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Award Recipient - Texas State Board Of Medical Examiners (TSBME)

The TSBME has made it loud and clear: They work for the drug industry and their cohorts, the medical insurance racket. Patients seem to come last, if that. The below letter from Dr. David Sheridan shows succinctly how medical doctors are threatened if they don't adhere to Western Medicine's push for prescription drug addiction. This stinks. And I wish more medical doctors had the integrity to stand up to such injustices. Patients can retaliate. Take 10 minutes to make a difference: www.projectfans.org

Texas State Board; Great Protector…. but Protecting a Flawed Standard?

By: David P. Sheridan, MD

On three occasions, I have had the dubious privilege of reading testimony by TSBME “experts’ against a physician who, in their eyes, was guilty of some alleged practice impropriety. In all three cases, I found the report to be superficial and flawed. It left me wondering; “Who are these people and where/how were they trained?” The most egregious incident of which I am aware is the recent case of Dr. Bill Rea.

A personal friend, Dr. Rea is one of the most gifted physicians I’ve ever known. All indications are that the anonymous complaint against Dr. Rea was filed by an insurance company from New York. The patients involved were NY residents. They loved Dr. Rea and were appalled that a complaint had been filed with respect to their cases. The attorney for the TSBME told Dr. Rea’s attorney that it did not matter what evidence was presented to the “Bored”, they intended to take his medical license. This was before what is known as the Informal Show Compliance and Settlement Conference (ISC). The Board evidently did not want to take any chances of being confused by the facts and made their decision ahead of time. What of the right to due process, you ask? What about it indeed! If not based on the facts, what is the premise upon which the decision was made? Was there a premise at all or just an agenda?

The recurrent theme in these reports is that the doctor in question did not meet the “Standard of Care”. A question, then if you please; what is the standard to which we are held? Who sets this standard and from whence does it come?

Presumably, the standard of care is established by what a reasonably prudent physician with comparable training and experience would do under similar circumstances. Superficially, this seems reasonable enough. In practice, however, the application of this concept approaches the Draconian. Such so-called “experts” are chosen by the TSBME and their names are secret. The “Star Chamber” tactic employed by the board leaves the defendant unable to face any of their accusers. As to the actual qualifications of the Board’s “experts”, we are merely to accept the Board’s word that they are indeed expert and similar in training and experience to the defendant.

So what is the so-called standard of care in Texas? Presumably, it is pretty much the same as that of the rest of America. So what do we know about this standard? Well, a brief review of traditional medical literature will tell us. It isn't’t pretty. The wealthiest nation in the world spends the most on medical care and is much sicker for it.

According to JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, FDA drugs used in FDA approved fashion kill over 100,000 people every year. This figure does not include prescribing errors, just good old “standard of care” medicine. The rest of the story is even more sobering. Including unnecessary surgery, hospital errors and hospital acquired infections there are 225,000 deaths per year in this country caused by our medical system! Our beloved standard of care is the third leading cause of premature death in the nation. This is the precious standard to which doctors are held. The World Health Organization (WHO) evaluated the standard of care of 25 industrialized nations. The United States ranked 15th. This is the precious standard to which we are held.

As I mentioned before, FDA approved drugs are killers. Look back over the years and we find this is nothing new. Over the last 27 years, half of all FDA approved drugs have been recalled for killing patients. No matter from what the direction, using “standard of care” as a measure of a physician hypocritical at best. At worst, it reveals a dark intent to knowingly protect a system grown malignant by greed and corruption. Now, evidently the TSBME stands ready and eager to serve an out-of-state insurance company with no interest as to how well the patients fared under Dr. Rea’s care.

Should you think this is an isolated incident, think again. Bill Rea is past president of the Pan American Allergy Society. It turns out that 6 of 9 past presidents of this organization who reside in Texas have been attacked by the board. The odds against this being a targeted effort must be staggering. The increase in attacks may be for good reason. Conventional medicine is running scared. My own experience with patients supports this conclusion, as public opinion is definitely on our side. Our guests used to be concerned upon learning that their conventional doctor may not approve of our treatment methods. Those days are all but gone. For the last 2-3 years, guests express indifference towards, if not outright contempt for the opposition expressed by the conventional front. The public has had it with the “one-size-fits-all”, fast food conventional medical mentality. Sadly, money talks and the conventional front is digging in.

Heaven forbid that doctors like Dr. Rea hold themselves to a higher standard. Even worse, Heaven forbid their standard not be based upon FDA approved drugs. How many people must die to further political careers and drug company/insurance company profits? How long should organizations like the TSBME be allowed to act in secret and beyond oversight? To what standard are they held? For whose protection do they exist? Proceedings should be open and recorded as in any just system. Just as important, TSBME members must reveal financial or other ties they may have with corporate entities such as pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies or any other potential conflict of interest. Transparency must replace the current cloak of secrecy. We desperately need leadership with vision not hidden agendas.

Doctors, other medical professionals and the public must wake up! It is time to step up. It is time to speak out. It is time to fight for our lives and the lives of our patients. It is time to set a new standard.
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