Posted on 02/20/2011 9:31:07 AM PST by bigbob
What is occurring in Madison, Wisconsin has become a microcosm of what is happening across America: conservative care givers are being blocked by progressive liberal statists. In Wisconsin, the elected Governor and conservative legislature are trying to institute rational, humane treatment to a sick patient, the state of Wisconsin’s failed economy. Unfortunately, progressive liberal statists and unions, as self-appointed “family members” of the patient, have decided to withhold treatment by NOT allowing the caregivers in the room and by trying to hide the patient in another state.
The progressive liberal statists and unions have taken the situation to a fraudulent and possibly criminal level, with the help of The Democratic National Committee, Organizing For America and their mouthpiece the “Organizer in Chief:” Barack Obama. They have recruited “physicians” in their white coats to hand out FRAUDULENT work notes to the “victims” of the needed treatment. These “physicians” in white coats were eerily similar in appearance to the “physicians” in white coats who slithered into the Rose Garden during the debate on Obama Care. In their actions, these “physicians” have violated and compromised The Hippocratic Oath, medical ethics and committed medical fraud.
The video of Andrew Breitbart shows him being “diagnosed” with “Walker Pneumonia” and being given a “medical release” from work. This is all the evidence needed to bring those “physicians” up on charges of FRAUD before the State of Wisconsin Medical Review Board, The State of Wisconsin Medical Society and The Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office. What these “physicians” have done is incomprehensible to those of us that uphold the Oath 24-7 year in and year out.
Thirty years ago, I stood with my 150 classmates in Thorn Hall, at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, as Dean James Eckenhoff asked us to raise our right hands and repeat after him:
I will apply measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.
Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice.
Those words, from The Hippocratic Oath written in 400 B.C., changed my life and the lives of the hundreds of thousands of patients my classmates and I have touched over the past thirty years. I keep this Oath as my foundation as a practicing physician, clinical researcher and health care policy analyst. Unfortunately, the actions taken by those “physicians” in Madison wearing white coats and handing out FRAUDULENT “medical releases” harms ALL of us trying to uphold that sacred Oath.
Based on what I have seen from the progressive liberal statists, I would not be surprised if their next “stunt” will be to bring out the medical icon of the left for an appearance in Madison: Dr. Death himself, Jack Kevorkian. The problem is, we cannot sit by silently and watch Wisconsin self-administer this lethal injection, instead of swallowing the bitter, but life-saving medicine it so needs.
This is a country of free speech, and all are welcomed to the discussion. All sides need to be heard – legally and peacefully. Let’s not lose sight of truth and reality in that discussion. Yes, the needed medicine can be bitter, and can have difficult side effects. However, if we refuse to face the necessary steps, the patient, Wisconsin and our Country, will continue its downslide. The State will be bankrupt and there will be nothing there to pay any union benefits – or anything else. The heart and lungs of this patient will falter, and there will be nothing left to sustain that left hand flailing in the wind.
I am neither a doctor or a lawyer, but I can already see these unethical doctors hiding behind patient privacy (HIPAA) laws, saying they did indeed conduct an examination and diagnosis and "just try to prove we didn't because that is privileged communications between doctor and patient".
We have video proof of their actions, and they clearly conducted any so-called "conslutations" in public and within earshot of anyone who happened to be nearby. (Remember the "HIPAA line" at the pharmacy?)
So they can't have it both ways - either they failed to do a proper diagnosis - or they did so in public in violation of patient privacy laws. I'm sure there are hundreds of folks, including Andrew Breitbart, who will be happy to testify that they overheard "private medical conversations" such as "Walker Pneumonia".
Once again, liberals show who they really are.
“FRAUDULENT work notes”.....what a great example for the kids in their schools. Teach them to lie to get around the law.
I assume that like most of America the word ETHICS has little or no meaning in the medical profession any more.
Someone will be legally accountable in 10, 9, 8, 7,....... =.=
Are the Doctors charging for these ‘diagnoses’?? If not, since they do not benefit financially from their activity, they are not, technically, committing ‘fraud’...
If a ‘teacher’ uses one of these fake documents to obtain sick pay, or sick-time, or to save her/his job/career, then he/she benefits financially and has committed the fraud...
The Doctors can, at most, be charged as accessories to the ‘teachers’’ crimes....
