such the typically nasty twelve step asshole contradictory incompetent arrogant crap. Actually, Rowe and company did not manage to file an update report at the October 2003 conclusion of the deferment order, but finally managed to get one filed in December of 2004.
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images-2I get many e-mails, letters and phone calls from doctors, nurses and others who have been abused by “professional health programs” (PHPs).
Most are anonymous. Afraid of being identified and punished by the PHP, very few leave comments on my blog revealing their names or potentially identifiable information.
This is understandable. By simply reporting “noncompliance” to the medical boards a state PHP can end their careers. As it was with the Inquisition this system relies above all else on silence and secrecy. Speaking out can result in “swift and certain consequences.”
They are afraid. Some are undoubtedly suffering from PTSD. Most have developed a “learned-helplessness” Many have reported abuse and even crimes to their medical societies, medical boards, law enforcement, the media and others only to have the door slammed in their faces.-myself included.. They have no advocacy or support and feel no one cares. Their locus of control, identify and self-worth have been suddenly ripped from them without recourse. There is no lifeline. Attempts at justice are often undermined by a concerted defiance of the truth by their medical boards and even the attorneys who are purportedly working for them but will not “bite the hand that feeds.”
PHPs are ostensibly Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) for doctors in both mechanics and mentality. EAPs assist employees with substance abuse, personal problems and other issues. They do not diagnose or treat “patients” but refer to outside professionals who do. The critical difference between EAPs and PHPs is PHPs have mandated all assessment and treatment be done by their own. These “PHP-approved” facilities are economically and ideologically intertwined with the PHP. The conflicts of interest are serious and many.
PHPs also use non-FDA approved junk-science drug and alcohol testing they introduced. The procedural safeguards most EAPs use to protect the donor ( certified labs, FDA-approved validated tests, split-specimen, strict chain-of-custody, MRO review) have been reviewed. Unvalidated “personality” assessments they also introduces are being used in “disruptive” physician evaluations guaranteed to find “character defects” to justify monitoring contracts. They implement polygraphs despite the AMAs previous conclusion they are scientifically unsupportable.
It is an institutionally unjust system of coercion, control and abuse that is unregulated, opaque and protected. There is no answerability and they are accountable to no one.
But regulatory agencies have readily adopted policies not only unsupported by science and evidence-based research but outside the normative principles and practice of medicine.
Granting PHPs authority to limit assessments and treatment to their own facilities offends the fundamental rights of the individual.
Informed consent (or refusal) constitutes a basic rule of the lawfulness of medical practice according to national and state medical practice acts governing the profession. It is a basic principle of all published principles of medical ethics.
Involuntary treatment is motivated by either potential harm to others (for the good of society) or by need for treatment and/or potential self harm.
Involuntary treatment should be a confined to those gravely disabled by psychiatric disorders or substance abuse. It necessitates reflection under the ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence.
A single DUI, tr
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6 30 05 CBX LAP Poley Lying Notification of Coughlin Enrollment in LAP a Year After He Did Intake
such the typically nasty twelve step asshole contradictory incompetent arrogant crap. Actually, Rowe and company did not manage to file an update report at the October 2003 conclusion of the deferment order, but finally managed to get one filed in December of 2004.
Disrupted Physician
The Physician Wellness Movement and Illegitimate Authority: The Need for Revolt and Reconstruction
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Letters From Those Abused and Afraid
Letters From Those Abused and Afraid
images-2I get many e-mails, letters and phone calls from doctors, nurses and others who have been abused by “professional health programs” (PHPs).
Most are anonymous. Afraid of being identified and punished by the PHP, very few leave comments on my blog revealing their names or potentially identifiable information.
This is understandable. By simply reporting “noncompliance” to the medical boards a state PHP can end their careers. As it was with the Inquisition this system relies above all else on silence and secrecy. Speaking out can result in “swift and certain consequences.”
They are afraid. Some are undoubtedly suffering from PTSD. Most have developed a “learned-helplessness” Many have reported abuse and even crimes to their medical societies, medical boards, law enforcement, the media and others only to have the door slammed in their faces.-myself included.. They have no advocacy or support and feel no one cares. Their locus of control, identify and self-worth have been suddenly ripped from them without recourse. There is no lifeline. Attempts at justice are often undermined by a concerted defiance of the truth by their medical boards and even the attorneys who are purportedly working for them but will not “bite the hand that feeds.”
PHPs are ostensibly Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) for doctors in both mechanics and mentality. EAPs assist employees with substance abuse, personal problems and other issues. They do not diagnose or treat “patients” but refer to outside professionals who do. The critical difference between EAPs and PHPs is PHPs have mandated all assessment and treatment be done by their own. These “PHP-approved” facilities are economically and ideologically intertwined with the PHP. The conflicts of interest are serious and many.
