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Governor Strickland appoints Mr. Jeffrey Jacobson Navigation: Main page Author: Rita Governor Strickland, Jeffrey Jacobson, Brett Buerck, and the Ohio State Medical Board system of 'confidential' physician complaints - Member jobs when complaints are 'fixed,' round-filed, or the patient blamed for being a 'bad patient' - it's all fixable at taxpayer expense with no transparency, accountability or outside review = the physician complaint scam in Ohio is similar to the Attorney General Office problems - no external review and women get the rap. No one, not even Governor Ted Strickland, is in charge of the State Medical Board of Ohio - they are on auto-pilot and auto-pilot can be dangerous. Governor Strickland has recently appointed Mr. Jeffrey Jacobson to the 'consumer' position on the Medical Board. As a consumer, a former member of the Ohio House and Senate, and as an attorney, Mr. Jacobson has extensive knowledge of Ohio law governing physicians, and thus is completely qualified for the appointment - or so the official line goes. Yet, Mr. Jacobson is responsible, as a former Member of the Ohio House and Senate for 30 years, for so many of the legal problems - false physician cases, and current Ohio law problems - that are besieging the Ohio State Medical Board and Ohio physicians. The Ohio State Medical Board has the most false physician disciplines & investigations in the nation per the American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM), phone: 847-969-0283 - a veritable side business in a state where business = investigating physicians who complain about lax care standards. Ohio needs other jobs and lines of work than Board investigator and case worker - in Ohio physicians with no patient complaints have a 'case worker' = state stimulus package. There is a problem with false physician investigations, cases, suspensions and disciplines in Ohio - so much so that Ohio physicians have to carry malpractice insurance against The Ohio State Medical Board and now Mr. Jacobson. Physicians are advised by the secretarial staff at the ACLM not to practice in Ohio until there are reforms - unless you are suicidal about your MD career. Too bad that I didn't know this in 1990. Regularly per Ohio Medical Board meeting, next meeting scheduled Wednesday May 13th, 2009, complaints against 'friends' of Ohio State Medical Board Members are 'fixed,' and never see the light of day (neither the public, nor physicians, know the criteria for a physician investigation as it is 'confidential' and plastic). So (1) at the time of the suspension of my medical license, my case of being a 'bad patient' because I disagreed with every good textbook medical reason, went ahead of piles of physician cases with multiple real patient complaints - the lawyers objected and were told 'so what' - that the Medical Board of Ohio could do 'whatever it wanted' confidentially, and (2) complaints are never investigated against certain Ohio physicians who are 'protected' by associations, ie Dr. Timothy Nice of Mayfield Heights Ohio is never investigated - these physicians tell you this straight-off as Dr. Nice does - in casual locker room conversation - these physicians pay their dues in contract jobs, consulting jobs, and cash on demand. Brett Buerck, former legislative aide to former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, told me in 2003 that everyone (including Mr. Jacobson) knew about the 'confidential' complaint problems at the State Medical Board of Ohio - but that there was no support for reform legislation as release of these files would inundate [paralyze] Ohio State Government with legal suits for false physician investigations, suspensions, and disciplines for the last 20 years. That basically, there were more false cases than mine - plenty more cases invented, fixed, or with 'confidential' anonymous witnesses - cases of physicians with no patient complaints even. Mr. Dilling confirmed the probable existence of a pile of these false cases in 1999 - but he was not authorized to 'open' them for reforms. For 5 minutes, I was offered that 'deal' and accepted - someone higher up tabled the reforms then. Later Jeff Jacobson dropped out of contention for Ohio Senate President 'because of the damage from his association' with Brett Buerck. From the Progress Ohio website, Brett Buerck's consulting firm produced documents for Jon Husted's office (still in the Ohio legislature) referring to female legislators as 'the Broad Squad', and advised clients to play to the 'dark side of the race' and proposed 'guerrilla warfare.' Female physicians would hardly be view better by Brett Buerck, Mr. Jacobson, or the Ohio State