Rich,

You are the best. As you know, abolitionists disrupted the plantation economy and we ended up with a bloody civil war. It is obvious who was on the side of justice.

I am interested in the real causes behind why a physician becomes disruptive.  The widely prescribed to theory that is a stipulated fact for purposes of judicial review (until this is challenged on constitutional grounds), is that the physician has some personal issues, alcoholism, etc.  This nonsense forms the basis for a character assassination.

In my case, I became disruptive (though they never used this term) when they summarily suspended me after a complication that was an anesthetic death.

I was mad as hell and made some ill advised comments to a hospital administrator because it was painfully obvious to everyone in the hospital that the anesthesiologist gave the patient an improper drug which immediately precipitated the patient’s death.  The X Hospital attorney then sequestered the chart, removed or whited out parts of it in the peer review (they call this redacting information which is legal under peer review) and when I caught them flat footed with the smoking gun (lab data) from the hospital computer and other supporting evidence, they still made me and my family pay for the crime of another doctor.

When I had proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the anesthesiologist was the proximate cause  of death during the drama of a real life peer review, my attorney conferenced and basically conceded to the hospital.

Those people were the direct cause of death of my patient and I got a little disruptive over it.

The anesthesiologist lost not a day of his livelihood.

It turns out the anesthesia group lost the biggest case under similar medical facts in the history of TN malpractice 3 years prior.  They kept their insurance and the hospital did not hesitate to renew their contract.

That my friend is the inner circle.

I do not drink, not even coffee.  I do not or have ever used drugs.  I am not bipolar. I am not any of the things that they accused me of on the campaign of institutional terror that went on for years.

In essence, the TN peer review law allowed them to get away with negligent homicide and I paid the price.

The malpractice action that commenced named me and them. My attorneys would never raise the proper defense and against my constitutional right settled the case against me for 90K and them for 200K.  As part of the settlement, the anesthesiologist escaped the the databank and I was reported.

JS, MD (5/9/03)