“While he was deemed ‘incompetent’ at a recent board hearing, ‘He said the charge is a catchall,’ reports the Post, ‘one designed to avoid citing a specific occupational violation.’ He also made some good points in his own defense”
It would be interesting to know on what basis the board feels Landrum is incompetent. It’s possible there are other issues here, such as the doc’s skills are no longer up to snuff due to his age. IF that is the case, they ought to be able to provide specific examples and reasons.
If, however, the only beef they have is that the guy is now using his car as his office (instead of the building he fled because of crime issues), leave the poor guy alone! Performing basic diagnoses and writing scripts from your car isn’t really all that different than the mobile clinics you see servicing poor areas in some urban areas. It’s a little unorthodox, but as long as the guy isn’t doing outpatient surgery on the hood, I don’t see a problem here. (Again, so long as there are no legit issues with the doc’s competency).
The article is a powerful indictment of government seeking its own ends and rejecting its charter as servant to the people.
hey if abortion clinics get waivers and don’t get inspected once every 11-14 years and have less sanitary conditions than his car, i think they can cut him some slack given the people he’s trying to genuinely assist.
There was that demonstration the other year in Wisconsin (I think) where doctors were writing sick leave notices in the street for the protestors. Why was that not much of a problem?
You're looking at this logically. The State looks at it as an affront to its power. Real power is the power to punish the innocent.
I read the article, and I don’t see anything in there that links the medical board’s determination of incompetence to the peculiar way the guy treats his patients. I wonder if there is more to it than what is posted here.
Exactly, there is not enough information about whether this is government over reach or there are reasons he should not be practicing. Of course the 30,000 or signatories on the petition and no horror story of maltreated patient makes one lean his way.