Sayeth The North Carolina Medical Board: "When Doctors Drift, Questions Of Competency And Ethics Are Key"

If you could not tell, I really enjoyed writing the post on Randolph Hospital VP of Corporate Planning & Development (and United Way co-chair) Steve Eblin.  Very cathartic in its way.  I'm sure in a day or so we'll be seeing the boys and girls at the Courier run damage control for Eblin (in the form of yet another puff piece) . . . or the hospital/United Way will send out an expensive/flashy flyer.  That's what usually happens when a shot from this blog hits a little too close to the bridge.

Say it slowly after me (insert zombie drone):  Steve's not an oily, lying unconvicted felon, who, in developing the corporate, has treated a whole lotta good doctors like crap, and thinks Pediatricians are "a dime a dozen". 

Give him your money.  Trust him.  Do it for the kids.

But on this Friday morning, the Courier is too busy pimping for Bob Shackleford, who amazingly to me, still has a job.

Meanwhile, another bunch of snots, this time over at the North Carolina Medical Board have sent out another "Forum" newsletter, and proved all over again that the Board is proudly over a decade behind the times.  That crowd in their ivory tower in Raleigh really makes me want to go ahead and hire the lawyers and get it over with.

This time, the article is on medical "drifting".  Now those from Asheboro need to park your dirty minds.  "Drifting" is when a doctor (generally a generalist) presents him/herself as having training or expertise that he/she does not.  For instance, in the old days, many a doctor could do a Family Medicine residency and then move to ED work or OB.

My medical license gives me leave to practice medicine and surgery.  But I trained in Pediatrics (dime-a-dozen though my skills may be), so I don't practice surgery.

These days, its more about "income supplementation" - as a pumper of Botox (I've yet to understand why ANYONE in his/her right mind would consent to letting a physician inject any variation of one of the world's deadliest neurotoxins into their face to get rid of a few wrinkles) or "Pain specialist".

But twelve years ago, during what I like to call the NC Medical Board's TOTALLY COMATOSE PERIOD, it could be demonstrated by a family practitioner selling himself to parents as a neonatologist and "the Chairman of Neonatology at Randolph Hospital" by virtue of being a NALS instructor.

Steve Eblin and his marketing minions ran adds for this moron . . . promoting Mick Irwin's skills above those of the hospital's own Board-certified Pediatricians . . . who actually did have some small expertise in the matter of neonatal resuscitation and transport.

It almost cost an innocent baby her life . . . and unsuspecting parents their only child.

It cost a home-grown Pediatrician her dream.

And let's be clear where the oh-so-noble, ethical North Carolina Medical Board was . . . indeed, where they STILL are . . . when the "dime-a-dozen" Pediatrician needed some help:

NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.