COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO

EDWARD PATRICK, M.D., Ph.D. Case No.:

11322 Loftus Lane
Union, Kentucky 41091 Hon.:

Plaintiff,
COMPLAINT AND JURY DEMAND
v.

CLEVELAND SCENE PUBLISHING LLC

S/A: Csc-Lawyers Incorporating Service
(Corporation Service Company)
50 West Broad Street, Suite 1
Columbus, Ohio 43215

and

THOMAS FRANCIS
Serve: CLEVELAND SCENE
1468 West 9111 Street, Suite 805
Cleveland, Ohio 44115-0029

Defendants.

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Comes now the Plaintiff, Edward Patrick, M.D., PhD., by and through counsel,

and for his Complaint against the Defendants, states as follows:

1. That on or about October 27, 2004, Plaintiff, Edward Patrick, M.D., Ph.D.,

was a board certified emergency room physician practicing medicine in numerous states;

that Plaintiff further obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University

and a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT) and has also worked in the arena involving the role of electrical

engineering in medicine.
 2. That on or about October 27,2004, the Cleveland Scene Inc. published a

newspaper, which was distributed throughout the State of Ohio, known as the "Cleveland

Scene", or simply as the "Scene".

3. That on or about October 27,2004, Thomas Francis was a reporter

employed by the Defendant, Cleveland Scene Publishing LLC, purportedly to research

and write articles of interest to the public.

4. That on or about October 27, 2004, the Defendants published an article

pertaining to the Plaintiff, Edward Patrick, M.D., Ph.D., entitled "Playing Doctor". A

copy of said article is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

5. That said article was, on its face, defamatory and libelous, containing

numerous false statements and implications regarding the Plaintiff. For example, the

headline under the caption of the article states, "lying on a resume isn't a crime - except

when a doctor does it. Luckilyfor Edward Patrick, the Ohio Medical Board is

forgiving."

6. That said statement implied that the Plaintiff, Edward Patrick, M.D.,

Ph.D., lied on a resume with regard to his qualifications and, further, that he was brought

before a disciplinary proceeding with the Ohio Medical (Licensing) Board. Said

statement is and was at all times false.

7. That said article published by the Cleveland Scene, further implied that

Dr. Edward Patrick lacks the qualifications and certifications to work as an emergency

room physician and that, further, his board certification process was false and fraudulent

Said statements and/or implications are false.

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 8. That said article implies that, because Dr. Patrick did not perform the same

number of surgeries as other residents during his residency at Jewish Hospital in

Cincinnati, Ohio, he did not properly complete his residency program. However, the

article fails to distinguish between an emergency medicine residency, plus "practice

route", one of three approved residency methods at the time Dr. Patrick graduated from

medical school, and the surgical residency, which required different qualifications. Thus,

the article further falsely refers to Dr. Patrick's residency in emergency medicine as a

"phantom residency at Jewish Hospital".

9. That said article further implies that Dr. Patrick has been "faking medical

credentials."

10. That numerous other false statements of fact appear throughout the article,

all of a defamatory and libelous nature.

11. That Defendants published the within article throughout the State of Ohio,

wantonly, recklessly and intentionally, with an intent to damage and injure the business

reputation of Dr. Edward Patrick, M.D., Ph.D., the Plaintiffherein.

COUNT ONE

12. That Plaintiff reiterates and realleges each of the foregoing allegations of

this Complaint and Jury Demand, as if fully set forth herein.

13. The article published by the Cleveland Scene and the Defendant, Thomas

Francis, herein, on October 27, 2004, contains false information defaming the character

and integrity of the Plaintiff, and the Defendants further published and disseminated such

information with knowledge or reckless disregard of its falsity.

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 14. That as a direct and proximate result of Defendants' said conduct, the

Plaintiff has suffered damage to his business reputation, resulting in loss of employment

opportunities and earning capacity.

15. Moreover, because of the reckless disregard or intentional wrongful nature

of Defendants' said conduct, the Plaintiff is entitled to punitive damages.

