More Bad Medical Peer Review

Make NO mistake. I was fired for intervening in a neonatal case being BOTCHED by a then-Cone-owned Family Practitioner who lied about his credentials in Pediatrics and did not recognize what was in front of him . . . and then defying three hospital executives (Robert Morrison, Steven Eblin and Mike Bridges) to report what happened to peer review.

Mike Bridges wanting me/my partners to refer everything to Cone.

Most of my oh-so-noble "colleagues" on the Randolph Hospital medical staff sat back deaf, dump and blind and let it happen . . . real, fine upstanding pieces of work they were/are. They could not get involved - and risk pissing Bob & company off. Moreover, "right people" had to be served - no matter how out of line or just flat-out-wrong they were.

Of course, when it came to some of my colleagues in Family Practice, a lot of that was all about money and holding on to their piece of the community pie (Eblin calls it "Pediatric market share"). Pediatricians were just for cleaning up messes - not building private practices that might compete for business.

In the process of the methodical/deliberate pulverizing that oh-so-selfless-&-noble Bob Morrison's "team" of miscreants dished out to the homegrown Pediatrician, federal and state contracts were breached and un-enforced. Moreover, I was black-balled for miles around.

I had to be destroyed, humiliated and silenced. I had to be made to "just go away".

On top of all that, I was SLAPP-sued for telling the government I served the truth.

And that STILL not being quite enough for these over-rated, over-paid, captains-of-medical-industry, I was swindled at settlement in my favor (three soul-sucking years later) by in-your-face perjury, contempt and fraud on the part of Teflon-coated community leaders who are apparently too important to hold accountable for anything.

The law and medical oversight in North Carolina was and still is so far behind in the Dark Ages, that I fell through every crack. The North Carolina Medical Board, JCAHO, NC & USDHHS and the State Bar . . . not to mention our civil and criminal justice systems have all been next-to-useless in terms of addressing the sheer right and wrong of what was done to me . . . it's been twelve years on a merry-go-round of B-S and the jurisdictional dodge.

But I am going to keep hammering . . . here, there and everywhere until someone does something about what happened to me.

That's why I found this post on peer-review-gone-horribly-wrong at Kevin's (referencing this case in Maryland - UNBELIEVABLE!) so interesting and . . . what is the word I'm looking for? . . . ah, yes . . . "relevant" . . . to my own situation . . .

. . . no matter what the sold-out local journalists and well-named bloggers say.

"Why didn't peer review catch this?".

Well, Grasshopper, it's because medical peer review doesn't work. It hasn't worked for years. When it comes to Asheboro, I look forward to delving into that further shortly.

I left a comment at Kevin's.

I guess in Asheboro City Council member, Clark Bell's book, speaking out so persistently and forcefully about what happened so long ago makes this wrong person "stupid" . . .

. . . a dancing "celebrity" lawyer who counts unconvicted-cyber-stalkers-with-admitted-sociopathic-tendencies as one of his clients being someone whose opinion I'm gonna put ANY stock in.