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OMB is a tyrannical and abusive trade association called a "governmental body"

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Oregon Medical Board - OMB is a tyrannical and abusive trade association called a governmental body
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If you want a lot of details regarding the criminal OMB and how they remove great docs and save their buddies, associates, partners, etc from losing their licenses and criminal charges go to drdovervsomb.weebly.com. The FSMB (Federation of State Medical Boards) is the head of the hydra and they are even more criminal than the State Medical Boards that they 'oversee'.
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Cons:
  • Criminal lying psychopaths who want to control their licenses

Preferred solution: My license back and my name taken off of the NPDB (National Practitioner Data Bank). Same for many other innocent and awesome physicians.

User's recommendation: Stay out of Oregon in particular, though no state is safe with these guttersnipes in charge.

Dick G

Oregon Medical Board is absolute corruption from 2015-****.

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Oregon Medical Board is absolute corruption from 2015-****.
So many doctors with attorneys screwing a patient during a lawsuit, and then insurance co gets screwed too. State of Oregon in dire need for the Federal Government to save the victims/citizens of Oregon.
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Cons:
  • Current lack of oversight
  • Absolute corruption
  • Lack of meaningful due process
Reason of review:
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Preferred solution: Full refund

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Guest

YEP. Horrible victimization going on in Oregon by a very corrupted medical system and accountability agency who is ignoring serious crimes committed by doctors. Are they really even doctors?

Anonymous
map-marker Salem, Oregon

Be prepared for them to protect bad doctors

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Eric Brown needs to be replaced. OMB is dishonest and doesn't care about patients.
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Guest

I worked for him. He is extremely unfair to the doctors as well as people who work under him. Get rid of him!

Sharon W Mop

Medical estate recovery targets low income

Medicaid Estate Recovery Program seeks to "take back" what they paid out for medical insurance premiums. In 2017, Oregon legislators voted to expand the ability to get money back for what should have been just for long term nursing homes BUT Oregon decided to go after MORE.

Even though this program went into effect in 2017, Oregon collects for PRIOR years. In my opinion, this is a predatory practice and specifically targets low income and elderly.

Predator is Oregon and prey is low income, elderly. This is despicable.

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Guest

You should check and see if your state allows Nursing Homes to be owned by “Non Profit” Hospitals... That is the case in Indiana and because of the HUGE MONEY being funneled through...

many politicians are benefiting from this by donations and fund raisers by the NPHs. So, nothing will surprise me about laws to suck every dime out of anything or anyone. THIS IS GOING SO WELL AT MAKING $$$ - no one will even address abuse, neglect, threats, etc. If that’s the case try to spread the word.

Document everything always. I am so sorry you are going through this.

Anonymous
map-marker Grants Pass, Oregon

Husband had two stokes, in two days, was released from Asante within 24 hrs.

Sal cortez was hospital with a stroke, the dr. Released him in two days, dr. Final called ad said he was discharged in 24 hour, mind you he couldn't walk , speach , swallowing. And right site is extremely weak. He had a carotid artery in his neck. 65 # closed. When they released him and took him home he fell twice really weak, called 911 for transport. They then sent him to highland house. 21 days. All this could have been avoided if we had a dr. His dr. Is Bogarde and no answer from him. Nothing . I know that the massive stroke had to do with the two drs action, I became his care taker and I hate it. Love my husband, and his brain is effected it makes it hard to wait after him .24/7. And I have rheumatoid arthritis. Thanks
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Emorie Fjo

Dropping of my pain medication and no replacement

Oregon Medical Broard was not open. Will call back during the time of operation hours. I’m a chronic pain sufferer whose pain medication was dropped “Oxycodin “ because of high overdose rates. That has no bearings about me. I was being subsidized the “Oxycodin” for my pain. Why was the overdosed victims subscribed this medication. I believe I’m victim of racial profiling. That reason for being dropped is not creditable for me. I used my meditation as subscribed to me. So I want a better reason for that and why wasn’t I subscribed a substitute. My doctor hadn’t even seen me as a patient and was cutting my medication. I was seen 2 or 3 months later. If she would seen me first she could have used her own discretion instead of what “Oregon “ subjects. And instead of another’s doctors notes. Who had a “Intrem” play his supervisor when I asked to speak to his “Supervisor “. If my knew Doctor would have read threw my records she would and gave me a physical I wouldn’t be in this situation, so why don’t you do it. Read my physical challenges and meet with me and make your desission cause what Oregon wants to see happen isn’t what’s best for everyone.
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Guest

All doctors now live in fear of treating chronic pain and maybe even acute pain due to the 2013 witch hunt against pain docs by the Oregon Medical Board. The board states it "recommends" that the morphine daily equivalent does not exceed 120 mg/day.

