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Wisconsin Doctors Tell Teachers: Call in Sick to Continue Protests (the notes are VALID!)
ABC News ^ | 2/19/11 | DEAN SCHABNER, KEVIN DOLAK, CHRIS BURY and OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN

Posted on 02/19/2011 8:49:08 PM PST by Libloather

Wisconsin Doctors Tell Teachers: Call in Sick to Continue Protests
Wisconsin Tea Party Activists Weigh In on State Worker Protests, Explore Measures to Recall Missing Democratic Senators
By DEAN SCHABNER, KEVIN DOLAK, CHRIS BURY and OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN
Feb. 19, 2011

Some Wisconsin doctors threw their support behind teachers protesting the Republican governor's efforts to strip unions of their bargaining powers, saying they would write sick notes for teachers to skip work to demonstrate.

The union protesters have been picketing the state capitol in Madison for five days, angered by Gov. Scott Walker's proposed bill, which has the backing of the Republican controlled state Senate.

The Madison School District has said teachers who call in sick to protest won't be paid, but a group of licensed Wisconsin doctors came to the capitol today saying they would write a physician's note for anyone who asked.

Dr. Kathy Oriel told ABC affiliate WKOW-TV in Madison that the doctors realize they could get in trouble for their offer.

"We think its worth the risk," she said. "Teachers have no choice."

The physicians told WKOW-TV that they are acting on their own, not in connection with any hospitals or organizations, but they said the notes are valid.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: doctors; protests; teachers; unionhurtkids; wisconsin; wisconsinleftyquacks; wisconsinshowdown
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To: Libloather

These doctors must have written many other illegal scripts as well.


21 posted on 02/19/2011 9:03:34 PM PST by NoLibZone (Impeach Obama. Then try him for treason.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“...but a group of licensed Wisconsin doctors came to the capitol today saying they would write a physician’s note for anyone who asked.”

Couldn’t they be charged with fraud and have their license revoked - at a minimum?


22 posted on 02/19/2011 9:06:11 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Libloather

Its time for those union terds to get off their high horse and get in the field pickin cotton like the rest of us.


23 posted on 02/19/2011 9:06:19 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: pnh102
can see thousands of patients in 3 days and render a credible diagnosis.

And even more shocking, not send a bill!!

24 posted on 02/19/2011 9:06:31 PM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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25 posted on 02/19/2011 9:06:57 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: chris_bdba

just let them stay out....who cares if a few commie docs say this....I will guess that the vast majority of docs think the teachers and other “public” servants are whiners and jerks....


26 posted on 02/19/2011 9:09:31 PM PST by cherry
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To: Libloather

It should be known that any teacher who presents these fraudulent notes is courting termination and doctors who write them face suspension of their medical licenses.


27 posted on 02/19/2011 9:11:18 PM PST by garbanzo (You better hold on; This one's about to get bumpy.)
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To: Libloather

No doubt state paid doctors.


28 posted on 02/19/2011 9:11:46 PM PST by umgud
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To: FlingWingFlyer

isn’t there something about fraudulant medical practice, putting false information down on insurance papers?


29 posted on 02/19/2011 9:13:34 PM PST by cherry
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To: cherry

Im telling you, notify their mal practice insurance provider, Ask them what happens if one of these doctors missed a obvious serious condition because they stated they examined these people and missed it. It is the Malpractice providers that will have the heaviest hit on these docs.


30 posted on 02/19/2011 9:15:04 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: Libloather
As a child I always was told that Doctors and teachers were "professionals". I always thought the hallmark of a professional was their high ethical standards.

I have always felt that mid westerners had more old fashioned values than other parts of the nation.

If the mid western professionals are as ethical as a den of thieves, there is not really much left to save in this country.

31 posted on 02/19/2011 9:15:58 PM PST by oldbrowser (Blaming the prince of fools shouldn't blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that elected him)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Bummercare? They should talk about choice!”

We have to pass the Walker bill to see what’s in it. Don’t we?


32 posted on 02/19/2011 9:19:35 PM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: FrankR
but if it doesn't, it's bye-bye teachers.

Don't be a fool, that's what they're counting on. Bye-bye teachers equals overcrowded classrooms and general chaos in the schools. The teachers know they have the upper hand in this because at the end of the day, the teachers will get by, the governor will go on, but the children will pay dearly and they're hoping to get political traction out of that and that alone.

33 posted on 02/19/2011 9:19:48 PM PST by Melas
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To: umgud

They are in the University of Wisconsin medical system. At least two are.


34 posted on 02/19/2011 9:22:05 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: pnh102

There may be some flak, but don’t fool yourself. No doctor is going to lose his/her license to practice medicine over a fraudulent note to miss work. It just doesn’t work that way. It’s hard enough to strip a license when they kill or maim people.


35 posted on 02/19/2011 9:22:17 PM PST by Melas
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To: aquila48
Couldn’t they be charged with fraud and have their license revoked - at a minimum

Not even at a remote maximum. No chance in hell.

36 posted on 02/19/2011 9:24:21 PM PST by Melas
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To: Libloather

The Doc’s can be replaced.


37 posted on 02/19/2011 9:28:01 PM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Melas

Sending your kid(s) to be educated by union thugs in government schools seems like willing child abuse.


38 posted on 02/19/2011 9:28:12 PM PST by speciallybland
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To: fwdude

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39 posted on 02/19/2011 9:28:43 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Libloather

Well, now the doctors know that any notes from this Dr. Oriel are fake...easier for them.

I think Wisconsin FReepers should go to the protests, take copious pictures and send the pictures to all the school supervisors in Madison so they can weed those who call in sick with the “Irish flu” from their ranks and replace them with teachers who give a damn about teaching.


40 posted on 02/19/2011 9:28:56 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Germans in 1932 thought they were voting for change too.)
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