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| Dr. Verner S. Waite |
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We continue the work of Verner
Stuart Waite M.D., FACS, who founded The Semmelweis Society, Incorporated in 1986 in California and who participated
in the founding of Semmelweis Society International, Incorporated in Tennessee in 2003. He visited doctors in various
parts of the country to testify at no charge on their behalf when they had been denied
due process in peer-review. In his honor, we charge nothing for our testimony. Readers are advised
not to confuse other "Semmelweis" Societies with this one, associated with the original one and the Founder of the original
one: We do not charge. We are litigating in Tennessee to defend our name.
After writing www.SemmelweisSociety.net (this web site), I wrote www.semmelweis.org (with the assistance of Andrew Holley J.D. of San Francisco) which I donated to
SSI, but the site was taken from its webmaster, George Holmes Ph.D. of Howard University in 2008. We are in court
in Tennessee to recover it, as Tennessee is the site of incorporation and of the law practice of Dr. Bard. Co-founders
with myself are Ralph M. Bard M.D., J.D., FACS (931-703-0561) and Charles William Hinnant M.D., J.D., DABU (NetDoc37@aol.com).
A stalemate is better than a loss. Students considering
a career in medicine in the Land of the Free and who are reluctant to incur a debt of $350,000 and a defamation-risk of $750,000 may want to consider
living in other English-speaking countries, pending reform here. No one knows whether reform will occur. Individual
hospital boards are free to require due process in contracts, by-laws, and other matters to avoid a doctor-shortage,
whereas hospital boards wishing to discourage doctors will accept the advice of Horty, Springer, and Mattern
of Pittsburgh to exclude due process from peer-review. Today the JD controls the Congress and the MBA/Corporation controls
the MD.
There is a doctor-shortage in the USA: Medical school costs ~$350,000; doctors
face rising debt, falling incentive, and eroding career-security despite advances in science.
Defense against defamatory political peer-review for profit can cost $750,000. Doctors in other countries appear not to have the same problems, while our doctors face
loss of their career because of the deliberate defamation permitted under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986,
a law passed in response to PATRICK v. Burget. Doctors immigrating here are not likely to be familiar with this
law; they are ~25% of the new doctors. That fraction is likely to rise.
This web site presents a smorgasbord of hospital by-laws
and contracts so that the 25,000 graduating residents and fellows may find safe places to practice in the Land of the Free,
a land where the Congress legislates for itself an entirely different scale of benefits from what it offers the People, a
land in which corporations ARE people. In addition to listing Model By-Laws and Model Contracts submitted by any
interested party, we will list MD-JD's interested in evaluating offers of employment on behalf of doctors seeking safe places
to practice. They set their own fees.
PPACA is not
the key issue regarding a medical career in this country at this time, but it is another legal "transformation
of American medicine," to paraphrase Professor Starr at Princeton.
PPACA lacks due process: Without due process there is no career-integrity.
Lawyers at Horty, Springer, Mattern know this. Lawyers in Georgia know this. As the following items note, at the
end of the day we are all patients...
DOCTORS VS. LAWYERS: RETALIATION IN GEORGIA
H.E. Butler III M.D., FACS
Co-Founder, Semmelweis Society International, Incorporated
with Ralph M. Bard M.D., J.D., FACS and Charles William Hinnant M.D., J.D., DABU
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