Dear Roch, Occasionally, I Feel The Need To Re-state My Purpose In The Piedmont-Triad Blogosphere

There's a thread at Dr. Joe Guarino's (with whom I am largely politically-simpatico and who has shown great kindness & understanding in the past) that really demonstrates the lengths to which some of the more progressive folk in our local blogopshere will go in order to prove themselves morally and intellectually superior to everyone else.  The thread has gone WAY off course.

I've tried my uber-best to be patient and cut Brandon some slack.

But Roch Smith, Jr., curator of the local blogging aggregator, We 101, is a whole nuther story.

Of course, as I did once before (back in 2006 when Dr. Mary dared defy all of the drooling Edwards-lovers who were dreaming of jumping up & down on poor Abe Lincoln's mattress), I put a big bulls-eye on my back by stating the following:

I hope to see the beginnings of a peaceful revolution this November - and, as a physician thoroughly disgusted by my own treatment in public service (under the administrations of Democrats) - not to mention the joke of "healthcare reform" railroaded through Congress earlier this year, I will work and speak in a fashion I never have before to see "your guy" loses in 2012 - because I believe his agenda is indeed the path to tyranny.

Just picture bloodshot eyeballs on the other side of a computer screen somewhere narrowing and bulging at the same time (Insert progressive robot voice):  Dr. Mary Johnson . . . must . . . be . . . discredited . . . destroyed!

For the umpteenth time since my debut five years ago, the Greensboro blogosphere's resident deep-blue "fact-checker" mis-stated the facts (to my detriment) about my case against Randolph Hospital . . . with all of the usual slurs against my character and mental health implied.

My buttons duly pushed, I responded to Roch and thought the response would "top-level" well:

Roch, as per usual you are living up to your name as I always read it. And you should have stopped while you were ahead.

We've played this game over and over again. The settlement in 2001 was negotiated in BAD FAITH on a pack of LIES . . . including the false claim that the practice/people who canned me FOR SAVING A BABY'S LIFE AND DOING THE DUTY ASSIGNED TO ME BY THE STATE - the people who tried to sue me into oblivion for telling the truth (even Cone gets that) - the people who were actually paying themselves "a couple hundred thousand" (or more) dollars a year - were "nearly bankrupt".

By accepting the settlement, I was snookered into believing that I was being vindicated AND helping the hospital stay afloat. NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED. Especially when you're in this blogosphere and lean to the right of the political spectrum.

Six soul-sucking years of my life (first building a practice from nothing - then the battle to return home) were totally negated by the fraud.

And I know that's just fine with you. Because I did not worship at the altars of Clinton, Gore, Edwards, Sleazely, Perdue, Obama, etc. And because my experience does not say much for any of those societal do-gooders.

All doctors are "rich" and they're for sure "not special". Hold onto that thought when, after a few years of Obamacare, you - or your desperately-ill child - cannot find one.

OBTW, check your facts (given the N&R's history in Randolph County, maybe you should do it in some other fashion that just reading old newspaper accounts).  The settlement was NOT for a "couple hundred thousand dollars".  It wasn't even for one year's salary.

[And I paid ALL of Papa Schmid's attorney's fees from that - as well as TAXES on the sum - after Papa Schmid, representing me so zealously, told me that punitive damages were not taxable.  Meanwhile, the taxpayer paid for Bob & Steve's SLAPP-suit.]

So tell me, Mr.-Truth-Justice-and-the-American-Way, do you REALLY think that one year's salary covers a destroyed practice & local reputation (how many times have you/your pals called me "crazy"?) and a life/career derailed?

Better yet, do you actually approve of the lying and cheating?

I DO BLAME THE NON-PROFITEERS WHO LIED AND CHEATED ME OUT OF MY HOMETOWN PRACTICE AND HUGE CHUNK OF MY LIFE. AND, AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS OF BEING BLOWN OFF BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT (BECAUSE I CANNOT GET TO STATE LAW ENFOREMENT UNTIL THE LOCALS REFER - ala NIFONG), I CAME TO THIS BLOGOSPHERE WITH THE HOPE THAT "CITIZEN JOURNALISM" WOULD AMOUNT TO MORE THAN A FEW PROGRESSIVES BLOWING EMPTY, HYPOCRITICAL BLUE SMOKE UP ONE ANOTHER'S BUTTS.

I WILL CONTINUE TO BLAME RANDOLPH HOSPITAL & ITS EXECUTIVES FOR WHAT THEY DID TO ME/MY FAMILY/MY PATIENTS/MY COMMUNITY, AND I WILL CONTINUE TO CHASE THEM IN ANY VENUE I CAN FIND UNTIL THEY ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

I believe it's called "civil disobedience".

And what's more, I no longer give a rat's tail what you/Cone/Fec/Sue think. Go converge on yourselves.

While we're at it, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE . . . tell us about the personal skin you've lost fighting injustice.  Really.  I'm DYING to hear all about it.

OBTW, I'm sure Mike Baron appreciates your way-too-little-way-too-late endorsement on the occasion of his cessation of blogging. The Greensboro blogosphere's latest failure-of-citizen-journalism-to-be-relevant sure gave me the warm fuzzies.

Brandon, playing over-compensating Grasshopper to Roch is not serving you very well. You have implied/injected/interpreted/figured meanings into everyone else's statements here, but apparently no one can summarize your own without being "moronic, manipulative and disgusting".  I also fail to see how my "tactics" or blogging style remotely resembles Bubba's, but you've distorted so many things in this thread that I suppose I should not be surprised.

I quote: "The country voted and your guy lost and now you want revolution".

As I said, yes.  I do.  At the polls.  Soon.

Very clearly, I should have posted the initial blistering retort.

P.S.  According to StatCounter my recent posts on Bob Morrison's grand-standing PR moves to corner the not-so-serious-inpatient-psych business in Asheboro has someone from Randolph Hospital all over the blog.

Here's a message for the old gang:  All that and a bag of chips, boys & girls.  You don't get to waive N.C. Administrative Codes and General Statutes in the face of Sandhills' CEO after all of the amoral/illegal stunts you pulled with me.  And don't tell me that you're "concerned" about patients either - after all of the uber-nasty things you did to shut me up and make me "go away" after I would not cave to your threats, roll over, go back to sleep and let a baby die.

Forget that.  I got a really good lesson - on several fronts - on what the people who run Randolph Hospital are all about.

The ONLY language Robert Morrison and Steven Eblin ever understood was money.  And it was the only thing (apart from absolute power at any cost) that they cared about.

Spare me the act.