WARNING TO ALL PHYSICIANS - THERE IS NO SAFE STATE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE
(Insert your own State in place of Oregon - it all basically works the same across the United States)
This website is the result of the OMB's horrendous mistreatment of physician licensees.
(Insert your own State in place of Oregon - it all basically works the same across the United States)
This website is the result of the OMB's horrendous mistreatment of physician licensees.
The Oregon Medical Board (OMB) is not your friend. Operating essentially without government, judicial, media or public oversight, the OMB can destroy your medical career and finances instantly. They on the other hand, will suffer no ill consequences for any intentional or unintentional illegal or unconstitutional action or decision they make, no matter how unfair, egregious, or devastating it might be to the physician, their family and patients.
The OMB purposely performs incompetent investigations, utilizes unqualified physicians as "expert" witnesses, ignores and gives no response to your lawyer's letters and requests, withholds pertinent medical records for years, encourages and allows the use of perjury, encourages and allows the use of hearsay, denies cross examination of supposed witnesses who aren't even available by phone to testify and answer questions, denies discovery, colludes privately with the Administrative Law Judges directly (ex parte contact), etc. The list is endless. The OMB and their legal muscle, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Warren Foote (retired 2021), now AAG Katharine DiSalle, do all this "openly" knowing there will be no legal or legislative repercussions regarding their tyrannical behaviors .
A small nucleus of individuals at the OMB ultimately decide the physician's fate regardless of a hearing's Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) decision. If a healthcare professional is to the point of a hearing, they are going to lose their license. The OMB has never lost a hearing - they have a 100% revocation rate. The healthcare professional will then be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Data Bank. Once this occurs the licensee will forever be unhireable in any medical related field.
The OMB is the Investigator, the Judge, the Jury and the Executioner. Any healthcare professional who comes before the OMB is expected to get on their knees and except full responsibility for any charges or accusations leveled against them by the OMB - only complete acquiescence is accepted. If the physician asserts themselves in any way before the OMB they will be labeled 'disruptive' or 'arrogant'. "You do whatever they [the OMB] say right or wrong" (this is a direct quote from past OMB member Keith White, M.D. who himself was under investigation as of January 2014 for supposed inappropriate opiate prescribing and patient "boundary problems" - he followed his advice and only got a wrist slap.). The OMB, AAG Warren Foote, and currently AAG Katherine DiSalle know they can trample physicians and their rights into submission without blowback, because to date State and Federal Courts have allowed the OMB to function unconstitutionally and the licensee is unable to fight within the supposed 'legal system' because they have run out of money and are unable to make an income.
The OMB members, former Executive Director Kathleen Haley (retired 6/30/18), current Executive Director Nicole Krishnaswami, former AAG Warren Foote, and AAG Katherine DiSalle are protected by absolute immunity, no matter how inept or unconstitutional a job they have done. All Oregon physicians who have "requested a [sham] hearing" have lost. All physicians who have appealed the OMB's "hearing" decision have lost except one physician who had only the fine portion of the OMB's decision overturned. [This has just recently changed - a few physicians have had the OMB decision overturned by the Oregon Court Appeals - the Appeal Court's decision being based purely upon process and nothing to do with the specifics of the case itself. See page labeled OR Tortured Healthcare Licensees for these Appeal decisions and other documents. And if you "win" (if you want to call it that) your appeal, it is back to the OMB (or whatever healthcare licensing board you are licensed through) snake pit, where if they didn't destroy you psychologically and financially the first time, they will get you the second time, because the Appeals Court has provided them the blue print, you have to pay for a lawyer, and they will charge you additional fines.
It is a false sense of security to think you are safe or protected from the ravages of the OMB by following their directives. Even if you sign the "forced confession" - called a Stipulated Order (SO) - of the OMB and agree to all directives put forth by them, you are still not safe. These "forced confessions" (SO) are reportable to the NPDB and the FSMB Data Bank. Once a physician has been reported to these Data Banks they will no longer be able to find a job in medicine, get malpractice insurance, contract with insurance companies, etc. All the physician's hard work, all their money spent on education, all the life they gave up for school and medicine and all other associated hardships will be for not. When the OMB is finished, the physician will be financially and emotionally exhausted and devastated. Hard to believe? Well keep reading because it only gets worse.
