State Medical Board Of Ohio - Richard A. Whitehouse, Esq., Executive Director Fraudulent medical disciplines if you complain about a problem with care or an individual physician who has 'friends' on the State Medical Board Columbus Ohio

Fraudulent disciplines of physician licenses in Ohio for statistics and legal firm monies: In 1990 I was an internist practicine medicine in Ohio and started fracturing bones. . .in 1992 my medical license was suspended in an 'emergency' session with falsified documents and testimony because I had disagreed with the orthopedic care provided to me in Ohio.

Basically, the State of Ohio has false discipline statistics on physicians and you can't get the 'confidential' complaint against you to defend yourself when they start going after you - so no one knows what I did wrong to merit the suspension of my medical license in Ohio 15 years ago - 1992 - except disagree with bad care of me. There were no patient complaints, and even the Ohio State Court of Appeals couldn't get the file of what I supposedly did in 1993, and couldn't do anything to clear the case; civil courts can't get your file. My medical license has been suspended for 15 years for allegedly disagreeing about my own medical/orthopedic care - which had serious complications for 2 years; an 'impairment' of disagreeing and reporting a physician who badly casted my wrist fractures, and left one uncasted for 3 weeks, while he threatened that he had 'friends' on the State Medical Board, and that I would 'never practice medicine again' if I said anything. But I had to do something to get the complications cared for and the work-up done for these 'stress' fractures. Basically, my license was taken for reporting another physician and not handling his bad care to me and refusal to send my records in another manner - so I had to have a 'psychiatric' diagnosis and never practice again instead of the Board fixing the care problems and the wrong work-up of women with a 'fracture syndrome' - we are not exaggerating osteopenia/osteoporosis. This orthopedic colleague [Nice] didn't have to refer or send your records; the Ohio State Medical Board protects him. There's no non-punitive path of addressing care problems in Ohio, and many other states have this option as care paradigms change or improve. The Ohio State Medical Board Members rarely resign, and the same ones keep getting reappointed - and they are not very smart physicians except that they know how to lie, and there are no 'rules of evidence' at the State Medical Board of Ohio - any hearsay that they want to believe is o.k. My family and I tried speaking with the physician - Dr. Timothy Nice - for 6 months - and he lied and gave versions of my medical records to a Medical Staff Office and declared me 'paranoid' that I would disagree with his horrible care that wouldn't go on in any other state; in most states after the first wrist fracture there would have been a work-up, diagnosis of what was wrong with my bone density, and a treatment plan outlined. In 1992, a bone expert in St. Louis outlined the treatment that I probably needed after a complete work-up -- this the State Medical Board of Ohio nixed and refused to allow. The State Medical Board refused to call the Mayo Clinic or allow me to finish the work-up for the bone problem there - and none of this involved patients - it involved a possible suit for 3 Ohio physicians for 'doing nothing' while I just fractured and fractured and had complications of fractures left uncasted. My Ohio medical records, when they surfaced were full of sexual innuendo, and no care. But the State Medical Board of Ohio blamed me for their procedural problems, and the problems of these physicians. They still have not allowed treatment of the bone condition; I just need the 'right' psychiatrist. I've had 5 psychiatric evaluations of me and tested 'normal' on every psychiatric/psychological test in existence, or in the pipeline, as long as the testing is done outside of Ohio. Inside Ohio, any testing is 'abnormal' and the answers or results lost or amended. The position of the State Medical Board of Ohio is that I just need 'another go' with the 'right' psychiatrist that they've fed the diagnosis that they want to. I'm not allowed to know what I'm accused of when I meet with him, and so far I've refused as it's a 'fixed' situation and no medical insurance will co-pay this insanity.

In 1992, I had several wrist fractures which were not timely treated with proper reduction or casting. I had to order my own x-rays, supply my own splints, have my father order physical therapy. The Mayo Clinic saved the one hand tendon, and did a preliminary work-up showing a low bone density - a work-up which they made fun of in Ohio at the Board. In Ohio women don't need care. The one wrist fracture continued to have complications, and I had trouble getting any help in Ohio or any further blood work. I finally complained about the initial orthopedic, Dr. Timothy Nice of Mayfield Heights Ohio, as he continued to obstruct my getting any care and to harass my office, and he then had 15 'friends' at Hillcrest Hospital, in Mayfield Heights Ohio, sign a counter-complaint against me that I had a 'psychiatric' problem as I disagreed with his care and lack of work-up. They got my complaint, but I've not yet seen what they accuse me of; there was no attempt to negotiate or end this privately, or talk this through with an arbitrator or Board Member - there were no ombudspersons at the hospital for colleague-colleague problems as there are now in at least university academic environments. In Ohio, the State Medical Board decides on a case-by-case basis who of their 'friends' will get their complaints so that they don't incur legal monies, while the rest of us 'rot.' Nothing is fair in Ohio, just the most powerful physician wins. Dr. Nice's neighbor was the Chief of the Medical Staff at Hillcrest, and this Dr. Suppes was a former President of the Ohio State Medical Association. Most Ohio Board Members are his friends, and Members of the Ohio State Medical Association and will defend Dr. Nice regardless of what he does to patients; he's one of the guys.

