Welcome New Readers: Especially The Oh-So-Noble Lawyers At Tuggle, Duggins & Meschan Of Greensboro, N.C!

Good morning readers. I wrote most of this late last night. I said I'd take it easy unless something caught my eye. Well, something did;)

As background. I couldn't sleep. Had a mild neuralgia attack. Never pleasant. It's hard to sleep when your head is pounding, your eye wants to twitch and your jaw/ear is burning. But all was not lost. I defragmented and de-viralized the computer. I also took the time to peruse some old depositions (mine, Steve Eblin's, Bob Morrison's).

Years later, the difference in the quality of the answers between my deposition and those of Randolph Hospital's senior administrators only fuels the fire raging in my soul for justice. These guys are simply unbelievable! They'd drive saints to drink.

Wait. They already did.

Moving right along, on this fair Easter weekend, when a lot of the honorable-people-in-Asheboro-who-did-very-dishonorable-things will be making appearances at one church or another, I'd like to welcome all of the people newly interested in this blog and this story . . . from places like Washington D.C . . . Northern Virginia . . . Atlanta . . . New York . . . and Raleigh, to name a few.

As an aside, I am also mildly amused by the multiple hits lately from my nemeses (?nemesae?) at Randolph Hospital and Asheboro's Courier Tribune.

Do "ya think" the visionary leaders of Randolph County have figured out that there's an Internet yet?

But most of all I'd like to say hello to the lawyers at Tuggle, Duggins & Meschan, PA, in Greensboro, N.C (as they figured prominently in all those depositions I looked over last night). This is the law firm that handled RMA's defense of my 1999 lawsuit . . . and it is the same firm that filed the BOGUS 2000 "libel" counter-suit against me . . . based on my confidential (not anymore) 1999 complaint to USDHHS Secretary Shalala.

As regular readers know, the "libel" lawsuit is a huge log in the fire that fuels my righteous rage about the whole fiasco in Asheboro, and its one of the huge injustices in this sad/sorry saga that drives my cause. It was bad enough to be fired for saving a baby's life, but being called a liar on the front page of my hometown newspaper for telling the Clinton administration the truth . . . well, that was just TOO much. Jim Kinlaw (Bob Scott's partner) . . . if he'd had the courage to stop hiding behind his so-called "relationship" with my parents and open his mouth/vote at a Board meeting . . . might have told someone that.

That humiliating, despicable SLAPP suit, which I spent way too much money defending (all by myself because the couldn't-be-bothered state & Federal governments I served dived under their desks), was a HUGE tactical error on Randolph Hospital's part . . . and I hope it will someday prove to be Morrison & Eblins's downfall.

It is also the lawsuit that Randolph Hospital ultimately had to RUN from when both lawsuits were settled in 2001. That did not get front-page coverage by David Renfro.

Anyway, according to StatCounter, on Wednesday, someone at the law firm of Tuggle, Duggins & Meschan spent close to 24 hours on this blog.

This is the law firm that . . . despite their core values of "integrity" and representation one can "trust" . . . despite their high ethical and professional standards (I'm trying not to retch as I type this) . . . and despite being "legal experts" presumably fully educated as to the legal obligations of "non-profits" to disclose public information when a member of the public asks for it . . . FILED SWORN FALSE ANSWERS ON BEHALF OF THEIR CLIENTS DURING DISCOVERY TESTIFYING TO THE "CONFIDENTIALITY" OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION THAT WAS MOST CERTAINLY NOT CONFIDENTIAL . . . AND VERY RELEVANT TO MY DAMAGES CLAIM.

Again, it's probably not best to dwell on our dear Schmidly's negligence in this equation. My neuralgia could flare again. I guess Mock Trials are more important than real ones.

At least, that seems to the be the theory of the N.C. State Bar.

Anyway, Tuggle-Dugginites, Robert Ford and Demtrius Worley, then went on to negotiate a settlement on the lies . . . "aggressively" representing their lying, oily clients to be "nearly bankrupt" and unable to afford more than $125,000 in compensatory/punitive damages (less than one years salary reflecting six years of loss) . . . even as their "non-profits" paid exorbitant salaries to their executives and "most-favored" doctors who had all gone on production & bonus plans . . . one of whom "inherited" my practice.

Moreover, TD&M clients, Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin were NOT innocents mislead by crafty lawyers. As officers of a "non-profit" hospital, they KNEW their SWORN answers were FALSE (if they read anything they sign - like IRS 990's). Indeed, our local heroes with the 20/200 vision had posted a good portion of the financial information I asked for in discovery online with Guidestar (in IRS 990 returns that should have been released to me) . . . as they trolled for grants and free money.