However, not all patients obtain relief at that level.

Just as one would not tell a surgical patient during surgery to "suck it up" if they have pain during surgery, these "recommendations" are just that...recommendation. However, the Oregon Medical Board uses it after the fact as a mandate to punish physicians who appropriately took care of patient's disabling pain.

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The STATE of OREGON and the BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS as well as all Agencies are corporations, which must make a profit by as defined by law. The board has some physicians which meet several times a year to rubber stamp the investsgstors recommendations.

The investagstors are generally poorly choosen ex police officers and have little is any medical,training or understanding of patient care. Agenacy law(law of contract) is missused as a way of moniterizing judgements against the public trust. In the past the medical board has been heavily criticized for what has publicly termed a witch hunt. With the use of the internet , local medical societies, insurance company chart review,as well suits for malpractice the MEDICAL BOARD serves no useful function to the people of Oregon.

The medical board has proven time and time again to infact be a major detriment the the people of Oregon, by harassing health care providers and interfering with patient care in the name of making a profitto it self. The care of the people of Oregon would be much better served by other available remedies.

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recently seen in ER for clearly fractured wrist, Denied pain relief.

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I filed a complaint with the board. The guy who was accepting the complaint told me to email him the complaint.

I was absolutely shocked. The fact that I had to remind him that was a HiPPA violation to request this, he then said, "Oh yes, it is. Please fax it". I have little confidence that they know how to handle the incompetence in the medical professions that are haphazardly prescribing medicines from these Big Pharm companies.

When are these doctors going to be held accountable? They have done nothing to help me with my issues.

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Tina L Fzd

Oregon Medical Board - Medical Care Review

In 2010 my body started being ill and the pain is unbearable. 2010 I was told I had breast cancer so I had the surgery to have it removed and I had cemotherpy treatments and the radiation treatments. But then is couldn’t walk on my own. It was my hips going bad. Then in 2014 my cancer came back, they removed my breast. 2015 I was of age to have hip replacement only by then my right had collapsed. It had been five years from the beginning. How Can there be a certain age to correct a problem at hand? My left hip also need replacement .Also in 2013 I started suffering from from what they call Frozen Shoulders I had started injections for 5 years and they no longer work. So no treatment now and I can bearly use my arms. And they stop my medicine cause of people overdosing and they shouldn’t have had the medication anyway. So now I’m surffering. I need my medication to get threw the day without pain. Not only did they take my medication but I know it’s racial profiling. My doctor hadn’t even met me before she started lowering my medication, and my doctor before her he didn’t like me. I asked him to speak with his supervisor and he had a intern play his supervisor. They haven’t even fixed my health but, they stopped what I need to manage it until they do. I need someone to review my history and tell why I’ve been choosen for my medicine to be stopped and nothing to replace it. I’m suffering,please help me.
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Reason of review:
Chronic pain

Preferred solution: Return my medication and let it be enough for the month

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Guest

The 2013 witch hunt against pain docs by the Oregon Medical Board has put almost all physicians in fear of treating pain.

Jarren Bjw

Oregon Medical Board - Drug Test Procedure Review

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Updated by user Mar 14, 2017

The doctor said my drug screen came up positive for a street drug!!That is not what the lab said!!!said Vicks inhaler cause that plus the seraquil I take also does false positive.my medical records need notified to right information!Please

Original review Mar 13, 2017
Went in to pain specialist I have been test drugs for thirty years!i now am sixty my last test they said came up as methadone.i told them that the sariquil I take does that.he want to lab.than it was meth!I dont and never had even smoke pot!so he won't see me.they blocked me out of my chart!i called them they said they would send a link to get me right in.well went to my email they deleted my chart!!!i asked for all my medical records!theygave me a thought ally.no I had to go back in and get my labs.well now I no why!could not verify!lab also say not to use for medical montering!!and also tells them Vicks inhaler can do that witch I brought in with receipt so they could see I just did not buy it!!
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Guest

It sounds like the screening test was positive but it may have been a false positive. You need to make certain the lab is confirming the test with gas spectrometry.

