Ron Gots, From Clinic to Courtroom, ACOEM 5/3/05

[Guest guest]

(http://www.acoem.org/education/aohc2005/registration.htm)

Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Conference Sessions/Millennium Series

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

_Washington Renaissance Hotel_

(http://www.stayatrenaissance.com/AOHC2005Washington/) (999 Ninth Street NW,

Washington, DC 20001 )

Speakers:

E. Gots, MD, PhD, Principal, International Center for Toxicology and

Medicine, Rockville, MD

Hung K. Cheung, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Chief Medical Officer, Building Health

Sciences, Elliott City, MD

Occupational Medicine: From Clinic to Courtroom

Tuesday, May 3

8:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Mark is a 36-year-old executive of a paint manufacturing plant who is

referred to you for possible multiple chemical sensitivity. He reports being

exposed to mold at the office and chemicals at the plant. He now has symptoms at

the office, the plant and even with non-workplace activities such as hobbies and

yard work. This session will discuss the soup to nuts of this case, ranging

from treatment, to investigation, to return to work decisions, to serving as

expert witnesses through various administrative and legal proceedings. Topics

will include: the role of the OEM physician; latest provable science

associated with multiple chemical sensitivity; differential diagnosis versus

causation assessment; and standards of “proof†in the workplace and the

courtroom,

and how the occupational health professional confronts and deals with these

differing standards.

Re: NBC Dateline & Rondal Gots' " Review firm "

Posted by _Pat_

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+firmqtqt) on 4/05/05

I'm only re-posting the subject matter concerning Gots because of the

typographical errors in the previous posting. The errors are just enough to

make a person loose concentration and go elsewhere --- I suppose. So, let's

redo it, even citing page numbers, for easier referencing:

Perhaps you have occasionally spotted articles, reviews, and comments on

the internet mentioning that Gots was involved in insurance fraud.

Well,

according to the NBC television network, this is true. Therefore, it would

only

be courteous to give a brief outline of the matter, instead joining the

ranks of

person after person who vaguely reiterate, on website after website, that

Gots

was involved in insurance fraud and nothing more. So, here is an outline,

along

with a web address which provides the NBC Dateline transcript:

1] The insurance fraud involves a " Paper Review Company " of which Gots

was president, along with its services for State Farm Insurance. It was

named,

Medical Claims Review Services; MCRS. It is now out of business.

2] It involved hundreds of cases; a number of which were never reviewed by

any physician. NBC got hold of 79 specific cases and found that all 79

reviewed

cases ever-so-coincidentally favored State Farm Insurance. According to NBC,

" doctors did not write many of the reports sent to State Farm and other

insurance companies. In fact, they often didn't even sign them. Other people

in the office did that for them. "

3] Concerning one court trial, the presiding judge issued a " scathing

opinion " in which he " called the paper review company, MCRS, a 'completely

bogus

operation,' which prepared 'cookie cutter reports.'