Hello Roch. Hello Ed (Cone). Hello John Robinson. Dr. Mary Johnson Here. Still Standing In The Greensboro, North Carolina Blogosphere As A Living Example Of Why NO ONE SHOULD BLOG

It was an interesting weekend in the local blogosphere.  And it's kind of ironic.  Because when I am on-call in the far-Eastern, 106-in-the-shade-yesterday hinterlands and "business" is slow, I actually have lots of time to blog. 

(When you think about it, I owe the opportunity to skewer Randolph Hospital for what they did to me TO Randolph Hospital.)

And blog I did . . . alas, most of that was about jumping through the hoops again for We 101 Curator, Roch Smith, Jr. 

Roch's oh-so-"smart" throw-away comments here there and everywhere have done a lot of damage over the years.

Alas, like Jeff Martin's pass-word protected treatises (after I would not back down when he crossed all lines), Mr. Smith-Jr.'s comments have long been soaked in malice and very careless with (and/or just plain ignorant of) the facts that were once sworn & filed at the Asheboro Courthouse (you can't miss it - our Confederate soldier faces not-so-defiantly South). 

Roch . . . who was NOT there when it all first happened (just like our local journalists were not there - and government officials like Shirley Sherrod were not there) . . . and who has ZERO first-hand knowledge . . . and who hasn't done ANY research at the Courthouse, has the annoying habit of misrepresenting his "expertise" on the subject of Dr. Mary Johnson . . . . not to mention the law as it is practiced in North Carolina as opposed to the way it is written.

Dr. Mary's patience is worn thin - on several fronts.  And unlike Sam Spagnola, local legal genius, she actually has a very good case for libel.

(Even the Randolph County District Attorneys handling the cyber-stalking-case-they-threw-under-the-bus said so.   But it's their modus operandi to try and turf everything back to civil Court - no matter how corrupt it may be - so you have to take what that crowd says with a grain of salt.)

I put Roch on notice at Cone's.  And in true same-old-crap-different-day fashion, when the "gotcha's" are turned, Roch cannot admit that he's been wrong (for a very long time) . . . or that it's pure-deep-blue hypocrisy to preach about the right-of-the-public-to-have-full-&-unimpeded-access-to-public-records, yet sneer & spit at me/my case . . . or that's he's not nearly the expert he claims to be . . . or that his partisan MALICE got the best of him yet again.

While at Cone's this morning (I've cut WAY down on the Word Up - it keeps the stomach settled and the blood pressure down), I had the opportunity to peruse another one of Ed's "in-depth" commentaries (this time of the banking crisis). 

And low & behold, in the comments there, I actually found a pearl of wisdom that describes why, as a physician, I found myself on the wrong end of so much ugly (disguised as "charity") in my hometown of Asheboro (of course, since it was "justcorbly" doing the noble pontificating, you have to edit the digs against GW out).  

It's in blue because it's just so darned "progressive".

But, how can you quantify the willingness of people to lie, cheat and steal?  Given enough people like that, they can wreak a lot of havoc.  It seems to me that much of what brought on the financial collapse of 2008 . . . was unethical behavior by people with a lot of money and a desire to have even more money.  Worse yet, some of them thought that if it made them money, it had to be OK.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep .  . . that BEAUTIFULLY sums up this former-public-servant-in-the Clinton-administration's experience with Bob Morrison, his left-hand man, Steven Eblin and all of the "right-honorables" on Randolph Hospital's Board of Directors.  It's all about medical economics, stupid (never mind that many of the decisions these men made made were stupid . . . and thoughtless . . . and amoral . . . and illegal). 

Right and wrong did not matter as long as these good-ole-boys could make (or save) a buck.

While I'm at here, and since I am now resolved to do everything I can to see Barack Obama (and as many Democrats as he can take with him) peacefully ousted from the White House come 2012 (in a way I wasn't until Roch worked his magic this weekend), I thought I'd offer up some talking points from the perspective of someone who just doesn't buy that George W. Bush is to blame for everything wrong with our world today.

If you want to really LOOK at the carelessness and the greed that ultimately gifted us with both 9/11 (and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan & Iraq) AND the banking crisis/blown-out bubbles and our our almost-there-depression . . . you need look no further than the high-flying administration of William Jefferson "It's the Economy, Stupid/I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman" Clinton . . . who will be staging what our salivating MSM is already calling the "wedding-of-the-century" for his daughter later this week.