COUNT TWO

16. That Plaintiff reiterates and realleges each of the foregoing allegations of

this Complaint and Jury Demand, as if fully set forth herein.

17. That by publication of the within article, the Defendants published

information about the Plaintiff's private affairs with which the public has no concern and,

therefore, such publication is actionable without necessity of establishing a knowing

falsehood or reckless disregard of the truthfulness on the part of the said publishers.

18. That as a direct and proximate result of the Defendants' conduct,

publicizing private information about the Plaintiff of which the public had no concern,

the Plaintiff has further suffered an invasion of his privacy and consequential damages

resulting therefrom, including a loss of earning capacity and damage to his business

reputation.

COUNT THREE

19. That Plaintiff reiterates and realJeges each of the foregoing allegations of

this Complaint, as if fully set forth herein.

20. That the Defendants' conduct constitutes the tort of defamation in that the

Defendants published a false and malicious publication against the Plaintiff, with an

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intent to injure his reputation or to expose him to public hatred, contempt, ridicule, shame

or to disgrace or to affect him injuriously in his trade, business or profession.

21. That as a direct and proximate result of the Defendants' said conduct, the

Plaintiff has experienced a loss of earning capacity, damage to his business reputation,

ridicule, and shame in the medical community, requiring him to answer and respond to

false allegations, publicly and privately, and has further been caused to experience

emotional anguish and distress.

22. Furthermore, because of the nature of Defendants' said conduct, the

Plaintiff is entitled to an award of punitive damages.

WHEREFORE, the Plaintiff prays for judgment, jointly and severally, against the

Defendants as follows:

a. For compensatory damages in an amount to be determined by ajury;

b. For punitive damages in an amount to be awarded by a jury;

c. For trial by jury;

d. For any and all other proper relief to which he is entitled.

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Edward S. Monahan, Sr. (#0043784)
MONO HAN & BLANKENSHIP
771 I Ewing Blvd., Ste. 100
PO Box 157
Florence, Kentucky 41022-0157
(859) 283- 1140
(859) 283-5155 (Fax) .
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There are no shortcuts to a career in medicine.
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ICLASSIFIED Cincinnati accepted this. It consoled them
IPERSONALS through IDD-hour workweeks, each one more
IPROMOTIONS blurred by blood and disease than the last.
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outsider. At 38, he was older than most, a
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I CAREERS voice. In his aloof, distracted way, Patrick
IFREE STUFF tended to a computer in the cardiac unit. A
professor of electrical engineering from Purdue,
he was merely conducting a study, one that
had nothing to do with the hospital's patients
or doctors.

Still, one couldn't help but notice that Patrick

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was a friend -- a shadow, almost -- of Dr.
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Hospital surgery department. Word got around
that Patrick helped develop the Heimlich
maneuver, a new invention at the time.

Most didn't know that Patrick had recently

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finished medical school and that he wanted to
abandon engineering for the emergency room.
Dr. Felix Canestri, the chief resident,
supervised residents when they performed
surgeries. Most did about 100 surgenes that
year. Yet Canestri doesn't remember ever
seeing Patrick at an operating table. "I can tell

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at the time, "but he was not in the program."

Patrick's real job, in fact, was hours away.

Employment records indicate he was a full-time
professor at Purdue University in West
Lafayette, Indiana. Indeed, a local newspaper
from September 1, 1975, quotes Patrick as
saying he would spend only one day per week
in Cincinnati -- not nearly enough time to
tackle the insomniac schedules that were the
norm for surgery residents.

So Canestri is baffled to hear that Patrick lists a

Jewish Hospital residency on his resume.
"There are some strange things happening nee that Patrick
has an emergency doctor's
here," he says. training, so his presence in the ER
is worrisome.
The doctor asks what Patrick has done In the
decades since. When told that he's spent much
of the last 28 years In emergency rooms --
from Cleveland to Cape Fear, North Carolina --
it comes as a shock. "Practicing surgery?"
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long known of Patrick's questionable history,

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medicine without a paper trail.

