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Fake Doctors’ Notes Being Handed Out at Wisconsin Gov. Union Rally
MacIver News Service ^ | 2/19/11

Posted on 02/19/2011 12:20:24 PM PST by rhema

[Madison, WI] As tens of thousands of public employees skipped work this week to attend protest rallies outside the Wisconsin State Capitol, many wondered if they would face any disciplinary action for unexcused absences.

On Saturday, a group of men and women in lab coats purporting to be doctors were handing out medical excuse notes, without examining the ‘patients.’

“I asked this doctor what he was doing and he told me they were handing out excuses to people who were feeling sick due to emotional, mental or financial distress,” said Christian Hartsock. “They never performed an exam–he asked me how I was feeling today and I said I’m from California and I’m not used to the cold, so he handed me a note.”

Another woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said they were handing out excuses like they were leaflets.

“I asked if they were handing out doctors’ excuses and a guy said yes and asked me if I needed one,” she said. “When I told them I needed one for February 16 and 17th, he wondered if I wanted to come back here for the protests next week.”

What happened next?

“I said, ‘sure,’ and I received a doctor’s note for the 16th through the 25th of February, without a medical exam.”

The notes read

Feb 19, 2011

Patient’s name______

Date of birth ____/_____/_____

To Whom it May Concern:

This is confirm I have seen and evaluated the above named patient.

Please excuse from work/school due to a medical condition from

____/____/____ through

Please contact me at badgerdoctors@gmail.com if additional information is needed. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Physician Signature:

Physician Name

WI license number

Based on an examination of the signature and medical license number provided, one of the men handing out these notes was purporting to be James H Shropshire MD, a Clinical Associate Professor at the University Wisconsin Madison.

At this time, MacIver News Service is attempting to contact Dr. Shropshire to see if indeed he was the one handing out the notes on the Capitol Square.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: corruption; democratcorruption; democrats; fakedoctornotes; fraud; liberalfascism; liberals; medicalfraud; progressives; sickpayfraud; taxes; teachers; union; unioncorruption; unions; walker; wea; wisconsin; wisconsinleftyquacks; wisconsinshowdown; youpayforthis
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To: nolongerademocrat

I hope so, but I won’t hold my breath. These bastards seem to get away with more and more outrageous behavior.


81 posted on 02/19/2011 1:20:01 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

I agree or else they wouldn’t be so blatant about it.


82 posted on 02/19/2011 1:21:32 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Repeal 16-17
Governor Walker needs to commemorate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth by handling this situation the way he would: FIRE THEM ALL!!!

That would be so awesome - guaranteed place in the history books. "Reaganizing"" the strikers in the 21st Century.
83 posted on 02/19/2011 1:23:38 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: rhema
The doctor listed is: http://www.fammed.wisc.edu/directory/3915 but it's possible they've just forged his name without his knowledge. If it is him, he is a UW-Madison doc. His office phone is: (608) 222-8779
Email: james.shropshire@uwmf.wisc.edu
84 posted on 02/19/2011 1:24:51 PM PST by Hamilcar_Barca
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To: nolongerademocrat
There will be blowback on this one...

While there may not be the kind of fireworks-in-the-sky, license-losing, publicly humiliating, above-the-fold front-page news that we'd like to see happen to these quacks...a lot of folks are watching this and making up there minds as to how they're gonna vote in 2012.

I think the blowback will be revealed then...on a much grander scale.

85 posted on 02/19/2011 1:28:01 PM PST by moovova (Don't let Obama spoil the word "hope" for you...)
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To: nolongerademocrat

Fox News just ran a story on this! Two wonderful ladies showed their ‘sick note’ they stood in line to get to prove fraud.


86 posted on 02/19/2011 1:38:31 PM PST by kcvl
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To: All

Fox just covered it live with some gals that got the fake notes.


87 posted on 02/19/2011 1:39:02 PM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: rhema
FOX NEWS just interviewed -- live -- two women who received these fraudulent doctor's excuses.

It's going VIRAL, baby!

88 posted on 02/19/2011 1:39:28 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: ResearchMonkey

It’s seems there is an epidemic in Wisconsin. Has anyone called the C.D.C. for a quarantine yet?


89 posted on 02/19/2011 1:39:49 PM PST by ResearchMonkey (Holding Conservative Country in California.)
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To: moovova

Did these “doctors” perform exams on the street corner? How is this NOT fraud? I would be happy to testify against any of these people. They should lose their licenses. They “might” have gotten away with this if they set up some kind of tent and actually submitted a diagnosis code. I’d be prosecuted if I did this in my office. It would be funny (not really) if one of these sick people had a heart attack. Their families could collect MILLIONS in malpractice judgements. These “doctors” are a disgrace to the profession.


90 posted on 02/19/2011 1:40:20 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: rhema
Fire the teachers who have violated their contracts.

Suspend the license to practice of the unprofessional physicians, and if they are state university employees then they should be fired as well.

91 posted on 02/19/2011 1:40:48 PM PST by Beowulf
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To: rhema

This has me livid.


92 posted on 02/19/2011 1:41:24 PM PST by KansasGirl (1)
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To: kcvl

ping for fax number


93 posted on 02/19/2011 1:41:27 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: ladyvet

They should do HARD TIME for what they are doing! That is nothing but FRAUD trying to get money (paid sick leave) for the teachers protesting.


94 posted on 02/19/2011 1:41:34 PM PST by kcvl
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To: rhema

Any doctor involved in this should lose his license. Period.

This is why you should never lie—because it takes even more lies to cover up the first one.

These protesters (some of them anyway) are teachers?!? These unethical, lying cretins are teaching children?!? Yes, I would fire these so-called teachers immediately if I had the power. They should be light years away from children.


95 posted on 02/19/2011 1:41:53 PM PST by SoCalConstitutionalist
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To: boop

Can you believe this?

How ignorant are these people!


96 posted on 02/19/2011 1:43:13 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Hahaha! Fox is hammering this.


97 posted on 02/19/2011 1:43:56 PM PST by Raebie
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To: Flycatcher

Fox is doing more on this story shortly! Gregg Jarrett is on it!


98 posted on 02/19/2011 1:44:16 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Every time I think the left cannot sink any lower they prove me wrong. What wonderful lessons they are teaching “the children” that they claim to care so much about. They are disgusting.
99 posted on 02/19/2011 1:44:59 PM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Yes. The “doctors” handing out the fake notes and any of the people accepting and using them need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.


100 posted on 02/19/2011 1:45:20 PM PST by matt04
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