I just didn't 'fit' in at the hospital or go along with this group; mine was a 'political' case. A University Hospitals of Cleveland orthopedic, Dr. Michael Keith, recasted the one fracture and then 'ran away' when complications occurred for 2 years along with more bone pains. The State Medical Board of Ohio alleged, with 3 blood tests done in the State of Ohio, that I was 'exaggerating' the bone pains/care problems and needed help dealing with the bad care which they agreed on that 'the boys were being boys' with - the Board agreed that care care was bad, but that I just needed their help coping with it [instead of getting the records to the consultants and getting the bone problem treated] - their hand-picked psychiatrist so that I didn't sue and had some diagnosis to justify the political 'impairment' they voted on. All I needed was more physical therapy, and a complete work-up, and we promised at least Dr. Michael Keith that we wouldn't sue him if he would just continue to try to help - and he refused doing any further work-up as I had disagreed with another orthopedic, and he went along with saying that I was 'crazy' when I didn't like his 'experimental' casting that didn't work. It was 2 orthopedics against me for care that didn't work and didn't have a chance of working.

The fractures have healed, and the reason for the fractures was found on the blood work done in other states - New York City and Washington DC. It wasn't anything 'zebra,' just something that occurs in about 5-10% of women. Regardless, the State of Ohio has continued to insist that I have some 'psychiatric' problem that I 'disagree with men' or don't like 'bad care.' The State of Ohio had me take a Rorschach test in 1992 - that they 'lost' the answers on and laugh about to this day; they said it was 'abnormal' that I disagreed with men and therefore 'lost' the answers to the inkblots - the answers didn't matter and have never surfaced. If I showed up, the test was 'abnormal.' The State Representatives x3 know that this was/is illegal, but they go along with this fraud. Rorschach tests are notoriously unreliable, and shouldn't be used for any licensure determination as they reflect the psyche of the person interpreting the test more than the person taking the test - basically the 'grader' was 'abnormal' in my instance. The Board then had me see another State of Ohio psychiatrist for 1.5 hours once, who in 1995 made up a diagnosis that doesn't exist, and they now want me to see and pay THEM (not the psychiatrist) for another psychiatrist that they think will cover this false situation by making up something to get them out of liability for faulty due process - there was no due process in my case. It's not a question of justice, it's a question of covering up the false case, and there are rumors of supposedly a number of these false cases in Ohio. In 1999, an attorney for the Board questioned my attorney briefly about allowing my case to be 'opened' so that there could be reforms, as there were others of these kind of cases in Columbus with no patient problems, but colleague-interaction problems, and this was discussed for about 5 minutes and then the Board decided that liability-wise they just needed 'another go' at me - a 'go' that no medical insurance will pay for as it is a fraudulent evaluation for political reasons, and the outcome is 'fixed' before I walk in the room; a kangaroo court x6. I don't have the DSM criteria for any psychiatric diagnosis that the State Medical Board of Ohio has alleged.

Again, I had no patient complaints, and the State Medical Board had to admit that I practiced a rather high standard of Internal Medicine care, but was somehow a 'danger to patients' in that I wouldn't refer more patients to Dr. Nice. Dr. Nice did many strange things to patients during the time that I worked with him, but there is no question of referring any more patients to him because of the consistently unusual complications of his procedures; there was the woman patient who nearly lost her lower leg during a routine knee replacement surgery when he cut through her popliteal artery DANCING in the OR with a saw that he had never checked (he blamed it 'on the saw'), there was the patient who permanently lost bowel and bladder function after a back operation, the patient whose tibia was so badly angled after a fracture that she could barely walk, the woman who went to surgery for an elective shoulder operation pregnant and vomited non-stop after general anesthesia, etc. Dr. Nice does thing sloppily, inconsistently, and then tells you that you are 'crazy' if you disagree with him or he threatens your license or hospital privileges. So far he has proved that powerful; he has destroyed my life, career and health for his self-serving purposes - I'm an 'example' to any other physician who refuses to refer procedures to him; that the Board will back him up and insist on his getting referrals. Boards of Medicine are not supposed to dictate who you refer to - but they do in Ohio where you have to refer to the 'right' physicians or face discipline.

There's a physician in Rhode Island willing to recheck my medical skills and sign to have me retake my Boards in Internal Medicine, and I've gotten 3 more degrees in the last 15 years. I have a MENSA IQ that has been wasted in this fight and have fractured 6 more bones. The physicians at MGH in Boston can treat the bone problem, but I need my license and privileges returned so that I can work and pay them; it won't be cheap 15 years later. The bone condition should have been treated 15 years ago, and part of it was a thyroiditis that was just left untreated for years while the Members of the State Medical Board just insisted that this was 'psychiatric' also or some 'syndrome.' At the State Medical Board of Ohio they make their own diagnostic rules, in psychiatry and everything else. A DSM expert testified in 1995-6 that I had no contraindication to the practice of medicine, needed no therapy, and that the bone pain diagnosis would go away or be solved by the 'right' work-up - which happened. I wasn't allowed ONE complete set of blood work in Ohio, even a vitamin D level or complete thyroid panel, before it was decided collectively that I didn't 'deserve' care.

The 'confidential' complaint in my case at the State Medical Board of Ohio, which does not involve patients but colleague care disagreements, needs to be opened and there needs to be reforms in procedures and processes at the State Medical Board of Ohio - all physicians need to get the complaints against them before 15 years to be able to respond appropriately and resolve the disagreement fairly. My whole life has been discussed so far, and my personality dissected endlessly. Governor Strickland so far has ignored all this as Lt. Governor Lee Fisher's law firm has made a 'killing' in the last 15 years on false cases like mine, where the litigation goes on indefinitely as no one can get 'what the physician did wrong' from the State Medical Board of Ohio. So the negotiating takes years, and the legal lobby in Ohio wants it this way. I paid his firm for 2 years for no solution, but it cost. They tell you outside Ohio that the problem is 'the legal lobby in Ohio,' and that physicians are leaving Ohio because of the problems in licensure and credentialing; it's a political game of 'who you know.'

Rita
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
U.S.A.