The Texas Medical Board Tolerates Child Molestors

The Provocateur ^ | 10/13/2009 | Mike Volpe

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So says this article in the Dallas Observer.

After its last meeting, in late August, the board announced decisions on four sex-related cases. Two involved doctors whom judges had already sentenced for crimes against children. Two involved psychiatrists found to have had affairs with adult patients – potentially sexual assault under Texas law, but they've not been charged.

The child abusers were allowed to go on practicing medicine, though not with kids. The other two are working without restrictions.

It's all part of a broader pattern of tolerance for misconduct, a News analysis shows. Others who kept their licenses after the August meeting include two doctors convicted of lucrative federal crimes that put patients in harm's way; a neurosurgeon who operated on the wrong body part four times; a cardiologist found to have performed dozens of invasive procedures with little or no cause; and at least seven physicians linked to a death.

[the long march]

Would love to know where these MDs got their education and licensing. I wonder if they might be of the foreign born persuasion ( as in Great Britain) who have ‘cultural’ differences with us and so don’t care. Or is it just that some medical boards are crazed enough to protect the really bad docs who do more harm than good?

[LearsFool]

They’re merely protecting their own.

We better be doing the same. We’re on our own, folks. From the foods we buy for our families, to the son’s gym teacher, to the daughter’s pediatrician, to the TV shows and video games and songs on the radio, to the neighbor who keeps to himself and the car with tinted windows cruising by around schoolbus time. If we’re not watching out for our own, if we trust “the authorities” (who’re often the ones who most warrant our DIStrust)...well, our families deserve better from us.

We’re on our own. And if we can’t handle it, we’d better get that “Help Wanted: Tyrant urgently needed to run our lives for us” ad in the paper pronto.