Medical Board = the problem for the MD 'broad squad.' Mr. Jacobson was friends with Brett Buerck - however close - he shared his confidences, comments and knowledge. In 2003, Senator Grendell had me call Mr. Brett Buerck, who admitted the problem caused by 'confidential' complaints at the State Medical Board of Ohio; that they knew about it in the legislature and the Speaker's Office, and that it was extensive (big problem no easy solution; headache), ie that it ruined physician lives by false information (more than one over the last 2 decades of this 'rule' - that I wasn't the only 'one' but that my case was probably one of the worst abuses of this 'system'), but that nothing would be done about it as no one was interested (that session or any other), even if other states and the Army need physicians. Speaker Budish seems to have the same paid for disinterest; money rules the Ohio legislature, not principles. Mr. Jacobson will have access to partial medical records on me, yet I don't even know him, he has no training in reading blood work, or a diagnostic workup, no training in thyroid disorders or psychiatric criteria - yet he would have the power to order a psychiatric evaluation of a physician disagreeing with Dr. Nice, or endless evaluations. In every other state this thyroid 'medical misdiagnosis' is not a situation for the State Medical Board or evaluations - it makes you feel ill, but does not interfere with judgments regarding patients - it requires no help from the State Medical Board of Ohio -just good physicians and standards of care that are followed - some endocrinologists in the state who know their 'stuff' - which we don't have in Ohio in ready supply or on the State Medical Board. The State Medical Board of Ohio doesn't know a thyroid problem from a personality problem - and regularly confuses them. In Ohio no one knows what Hashimoto's thyroiditis is - they don't study - so it's 'psychiatric' for the State Medical Board - a Board of Medicine supposedly not psychiatry? Anita Steinbergh DO Member reads bestsellers; she told me to just read ICEBOUND - that was a lot of help as the woman MD also had an abuser husband with an Ohio medical license - a guy who didn't have a clue about his wife having breast cancer. And the Ohio State Medical Board has no procedural 'system' to admit a physician discipline mistake, as other states have, and to return the physician to practice with their license and full privileges as soon as possible - this is money for the state in jobs, taxes, and preventative health care. The Ohio State Medical Board just keeps going - like Energizer batteries - trying to prove a false case or threatening the physician to admit it - the impasse that my case has been at with a 'confidential' file for 17 years - the threats are legendary and boxes of documents that have little to do with anything. Let's grow up and handle mistakes like men instead of 'boys being boys' - it's 2009. There are models in other states, and these other states give the physicians the damages of recredentialing & rehab costs - not that I or any other Ohio 'mistake' expects that from Ohio - it would have to come from stimulus monies - while the $ waste in my case continues in Columbus - from Federal stimulus money. And Ohio recredentialing should not include social workers, and more evaluations from other 'camp followers,' that haven't a clue, but can cash a paycheck - some professionalism please. There's no one that I want to discuss this tragedy with for one more second; it needs an end, a finale, a final answer. How will Jeffrey Jacobson understand ANY of this? Even being a former legislator? That's not medical training. This thyroid condition, that has caused so much trouble, is treated correctly in just about every Jewish Beachwood Ohio woman in Speaker Armond Budish's district, but in that same adjacent area (Senator Grendell & Representative Dolan's districts) Catholic women get their medical licenses taken before the thyroid function tests are ordered? No other women MD in the Cleveland area had this 'malpractice' happen to her other than me though - why? Why Susan Stephens? Is it that I'm not black? Blacks would get their blood work before their medical license was suspended for objecting - that's a no-brainer in Ohio - but white women MDs are 'prey' and you won't 'get involved.' Could we put a white woman orthopedic on the State Medical Board of Ohio please? A classmate from CWRU medical school, someone that I went to high school with, who former Member Carla O'Day MD also knows, has the same thyroid problem, and none of this was done to her; her thyroid inflammation was treated 'quietly,' so that she had her children, her career and didn't fracture any bones - without a blip on the professional radar screen. She won't get social workers, and the trauma of 5 evaluations because no one understands about ordering a TSH before they fire off a physician disciplinary suspension for objecting - some fairness please. My physicians, 'protected' by friends on the State Medical Board of Ohio, including Dr. Carla O'Day, didn't have to do blood work - I was just 'unlucky' and need the Board's help to accept bad care, a ruined life, and more fractures? 