blood work, or care. This is the most common thyroiditis that there is which got diagnosed in Washington DC after I broke another bone trying to work in a breast cancer lab. Not one blood test was done in Ohio, from 1990-2, that can be found before my medical license was suspended for objecting something that the Ohio Court of Appeals even overlooked in their gloss.'
For the last 5 years, Senator Grendell has made the solution that I be evaluated' by Dr. Phil Resnick who covered up the drinking of my Chief of Medicine at MetroGeneral in the 1980s, who covered up Dr. Lafferty's senility, who covered up Dr. Keith's being unable to handle a complex wrist fracture and lying about his Boards in Hand Surgery, and who covered up the falsified Rorschach by his University Hospitals adjunct faculty colleagues (they couldn't be bothered record the answers). Dr. Resnick still has a license for 'covering up' for the State of Ohio Medical Board. My medical insurance will not pay for this farce, and the State of Ohio patients are out a qualified physician, with no problems with patients, for 16 years. The solution is to open the files and see what is going on a physician in RI has offered to rehab my skills and get me back as other states need US medical grad physicians badly, and the Army can use me.
This is a plea to the Ohio State Medical Board to correct the records and let me go, as I'm not responsible for the care problems in Ohio and their mistakes and I'm not IMPAIRED, and calling Carla O'Day MD and telling her that she didn't allow me even blood work, and that I didn't touch Dr. Nice, shouldn't be 'disorderly' conduct for a criminal record in Rocky River Municipal Court. Dr. O'Day never answers the lawyer phone calls — tells them that she's 'in the gym.' Dr. O'Day was on the State Medical Board of Ohio in 1992, despite never finishing any formal residency training (she knew Mrs. Celeste and they started a divorce support group together), and masterminded (ie wrote) the case against me for disagreeing with Dr. Nice - who she's a close personal friend and business associate of.
Dr. Carla O'Day was a CLASSMATE from Case Western Reserve Medical School, who couldn't excuse herself for 'conflict of interest' as she wanted the Directorship of Hillcrest Hospital ER, which she got after she lied to get my medical license suspended for 'making too much of bad care.' The phone tape she gave to Rocky River Municipal Court was falisifed and EDITED; all call dates were removed along with parts of messages (about how she did this for $ = a contract at Hillcrest Hospital). The Rocky River Prosecutor is her 'friend' and corrupt - he knew that the 'chain of evidence' was broken with the phone call tape that Carla gave him, and that the phone records didn't show any 11 calls in 2 weeks time = but he didn't care. The Judge, Maureen Gravens, was not re-elected. The calls are just 'sad, ' where I'm pleading with Carla to stop lying and fabricating and allow me a life as she's had two marriages. Carla would threaten the Deans at CWRU Medical School when she didn't get what she wanted years ago, and her ex-husband Magistrate has piles of 'stuff' on her that has been 'sealed.'
Could someone please open the 'confidential' file, allow me to defend myself, and let me go to a state where they do not have ANONYMOUS physician complaints (49 other states)? This has gone on for 16 years now.
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