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-----Original Message-----
From:
Henry Butler [mailto:hbutler@pol.net]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 2:03 PM
To: Bressler, Harold
Cc: Anthony
Colantonio M.D., FACS; BLAKE MOORE
Subject: Dr. Colantonio suspended sans hearing; data-banked sans hearing in the Land
of the Free.
Dear Mr. Bressler:
I was referred to you by Dr. Lamar McGinnis, President of ACS.
The question naturally arises whether the public interest is served by suspending and banking doctors
who protect patients, as described on www.SemmelweisSociety.net.
Naturally I know only Dr. Colantonio's letter, but after talking to him my impression is that U.S.
medicine is no longer safe for U.S. doctors. I advise college students accordingly: Become a lawyer, then a doctor.
Can you help set this situation right?
Sincerely,
H.E.Butler III M.D., FACS
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Bressler" <HBressler@jointcommission.org>
To: "Henry Butler" <hbutler@pol.net>
Cc: "Anthony Colantonio M.D., FACS" <gcacny@aol.com>, "BLAKE MOORE" <bhmfacs@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:42:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: Dr. Colantonio
suspended sans hearing; data-banked sans hearing in the Land of the Free.
Dear Dr. Butler:
Let me confirm receipt of your e-mail. Are you suggesting The Joint Commission should in disputes
such as this actually evaluate all the charges and countercharges, including reviewing the full record of hearings, and serve
as a national appeal board for peer review disputes? The Joint Commission doesn’t have the expertise or resources
to do that. What The Joint Commission can do when privileges are lost is to see whether it appears the basic bylaws
procedural requirements for peer review hearings were followed as required by Joint Commission standards.
I welcome any additional comments you may wish to make.
Harold J. Bressler
General Counsel
The Joint Commission
One Renaissance Boulevard
Oakbrook Terrace , Illinois 60181
Phone: 630-792-5672
Fax: 630-792-3090
Executive Assistant - Veronica Goffer
Phone: 630-792-5671
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Henry Butler" <hbutler@pol.net>
To: "H 630-792-5672 Bressler at JCAHO" <hbressler@jointcommission.org>
Cc: "BHMFAC" <BHMFAC@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:35:39 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Due Process
To Avoid Career-Disruption and Doctor-Shortages
19 November 2009
Dear Mr. Bressler:
Thank you for your letter.
Has the administrator at Mercy Hospital met "the basic bylaws
procedural requirements for peer review hearings were followed as required by Joint Commission standards?"
Why would the Joint Commission accredit Mercy Hospital, Rockville Centre, Long Island which denies
doctors due process and then claims a tax-exemption? Any organization claiming a tax-exemption must serve a public purpose,
or surrender its exemption.
Similarly, when our Joint Commission accepts suspension and data-banking of a doctor without a hearing,
no public purpose is served: The Joint Commission also has not earned its tax-exemption!
We are all patients
who face a doctor-shortage estimated to become 200,000 doctors by 2020, according to Dr. Richard Cooper of the University
of Pennsylvania. If you wanted to discourage students from becoming doctors, you would do exactly what the Joint Commission
is doing.
Because of HCQIA of 1986 and because of the Joint Commission's conduct regarding due process, I advise
American college students to become lawyers, not doctors, in our Land of the Free, pending an amendment to HCQIA requiring
due process in all matters as a Condition of Medicare reimbursement: In the absence of such legal protection, the professional
liability is just too great. There are other English-speaking countries where graduates of American medical schools
can practice in safety...
Are you familiar with the Brunswick, Georgia case in which a pregnant lawyer was referred
80 miles away to Savannah for her routine prenatal care?
Dr. Butler
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