Re: Re: update on SCC treatment/s, TX

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This column from today's Oakland Tribune tells another version of this story,

making it a bit more complex.  The columnist is an MD herself.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_14390525?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.c\

om-www.insidebayarea.com

I lived near s, TX - Midland - in the eighties.  It was much like the

rest of the US was in the fifties. I don't think it has changed much since I

left in '86. 

Pat

From: VGammill <vgammill@...>

Subject: Re: [ ] Re: update on SCC treatment

Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 1:43 PM

There is a legal case reported in the San Diego Union Tribune, Feb

12, 2010 of a physician in s, Texas, Dr. Rolando Arafiles,

whose nurse reported him to the Texas Medical Board because he,

" ...improperly encouraged patients to buy herbal medicines and wanted

to use hospital supplies to perform a procedure at a patient's

home. " State investigators found several medical procedure

violations by Arafiles.

[Guest guest]

There are two stories here. One of the nurse believing she could 'get the

doctor' with the charges and the other revealing the power doctors might have

over their help. If this was a large Metropolitan area it might have resulted

in the physician having a lot more said to him than " don't do it again " , if that

was the case.

Does anyone really need an article showing that doctors are not looked on

favorably when using means other than the 'Gold Standard'? Of course having a

Sheriff as friend could make retaliation easier.