James Michael Schmidt, MD Maliciously withheld care from someone with heart attack symptoms at Cox Health, Springfield, Missouri

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE STILL HAS A LICENSE!!!!!!!!!! I am a Registered Nurse who saw Dr. Schmidt in the ER at Cox South Hospital,Springfield, MO in excruciating chest pain, radiating to my jaw and arm.

The EKG and cardiac monitor showed significant changes.My father died of a heart attack when he was 55.
Dr, Schmidt refused to even do a physical assessment telling me that his refusal was only because I was a woman in my 40's.He was stupid enough to say,"If you were a man the same age with these same symptoms I'd jump all over it." He then became so verbally abusive it was repugnant saying I seemed like someone who was wishing to have a heart attack.

I was treated for(in lay terms) the kind of cardiac spasms that cause a heart attack,in another ER that night,later hospitalized for it and am still on medication under the care of a cardiologist . Before this incident I worked at the Cox South ER and had filed a sexual harassment complaint against another ER doctor there.

Please draw your own conclusion about whether Dr. Schmidt's gross misconduct that he knew or should have known could have killed me was a retaliation. Dr. Schmidt and Cox South both billed my insurance after I had withdrawn permission for them to do so,and when I disputed paying the balance they filed a small claim to try to collect it.

Dr. Schmidt's and Cox Health Systems' competitors ought to be looking very good to prospective patients.

Jane Doe
Springfield, Missouri
U.S.A.