All physicians practicing in Oregon should get out now or stand up against the OMB and demand change! Don't let them destroy your life! All those considering coming to Oregon should look elsewhere! Oregon was recently ranked as one of the worst states to practice medicine - #42! http://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-doctors/11376/#main-findings
The OMB purposely performs incompetent investigations, utilizes unqualified physicians as "expert" witnesses, ignores and gives no response to your lawyer's letters and requests, withholds pertinent medical records for years, encourages and allows the use of perjury, encourages and allows the use of hearsay, denies cross examination of supposed witnesses who aren't even available by phone to testify and answer questions, denies discovery, colludes privately with the Administrative Law Judges directly (ex parte contact), etc. The list is endless. The OMB and their legal muscle, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Warren Foote (retired 2021), now AAG Katharine DiSalle, do all this "openly" knowing there will be no legal or legislative repercussions regarding their tyrannical behaviors .
A small nucleus of individuals at the OMB ultimately decide the physician's fate regardless of a hearing's Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) decision. If a healthcare professional is to the point of a hearing, they are going to lose their license. The OMB has never lost a hearing - they have a 100% revocation rate. The healthcare professional will then be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Data Bank. Once this occurs the licensee will forever be unhireable in any medical related field.
The OMB is the Investigator, the Judge, the Jury and the Executioner. Any healthcare professional who comes before the OMB is expected to get on their knees and except full responsibility for any charges or accusations leveled against them by the OMB - only complete acquiescence is accepted. If the physician asserts themselves in any way before the OMB they will be labeled 'disruptive' or 'arrogant'. "You do whatever they [the OMB] say right or wrong" (this is a direct quote from past OMB member Keith White, M.D. who himself was under investigation as of January 2014 for supposed inappropriate opiate prescribing and patient "boundary problems" - he followed his advice and only got a wrist slap.). The OMB, AAG Warren Foote, and currently AAG Katherine DiSalle know they can trample physicians and their rights into submission without blowback, because to date State and Federal Courts have allowed the OMB to function unconstitutionally and the licensee is unable to fight within the supposed 'legal system' because they have run out of money and are unable to make an income.
The OMB members, former Executive Director Kathleen Haley (retired 6/30/18), current Executive Director Nicole Krishnaswami, former AAG Warren Foote, and AAG Katherine DiSalle are protected by absolute immunity, no matter how inept or unconstitutional a job they have done. All Oregon physicians who have "requested a [sham] hearing" have lost. All physicians who have appealed the OMB's "hearing" decision have lost except one physician who had only the fine portion of the OMB's decision overturned. [This has just recently changed - a few physicians have had the OMB decision overturned by the Oregon Court Appeals - the Appeal Court's decision being based purely upon process and nothing to do with the specifics of the case itself. See page labeled OR Tortured Healthcare Licensees for these Appeal decisions and other documents. And if you "win" (if you want to call it that) your appeal, it is back to the OMB (or whatever healthcare licensing board you are licensed through) snake pit, where if they didn't destroy you psychologically and financially the first time, they will get you the second time, because the Appeals Court has provided them the blue print, you have to pay for a lawyer, and they will charge you additional fines.
It is a false sense of security to think you are safe or protected from the ravages of the OMB by following their directives. Even if you sign the "forced confession" - called a Stipulated Order (SO) - of the OMB and agree to all directives put forth by them, you are still not safe. These "forced confessions" (SO) are reportable to the NPDB and the FSMB Data Bank. Once a physician has been reported to these Data Banks they will no longer be able to find a job in medicine, get malpractice insurance, contract with insurance companies, etc. All the physician's hard work, all their money spent on education, all the life they gave up for school and medicine and all other associated hardships will be for not. When the OMB is finished, the physician will be financially and emotionally exhausted and devastated. Hard to believe? Well keep reading because it only gets worse.
All physicians practicing in Oregon should get out now or stand up against the OMB and demand change! Don't let them destroy your life! All those considering coming to Oregon should look elsewhere! Oregon was recently ranked as one of the worst states to practice medicine - #42! http://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-doctors/11376/#main-findings