Guest

Dear God, Please Spell CHECK your Messages.

I don't want to sound mean, but your utter lack of grammar makes you sound like an uneducated addict.

I couldn't follow anything you said, except that you bought a vicks inhaler, you take Seroquel, AND this Pain clinic will not see you, because you came up with a false positive test. I'm sorry, but Seroquel will NOT show up as Methadone. It will show up as methamphetamine, SOMETIMES.

The way you wrote this, it sounds like you were on a week long drung binge, and couldn't collect your thoughts.

Please do a spell check, so that the people who actually read these complaints, don't think you are crazy. thank you.

Guest

beware of DR James Maker he fused my neck when he did surgery he nicked spinel cord didn't patch it never told me when he knew so i could watch it, Never was able to see him because spinal fluid was coming out of my neck and then fluid got infected when hospital check me in for 3 weeks they found I have Multiple scleroses. I lost my life now because I'm not able to walk now.

I wish I would DIE I'm loosing body functions every year. I hate him

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Anonymous

Oregon medical board ***

Government waste No oversight over doctors unless there is a patient death and even then they may not investigate Lacking accountability All complaint need to be showed on website even if board does not investigate Crazy taxpayer waste
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What actually needs to be done is that there must be Civil Rights for licensed professionals. Under the current status, there are no Civil Rights for licensed professionals.

Continuing trends will turn many bright, talented individuals away. Why work and study so hard only to become a subject, not a citizen, of the Totalitarian Administrative State. No one elects them. No one can legally get rid of them.

And they do not have to answer, beyond mere lip service, to the public or the lawmakers. Also, only those truly found guilty of a specified crime under proper proceedings -i.e. with Civil Rights, which is definitely not currently the case - should be publicly listed.

To have baseless allegations posted as convictions is Napoleonic and downright, un American. In this country, it is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.

Guest

I was injured in Oct 2016 wi l working as a dish washer I was working one nite, it was very busy I bet over to pick up a lot of dishes it's at was aprox.50 to 65 lbs I felt a pull in my groin so I let the owner of the Tap Root know what had happened so 2 days later I was my dr. He discovered a hernia on my Dr side so he went me right away to get a c.t Scan it showed a hernia on my Dr side so he ordered a Posey belt for me to ward so I was riding my bicycle to go and get the Posey belt on my way it felt like my insides were trying to come out of my groin!

I called my Dr s office and told them what I felt and to tell my dr. About it.

Dr. Nanedura

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Anonymous

Oregon Medical Board - Review in Hospitals, Clinics and Medical Centers, Doctors category

I've been on pain meds for 25 years and I'm on disability cause of my chronic pain. I've had 2 back surgeries an many bulging discs.

My previous doctor decreased my morphine to 120mgs a day an let me try the medical marijuana to compensate for the decrease. I've never felt better. I've stopped xanax for sleeping an anxiety. Mentally I don't feel foggy as I did before on a high dose of morphine 450 a day is what I was taking.

This dose of morphine an medical marijuana is perfect. My pain has increased some but manageable. This dr tells me I have to choose one or the other. He tells me it's the law now!?

Can't do both. I finally found two meds that work great.

I have 2 weeks to decide. Is this really the Oregon state law or is it his law??!??!

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Physicians who treat pain now live in fear of the Oregon Medical Board due to its unjust witch hunt against many legitimate pain management physicians in 2013.

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It's not a law. Google " Oregon medical board opiates and medical marijuana".

I have found the rules vary depending on your doctor and their medical group.

Samaratin is really strict, Peace Health is not.

I wish you luck!

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From Oregon.gov "The board does not currently have a rule or position on prescribing opiates to patients that have a medical marijuana card"

Machele Imf

You can contact your state rep and find out if there is such a law as your doc is describing. It appears you are addicted to morphine and it is interesting that you reduced the daily dosage and supplemented it with medical marijuana which works for you.

In your case, if there is indeed such a new law, why not just stick with the reduced dose of morphine and do the marijuana on your own as a supplement? I assume you want to do the medical marijuana so as to be legal in your state.

You thus have a decision to make or to find another doctor. Oregon isn't that far from Colorado, you know.