Estimates I heard over the weekend put the cost of the wedding (on a right-people-worthy estate on the shores of the Hudson) at around two million dollars.

Public service has been very, very good to Bill & Hill.

In stark contrast, Dr. Mary (who has yet to see any of the dreams-she-dreamed-when-she-came-home-at-a-time-when-she-was-only-a-little-older-than-Chelsea-is-now come true) was a grunt-doc on Daddy-Bill's front lines in healthcare . . . she staffed "the village" where people don't get 2 million dollar weddings . . . and lived in the America where people can only look at Lizzie's house from the outside gate.

Indeed, since her debut here in 2005 . . . speaking inconvenient truths like this to power . . . Smith-Jr./Cone/the rest-of-Blogsboro's-progressive-"team" have worked overtime to keep Dr. Mary in her little blogging box . . . because her story very aptly demonstrates that passing over 2000 pages of new, very-expensive, incomprehensible-even-to-those-who-passed-it healthcare legislation (which includes throwing even more money at the Federal program that threw Dr. Mary to the dogs) didn't make any sense at all . . . if we cannot and/or will not enforce the (far simpler) laws we already had in place.

Dr. Mary's case against Randolph Hospital . . . a tale of piss-poor medico-legal oversight and ZERO local/state/Federal enforcement . . . actually proved that Obamacare IS doomed to fail even before it passed.

(And we couldn't have that story getting out to influence the masses BEFORE "reform" passed!)

As I told a good friend-who-I-am-itching-to-blog-about this past week (in response to his inquires about a mid-life change-of-direction), STAY-the-hell away from medicine . . . STAY far, far away . . .

. . . because as it stands, we in the medical realm are drifting blindly in a deep sea of uncertainty for the next two years . . . waiting to see if Obama stays in office for another term . . . because if he does . . . and unless what has been done cannot be undone . . . this is what we have to look forward to.

So, for benefit of all the Bush-haters and Obama-zombies out there (at least I don't have to deal with the Edwards-groupies any more), allow this Pediatrician to share her hard-earned take on your heroes, Bill and Hillary Clinton: 

In the wake of the cold war's "end", the Clinton administration slashed military budgets and R&D (if you will recall, Bill & Hill, pretty much "loathed" the military) . . . let our intelligence-gathering systems turn to crap (it still blows the-mind-our-Roch-would-have-you-believe-is-feeble that Lady Macbeth is now our Secretary-of-State) . . . AND deregulated the banks in a fashion that paled in comparison to anything poor Dubya might have ever imagined (much less might have accomplished in the poisonous, power-hungry political environment that ensued after a whole lot of people conveniently forgot where they once stood).  Bill never met a CEO he couldn't suck-up to.

There are not any really big leaps to make here.  A good many of the seeds intertwining and mutating to produce the flower that is our world today were planted by the Clintons.  But it's ALL the GOP's fault.  Yeah, right.

I'm gonna wrap this puppy up with a summation for Sam Spagnola . . . who, despite having a law degree, has repeatedly stated that he cannot grasp my reasons for turning to the blogosphere:

First and foremost, I'm not trying to "retry" the original case.  For all-practical-purposes-save-the-financial-compensation-that-might-have-rebuilt-what-they-destroyed, I WON that round - as Randolph Hospital could not run away fast enough from my lawsuit (and the filings that Roch Smith Jr. has never seen) . . . or their own despicable, lower-than-low SLAPP suit.

No, Sam.  I've got a different case now.  As a former public servant brought to Asheboro with Federal money and a licensed-physician-charged-with-duties-that-our-state-has-not-seen-fit-to-protect, what I want is for the Randolph County District Attorney to REFER the-case-alleging-crimes-with-NO-statute-of limitations to the North Carolina Attorney General's office . . . you know, the CRIMINAL complaint that Republican (let's just say I'm colorblind now) Garland Yates has REFUSED to allow me to swear out to a magistrate since it was first brought to his attention in 2003 . . . detailing the CRIMES that he has REFUSED to instruct the Asheboro PD or Randolph County Sheriff's office to properly investigate.

And I want the NCAG to prosecute the MULTIPLE FELONIES aggressively and with all of the passion of a Governor's administration that says it really cares about ethics. 

