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Dr. Verner S. Waite incorporated The Semmelweis
Society in 1986 in California, the year of the PATRICK case and of HCQIA. He then approved the incorporation of The Semmelweis Society International in 2003 in Tennessee by Drs.
Bard, Butler, and Hinnant and attended its annual meetings. He died in California on 17 August 2007. In his honor, we continue his tradition of testifying at no charge on behalf of doctors facing biased peer-review.
If you are a physician deciding where to practice
or facing biased peer review, contact these doctors and join their organizations according to your preferences:
1. Dr. Blake Moore of Semmelweis Society International
at 803 447 4565 and BHMFACS@hotmail.com;
Ralph Bard M.D., J.D., FACS and
co-founder of Semmelweis Society International, Incorporated advises intercepting sham peer-review before any hospital
hearing, if you are to have even a remote chance to preserve your medical career,
because of the power of the data bank as cited in the article by Scott Segall J.D. and William Pearl M.D. (See 'Should Hospital
Peer-Review Include Due Process?' on the first page of this web site and below.).
Remember, in
1982 Dr. Verner Waite defended his career by suing 2 surgeon-competitors who persuaded a Saint Francis Hospital
(Downey, California) nurse to lie under oath regarding information in the hospital's computer, but his career-defense would not succeed today, because of HCQIA, passed in 1986, the year
he won his case and the year of PATRICK v. Burget. Because there is little or no legal career-defense today, doctors
and students are advised to look for medical careers outside our great country. If you decide to stay here, always have at least two sites of practice and at least two state licenses.
Realizing the effect of
HCQIA in 19886, Dr. Waite founded The Semmelweis Society, Incorporated in California in 1986. The $559,000-decision
in his favor was made in the same year as the successful PATRICK case and the same year as
the passage of HCQIA, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986: It specifically
omits due process from peer review, thereby denying doctors their Constitutional right to due process.
Recently the
cases of Dr. Shaller and Dr. Poliner have shown that the United States Supreme Court has no interest in this matter.
So much for "Equal Justice Under Law," the inscription on the Court. One has to ask, is there any other kind of justice
than 'equal' justice? Apparently so, and apparently that is what doctors are getting in this 'Land of the Free.' Doctors
do not have the protection of Justice Under Law: They do not have a country
that defends them. This state
of affairs raises the inescapable possibility, however remarkable it may seem, of serving mankind as a doctor in another country,
perhaps another English-speaking country, pending an amendment to HCQIA guaranteeing due process in peer-review
as a Condition of Reimbursement. Such are the choices facing college students and medical students in our "Land
of the Free" in which Congress remains forever controlled by corporate contributions and saccharine smiley buttons advising
us to "Have A Nice Day."
The Supreme Court has refused to hear
cases in which patients have died (See SHALLER/MOORE), so there is little reason to expect it to
hear doctors destroyed by the dearth of due process. Enter medicine at your own risk, pending amendment of this law. Congressman Henry A. Waxman knows of this issue in detail, and has done little in
18 years since SHALLER.
Today in addition to the usual attack from competitors,
doctors face attacks from their own hospital's board: It allows its administrator and lawyer to brandish the term "disruptive"
whenever it is needed to threaten physicians whose ideas, including safety-proposals, are disruptive to hospital-profit or
hospital politics.
Charles Bond, J.D. has written a compelling
article ("The War Is On....") suggesting that doctors incorporate and obtain their own permanent counsel to protect themselves
from the Medicare-paid hospital lawyer. As you can see, the public is paying lawyers for both sides in this struggle,
first through Medicare taxes and second through overhead costs for physicians to pass along to patients. At the end
of the day, we are all patients, and we spend this money on lawyers to protect ourselves from losing our doctors to the abuse
that accrues from having no due process.
Other countries appear not to have our dishonest peer review;
they also lack our approach to monetary disclosure. According to the Wall Street Journal, non-profit hospitals are making
money, ~5%, but it is not called profit. HButler@pol.net
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There is no "Semmelweis Fight". SSI was the victim of identity theft accomplished by
a few delusional individuals with certain bizarre political goals. Based on a false affidavit (perjury) filed with the Sect
of State of TN office these delusional parties seized the corporate identity and were able to utilize this identity theft
to temporarily seize control of one of SSI's web sites from Dr. Butler and Dr. Holmes. One of these individuals pretended
to be Dr. Holmes to attempt to seize funds from the private and corporate accounts run by Dr. Holmes. The FBI has been investigating
into this "bank robbery"
To call this a "fight" is a misnomer. The victims of an identity theft crime are taking proper
legal measures to undo the unlawful acts of the perpetrators of multiple crimes. As anyone who follows this blog well knows
the Court system is painfully slow-thus undoing this identity theft and bringing the perpetrators to civil and criminal justice
is ongoing.
There is but one SSI--Founded by Dr. Waite, reincorporated by Dr. Bard, Dr. Hinnant and Dr. Butler, and still
very active in aiding injured doctors and lobbying for change. 3 weeks ago I stood on a stage on the steps of the capital
building in Washington DC and gave a speech about the importance of ACCOUNTABILITY in meaningful healthcare reform to a rally
sponsored by multiple reform groups.
There is one SSI. Your officers remain active and continue to lead the fight for
accountability and civil rights for healthcare providers, and as patient advocates rallying against the excesses of corporate
medicine.
There is no Semmelweis fight.
BLAKE H. MOORE, MD FACS CIME
PRESIDENT SSI
Professsor Holmes' Letter
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