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You're claiming he's addicted when he has pain? Kitchener? I've googled your name and it's popping up on the wrong side of the tracks.

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More than likely...

Won't help. So why bother complaining that I live in an isolated town that took all my medical from me because I advocate and want answers to my illness and my brush with death that nobody can explain.

When medical is taken away by law you are supposed to have 30-60 days of care and continued treatments. I have been denied those immediately. Doctors should allow patient input; instead their ego's are so big it puts me at risk. Our quality care department is dysfunctional.

They do nothing for me or other serious complaints made.

Basically, patients can't battle the system and the system is the same from top to bottom. Congrats Oregon medical care; you put people at risk and are only concerned about money and covering your own behinds.

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Guest

On going issue, made a complaint with the medical obs men. about a doctor who did not put some of my info on a letter to a hospital, to date still no operation because of it .

now because of my compliant no doctor will see me in the clinic, I have a history of conic pain, A lot of other doctors be course I am new to them and I am compacted.

why are there complaint boxes and internal complaint people you can talk to. when in the end you can no longer be seen to by a doctour.

Guest

I agree and someone needs to take a hard look at these people. A good Attorney.

It is time these people stop making up the rules as they go along and are getting by with it.

They are suppose to follow up on every complaint.

They are not doing their jobs. Misconduct charges need to go against them.

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Anonymous
map-marker Eugene, Oregon

Bad doctor complaints.Allows Doctors to take away your rights and discontinue meds for conditions to make you do other things

I am told by the board there is no law to stop Bad doctors to threaten your meds for conditions in order to force you to do stuff that has nothing to do with the conditions these meds are for.Doctors who do this are going to kill someone someday.No rights to decide procedures for your self.There should be a law against this kind of behavior.This doc does this to me every time she decides she decides she wants you to go do something else.I have sever COPD and she prescribes my main inhaler.Always threatens it to go do stuff against your will.No rights

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Natalyah Pfn
map-marker Meridian, Idaho

Oregon Medical Board Medical Investigation Review from Meridian, Idaho

I was investigated by the OMB and was disciplined. My license is ruined. The accusations were made by a competitor who benefits greatly by my leaving my practice. I cannot get a license for a locums job due to the six attestation questions to which I must now answer "yes." The board investigator looked only at my hostile competitor's complaints and refused to interview a physician who has shared office space and worked with me for 15 yrs. This MD actually sees my results, unlike my accuser. The six letters of support from MDs I've worked with for 20 years were completely ignored. I suffered from severe clinical depression after the investigation began. I am being punished for the fact that I sought help for this. I came close to suicide and I will not seek such help again. It isn't worth it. Better to be badly depressed and live with it than be stigmatized and punished for getting approriate treatment. The punishment by the OMB is capricious and they do this because they are allowed to. There is no oversight. These behaviors indicate god complexes and the abuse of power. Accused is the same as guilty. The cases used against me were asinine. They were appropriately and successfully treated. The OMB took non-issue problems and accused me of negligence where no such thing occurred. The OMB sends out a newsletter in which all physicians being punished are listed. They use vile rhetoric such as "gross negligence in a number of cases" and guilty of "misconduct of the medical practice act." They generously use these dreadful terms on most of the physicians investigated. There is absolutely no reason to send such a newsletter out, except to cause public humiliation. This ordeal has been going on (for me) for well over two years and it is not over yet. The constant threat and fear that I feel DO NOT make me a better physician. I wasted my young years sacrificing my life for medical school and residency. I realize that I made a grave career error. I would not have gone into medicine if I had known this could happen. I encouraged my kids to do anything except for medical school. I can't retire soon enough. I had a career I loved and now I don't even like it. Signed: Completely Ruined
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Guest

It is institutions such as the Oregon Medical Board that have made me realize that we no longer live in a free country. Licensed professionals are simply subjects, not citizens, of the totalitarian Administrative State.

No one elects them.

No one can legally get rid of them. And they do not have to answer, beyond mere lip service, to the public or the lawmakers.

Guest

My personal and professional family life were both destroyed by the unjust actions of the Oregon Medical Board. I no longer believe in the United States because no free country would allow such a heinous organization to operate in the manner that it does.

Guest

I am glad you were found grossly negligent. I have no mercy for you and there are many out there just like you.

I plan on cleaning the system up and getting rid of those like you.