I would not be human if I did not want Randolph Hospital to SWEAT when confronted with the possible loss of its non-profit status, JCAHO accreditation, Certificates-of-Need and Federal funding . . . as I have sweated bullets over my finances and my mortgage. 

And if Randolph Hospital does not want that case to be fully prosecuted . . . or to sweat over the aforementioned losses . . . then they and their high-dollar-paid-subsidized-by-the-taxpayer lawyers need to OWN UP and plead the case down to some misdemeanors for the "non-profit" executives who LIED OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO EVERYBODY . . . executives who hid their dirty deeds behind charity and privilege and privacy . . . executives who, for ALL of almost twelve years, have determinedly and methodically and maliciously pretended that what happened did not happen and that I do not exist.

And, as CONDITION of that plea-deal, the hospital that let these LIARS do whatever they wanted (without-so-much-as-blinking-an-eye) could then pay appropriate RESTITUTION (note to the utterly-clueless, doctor-hating Roch Smith Jr., it's NOT less-than-one-year's public service salary) to the Pediatrician whose practice Randolph destroyed & absorbed as their own . . . the home-grown doctor whose reputation & good name they smeared . . . the physician-with-mad-skills whose promising career they derailed . . . the woman whose personal/home life they turned to crap . . .

. . . because they've KNOWN their executives were liars since at least 2003 - if not before.

ANY plea-bargain would also include Randolph Hospital publicly apologizing to the Pediatrician . . . like Roy Cooper apologized to the Duke boys . . . or there would be NO DEAL. 

Because, you see, it's NEVER been just about the money.

Any deal would also include a move by the AG's office to sponsor legislation that protected medical whistle-blowers from the kind of living hell I have endured . . . or there would be NO DEAL.

Because, you see, it's NEVER been just about the money.

Maybe then the local newspapers that have played deaf, dumb and blind for so long would pick up this story of LOCAL PUBLIC CORRUPTION and run with it.  What a concept. 

And if ALL of that happened, then Dr. Mary would probably get out of Roch's and Cone's (both Ed's and Moses') hair . . . and off the Internet . . . as she would be able to move on with what's left of her life (without filing any more lawsuits) - a life that was thrown horribly off course twelve years ago . . . because she made a decision (in a matter of minutes in the middle of the night) to defy Mike Bridges' & Steven Eblin's threats and put a dying baby first.

And I'm thinking that, in this era of hope and change and "reform" . . . of ethics and accountability and transparency .  . . that even Sam Spagnola and Roch Smith Jr. can finally comprehend that I am WELL within the law to want, expect and yes, EVEN DEMAND these things.
 
I've paid my damned dues already.

So Roch.  Do you wanna make like a Fecund Stench and REALLY get rid of Mary Johnson?  NOW is the blogosphere's chance.  Take up a cause on behalf of one of your own.  STAND for something that you say you stand for . . . get beyond red and blue. 

BE relevant.  Start locally.

Anything else is hypocrisy.

For as it stands, Dr. J's Housecalls stands as living example of the Greensboro blogosphere's biggest, most spectacular failure.  Because I was the first blogger (and unfortunately, the ONLY one still standing) in "Blogsboro" who came here directly (at your invitation) to report a case of public corruption (involving, at least peripherally, the institution that bears Ed Cone's family name), and specifically to ask your collective help in order to right a series of wrongs . . . white-collar crimes that do not have a statute-of-limitations.

It was a novel concept . . . very much in-line with the "citizen journalism" many of Greensboro's most prominent bloggers were promoting.

Yet, in FIVE years, and despite being urged to do so by other bloggers, NONE of the journalists in this blogopshere have looked at a SINGLE document filed with the Court (PROVING my allegations) - or done a single interview. 

You've not called for an investigation. 

Instead, you've set up every road-block and hurdle imaginable.  Made lame excuses.  Banned and de-linked.  

You've called me crazy.   

I'm supposed to "get over it" and "move on".  OR BETTER YET, navigate the muck and mire all by myself. 

Yeah, that's the ticket for change. 

You sneered and laughed and even shared passwords as I was cyber-stalked !?!

Yet I'm the one with no credibility?

And/so I stand here - as a living, blogging example of why NO ONE should believe a word you say . . .

. . . and why no sane person - particularly no sane doctor - should blog.