God knows, Cone and Roch, champions of free speech that they are, aren't going to say anything. It's Rachel Hunter. She might as well be Mary Johnson.
I think I tied a lot of things together really well there. And I really don't know which oversight entity is more useless, corrupt or pathetic . . . the North Carolina Medical Board or the North Carolina State Bar.
Well, yeah. I do. It's the Bar. Even though the Medical Board is run by lawyers, at least there's a doctor in the room to offer oxygen to the dying patient that is American Medicine.
I was inspired to write/post because I gotta say that Mary Sleazely has got some real balls on her. People tell me that I'm a bold piece-of-work. But I ain't got nothing on our former globe-trotting (it was for good-of-the-state, of course) First Lady.
For those of you who are not up-to-speed on this story, Mary Easley is the wife of Mike Sleazely, our-former-governor-hopefully-soon-to-be-indicted-on-something. She was fired last year after it was revealed that her $850,000, five-year contract with N.C. State University was basically created for her after some not-so-subtle prodding from her husband-still-in-office (the properties at Bald Head and Cannonsgate not being sufficient for their post-public-office needs). She filed a grievance.
The university unceremoniously dismissed it this past week.
North Carolina's ex-First Lady is now yammering (or rather her attorney is yammering) about her "due process" rights being violated by the university.
The N&O has had two versions of the same story up over the weekend.
You'd think that Mary was Elizabeth Edwards or something.
Now, in this "employment-at-will" state, Mary's ambulance-chaser (uh, I mean, lawyer) had the brass cahoones to "respond" to the dismissal of the grievance . . . by making this headline-grabbing allegation (which kinda pissed me off . . . since I've not been able to get any headlines from the N&O - or the N&R - or our local Courier Tribune . . . regarding my one-would-think-very-serious allegations against the executives of a "charitable" institution/major employer of young professionals in the community):
" . . . the university has no procedure for a case like Easley's and that the "process cobbled together by NCSU does not meet basic due process requirements."
It's in blue because it's just really progressive for an attorney in this "right-to-work" state to be championing due-process rights.
Because, you know, despite me having a duty to stop and/or report medical badness even way back in 1998/99, the state of North Carolina has NEVER given a rat's tail about my due process rights. I've had twelve years of the legal shaft . . . falling through every deep-black-loop-hole one could fall through.
As a physician-in-public-service fired after defying threats (based on trumped-up allegations) to answer a nurse's call in-the-middle-of-the-night and save the life of a dying newborn (whose care was being botched by someone else), I never got ANY KIND of "due process" hearing before the RMA or Randolph Hospital Boards. The state/Feds could not fully enforce their own contracts/agreements. The Medical Board looked the other way. And the N.C. State Bar dismissed complaints against the lawyers involved (including my own) without so much as interviewing me.
Oh, and the Randolph County District Attorney has kept me from swearing out a formal complaint against Robert Morrison and Steven Eblin for going on seven years.
No really. I'm serious. Garland Yates has REFUSED to answer a single letter, REFUSED to meet with me (while his ADA, King Dozier, purposely misled me about what his office was going to do), kept a magistrate from taking my sworn complaint, and kept ANYONE ANYWHERE (the Asheboro Police, the Randolph County Sheriff's office, the SBI or the Attorney General's office) from investigating the case.
Being a naive American educated in our state's public schools, I was always under the impression that, in this country, a decision regarding the prosecution of a criminal case came AFTER a proper investigation was conducted, NOT BEFORE.
Tell me again, Mr. Attorney General, that victims-of-crime (particularly white-collar crime) in this state have "rights". Rights like I had in the cyber-stalking case? The right to be mis-represented, kept-in-the-dark and abused on and off the stand?
But hey, bring on the young professionals to Asheboro! Things are so swell here now that we have booze.
Referencing Mary Easley's lawyer, you could say the state of North Carolina has not "cobbled together" a procedure to protect employed doctors who blow the whistle and/or intervene to stop bad care. And I've got knews for him. This Mary was in line before his was.
No biggie, right? Not relevant to anything in this era of healthcare "reform".
I've watched other good people fall through the same holes - because North Carolina is so wrapped up in making things great for business that businessmen can get away with murdering people's careers and reputations . . . for no good reason other than they can.
So I'm not exactly feeling any love for Mary Sleazely - the wife of an Attorney General-then-Governor who clearly thought that North Carolina's "employement-at-will" laws were adequate and fair for all of the rest of us . . . until his wife found herself ensnared.
Boo Hoo.
I left a comment at the N&O. It's a watered-down variation of what I really think, because what I really think is not printable:
"Mary Sleazely's lawyers respond" . . . blah, blah, blah. I think the public is pretty clear on what happened.And puhlease don't lecture me about Queen Mary's right to due process in an employment matter - not after the way this doctor was treated in our "right-to-work" state by a pair of crooked/lying non-profiteers - on her husband's watch.
MRS. EASLEY IS GETTING THE SAME MEDICINE HER HUSBAND (AS ATTORNEY GENERAL AND GOVERNOR) ALLOWED TO BE DISHED OUT TO SO MANY. YET SHE/HER LAWYER EXPECT US TO BOO-HOO? I've been trying to get "due process" for twelve years.
I was fired for ignoring threats and saving a baby's life. Queen Mary was fired because NC State had no business inventing a job for her in the first place. The Randolph County DA has treated me like dirt - and the state/Feds have craned their neck looking the other way (is there any wonder why oil wells blow up and the people who drilled them are too stupid to fix them - NO ONE is looking over their shoulder!!!).
Our former queen-of-everything can get in line and/or stuff it.
The woman should be off knitting something she can wrap a shank in - for when she visits King Sleazely in jail.
On a lighter note, I hear that Bob Morrison, CEO of Randolph Hospital and the man who lied-under-Oath not-just-once-but-FOUR-times in the discovery phase of his own despicable SLAPP suit, will be dancing with my ex-attorney's daughter, Brooke Schmidly tonight.
They're "right people", you know. Local "celebrities".
I hope they break some legs.
Really. Slip. Fall. Go to Randolph. Cuz, you know, I've had so much good luck there.
Late Night Update: A friend (between guffaws) has "chastised" my closing remarks on this post as "So not PC for an MD."
Perhaps not. But I'm not sorry. Too many scars. The only "dance" I want to see Bob Morrison do is the perp walk.
And forget the ten bucks, I've already paid IN SPADES for that ticket.
Sunday AM Update: The Courier never disappoints. Annette Jordan & company will always be there to drool over Asheboro's "right people" and their "extravaganzas".
The event raised a little over $100,000 for RCC. It's all "for the kids" Looking at the the dancers (so much material, so little time), I'm wondering how much Mike Miller, former President of First National/Community One, cost his share-holders and investors?
I know how much Bob Morrison cost me. I suppose rail-roading a homegrown Pediatrician out of town was "for the kids" too.
And local "journalist", Annette, won't be telling you about that.
