Posted on 03/24/2007 8:33:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO — Shortly before she was fired from her job Friday, the executive director of a state board appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accused its members of attempting to undermine a criminal prosecution of chiropractors and interfering with disciplinary actions against members of the profession.
Catherine Hayes told the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners, which includes two friends from the governor's bodybuilding days, that it has been acting illegally and has deprived Californians of a strong regulatory agency that is supposed to protect the public.
Hayes read her statement to board members, who then went into a closed session to discuss her employment status. They came out to say that Hayes had been fired. She earlier had received indications that the board was unhappy with her and intended to dismiss her.
The board's chairman is Richard H. Tyler, who was the governor's personal chiropractor at one time and who met Schwarzenegger at the airport when he arrived in the U.S. in 1968.
Another board member is Francesco Columbu, a chiropractor and two-time Mr. Olympia who was best man at the governor's wedding to Maria Shriver.
Hayes, a 10-year-veteran of the board staff, suggested in her statement that members are protecting the interests of chiropractors at the public's expense.
She cited a vote by the board at its March 1 meeting that endorsed a potentially lucrative chiropractic procedure in which patients' joints are adjusted while they are under anesthesia.
The motion approved by the board was written by an attorney representing a chiropractor trade group.
Prosecutors in San Joaquin County are pursuing several criminal cases against chiropractors, alleging insurance fraud involving the use of the procedure, called "manipulation under anesthesia."
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Never needed this one, Thank goodness.. I have used the services of a chiropractor many a time and thankful for their skills and manner.
Tyler was also a child actor (Dickie Tyler) making his debut on stage in The Intruder as a goosestepping Nazi 13 year-old that sent chills through the audience (1943-44). He was an understudy to Skip Homeier, the lead in New York and he later took on the leading role in its presentation in Chicago and Los Angeles. The Intruder was later made into a movie called Tomorrow the World, starring Homeier in the leading role.
He has quite a resume, playing in Gomer Pyle, Petticoat Junction, and other notables. ;-)
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