and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 04/20/2011 3:18:44 PM PDT by bjorn14
Madison - The state Department of Regulation and Licensing and the Medical Examining Board said Wednesday that they had opened investigations into eight individuals who allegedly wrote doctor excuse notes for protesters at the state Capitol during rallies in February.
Last month, the Department of Regulation and Licensing said it had identified 11 people who may have provided the medical excuses, and it asked them to submit information about their activities at the Capitol.
Three members of the Medical Examining Board reviewed the information and decided to open investigations on eight of the 11, according to a department news release.
The eight being investigated are all licensed physicians, department spokesman David Carlson said.
Investigations were not opened against three people because the panel concluded no violations had occurred, the news release says.
The 11 were identified by complaints to the department. Nine of those named are licensed physicians and two are unlicensed, the department said.
The investigations will include a more extensive fact-finding process to determine if any violations of law occurred, according to the news release.
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Good. Something will be done about those knucklehead marxist ‘doctors’ who handed out fake sick notes.
Comedy Central is requesting copies...
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Thanks bjohn for posting this.
I had already forgotten about these hack doctors.
Glad to see that this investigation is now starting to kick in full gear.
I hope EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR who wrote “fake notes” ends up on skid row and the soup lines.
Good.
This sort of thing should never be tolerated.
If doctors can’t be trusted to give honest patient evaluations, they need to be out of the medical business altogether.
Hey, determine if any violations of law occurred? That should take just 1 minute to determine and he violations were sure committed.
Ah...Schadenfreude.
I don’t CARE about the politics of the docs. What they did is an ABSOLUTE violation of ethics. They did NOT perform a history or physical on any of these people. And they were handing them out on street corners, thus violating any sense of “privacy”. No different than a doctor writing a prescription over the phone for someone they’ve never met. Doctors HAVE lost their licenses over running “telephone medicine”.
That "violations of law is code, because the investigator knows all the breaches are ethical, not legal.
The investigator is sympathetic to the union cause. The investigation is a sham.
Agreed.
If the doctor’s diagnoses can’t be trusted, they shouldn’t be doctors.
I don’t think I wrote anything previously that would indicate that I disagree with your position at all, btw.
When the consultation resulting in issuing a prescription for a legally regulated drug.
Ethical violations have no consequence.
This is a least a very positive first step in the right direction.....I’d say the investigation is on first base....hope the bureaucracy doesn’t throw them out at second.
I have about as much faith in doctors policing their own, as I do of lawyers policing their own. Lots of sound, much of it in the nature of criticism, and that'll be the end of it. No license pulled.
If I were devious enough, I would have contacted an attorney right away after receiving the note, and said, the doctor didn't address my OBVIOUS new onset diabetes.
And that also means they can't be trusted for medicare billing. Give them a medicare rectal!
Is you conclusion that at least some of these doctors will lose their license over the ethical violation?
SHOULD they? ABSOLUTELY. These aren't some backwoods doctors. These are medical directors and professors who should be a shining example of ethics in everything. They could have sent a letter "supporting" the protesters. Instead, they were actively engaged in unethical behavior, by any standard you want to use. Like a cop who abuses his power, the penalties should be MORE severe, because the public has trust in doctors. Most cops hate dirty ones, because they besmirch the ones doing their duty. Likewise, these f$%^head "doctors" are a black mark on the profession. I hate them with a passion like I hate pill-mill "doctors". Or doctors who rip off medicare/medicaid with phony billings for exams they never did.
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