PHPs also use non-FDA approved junk-science drug and alcohol testing they introduced. The procedural safeguards most EAPs use to protect the donor ( certified labs, FDA-approved validated tests, split-specimen, strict chain-of-custody, MRO review) have been reviewed. Unvalidated “personality” assessments they also introduces are being used in “disruptive” physician evaluations guaranteed to find “character defects” to justify monitoring contracts. They implement polygraphs despite the AMAs previous conclusion they are scientifically unsupportable.
It is an institutionally unjust system of coercion, control and abuse that is unregulated, opaque and protected. There is no answerability and they are accountable to no one.
But regulatory agencies have readily adopted policies not only unsupported by science and evidence-based research but outside the normative principles and practice of medicine.
Granting PHPs authority to limit assessments and treatment to their own facilities offends the fundamental rights of the individual.
Informed consent (or refusal) constitutes a basic rule of the lawfulness of medical practice according to national and state medical practice acts governing the profession. It is a basic principle of all published principles of medical ethics.
Involuntary treatment is motivated by either potential harm to others (for the good of society) or by need for treatment and/or potential self harm.
Involuntary treatment should be a confined to those gravely disabled by psychiatric disorders or substance abuse. It necessitates reflection under the ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence.
A single DUI, tr
such the typically nasty twelve step asshole contradictory incompetent arrogant crap. Actually, Rowe and company did not manage to file an update report at the October 2003 conclusion of the deferment order, but finally managed to get one filed in December of 2004.
Disrupted Physician
The Physician Wellness Movement and Illegitimate Authority: The Need for Revolt and Reconstruction
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SKIP TO CONTENT
Letters From Those Abused and Afraid
Letters From Those Abused and Afraid
images-2I get many e-mails, letters and phone calls from doctors, nurses and others who have been abused by “professional health programs” (PHPs).
Most are anonymous. Afraid of being identified and punished by the PHP, very few leave comments on my blog revealing their names or potentially identifiable information.
This is understandable. By simply reporting “noncompliance” to the medical boards a state PHP can end their careers. As it was with the Inquisition this system relies above all else on silence and secrecy. Speaking out can result in “swift and certain consequences.”
They are afraid. Some are undoubtedly suffering from PTSD. Most have developed a “learned-helplessness” Many have reported abuse and even crimes to their medical societies, medical boards, law enforcement, the media and others only to have the door slammed in their faces.-myself included.. They have no advocacy or support and feel no one cares. Their locus of control, identify and self-worth have been suddenly ripped from them without recourse. There is no lifeline. Attempts at justice are often undermined by a concerted defiance of the truth by their medical boards and even the attorneys who are purportedly working for them but will not “bite the hand that feeds.”
PHPs are ostensibly Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) for doctors in both mechanics and mentality. EAPs assist employees with substance abuse, personal problems and other issues. They do not diagnose or treat “patients” but refer to outside professionals who do. The critical difference between EAPs and PHPs is PHPs have mandated all assessment and treatment be done by their own. These “PHP-approved” facilities are economically and ideologically intertwined with the PHP. The conflicts of interest are serious and many.
PHPs also use non-FDA approved junk-science drug and alcohol testing they introduced. The procedural safeguards most EAPs use to protect the donor ( certified labs, FDA-approved validated tests, split-specimen, strict chain-of-custody, MRO review) have been reviewed. Unvalidated “personality” assessments they also introduces are being used in “disruptive” physician evaluations guaranteed to find “character defects” to justify monitoring contracts. They implement polygraphs despite the AMAs previous conclusion they are scientifically unsupportable.
It is an institutionally unjust system of coercion, control and abuse that is unregulated, opaque and protected. There is no answerability and they are accountable to no one.
But regulatory agencies have readily adopted policies not only unsupported by science and evidence-based research but outside the normative principles and practice of medicine.
Granting PHPs authority to limit assessments and treatment to their own facilities offends the fundamental rights of the individual.
Informed consent (or refusal) constitutes a basic rule of the lawfulness of medical practice according to national and state medical practice acts governing the profession. It is a basic principle of all published principles of medical ethics.
Involuntary treatment is motivated by either potential harm to others (for the good of society) or by need for treatment and/or potential self harm.
Involuntary treatment should be a confined to those gravely disabled by psychiatric disorders or substance abuse. It necessitates reflection under the ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence.
A single DUI, tr
5 7 07 06-M-13755-PEM in Re Zachary Barker Coughlin, Esq. Applicant For Admission in California Complete File With Trial Exhibits LAP With Draft Filing