Fake Doctors’ Notes Being Handed Out at Wisconsin Gov. Union Rally

MacIver News Service ^ | 2/19/11

[justlurking]

Another article here:

http://abcnews.go.com/News/wisconsin-doctors-teachers-call-sick-continue-protests/story?id=12956342

Named doctors:

Dr. Kathy Oriel

[justlurking]

Here's another article:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Largest-protest-yet-fails-to-apf-2455867113.html?x=0

Doctors from numerous hospitals set up a station near the Capitol to provide notes to explain public employees' absences from work. Family physician Lou Sanner, 59, of Madison, said he had given out hundreds of notes. Many of the people he spoke with seemed to be suffering from stress, he said.

"What employers have a right to know is if the patient was assessed by a duly licensed physician about time off of work," Sanner said. "Employers don't have a right to know the nature of that conversation or the nature of that illness. So it's as valid as every other work note that I've written for the last 30 years."

[Right Wing Assault]

Wow, what a story. Also, what a moron!

I’m glad they nailed her butt.

She and her sister sound like affirmative action “professionals.” The one lost her medical license and the other is an attorney but is teaching in the NYC schools.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Hi Star, thank you for the ping!

Oh my, the video's of the libs are just breathtaking, especially the one of the “doctor” handing out fake sick notes.

Don't they teach ethics in med school? If they do he obviously failed the class.

[rlmorel]

Just like any leftist.

They are leftists before they are [black, white, American, clergy, military, medical, educators, Catholic, Jewish, poor, wealthy, FILL IN YOUR CATEGORY HERE]

Disgraceful.

[rlmorel]

That gap between the teeth will be a little hard to hide!

[rlmorel]

LOL...everything liberals DO is affected by the Interstate Commerce Act!

The Swiss Army Knife of Constitution Shredders everywhere! (’ll use THAT as a tagline for a few days!)

[mewzilla]

From the AMA's website...

Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 9.132 - Health Care Fraud and Abuse

2) Physicians should make no intentional misrepresentations to increase the level of payment they receive or to secure non-covered health benefits for their patients. (II)

Be interesting to see if the AMA has the guts to address this.

[Girlene]

Good roundup on Pundit Press, Qbert. Those doctors will have lots of explaining to do this next week. The teachers won’t even be able to use these notes on Tuesday, or whenever they decide to return, for fear of being caught up in fraud. lol on them.

[Ballygrl]

Then maybe the Republicans in Wisconsin need to hold an investigation into this.

[Hamilcar_Barca]

Here’s the names of at least 3 of the doctors who were there passing out notes:
Dr. James H. Shropshire
Dr. Hannah M. Keevil
Dr. Bernard F. Micke
All 3 of these doctors work for UW-Madison Health - Call (608) 274-1100......... and ask to speak to the Administrator to make a formal complaint

[ResearchMonkey]

...how does it meet the “affecting interstate commerce” element of a RICO violation?

According to US Congress' standards on interstate commerce: Giving away free physicians medical excuses will affect physicians in other states where some of the protesters were bused in from.

;)

[Kaslin]

There is a audiologist at Fort Campbell, KY Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (BACH) whose name is Kara Bean. (Carabbean)

[Brown Deer]

Perhaps these are some of the same “docs” who came to the people’s Whitehouse a year or so ago, in borrowed lab coats, showing their support for Obama/Pelosi healthcare...

[DollyCali]

no doubt

[SeaHawkFan]

What could get interesting is if the school districts check for medical billings related to these excuses.

If the are billings, that would be insurance fraud; and if there are no billings, the teachers would be committing fraud against their employers.

[bronxville]

Thanks Qbert. BTW, that’s a great link so I’m bookmarking it. After I wrote that I took a bigger lens than my glasses to it and the second number might be a 3 not a 7 afterall. I’ve been reading on most blogs that the number of docs scored 3-4 but from this blog he says there were more than a dozen. I hope we got them all.

Did you read about this guy...the MD didn’t say so at the site but if he wrote prescriptions one would think he’d be in big trouble. He also loves sewing, cooking....and creative writing - one might wonder if he writes for the dailykos...:)
http://www.fammed.wisc.edu/directory/9133

[redpoll]

I went to the state of Wisconsin credential website and found:

33734-20 Medicine and Surgery KEEVIL, HANNAH M MADISON, WI 09/24/1992 10/31/2011

Interesting.

[Qbert]

Speak of the devil...there’s a new update about this guy and in-depth detail about some of the other legal and ethical problems the doctors may be facing:

“...there are some potential problems for the university and the department. Patrick McKenna is identified on the UW DFM staff and directory page as a PGY 3. This is a resident in his 3 and final year of post graduate training and as such cannot operate independently as the Department of Medical Education is responsible for his actions. Furthermore, the ACGME is the governing body that credentials hospitals and medical centers to provide post grad training and would likely take a very jaundiced view of this. You may be unaware, but over the past several years there has been a significant increase in the regulations and requirements required of the Med Ed department...”

http://punditpress.blogspot.com/2011/02/university-of-wisconsin-department-of.html

[bronxville]

Thanks Qbert. I scanned it quickly but will call back later. Someone mentioned Medicaid Insurance, something I mentioned in a post on Sweetness & Light last night (under Petra)as this would have put them in huge trouble, but when I checked out the insurance it was Aetna etc., though I’m thinking as I’m writing this perhaps it’s Aetna-Medicaid, or Blue Cross-Medicaid, or even worse, Aetna-Medicare, or Blue Cross-Medicare...if the latter is the case then it’s Federal which under normal circumstances is big-time jail but with the mafiosi Obama we’re lawless.

And I wonder how legal it is for MD’s to more or less wear a board on their back proselytizing for patients...there are lots of angles but bottom-line it doesn’t look good despite the appearance of the whole country being dictated by Obama, there’s still justice being served and it must happen. Madison is ground zero for the Unions and the Obama et all know it. Anyway I remain very interested on how it all comes down.

Thanks again. :)