Physician Health Programs: The Need for Transparency and Accountability

How is this any different from the case of Dr. Farid Fata, the Michigan oncologist who intentionally diagnosed healthy patients with cancer so he could charge them for unneeded chemotherapy?  The U.S. Attorney called it the “most egregious” case of health care fraud ever. His acts may have contributed to one patient death.   The institutional injustice of the PHP system is causing countless deaths of physicians.To consciously “tailor” a diagnosis is fraud.  To tailor a diagnosis of substance use disorder or any other psychiatric diagnosis is the political abuse of psychiatry.  Misrepresentation, dishonesty, deception, and distortion play no role in the Profession and Guild of Medicine.  To do so violates the basic moral principles of Medical Ethics–Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence and Justice.

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Physician Health Programs: The Need for Transparency and Accountability

If you have been monitored by a professional health program (PHP) and not yet completed the survey please do so now as your input is critically important in identifying and examining patterns. Your voice matters. Stand up and be counted.

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Accountability, or answerability,  is necessary to prevent abuse and corruption.  This requires both the provision of information and justification for actions.  What was done and why?

Professional guidelines and standards of care, ethical codes of conduct and the law are all objective benchmarks that can be used to assess the actions and decisions of others.  In any free society this necessitates the existence of organizations of truly independent opinion capable of standing in this judgment.

State PHPs are Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) over which the state health department has no supervisory oversight.  There is no regulation, no transparency and no accountability.  There is no public scrutiny and they police themselves.

In Ethical and Managerial Considerations Regarding State Physician Health Programs Drs. John Knight and J. Wesley Boyd call for greater oversight and scrutiny of PHPs by the medical community at large.   They recommended periodic auditing, national standards and regulation.  They also attempted to…

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The Elephant in the Room: Physician Suicide and Physician Health Programs

None of these deaths were investigated. None were covered in the mainstream media.   These are red flags that need to be acknowledged and addressed!    This anecdotal evidence suggests the oft-used estimate of 400 suicides per year (an entire medical school class) is a vast underestimation of reality—extrapolating just the five deaths above to the entire population of US doctors suggests we are losing at least an entire medical school per year.As physicians we need to demand transparency, oversight, regulation and auditing by outside groups. This is a public health emergency.

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The Regulatory Capture of American Medicine by the Drug and Alcohol Testing, Assessment and Treatment Industry

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But in this Court, what Diff’rence does appear!
For every one’s both Judge and Jury here;
Nay, and what’s worse, an Executioner.

William Congreve, The Double-dealer

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Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating and introduced in an article by George J. Stigler in 1971 entitled The Theory of Economic Regulation. The main idea of the article can be summarized in Stigler’s (1971: 3) affirmation that:

“…as a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefits.”

The basic hypothesis of Stigler is that an industry may use—or rather abuse—the coercive public power of the State to establish and enforce rules in order to obtain private gain.

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Gay Doctor coerced by Physician Health Program (PHP) into mandated 12-step treatment and monitoring for sex addiction: The slippery slope begins

The coercion, control, ethics, and civil

The civil and human rights violations remain hidden. The crimes remain hidden. So too will this.

It appears the FSPHP is following the same pattern they have with the “impaired” and “disruptive” physicians–to discriminate. The targeting of gay, lesbian or transgender doctors for what they do in their private lives is predictable. It is an inevitable part of this well oiled slope of coercion, control, obedience and abuse.

The import of this can not be overestimated.

State Physician Health Programs -coercion, control and abuse. This anecdote concerning  a gay doctor’s revelation he liked his non monogamous lifestyle leading  to a forced acceptance of a &#…

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“No matter what people tell you,words and ideas can change the world.”-Robin Williams.

Source: “No matter what people tell you,words and ideas can change the world.”-Robin Williams.

 

The Regulatory Capture of American Medicine by the Drug and Alcohol Testing, Assessment and Treatment Industry

 In 1995 this was a simple but growing shakedown scheme using a medical license to extract money under the threat of its loss. The PHP refers doctor X to “PHP-approved facility” for an evaluation and the “PHP-approved” facility tells doctor X you will stay here until I say so or I tell the PHP you ain’t gettin your license back. Doctor X stays because he knows the PHP can do it as the PHP is not going to be questioned by the medical board.They refer to it as “contingency-management” but it essentially meets the criminal definition of extortion.

But in this Court, what Diff’rence does appear! For every one’s both Judge and Jury here; Nay, and what’s worse, an Executioner. William Congreve, The Double-dealer Regulatory cap…

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Diagnostic Testing 101.1: The Importance of Sensitivity, Specificity and Diagnostic Test Accuracy

The reliability, validity and accuracy of drug test results needs to  be known prior to using a test.  Specificity and sensitivity must be known prior to using a test on any population.This should go without saying as to do anything else would be irresponsible and careless.

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