You seem to be playing the "Poor me" act, you were found guilty and there was justice. Thank God!

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The OMB is 'grossly negligent ' -- it is everything the writer claims and more . Self serving , unethical , unreasonable individuals -- they are not the least interested in protecting the public - but rather justifying their existence .

Being found guilty by the OMB means nothing ; they are the definition of injustice -- so a court of criminals . It is the investigators and staff who drive the OMB , not the physicians sitting on the Board .

Guest

Me too. Penalized for a suicide attempt a year after the fact. Ironically, the suicide attempt was BECAUSE of ongoing OMB persecution (10 years and counting...)

Guest

I too had a very similar experience. Granted, mine does not sound as severe.

However, I wanted to share that I too was penialized for suicide attempt seven years after the fact. The OMB is a pathetetic, egotistical group of old, white, traditional men.

It's not just you. I am so very sorry for your experience.

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Not necessarily "run by men". The head of the snake had long been a female attorney, Kathleen Hayley, who was appointed to run the Oregon Medical Board in 1992. Those who actually sit on the board are mere window dressing as they have all been chosen based on their preponderance to not question the findings of investigators, who are non medical personnel acting under Hayley's command.

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map-marker Portland, Oregon

Oregon Medical Board -- unjust, incompetent, corrupt

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Oregon Senators Dr. Alan Bates and Dr.

Elizabeth Steiner Hayward have been very helpful in reigning in some of the Oregon Medical Board's abuses of power -- but the OMB seems to keep finding new ways to subvert meaningful oversight by lying to state legislators, lying to state and federal judges, lying to federal investigators, lying to the public, and lying to licensees. Despite the excellent work of our Senators, the OMB continues to deprive Oregon citizens of competent and caring physicians by systematically denying due process for licensees trying vainly to defend themselves against unjust accusations and hearsay evidence. Under the color of law and the cloak of "sovereign immunity", the OMB's numerous unethical behaviors also include protecting financially powerful and politically well-connected physician cronies regardless of their degree of incompetence or criminality. For those who are not powerful and well-connected, adverse actions by the OMB can include public disciplinary actions, Board Orders, expensive fines, invasive practice restrictions, license suspension, and/or loss of license.

There is no fair hearing offered to the accused physician, nor is there any meaningful appeal for unjust OMB actions (often based upon false or misleading evidence, conjectured and sometimes perjured testimony, and witnesses or evidence that are not made available to the physician-defendant). Once issued, there is no way to undo the permanent career and financial damage, public humiliation, and psychological devastation of an adverse action (especially when arbitrary, capricious, or unjust) by a physician's state medical licensing board. Most medical boards, including the OMB, well understand that these adverse actions are a significant contributing factor in many physician suicides.

Are they so dysfunctional that they are completely ignorant or apathetic (or both) about the individual life and health of each physician they regulate -- and in turn the thousands of patients that each physician cares for over the course of his/her medical career? How exactly does depriving the public of access to even one good physician help to fulfill the OMB's mission to "protect the safety, health, and wellbeing of Oregon Citizens"?

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  • Lack of meaningful due process
  • Disability discrimination
  • Abuse of power
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Guest

All true. The American Dream is a lie for all who seek a livelihood as a licensed professional in the United States. To allow such organizations as the Oregon Medical Board, essentially an appointed hive of tyrants and sophists who surround themselves with submissive "yes men/women" is antithetical to a country that claims to be free and just.

Guest

Thanks to the Oregon Medical Board, I no longer believe in the United States. No free country would allow such a heinous organization to operate in the manner that it does.

Guest

I strongly agree with the writer above except the people's representatives have been extremely weak on the Oregon Medical Board. To depend on the physician Oregon Senators is ridiculous.

They know they aren't immune from the OMB. The OMB has carte blanche because they have absolute immunity for even intentional criminal behaviors.

I found this website today with videos of an international medical board meeting. Kathleen Haley represents the US. I posted on every video.

Here is one of the posts that I posted on each video:

I hope the Pacific Rim is not like the US. We have a medical tyranny here that allows the practice of only one type of medicine - theirs or whatever suits them that day to reach the Medical Boards frequently predetermined decision on a licensee. All it takes is about 4-6 people in just one State to destroy your ability to practice medicine ever again in the Western world. When any "disciplinary action" is decided upon by any State Medical Board, hospital, medical association, anything involving "peer review", the physicians name is sent to the NPDB (National Physician Data Bank) where they will be cataloged forever.