Few paper trails twist like Ed Patrick's.

When he applied for an Ohio medical license in 1976, Patrick claimed to be a full
professor at the Indiana School of Medicine. It has record of him working only as
an unpaid volunteer.

From there, his resume gets weirder. On most he lists special emergency
medicine training under Heimlich from 1976-'78, but Heimlich disavows this
claim.

On his American Medical Association profile, Patrick claims that he spent 1976-
'78 as a resident at Cleveland's Deaconess Hospital. This is surely false; the
hospital never had a residency program.

In his board certification listing, Patrick cites an emergency medicine residency

at the University of Cincinnati hospital. An internal memo leaked to Scene shows
hospital executives comparing notes and concluding that there's no record of
Patrick there. Executives also indicated he had no record at Jewish Hospital.

In the same listing, Patrick claims an emergency medicine residency at Purdue

University hospital. Purdue doesn't have a medical school, much less a hospital.

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IPROMOTIONS and North Carolina. If that isn't strange
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ICAREERS refused to authorize the release of his work
records. Angry over his treatment in a previous
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11 -- he declined to be interviewed for this
story. "1 am not interested in talking to you
until you show some credibility In your
reporting," he says.

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Dr. Gordon Margolin was the head of Jewish

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~~Guide Heimlich.

While it was no secret among hospital staff that Margolin had a low opinion of
Heimlich and had even less regard for Patrick, his signature was an enormous
favor to both. It allowed Heimlich's protege to get his Ohio medical license.

Before hiring a physician, a hospital checks the doctor's work record. At Jewish
Hospital, Mike Bowen nand led verification requests relating to residencies, and
he soon learned of Edward Patrick.

By the mid-1990s, Bowen had accumulated a massive file of verification

requests for Patrick, who was circulating his bizarre resume far and wide. It
naturally raised eyebrows.

"In my business, if you see something time and time again, you start to
wonder," says Bowen. "It didn't take a rocket sctentist to figure out something
was amiss. What was this guy up to?"

Good question, but Bowen ignored it. Over the next several years, he received
requests from hospitals around the nation, asking about Patrick's credentials.
Bowen was aware that Patrick's claim to an emergency residency was false -- no
such program had ever existed at Jewish -- but he verified the residency
anyway.

"From my standpoint, I knew he was at Jewish for a year,· says Bowen. Yet he
admits he knew nothing about what Patrick was actually doing there, and he
never alerted hospitals that were considering hiring Patrick about this fact. "I'm
not a policeman," says Bowen. "That's not my job."

Patrick, it seems, seized this opportunity, applying for licenses in four states
during Bowen's tenure. Each time, Bowen verified his residency.

Bowen says he once mentioned Patrick's name "in passing" to someone from the
Ohio Medical Board, but doesn't remember whom. He assumes the board looked
into the matter. If those officials never found cause to yank Patrick's license,
that's good enough for him.

The first meeting between Patrick and Henry Heimlich has become a point of

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contention -- especially over the last year. Since then, Patrick has more
forcefully asserted his role in inventing the Heimlich maneuver.

Heimlich, now 84 and stil1living in Cincinnati, has stated that he met Patrick at
Jewish Hospital in 1975 -- one year after Heimlich published the first article on
the maneuver. Through a spokesman, he says that "Dr. Patrick had no role in
the origin or development of the maneuver."

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JOINING of the 1970s, they were working in tandem to
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to choking. They were also marketing it as a
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have saved a two-year-old girl in Lima. She
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IPERSONALS the hospital, CPR had failed to revive her. In a
IPROMOTIONS case report published in 1981, Patrick claimed
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IABOUT US proving he was working in the Lima ER at the
ICAREERS time. Moreover, other scientists found it
When C. Everett Koop endorsed
impossible to believe that a young girl could be the Heimlich maneuver, Patrick
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revived after 40 minutes without breathing. claimed it as his personal victory.