What is the aversion, in the Media, and on these FR threads, to calling it like it is — it’s the TEACHERS who are the criminals, here.....
Same exact crooked doctors who support ObamaCare.
These are not practicing doctors who see real patients.
Why? BECAUSE THAT ARE AT THE THUG RALLIES DAY AFTER DAY!
Something that should be implemented by Wisconsin public school districts:
West Bloomfield School District to withhold pay from teachers who abused ‘sick leave’
Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
By RONELLE GRIER
Special to The Oakland Press
The absence of 36 teachers from West Bloomfield High School on Tuesday has been deemed “a knowing and intentional abuse of sick leave” by district officials, who intend to withhold compensation from those who misused their benefits.
The absences occurred the day after a particularly contentious school board meeting, where several parents and educators expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of progress in the teacher contract negotiations.
As the number of sick calls began to mount, the administration moved quickly to provide adequate coverage for all of the affected classrooms. Substitute teachers were called, and administrative employees were brought in from other buildings.
“We anticipated that something like this might happen, and we were prepared,” said Pamela Zajac, public relations and marketing coordinator for the West Bloomfield School District. “Our number one priority was safety, with number two being that learning take place.”
According to Zajac, the administration does not consider 36 absences coincidental in a building where the average number of staff members using sick leave on any given day is approximately 12.
Thank you for this article “bigbob”.
Good time to pass a fraud law with teeth in Wisconsin for medical fraud sense its not a fiscal law.
Good point about the TEACHERS. They are guilty on several counts in this fiasco.
Not to worry the kids know all about that before they reach 6th grade, they also know their rights, and your limitations of authority.
Yes, but there is something called conspiracy to commit fraud the Doctors are culpable in.
So what should be done, is charge the teachers, then work the way back to the doctors.
In the meantime, the Doctors should face a panel of their peers for ethics violations and removed from the university system.
” it’s the TEACHERS who are the criminals, here..... “
By the bye, it may be terribly old-fashioned, and un-PC of me, but in the America where I grew up, criminals are not ‘docked’, ‘suspended’, ‘dismissed’, or ‘sent to bed without supper’ — criminals are arrested, prosecuted, tried, convicted, and incarcerated....
Is this the fraud and abuse that the politicians are always promising to get rid of.
Complaints should start pouring in to the state medical licensinfg board.
A couple of observations.
Uncle Ike wrote:
If a ‘teacher’ uses one of these fake documents to obtain sick pay, or sick-time, or to save her/his job/career, then he/she benefits financially and has committed the fraud...
The Doctors can, at most, be charged as accessories to the ‘teachers’’ crimes....
You are correct in that the "teachers" are definitely committing fraud with these "doctors' notes." No disagreement there.
However, the "doctors" aren't blameless either. There's a phrase for the act of writing a note for someone to be excused from work. That's called "practicing medicine." Doing it without a proper office visit and examination is probably against state and federal laws and regulations. It's malpractice at best (a civil issue) and possibly illegal by professional regulations, laws and standards.
If I were the employer in this situation, I wouldn't accept a doctor's note if there was no insurance claim for a doctor visit. I would point to the videos as evidence of rampant fraud and malpractice and want some records, vital signs recorded and office notes to accompany the "doctor's excuse."
If records of "office visits" start mysteriously appearing to back up these fraudulent "notes," and insurance companies start paying for the fraudulent "office visits," then the complexion changes even more for the doctors. I'm actually wondering if the information the "doctor" was gathering is to be used to falsify records and possibly make insurance claims.
Oh, check video at Andrew Breitbart Has Walker Pneumonia.
” However, the “doctors” aren’t blameless either. “
I don’t, in any way, hold the Doctors to be blameless - I merely pointed out that, despite the headline of the original article, if the doctors do not realize any financial gain from generating these falsified documents, they have not committed the *crime* of Fraud... (That’s not to say that they have not broken other laws, or committed other crimes, in the process)
That particular *crime* is reserved for the Teachers who use these falsified documents for monetary gain, with the Doctors criminally liable as Accessories, or, at most, Co-Conspirators...
No doubt the doctors have been writing illegal scripts for meds as well.
I wonder How The Saintly INDEPENDENTS that the Press are always Drooling over feel about what they are seeing in Wisconsin
Per Fox News Alert:
The WI teacher’s union just issued a message for the teachers to go back to the classroom immediately!
Can you say...FAIL!
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