Historical, political, economic and social analysis reveals that the “PHP-blueprint” is a false-construct built on circumnavigation and obfuscation.  An evidence-based scrutiny of the literature would reveal it to be invalid and of little probative value.But if  nobody speaks up it is inevitable that they will expand the “PHP blueprint”  to other employee assistance programs and schools.This is not just about doctors.  You too are at risk for coercion, control, conformity and forced adherence to a  lifetime of abstinence and 12-step indoctrination and if you do not speak up now it won’t be a risk but a certainty.

Source: The Proposed Expansion of “physician health programs” (PHPs)and the urgent need for a critical analysis of irrational and illegitimate authority

An 80% success rate is being claimed by physician health programs (PHPs).   If you look at the data on which this is based , however, it is as illusory as they are—-sheer sloganeering and propaganda with no substance or soul. No evidence base exists.  There is a reason the article here by Lisa Merlo, one of the architects of this farce and fancy, does not allow comments. They would invariably be very very bad.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2593573

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on” –William S. Burroughs In his 1969 novel The Wild Boys, William S. Burroughs writes “Under pretext of drug contr…

Source: A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.

In his book Without Conscience, Dr. Robert Hare notes “If we can’t spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society. ” Dr. Clive Boddy in Corporate Psychopaths observes that unethical leaders create unethical followers, which in turn create unethical companies and society suffers as a result.” And if you look at the FSPHP branch of the ASAM that is exactly what you will find.  less than 1/% of the population are psychopaths but they represent more that 10% of those in prisons.  What is the natural history of the physician psychopath? You do the math.

Source: Psychopathy and the Medical Profession

Great site!  There is so much corruption in medical boards & PHP’s.  We need to take it upon ourselves to evaluate what our agencies are doing and turn them into the state auditor of every sight for performance and forensic auditing.  Auditors DO listen and DO investigate, but they need to be led to the need for an audit.  The best way to do this is for those of us who have been assaulted and battered by these agencies to document what has been done to ourselves and our peers and let the auditors know what is going on!

I get many e-mails, letters and phone calls from doctors, nurses and others who have been abused by  “professional health programs” (PHPs). Most are anonymous.  Afraid of being identifi…

Source: Letters From Those Abused and Afraid

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There is a very urgent need for a “counterpower” to state physician health programs (PHPs). On average five or six medical students, doctors or residents contact me each week.  They are usually afraid and many do not trust anyone in the system after what they have been through.  They have lost their locus of control.  Many feel hopeless, helpless and defeated.  I have recieved many wonderful letters thanking me for this blog and giving them support and guidance in maneuvering this system.  I want to be able to continue to do so and hope I can rely on your donation.

In terms of reform it is critical to create some type of due process or redress for putative impaired medical students (as well as physicians) who are the objects of state PHP therapeutic interventions. Currently there is no counterpower to PHP control.  No outside agency exists that can both investigate compliants and punish for wrongdoing.  We need to  form an advocacy group or intervention review organization with the goal of ensuring the veracity of both the claims against them and the purported diagnosis. We also  need to make certain that individual rights were not circumvented in the name of “help.”

Although it is difficult to stand up to “authority” it is essential that we do so.  Every voice counts and collectively we can change this system.

In the past year we have made some tremendous gains.  Pauline Anderson’s  Physician Health Programs: More Harm Than Good? opened the door to exposing the financial exploitation and abuse of doctors by PHPs and their preferred drug and alcohol testing and treatment facilities. This was the first mainstream medical new article to address the problems with PHPs. They have no oversight or accountability.  The FSPHP rebuttal  to Medscape Medical News  was dismissive and did not meaningfully answer any of the specific concerns.  Logical fallacy and half-truths were presented but the direct and substantive questions remain unanswered.  Ever since BMJ Editor Jeanne Lenzer’s  “Physician health programs under fire” was published in the BMJ there has been nothing but silence.

Multiple articles are in the works including an expose in a major news source to the general public. This will be a first!

Please help me continue to help others and continue to fight for reform.  I am losing ground very quickly and may not be able to continue after the New Year if I do not get some relief.  Please help me do so.–Michael Langan, M.D.

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Source: Medical Students and Physician Health Programs–A Modest Proposal to Medical School Administrators to Prevent a Potentially Impairing Catastrophe

Diagnosing someone with a disease they do not have should be a never event. The perpetrators should not only have their licenses removed but they should be punished for the crime.   Forensic fraud should also be a never-event but as seen below it is done without fear of sanction-by fax no less.  Giving false diagnoses and fabrication of drug and alcohol tests are actions that should never be tolerated.  Not even once.  How can this be happening in the United States of America?   Unless people speak up this will only escalate.  Below is a detailed analysis of the multiple crimes used for the $25,000 challenge.  Give it a read and try to disprove the claim that Luis Sanchez committed multiple felonies. If you can you win all the prizes. If you can’t then I ask that you be outraged and do something about it as you or someone you love may be next.  Ignoring this type of misconduct is not going to make anything better.

Source: Collusion between state physician health programs (PHPs) and commercial drug testing labs using non-FDA approved drug and alcohol tests

The question that incessantly tugs at me is when will these people say “enough” and say something.  Can what has been done even be undone at this point.  Cooke speaks of “righteous vocational fury” and that the vocation needs to “be ballsy and capable of rebellion.”   We too need to stand as one and speak out against illegitimate and irrational authority.  We need to proclaim “enough is enough” and identify and remove illegitimate authority.   What does it take for someone to stop bemoaning the current state of medicine quietly and silently and get “ballsy” enough to vociferously protest and rebel?  Stand up.

Source: Righteous Vocational Fury and “the need to be ballsy and capable of rebellion”in the medical profession -apt and universally applicable words from BMJ