Most conspicuously absent from the report,

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Patrick's Jewish Hospital residency. So in June
2002, he filed a complaint against Patrick with
the Ohio Medical Board.

The board is heralded as one of the nation's most stringent medical regulators,
.<. 'f~' Sceue filing more actions against doctors than the board of any other populous state.
~~Menu Peter Heimlich was immediately put in touch with executive director Tom Dilling.

:r~Guide "I thought, 'Okay, I've come to the right place,'" he says.

He had several long conference calls with Dilling and Mark Michael, an attorney
with the Ohio Attorney General's office.

Dilling never Questioned Peter Heimlich's doubts about the Lima case or the
Jewish Hospital residency. But according to Heimlich, Dilling said that "faking a
residency was no big deal." The board was more concerned with chasing doctors
who wrote illegal prescriptions.

"I was astonished," says Peter Heimlich.' "It seemed to me that the issue was
whether an untrained doctor had access to emergency rooms in seven states,
including Ohio. That was no big deal?"

In September 2002, Dilling cut off communication, failing to return e-mails and
letters. Two years later, Peter Heimlich still hasn't heard back.

Because medical-board complaints are confidential, Dilling won't discuss Patrick

or even confirm that an investigation occurred. But Dilling did say that, in 1976,
the year that Patrick should have completed his resldencv, post-graduate
training was not a requirement for licensure.

Stili, the board can pull the license of any physician who publishes false
credentials. Given the glaring inconsistencies of Patrick's resume, it's amazing
that it passed board scrutiny. Attorney General Betty Montgomery and her
successor, Jim Petro, were also informed of Patrick's history, but neither
pursued a case against him.

Patrick's career is made all the more flammable due to the time that's elapsed
since his alleged Jewish residency. If it's bogus, and if Jewish Hospital has
nonetheless been verifying it all these years -- even after suspicions were raised
-- it may be liable for all that Patrick has done in 28 years of emergency-room
work.

"In the case of an emergency-room doctor, the hospital is vouching to the public
at large that it is staffed by people who are adequately trained, and we as
patients have to rely on that," says Michael Djordjevic, a malpractice attorney in
Akron. "What's at stake here is potentially life and death."

And that could present legal consequences for Jewish Hospital -- the expensive

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Medicine. When former Surgeon General C. Letters

Everett Koop announced his endorsement of Style TIPS
the Heimlich maneuver for choking in 1985, he Letters published November 19, 2005

cited Patrick's research on the dangers of

backslaps, used to rescue choking victims
before the Heimlich maneuver. As a lecturing
team, Heimlich and Patrick also succeeded in convincing the American Heart
Association to recommend the Heimlich maneuver as a second response to
drowning rescue -- in the event that CPR fails.

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"4-"1; Today, the relationship stings of betrayal. Heimlich has undercut Patrick's daims
to inventing the maneuver and even denies Patrick had any effect on swaying
;fi~Rjtb~~ Koop's opinion.

Recent years have also been hard on the Heimlich legacy. He's been widely
denounced for his campaign to make the Heimlich maneuver the first response
to drowning. Most believe it's counterproductive and possibly fatal. He's also
campaigned for malariotherapy, contending that AIDS and perhaps cancer can
be cured by giving patients malaria. His attempts to conduct human
experiments have drawn condemnations from immunologists around the globe.
Unfazed, Heimlich will be giving a presentation at the Pan Africa AIDS
conference in Nashville this week. His appearance has caused several other
presenters to boycott the event.

Heimlich always coveted fame. Today, he's notorious.

Patrick has achieved neither. Heimlich may have helped him get an Ohio medical
license based on questionable credentials, but if that gave Patrick a head start,
it's been the bane of his career since. His resume makes it hard to get a good
faculty job in a hospital.

Most doctors in their 60s are either retired or settied comfortably into their last
years of practice. Patrick, now 67, was last seen working at Cape Fear Valley
Medical Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He left in August for unknown
reasons. Now living in northern Kentucky and navigating his third divorce, he is
looking for work.

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