They just did not see fit to tell me it was there.

Instead, they chose to lie and say it was "confidential". You see because of who they were and who they knew, they did not have to play by the rules the rest of us do. They were above the law.

And so far, that's been just fine with Garland Yates, Roy Cooper and Anna Mills Wagoner. I don't know about you, but I am so tired of hearing the lip-service these empty suits feed to the general public during election cycles. They "care" about ordinary folks.

Yeah. Sure.

Now, given that these two fine, upstanding hospital executives knowingly lied under Oath about the monetary aspect of the evil screw they turned on Dr. Mary Johnson (because, of course, MONEY what was most important to THEM), WHY should anyone believe anything else they said under Oath . . . in their depositions and in interrogatory responses - in which they were determinedly vague and/or obtuse and/or evasive and/or deceptive in their answers . . . alleging things that they could not document, infractions they could not specify, events/encounters/conversations they could not clearly recall or remember, professional behavior & performance on my part that was obviously so unacceptable (except to all of the doctors writing recommendation letters on my behalf . . . not to mention all of the parents who called & wrote in to tell them they had made a huge mistake) . . . because "it was so long ago" or they were too important to know/investigate the details before they ripped a good doctor's life to shreds?

Eblin, in particular, was pathetic. Mike Bridges said this, Mike Bridges said that. And whatever Mike (RMA "yes-girl" Kathy Riley's trained mouthpiece) said, well, that must be true. And lookie here! This one letter we have from an angry, entitled dentist backs it up!

I suppose ALL of those other people (more to be posted) were lying. Of course, they weren't nearly as important.

Good thing I write things down, and have a fairly decent memory.

What's the excuse on the IRS 990's Bob? Steve? I'd really like to hear it. You run a "non-profit". Your books are NOT secret. You KNOW this.

So we have established that Randolph Hospital's trial lawyers at Tuggle, Duggins & Meschan either knowingly suborned perjury (thinking that in backwards, Podunk Randolph County they could get away with it) . . . OR were simply grossly negligent in not realizing that their clients had made a big boo-boo.

Either way, it should not be my problem. But somehow when somebody in Asheboro screws up it always is.

And either way, I'd now like to say "Hello!" to the big-gun law firm with the high standards and unimpeachable integrity. What a load of horse-hockey that is!

Speaking of Cone connections, I wonder if Robert Cone (of the firm) is any relation to Edward Cone of the Cones?

For as we will shortly discuss on this blog, the doctor I rescued on the fateful night in January 1998 . . . the doctor who screwed up . . . was then Cone-owned. That's a FACT boys.

The railroading of Dr. Mary Johnson by Randolph Hospital has been a cover-up to protect the great name of Cone from day one.

And here's a special observation for Edward: When when I came to the GSO blogosphere in 2005, in terms of citizen journalism, it was a golden opportunity for you to actually BE relevant . . . in a matter that hit close to home (i.e. the integrity of the hospital that bears your family name) . . . but in a matter that nonetheless needed the attention of someone in your family or its circle who actually had honor and integrity. And what did you do, Ed? Why you did what Cones always do. You did your part in this blogosphere to "cooperate" with Randolph Hospital and the status quo. It's your comfort zone. The rarefied air in the world of Cone cannot be disrupted. The rest of us lowly plebes can rot.

So. I've got news for Tuggle, Duggins & Meschan . . . or anyone named Cone . . . or "the boys" at Randolph Hospital:

I not afraid of you anymore!

TD&M, your greedy, lying, cheating, oily, sexist, scuzzball clients belong IN AN UNEMPLOYMENT LINE AND/OR IN JAIL for what they did to me, my patients, my colleagues, my family and my hometown.

ALL of you make me sick! You talk real noble & pretty, but you are plainly & simply well-dressed thugs and bullies.

Good Pediatricians ARE NOT a "dime a dozen"! One night, a long time ago, this one stood up to Mike Bridges' and Steve Eblin's petty, ill-informed, poorly-thought-out, control-freak threats and put a patient first . . . above her own happiness and well-being. She did not look away. And afterwards, she did her duty and reported what happened.

And when you decided to retaliate . . . to make her an "example" to other doctors of your omnipotence and total corporate domination of Asheboro's medical landscape, you picked on THE WRONG HOMEGIRL.

Even if her name isn't Cone.

This doctor would tell the big bad Greensboro law firm to go straight to HELL (if she were not trying very hard to clean up her language on the blog).

Oh, and Fec, FYI the Tuggle-Dugginites came to me from a link at your place;) Thanks!