Posted on 04/27/2011 8:39:50 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
UW doctors face penalties for writing sick notes for protesters
DAVID WAHLBERG | dwahlberg@madison.com | 608-252-6125 | Posted: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:30 am This photo, taken from a Youtube video from a Fox 11 (Green Bay) news report, shows a purported doctor telling a television station that he is offering sick notes to teachers who are at the Capitol protesting.
UW Health doctors who wrote sick notes for protesters at the Capitol in February face penalties up to a loss of pay and leadership positions, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health said Tuesday.
The medical school reviewed 22 UW Health doctors said to have been involved in writing medical excuses for protesters attending rallies over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposals, according to a medical school statement.
“Several” of the doctors were found not to have participated, and among those who were involved “the nature and extent of involvement varied widely,” the statement said.
“Personnel action will be based on the specific nature of the offense and the level of the physician’s involvement,” the statement said. “The consequences range from written reprimand to loss of pay and leadership position.”
The statement didn’t identify the doctors, citing public employee records laws, and said “the school will not comment on individual cases.”
Lisa Brunette, UW Health spokeswoman, wouldn’t say how many doctors were found to be involved.
The Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing and the Medical Examining Board are investigating eight people who allegedly wrote notes, the agencies said last week.
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And post their pictures at the post office.
bttt
Clearly, writing fraudulent sick notes is an abuse of their medical privileges and should result in serious sanctions. I would say this regardless of the political motivation. If the notes were issued to forward a political cause I favored, I would still object to action. At the least they should face serious fines.
Can the State sue them for theft/fraud since those teachers received sick pay as well as the cost of replacing them with subs?
Not holding my breath.
Stupid, ugly, and whiny, too!!
Loss of pay and position? How about jail time for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud?
These people were providing fraudulent documents in the full knowledge that they would be used to support claims of permitted paid absences from work, resulting in teachers retaining their positions despite violating their contracts and collecting pay that they were not entitled to.
This isn’t a “you broke a rule, naughty boy/girl” type of offense, this is a felony.
While they’re at it, they should go after the doctors that put people out on disability or workers comp when there’s not a thing wrong with them.
Amen, they should lose their licenses!
I think teachers who called in sick but are taped at the demonstration that same day should face sanctions. On rare occassions you might not feel well enough to work, but you can schlep over to the drug store to get a prescription or the grocery store for chicken soup. But attend a ralley?
And I’ll take my regional accent over his any day!
This is a very serious breach of professional ethics, judgment and conduct — because these are the same kind of “doctors” who will use their trust as healers of society to defraud and undermine society. These are the people one knows to go to for bogus medical marijuana prescriptions and other prescription drugs, as well as signing off on the multitude of scams to defraud insurance companies and governments, rationalizing that the big pot of money is there for those with the best access to it, to grab as much as they can stuff in their pockets.
And that is the major problem of these times — of “public servants” serving themselves first and primarily — as their “public service,” that has become a plague across this country.
Any note used to collect sick pay would have the doctor being part of a conspiracy to defraud a government entity. Fines and/or jail time, plus potentially loss of medical license.
I hope it does go that far - these liars were willing to commit fraud for their own political opinions - what would they do in their medical records?
Everyone knew it would come to nothing. They all should lose their licenses period. Forever in Wisconsin.
why is this different?
Why should their names and penalty be hidden from the citizens of the state of Wisconsin? Who pays the salary for the creeps?
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