Physicians – esp in NC – GET THESE RECORDS NOW!
It's your chance to hold NCMB and NCPHP accountable
Pardon the crickets here at The Rhythm Strip. Bet you thought CPR was flat-lined! Nope. Just so busy that I had to take the leads off.
More on what CPR’s been up to later. I HAD to get this out to you ASAP.
Be sure to check out my post over at Physician Interrupted on getting access to critically important NCMB and NCPHP records.
Physicians in NC (and likely other states) - do not delay in getting these records!
Physicians, if you have had ANY adverse dealings with NCMB or NCPHP and believe attorney communications of any nature – within the agency or external to it – may have some relevance to those dealings, do not delay in getting these records if you want to fully protect your rights and hold NCMB and NCPHP accountable.
If you want to determine whether either agency was wrongfully aided and abetted by counsel in violating your rights, now's your LAST chance to see how they positioned the agency in matters affecting you, whether directly or indirectly. The new law that takes effect this TUES 10/3 will forever ELIMINATE YOUR ACCESS.
By the way, on the linked post, you’ll see how NCMB and FSMB see me – as a noxious pest. This post probably won’t help change that perception.
The picture was from the lead slide of their internationally distributed presentation "What To Do When Your Board Gets Sued" presented by NCMB attorney Elizabeth Meredith and hosted on FSMB's website for open download. Curiously, FSMB was under the leadership of a former board president of NCMB at the time of this presentation and who also happens to have been a named litigant in my litigation against NCMB and NCPHP. Not that there might've been any retaliatory motive or anything. Both NCMB and FSMB REFUSED to take it down. Alas, US DHHS and US DOJ didn't feel that this defamatory presentation containing multiple false and impermissible disclosures merited investigation. Likewise NC AG Josh Stein.
This is not all that surprising, as this is the same state whose auditor in 2014 found that NCPHP had violated the due process rights of all 1,140 physicians it had evaluated psychiatrically - at that under the false identity of "peer review" - and whose Governor and Attorney General did NOTHING to mitigate the disastrous harms.
I guess they didn't want to go near the crime scene where they'd discover the career and life upheaval of these wrongfully assessed and prosecuted physicians, at least one and likely more dead by suicide, harms done specifically because of their failed oversight.
So ... might there be a state interest in gutting the open records law?
Apparently, the legislature is either fine with this gutting, or somebody’s sneakily inserted this change choosing to bury it on page 530 of the just ratified bill.
Apparently so is the sleepy NC media. And the ACLU. And every other Open Government advocate. Anybody know people in these domains. Get this post to them ASAP. Perhaps they might know a way to halt its enactment until this provision is more thoroughly studied.