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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: noinfringers2

http://findadoctor.uwhealth.org/providers/Micke_Ber.jpg
Bernard F. Micke, MD
Faculty,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

UW School of Medicine and Public Health
Department of Medicine


161 posted on 02/19/2011 2:38:02 PM PST by kcvl
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To: WVKayaker

You are wrong. One of the purposes of the RICO statutes was to go after ‘organized crime’, but it includes those who control, manage or operate organization is a manner that violates the RICO statutes.

Handing out phoney doctor’s excuses is not one of the RICO predicate acts.


162 posted on 02/19/2011 2:38:12 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: rhema
The University of Wisconsin- Madison is widely considered to be one of the most liberal public research universities in the nation.

Lavishly funded, it has an enrollment of over 40 thousand students and a budget of over $2 billion. Most students come from Wisconsin and Minnesota.

World-famous conservative economist and Nobel Prize winner, the late Milton Friedman, quit his teaching job there after what he termed "an ugly display of anti-Semitism."

Leni

163 posted on 02/19/2011 2:38:59 PM PST by MinuteGal (OK, BOR...NAME the "far-rightists" you always morally equate to the far-leftists. Name names, NOW!)
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To: meyer
That’s the patient’s name. The doctor’s name is at the bottom. The woman interviewed on Fox said that the doctors did NOT ask for any ID so any name could have been given.

None of them are "patients". They are scammers. Besides why give a fake name if you need it for your excuse from work?

164 posted on 02/19/2011 2:40:41 PM PST by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: pops88

Another person to contact is the president of the University of Wisconsin:

kreilly@uwsa.edu

Kevin Reilly
Phone: 608 262-2321
Fax: 608 262-3985
1720 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706


165 posted on 02/19/2011 2:43:25 PM PST by pops88
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Bernard F. Mickey, MD

Husband of:

Linda Micke
Education Management Professional
Oshkosh, Wisconsin Area


166 posted on 02/19/2011 2:43:45 PM PST by kcvl
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To: SeaHawkFan
One of the purposes of the RICO statutes was to go after ‘organized crime’, but it includes those who control, manage or operate organization is a manner that violates the RICO statutes.

You're right, we should go after Organizing for America and the Unions.

167 posted on 02/19/2011 2:44:27 PM PST by ResearchMonkey (Holding Conservative Country in California.)
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To: rhema

I guarantee this is not the first time they have done this I wonder how many times they have written fake medical excuses to get teachers out on sick leave or medical leave.


168 posted on 02/19/2011 2:44:40 PM PST by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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To: rhema
Are these doctors who are handing out the "sick forms" the same doctors who sat in a sea of white coats in the Rose Garden's card table chairs when Obama was pimping his health care proposal in front of the TV cameras?

Are they still adhering to the liberal Hypocritical Oath...."First, do harm."

Looks like it.

Leni

169 posted on 02/19/2011 2:46:05 PM PST by MinuteGal (OK, BOR...NAME the "far-rightists" you always morally equate to the far-leftists. Name names, NOW!)
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To: rhema

These people should all be fired.

But they’re union and won’t be. :(


170 posted on 02/19/2011 2:49:04 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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The Joyce Foundation
Freedom States Alliance
Donors:

Bernie & Linda Micke
Wisconsin


171 posted on 02/19/2011 2:49:08 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Mr. K
Agree. This was an "All In" for the Rats and the unions. They were expecting Walker to cave on the first day. They know the Bamster is NOT going to compensate them for weeks in hotel rooms and meals, and they can't afford to stay there on their own.

The Bamster will only fund them as long as they're useful. After that, it's under the bus. They're trying to save some face, now.

Truly, though, this is big for them. Restricting their negotiations to salary kills most of their ability to negotiate for salary, also. In collective bargaining, once any agreement is made in any area of employment, such as the hiring process, neither side can change any area of that area without agreement from the other side. One of the ways unions increase salary is to demand a percentage increase in salary in exchange for allowing management to make changes to the hiring process. A good union negotiator can destroy management's ability to run an agency at all without paying a salary increase to get the authority to make the change.

Can't say I'm 100% on board with that. Having worked in governmental agencies for around twenty years, it's been obvious to me that management's interest is seldom running a department effectively. When given free reign, department heads create small kingdoms, rewarding cronies and rear end kissers and squandering funds on their pet projects while ignoring core services. Just my experience.

172 posted on 02/19/2011 2:50:10 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Lees Swrd

No, I doubt it is the first time either!

Bernard F. Mickey, MD

Husband of:

Linda Micke
Education Management Professional
Oshkosh, Wisconsin Area


173 posted on 02/19/2011 2:50:49 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
All three of the doctors we have seen so far have been affiliated with the University of Wisconsin in some type of ‘teaching’ position.

Usually one would have to go to prison to find this kind of teaching...

174 posted on 02/19/2011 2:51:17 PM PST by Sal (It's not a mistake or an accident. It's on purpose and the purpose is our destruction.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Every doctor handing out “excuses” should lose their license, and whatever position they hold now.

Every teacher who turns in one of these phony “excuses” should lose their job. They don’t have the morals to be teaching kids.

And while jobs are being forfeited for breaking the law, the dims who ran away to avoid voting, the job they were elected to do, should lose theirs as well.


175 posted on 02/19/2011 2:56:22 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: GeronL

Being a liberal means never to have shame.


176 posted on 02/19/2011 2:57:41 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Sal

MICKE, BERNARD
MADISON, WI 53719
UW HEALTH/PHYSICIAN FEINGOLD, RUSSELL D (D)
Senate - WI

FEINGOLD SENATE COMMITTEE $250
general 10/18/10
Micke, Bernard F M.D.
Madison, WI 53726
UW Health/Physician

KAGEN, STEVEN L. (D)
House (WI 08)
KAGEN 4 CONGRESS $200
primary 09/09/10
Micke, Bernard F M.D.
Madison, WI 53726
UW Health/Physician

KAGEN, STEVEN L. (D)
House (WI 08)
KAGEN 4 CONGRESS $250
primary 02/02/10
MICKE, BERNARD F MD
MADISON, WI 53726
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HEALTH/PHYS

, RUSSELL D (D)
Senate - WI
FEINGOLD SENATE COMMITTEE $-250
primary 06/17/09
MICKE, BERNARD F MD
MADISON, WI 53726
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HEALTH/PHYS FEINGOLD, RUSSELL D (D)
Senate - WI

FEINGOLD SENATE COMMITTEE $250
general 06/17/09
MICKE, BERNARD F MD
MADISON, WI 53726
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HEALTH/PHYS

FEINGOLD, RUSSELL D (D)
Senate - WI

FEINGOLD SENATE COMMITTEE $250
primary 06/03/09

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=WI&last=Micke


177 posted on 02/19/2011 2:58:28 PM PST by kcvl
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To: fhayek

Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin

Bernie Micke, MD


178 posted on 02/19/2011 3:04:02 PM PST by kcvl
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!

Thread contains phone numbers of crinimal doctors, authorities, supervisors, etc.


179 posted on 02/19/2011 3:11:15 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: kcvl

Keep up the good work!


180 posted on 02/19/2011 3:12:16 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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