Posted on 02/21/2011 5:38:45 AM PST by milwguy
Doctors who wrote medical notes over the weekend excusing protesters at the Wisconsin Capitol from work are getting slammed with angry phone calls and profane e-mails from people telling them they deserve to be thrown in jail, one doctor said Sunday.
The physicians wore lab coats Saturday as they stood on a street corner and offered medical notes to the tens of thousands of protesters who paraded past them. The protesters were rallying against a Republican-backed state bill that would eliminate collective bargaining rights for most state workers.
One of the doctors was Lou Sanner, 59, who practices family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Sanner said he gave out hundreds of notes and that many protesters with whom he spoke seemed to be suffering from stress.
"Some people think it's a nod-and-a-wink thing but it's not," he told The Associated Press on Sunday. "One of the biggest stresses in life is the threat of loss of income, loss of job, loss of health insurance. People have actually been getting ill from this, or they can't sleep."
Many of the protesters who chanted for lawmakers to "kill the bill" at the protests were teachers who missed classroom time during the week to attend the rallies. In some districts, teacher absences were so widespread that entire schools were shut down for as many as three days.
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
“...and that many protesters with whom he spoke seemed to be suffering from stress.”
What a quack. Every ONE of us knows it’s not ‘stress’ with these people! It’s full-blown delusional mental illness, LOL!
It’s hard to imagine any reasonable physician would consider curbside diagnostics of a person’s mental stability as legitimate medical practice.
In this case....if you have a job....and you are worrying about losing it...so you acquire a medical excuse to sit home and worry about it...that’s the absolute worst thing mentally that you could do. It also offers up a reason to the boss to prioritize the firings and you spend alot of time at home sick...so you might accidentally get yourself on the wrong list for the wrong reason.
The logic here by the doctor is kind of surprising. If you’re working...that’s the best therapy for a person to keep their mind occupied. Sitting at home or doped up on some weed as your therapy is the worst advice he could offer.
Most physicians take a conservative bent upon government, ergo I strongly suspect The Wisconsin Medical Board will take a baleful look at this practice. Chapter 448 of the Wisconsin statutes defines the practice of Medicine as:
(a) To examine into the fact, condition or cause of human
health or disease, or to treat, operate, prescribe or advise for the
same, by any means or instrumentality.
(b) To apply principles or techniques of medical sciences in the
diagnosis or prevention of any of the conditions described in par.
(a) and in sub. (2).
(c) To penetrate, pierce or sever the tissues of a human being.
(d) To offer, undertake, attempt or do or hold oneself out in any
manner as able to do any of the acts described in this subsection.
If these bozos weren’t physicians they broke the law and if they were they engaged in unprofessional conduct by not examining the patients.
Note that the doctor quoted is also a taxpayer-paid leech on the university payroll.
How many conservatives are on the staff at the University of Wisconsin, that bastion of “diversity”? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yet, when you try to Legislate to FIX the un-qualified mess, you are accused of attacking "the poor, the disabled, the elderly, minorities, etc., etc.". They use the same crap logic to justify baby-killing by talking about a "woman's right to choose", AFTER she CHOSE to have a good time and then the PUBLIC funds the consequences.
Irresponsibilty will never stop so long as it is rewarded....and goes without lesson-teaching consequences.
I hope they don’t submit an insurance claim.
Administrative fines and obligations can be quite severe...up to and including license revocation.
Classic liberal attitude. He quite sincerely doesn't think of his actions as political activism. He thinks of it as just being on the right (actually, left) side, which he doesn't consider ideological. That's what the other side does.
These doctors should be severely disciplined for medical misbehavior. By their own words they handed out hundreds of notes, with none or at most a very cursory examination.
I wondered what repercussions would come from handing out bogus notes. Wonder if any licenses are in jeopardy? Certainly, it’s a violation of medical ethics, at the very minimum.
As for teachers, they should be told to get back to classroom or be fired. What a great lesson; now when kids skip school; a faked note from the Doctor is all that should be needed.
Teach. . .learn. . .altogether, a disgusting example of civics in Wisconsin and everywhere, these behaviors are celebrated. . .and a depressing message for America's future.
I'm happy to see that the identities of these quacks are known.
I'm also pleased that they are now "suffering from stress" as a result of their own unethical actions.
They acted stupidly.
Checkout the cool counter-protest picture above in : #1
The State Capital is basically on the University campus so guess where all the protesters came from? You have 25,000 kids across the street.
Pray for America
Politic? Try lying to help people steal from the taxpayers.
They actually spent about as much time with these teachers writing them notes as will be spent with patients under the Obamacare clinic approach to medicine.
Rather ironic, given they are protesting Walker's plan to not have to lay anyone off.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.