You will never again be able to get a job, contract with insurance companies, obtain hospital privileges, purchase malpractice insurance, etc.

Here in Oregon the "good ole boys" use their power to bully and subjugate licensees. They utilize this power, which gives them ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR ANY MISTAKES OR WRONDING, to get rid of physician competition they dislike, solo or small group practitioners, physicians who utilize Traditional/Alternative Medicine, physicians that stand up for their supposed Constitutional rights such as Discovery, equal protection under the law , right to a fair trial, etc. Anyone they deem as one of the "Despicables".

In Oregon, Kathleen Haley, the Boards lawyer Exec. Director, and Assistant Attorney General Warren Foote, the Medical Board's State legal council, utilize withholding of records, anonymous complainants and complaints, refusal of discovery, HEARSAY (only OR allows this), out right in your face perjury, don't allow cross examination of witnesses because they are not required to be present to testify, physicians labeled as experts that are phonies, along with many other illegal Constitutional infractions to easily accomplish their destructive, psychopathic goals.

There are two complaints at the Oregon State Bar regarding AAG Warren Foote meeting ex parte with the Administrative Law Judge directly after both hearings. No one cares.

The Bar won't do anything, politicians complain but won't clean up the Medical Board, the media is so far disinterested, there is absolutely no one to complain to and the State and Federal courts give them ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY! Welcome to North Korea folks. I know a ton of physicians across this country that have been destroyed by medical boards.

See drdovervsomb.weebly.com. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsJw7Qj_BNdSEsRabjfVhw

Guest

I strongly agree with the writer above except the people's representatives have been extremely weak on the Oregon Medical Board. To depend on the physician Oregon Senators is ridiculous.

They know they aren't immune from the OMB. The OMB has carte blanche because they have absolute immunity for even intentional criminal behaviors.

I found this website today with videos of an international medical board meeting. Kathleen Haley represents the US. I posted on every video.

Here is one of the posts that I posted on each video:

I hope the Pacific Rim is not like the US. We have a medical tyranny here that allows the practice of only one type of medicine - theirs or whatever suits them that day to reach the Medical Boards frequently predetermined decision on a licensee. All it takes is about 4-6 people in just one State to destroy your ability to practice medicine ever again in the Western world. When any "disciplinary action" is decided upon by any State Medical Board, hospital, medical association, anything involving "peer review", the physicians name is sent to the NPDB (National Physician Data Bank) where they will be cataloged forever.

You will never again be able to get a job, contract with insurance companies, obtain hospital privileges, purchase malpractice insurance, etc.

Here in Oregon the "good ole boys" use their power to bully and subjugate licensees. They utilize this power, which gives them ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR ANY MISTAKES OR WRONDING, to get rid of physician competition they dislike, solo or small group practitioners, physicians who utilize Traditional/Alternative Medicine, physicians that stand up for their supposed Constitutional rights such as Discovery, equal protection under the law , right to a fair trial, etc. Anyone they deem as one of the "Despicables".

In Oregon, Kathleen Haley, the Boards lawyer Exec. Director, and Assistant Attorney General Warren Foote, the Medical Board's State legal council, utilize withholding of records, anonymous complainants and complaints, refusal of discovery, HEARSAY (only OR allows this), out right in your face perjury, don't allow cross examination of witnesses because they are not required to be present to testify, physicians labeled as experts that are phonies, along with many other illegal Constitutional infractions to easily accomplish their destructive, psychopathic goals.

There are two complaints at the Oregon State Bar regarding AAG Warren Foote meeting ex parte with the Administrative Law Judge directly after both hearings. No one cares.

The Bar won't do anything, politicians complain but won't clean up the Medical Board, the media is so far disinterested, there is absolutely no one to complain to and the State and Federal courts give them ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY! Welcome to North Korea folks. I know a ton of physicians across this country that have been destroyed by medical boards.

See drdovervsomb.weebly.com. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsJw7Qj_BNdSEsRabjfVhw

Guest

I'm sorry you went through that. I had my first experience with an emergency room in Oregon this weekend, and it was horrifying.

They yelled at me. I've never ran from a hospital in sheer terror, and I'm 37 years old, and still in extraordinary pain. Nobody will assist.