17 years of trouble? That's a Homerian odyssey of trouble. So how is Mr. Jacobson, consumer Member, going to make a difference when he didn't in the Ohio House & Senate? Mr. Jacobson knew the problem years ago of allowing 'confidential' physician complaints (so that the real story never comes out? so that other non-anonymous witness can't come forward? so that the facts never surface to be judged impartially? so that discovery takes 17 years), and knew why other states reformed this practice - as does Senator Grendell in the present. Mr. Jacobson did nothing with Mr. Buerck. Meanwhile, Ohio Medical Board Members continue to collect contracts when they resolve a case in favor of the 'biggest pocket' - like Carla O'Day MD collected on my case with a multi-year multi-million dollar contract for ER services with Hillcrest Hospital. There's no ethics restrictions for Members, and no term appointment limits - and no one wants to 'out' this practice. Dr. O'Day was on the ER Staff of Hillcrest Hospital, and erstwhile managing my case at the Medical Board (when I out-tested her at CWRU Medical School as she didn't study) - where the problem was Hillcrest Hospital ER practices (her domain) and physician fracture abuses - leaving fractures to rot while collecting insurance monies for 'casting' and care. There's a direct statistical correlation between age, and attending physician, and whether a woman gets a cast at Hillcrest Hospital; the older the patient, the less likely to get fracture reduction, casting, 'care' or any workup - including bone density testing. That's a 'consumer' issue Mr. Jacobson - but I would bet on your not addressing it. Meanwhile the problems with the State Medical Board in Ohio and the need for legislative reforms continue - these problems also include besides the 'confidential' complaint 'system': (1) the need for medical care mistake laws to allow early referral of 'unanticipated' results (would have saved my wrist fractures) - Pennsylvania and the Harvard Health System have great 'model' mistake laws; (2) need for a Medical Board 'position paper' on physicians caring for physician colleagues - how to for dummies - as currently Ohio physicians are supposed to care for and refer themselves (per Mr. Dilling on the phone to me in 2005); (3) 'prophylactic' suspensions for being a 'bad patient' (with lots of medical mistakes out there in Ohio) without any patient complaints - for statutes of limitation to expire on the bad care practices of Member 'friends'; (4) blatant cheating on 'tests' and over-ordering of psychiatric evaluations (psychboarding) - on otherwise 'normal' physicians -'normal' outside of a colleague-disagreement situation where they can't just 'go along' - at the Ohio State Medical Board; (5) 'confidential' physician complaints which are literally all over town and constantly changed - but remain 'confidential' to the physician trying to clear their name?; and (6) that physicians have to carry malpractice insurance against the Ohio State Medical Board because of the 'legal lobby' in the Legislature = the legal lobby that Mr. Jacobson belonged to. This carrying of malpractice insurance to protect against Ohio State Medical Board investigations, drives up patient care costs, but keeps the malpractice insurers in business and residential properties. The Ohio legislative 'legal lobby' made these physician laws to bilk the system - for the malpractice insurers (lots of insurance agents in the Ohio State Legislature) - but not for patient care or medical costs. The prophylactic 'bad patient' physician suspensions & disciplines are the most destructive to medical practice in Ohio & physician rapport - prophylactic means many things - including that the physician is just one knowledge step ahead of her current male Ohio out-of-date physicians making the medical mistakes and decisions. 'Prophylatic' covers a wide spectrum of abuses, problems, and friends of Members - and prophylactic doesn't go on in any other state and was questioned in this case by the Ohio Court of Appeals who couldn't get any answers in 1993 - prophylactic is what the Mr. Jacobson appointment is all about.
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