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Fake Doctors’ Notes Being Handed Out at Wisconsin Gov. Union Rally
MacIver News Service ^ | 2/19/11

Posted on 02/19/2011 12:20:24 PM PST by rhema

[Madison, WI] As tens of thousands of public employees skipped work this week to attend protest rallies outside the Wisconsin State Capitol, many wondered if they would face any disciplinary action for unexcused absences.

On Saturday, a group of men and women in lab coats purporting to be doctors were handing out medical excuse notes, without examining the ‘patients.’

“I asked this doctor what he was doing and he told me they were handing out excuses to people who were feeling sick due to emotional, mental or financial distress,” said Christian Hartsock. “They never performed an exam–he asked me how I was feeling today and I said I’m from California and I’m not used to the cold, so he handed me a note.”

Another woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said they were handing out excuses like they were leaflets.

“I asked if they were handing out doctors’ excuses and a guy said yes and asked me if I needed one,” she said. “When I told them I needed one for February 16 and 17th, he wondered if I wanted to come back here for the protests next week.”

What happened next?

“I said, ‘sure,’ and I received a doctor’s note for the 16th through the 25th of February, without a medical exam.”

The notes read

Feb 19, 2011

Patient’s name______

Date of birth ____/_____/_____

To Whom it May Concern:

This is confirm I have seen and evaluated the above named patient.

Please excuse from work/school due to a medical condition from

____/____/____ through

Please contact me at badgerdoctors@gmail.com if additional information is needed. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Physician Signature:

Physician Name

WI license number

Based on an examination of the signature and medical license number provided, one of the men handing out these notes was purporting to be James H Shropshire MD, a Clinical Associate Professor at the University Wisconsin Madison.

At this time, MacIver News Service is attempting to contact Dr. Shropshire to see if indeed he was the one handing out the notes on the Capitol Square.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: corruption; democratcorruption; democrats; fakedoctornotes; fraud; liberalfascism; liberals; medicalfraud; progressives; sickpayfraud; taxes; teachers; union; unioncorruption; unions; walker; wea; wisconsin; wisconsinleftyquacks; wisconsinshowdown; youpayforthis
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To: rhema
You gotta hand it to Democrats.

If there is a way to abuse a system in a way that discredits it for all future legitimate uses, they will find it and drive a bus through it.

-PJ

121 posted on 02/19/2011 2:01:44 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: rhema

This tactic reminds me of the Thugs with baseball bats hanging around the polling place that our Justice Department found no problem.


122 posted on 02/19/2011 2:04:30 PM PST by jusduat (probably lost)
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To: RandallFlagg
Good one!

Any news agency that doesn't fully run with this story shares complicity in this fraud as the slimebag doctors and "patients."

123 posted on 02/19/2011 2:04:30 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: RandallFlagg
Then, I sent another email to them that read, "Too late. Another news organization is reporting it now." A little salt for the wound...

Oh yeah. < /virtual high five>

124 posted on 02/19/2011 2:04:38 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: rhema

More from the MacIver Institute here. The name, signature, and Wisconsin medical license number on the pictured note belong to James H Shropshire MD, an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Wisconsin School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. Doctors told an interviewer in video from the MacIver Institute that the fake teachers have “mental health” challenges; another defensive doctor accused the interviewer of interfering with “private,” protected “confidential” consultations — in the middle of a public demonstration.

Michelle Malkin

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/02/19/badger-state-battle-unions-vs-tea-party-in-wisconsin-runaway-dems-could-be-awol-for-weeks/

Ann Althouse, law professor... Is blogging about it...

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/02/stay-tuned-to-althouse-for-latest-from.html


125 posted on 02/19/2011 2:05:04 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Mouton

I bet the governor has the balls to prosecute them.....via the state Attorney General.

And then he can turn around and pass out pink slips to the teachers for lying.


126 posted on 02/19/2011 2:05:45 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: rhema

file a complaint today with wisconsin’s medical licensure board, http://drl.wi.gov/


127 posted on 02/19/2011 2:06:52 PM PST by dunblak
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To: mewzilla
Can’t find anything for a Hannah L. Keevil,

I found her; licensed 21 years.

128 posted on 02/19/2011 2:07:34 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: kcvl

Holy cow - looks like tourist guy is back, holding up a “Solidarity” sign. He is/was standing behind the fox reporter guy Mike.


129 posted on 02/19/2011 2:07:52 PM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: rhema

>> a group of men and women in lab coats purporting to be doctors

A prelude to Obamacare.


130 posted on 02/19/2011 2:08:03 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Salvavida

” And then he can turn around and pass out pink slips to the teachers for lying. “

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2676468/posts?page=169#169

also

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2676468/posts?page=172#172


131 posted on 02/19/2011 2:09:04 PM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: rhema

Kids can’t read - but I’ll bet they know how to cheat. Learned it at the teacher’s knee...


132 posted on 02/19/2011 2:09:18 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: Steamburg
What they need is people from the state handing out real pink slips.

Wouldn't that be a hoot - people in white coats suckering in the protesters. "You a teacher or state employee? Yes, then take this note."

The note is pink and says "YOU'RE FIRED!"

133 posted on 02/19/2011 2:09:35 PM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: buccaneer81
Can’t find anything for a Hannah L. Keevil,

I found her; licensed 21 years.

Education and Board Certification

1995, Residency, UW Department of Family Medicine

1990, Medical School, SUNY at Syracuse College of Medicine

ABMS Certification, American Board of Family Medicine

134 posted on 02/19/2011 2:10:10 PM PST by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: jimfree

Oh man, what a flashback.


135 posted on 02/19/2011 2:11:29 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: C210N
I found her; licensed 21 years.

Please forward to Drudge. CBS will break this in 7 more days...

EXCELLENT work.

136 posted on 02/19/2011 2:12:22 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: C210N; KimberInKhaki

Maybe not for long. That should go to a review board immediately.


137 posted on 02/19/2011 2:15:04 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: meyer

Email: badgerdoctors@gmail.com

Location: Mountain View


138 posted on 02/19/2011 2:15:10 PM PST by kcvl
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Seeing a common trend. These doctors are employed at the University of Wisconsin. Correct?


139 posted on 02/19/2011 2:15:41 PM PST by KansasGirl (1)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Nobody watches SeeBS


140 posted on 02/19/2011 2:15:59 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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