I ran to a second emergency room, scared to death, driving myself, vomiting and crying, but the second hospital owns the first, so they were just ridiculous. I'm still in so much pain I'm sick and incapacitated, but now I'm terrified.

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That's because the Oregon Medical Board has done an abrupt, ambiguous but self serving about face on pain management. In 2005, the Oregon Medical Board actually sanctioned a physician for not treating pain and in that same year, the state of Oregon declared a war on pain.

In 2013, the Oregon Medical Board, under the guidance of the Executive Director, Kathleen Haley, an attorney appointed, not elected, to run that board since 1992, decided to go on a witch hunt against pain doctors. The Oregon Medical Board sanctioned physicians for exceeding recommendations of 120 mg Morphine Daily Equivalent, even when this recommended dose would not significantly relieve pain in patients with multiple failed back surgeries and/or multiple trauma. These recommendations were then used as an ad hoc mandate when they were never posted as a mandate. In other words, the Oregon Medical Board does not want to clearly state that they will destroy the life of any unconnected physician who prescribes over 120 mg Morphine Daily Equivalent, even when such a dose is medically justified, since if they were to do so, the Oregon Medical Board would be overwhelmed with phone calls from chronic pain patients complaining about how the Oregon Medical Board was not allowing their physician to relieve their pain where they could function.

Instead the Oregon Medical Board chose to destroy the lives of many physicians and make an example of those physicians, thereby instilling a sense of fear in the rest of the Medical Community.

The Oregon Medical Board justifies these actions by claiming that they only do it to a small percentage of physicians. But to even claim that injustice is OK if only done to a small minority is nothing more than an admission of obvious abuse of power.

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Thank you for your well stated review. You could easily exchange Oregon Medical Board for Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists. Please post if you become aware of a watchdog agency, support group or legal activity around the corruption of Oregon Boards.

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OMB's abuse of power is legendary . They have no respect for physicians and will destroy them in order to justify their existence and their substantial budget .

There is a newly formed group in the Northwest spreading across the US called HARBR ( harbr-usa.org ) . Formed to support medical professionals and challenge Board's immunity .

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IN response to the post-OMB Changes should be made carefully

Your initial comments appear to justify the dragnet approach. For example, if all criminals in a town had red hair then arresting all redheads would definitely reduce local crime. But how many innocent redheads would have their lives adversely affected? The Oregon Medical Board is not as benign as you portray it. The employees, specifically Kathleen Haley, JD, Executive Director politically appointed since 1992, sets the tone for the entire organization. She also strongly influences the "processing" of a physician before that physician is offered...much like a sacrifice...to the "voluntary" board members, almost all of whom are handpicked and ultimately perpetuate the longstanding culture that has existed in this incredulous organization. Just because a bad restaurant changes its name does not mean it changes its behavior. The ex-governor, who recently just resigned under allegations of corruption, was himself sanctioned by the Oregon Medical Board and feared the Oregon Medical Board. Do you really think there is a modicum of justice in an organization that holds its proceedings about a doctor's so-called trial in absolute secrecy? The public would be shocked if they knew how the Investigative Committee conducted itself. One's attorney, if one is fortunate enough to have one, is not even allowed to speak up as would be the case in any real court room. The Oregon Medical Board is all about control...without responsibility. They make recommendations, which even if considered, are used after the fact in a punitive fashion as though they were requirements. Why do they do so? Most likely it is because they do not want to deal directly with patients whose care would be adversely affected if these recommendations were publicly...and truthfully stated...for what they really are-i.e. requirements publicly hidden as recommendations. This duplicity is known as double speak. Guidelines/recommendations are not mandates/requirements. But those who wish to control do not want to be publicly identified as the controllers. They choose to work in the dark. So, physicians, who out of newly experienced fear...not reverence...for the Oregon Medical Board...apply the recommendations as though they were requirements, which they in fact are. I agree that board members should be paid for their time. Furthermore, if you note the make up of the Oregon Medical Board's voluntary members, almost all of them are from Portland. So, their is not only abuse of power but a geographic concentration of power. This could be easily remedied by using Webinar and having a more true representation from all the counties within Oregon. But much like ancient Rome, the center of power, the Oregon Medical Board, with its abusive use of discretionary Administrative "law" is close to the mother ship, the Oregon Medical Board, located in Portland. What can justify an organization that adds on allegations to an initial allegation? What can justify an organization that will take a complaint from anyone...even someone who is not a patient/family member of the patient but someone who is trying to blackmail the patient and does so with malicious intent by limiting that patient's access to health care by reporting their doctor to the Oregon Medical Board (true case, not just a hypothesis)? What can justify an organization that will not even reveal exactly what the initial complaint is? It is bad enough that one never knows their accuser but not to also know what the actual accusation is as well? What can justify an organization that purposely commits libel above and beyond the concerns of the Oregon Medical Board ...to such a degree that they not only publicly note their concerns regarding a particular aspect of a physician's practice but further proclaim and expand that concern of a physician to provide any health care at all? What can justify an organization that accepts complaints from an insurer simply because that provider did not take that insurance company? Do not be fooled. The Oregon Medical Board is totalitarian in its design, its intent and its behavior. They are not protecting the public as they proclaim. This deceptive slogan becomes most evident when physicians are treated like criminals...no, worse than criminals since criminals actually have Civil Rights whereas licensed professionals do not....due to complaints that come from individuals who are not the patients or family members of those patients. Anyone can pick up a phone and wreak havoc to a well meaning, much appreciated physician, under this type of "organization". In the end, if they are not reformed the Oregon Medical Board will contribute to declining access to physicians in Oregon. They are not really "protecting the public". The Oregon Medical Board, specifically its Executive Director and employees who actually run the show, are protecting their own power base and jobs.
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Well written!

