By: ohiomd

ohiomd
Sat, 07 Sep 2019 17:17:06 +0000

Anita Steinbergh DO (Columbus), and Lance Talmadge MD, were signatories on the 1996 Ohio Medical Board decisions. The problem: historically the Gubernatorial appointed/Legislative approved Executive Directors of the Ohio State Medical Board have been non-medically trained/specialization lawyers or presently a tax law MBA (AJ Graber) – which makes it difficult to get reforms at the Ohio State Medical Board. There haven’t been Legislative reforms in over 25 years. Reforms that would allow suing the Ohio State Medical Board are never approved – just ‘shield laws.’

Dr. Lance Talmadge served on the Sexual Boundaries Workshop to write the 2006 Addressing Sexual Boundaries Guidelines for State Medical Boards (online at Federation of State Medical Boards website) – he was on the Ohio Medical Board from 1995-2011 and knew the definitions of physician sexual misconduct. Dr. Talmadge wrote the definitions, but consistently voted against ‘victims’ and for continued licensure of physician abusers and physicians doing wrong/outdated care practices.

At the time and to the present day, there was no triaging of Medical Board cases, ans no accounting of funds spent in Russian investigations’ – no triage by the seriousness/validity of the physician complaint. The confidential/anonymous physician complaint system in Ohio does not allow credible fact checking on the signers, their accusations, or their political/competition motives – or bringing other pertinent witnesses as many physicians don’t get to know what the complaint against them is. No transparency – or the worst transparency of the 50 States..

The Ohio Medical Board has never adopted a formal ‘position’ on physician sexual misconduct – they didn’t adopt the 2006 Guidelines for State Medical Boards on this – but Board Members were aware that inappropriate sexual contact between physicians and patients or physician-patients was not ok and an egregious offense – that inappropriate exams for the ‘chief complaint’ were wrong and abusive even for physician ‘practice.’ That is in every Physician Ethics Manual ie American College of Surgeons, American College of Physicians, etc.

The reason that other physicians did not complaint: any woman MD in the 1990s-2019 who complained of these kinds of sexual abuses/harassment/sexual solicitations during patient care, or even wrong care standards/paradigms and failure to refer (admitted ‘wrong’ by the Medical Board), had her Ohio medical license suspended without patient complaints for ‘making too much’ of ‘boys being boys’ – for theoretical and provisional reasons.

The stack of wrongful suspension cases are so far not set to be ‘reviewed’ by Governor DeWine. In 1996, women MDs had their medical licenses suspended without patient complaints for ‘making too much’ – an Anita Steinbergh DO term.

Governor DeWine knows that the Ohio Medical Board had a duty to stop sexual misconduct, and of the problem with the ‘black hole,’ as his attorneys at the Attorney General’s Office for 8 years supplied the Medical Board lawyers to go after physicians with no ‘merit review’ of the Medical Board cases. The Ohio Attorney General’s Office attorneys were/are partially responsible for Dr. Richard Strauss being ‘cleared to practice.’ Interestingly, these Attorney General’s Office attorneys were predominantly women doing these cases in 1996 – they went after other women MDs with a vengeance for trying to get reforms. The woman MD complaining, or disparaging a more powerful male physician, was/would be/still is subjected to repeated Board ‘ordered’ psychiatric evaluations with ‘new right Ohio psychiatrists.’ This ‘Russian’ psychiatry practice is backed by the Ohio AG’s Office Medical Board attorneys. These evaluations have/had no aim – no psychiatric criteria are used to order them – but to ‘find a case’ and ‘let the statute of limitations expire.’ You can’t disparage or report another male physician in Ohio, even non-punitively, to get care standards or physician behaviors improved. You can’t complain.

Friend physicians of Ohio Medical Board Members got ‘off,’ or were given a copy of the complaint against them breaching Ohio State Law. These MD/DO’s were then let go without any psychiatric evaluation (Dr. Richard Strauss) – ‘friend’ treatment. The Ohio Medical Board leaks information to friend physicians so that they can file counter-complaints. Wrong medical care standards were/are never ‘fixed’ even non-punitively – there is no procedural ‘pathway’ for this at the Ohio Medical Board. These ‘false’ cases were warnings to any physician who would report the problems regarding this abuse of sexual exams, sexual comments, etc. The rest of the names of individuals on the 1996 Medical Board would be on the decision regarding Dr. Strauss – but there is no transparency, or accepting responsibility for mistakes, at the Ohio Medical Board. There are no medical mistake laws in Ohio to correct wrong care/decisions within a ‘grace period’ of time without Medical Board/malpractice penalty – so mistakes of Ohio physicians/Ohio Medical Board go unreviewed and uncorrected.