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My Doctor is so scared that he decided to remove my most effective medication from my treatment protocol. Opiate medications are effective, and many times there's no good substitute for the proper medication.

My physical and mental states have taken a dramatic downturn, and since I have limited monetary resources I am unable to contest, or "Shop" for another provider that will maintain my effective medications.

It's obvious that the Oregon Medical Board has begun a "Witch Hunt" of sorts, and patient's have no options for obtaining proper medical treatment. The Board has overstepped their intended mission, and formed a "Private Club" of sorts that promotes their view of what effective medications really are. Opiates are the first medications to go away, and this leaves patients without effective medications.

Something needs to happen, removing effective medications or prohibiting opiates entirely is not responsible medical treatment. Doctors are scared, patient's are scared and left to suffer, when effective medications exist, yet can't be prescribed for fear of reprisal from the Oregon Medical Board.

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OMB changes should be made but very carefully.

While it is true that the OMB process is not a balanced judicial proceeding, I am not sure that I can think of a way to do the job in an expeditious fashion with a courtroom like proceeding. It often takes long enough to remove a physician who is a danger to the public under the current system. That said, the current system is very open to abuse by opinionated individuals and manipulation of the board member by the staff. The board's membership was reconstituted not long ago after it was confronted by two senators, one of whom was Dr. Alan Bates, who took there experience to the governor and changes were made. We have had the luxury of having a couple of legislative members and a governor who were physicians so there was knowledgeable insight over the board. One can easily see how placing the board more directly under the legislature, rather than the governor could lead to poorly informed political pressure on the board making it difficult for the board to keep its proceedings confidential protecting both the physician and complainant. In a long career of primary care practice, I have been questioned by the board on one occasion and by their investigator on another. These are very scary occasions. I was overall vindicated, but it left me with a profound lesson on how important it is to keep very complete notes and have very alert and reliable staff. You must always give patient centered care and let the patient know what is happening but also be very alert that you are not alone in any compromising position. As for changing the board, the first consideration must be to reevaluate the reimbursement that is given to the board members. If you want to get talented physicians at a time when careers are active, you have to pay them appropriately for their time. Otherwise, you will only get physicians whose time is not that valuable or who have an agenda of their own. Yes, a little more oversight would be appropriate but the best oversight requires knowledge. So maybe a few more of us should volunteer to take the pay cut that would allow us to serve as board members or legislators. For now we should be grateful for Senator Alan Bates, whose political opinions I do not always agree with, but whom I feels represents the interest of physicians very well. We should also be grateful to the current board members who do serve in a very under paid and under appreciated capacity.
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Why does the Oregon Medical Board not swear in their "expert"? So, that they can get away with perjury? What objective measurable proof, if any, is there that the Oregon Medical Board actually does protect the public (as opposed to the jobs of its employees)?

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