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Verner Stuart Waite
M.D., FACS incorporated The Semmelweis Society in 1986 in California as a non-profit, free-of-charge
organization. He won ~$514,000 in a lawsuit against biased medical peer-review involving two competitors who
controlled the tissue committee at St. Francis Hospital in Downey, California.
He participated in the incorporation of Semmelweis Society
International in Tennessee in 2003, and visited doctors throughout the United States to testify at no charge on their behalf when they had been denied due process in peer-review.
In his honor we continue his tradition of not charging for our testimony. We help doctors find
safe places to practice medicine: At the end of the day we are all patients.
Readers are advised not to confuse other "Semmelweis" Societies
with this one, the direct descendant of the original and directly associated with Dr. Waite in that we do not charge for testimony.
We are litigating in Tennessee to defend our name. After writing this web site, www.SemmelweisSociety.net , I wrote www.semmelweis.org (with the assistance of Andrew Holley J.D. of San Francisco) and I then donated it
to SSI. However, Semmelweis.org was shortly thereafter taken from its webmaster, George Holmes Ph.D. of Howard
University in 2008, and subsequently modified by whoever stole it. Dr. Moore, Dr. Holmes, and I are in court
in Tennessee to recover it, as Tennessee is the site of incorporation of SSI and of the law practice of Dr. Bard, a co-founder
of SSI: Co-founders with myself are: Ralph M. Bard M.D., J.D., FACS (931-703-0561) and Charles William Hinnant
M.D., J.D., DABUrology (NetDoc37@aol.com).
Students considering a career in medicine in the Land
of the Free who are reluctant to incur a medical school cost of $320,000
and a defamation-defense costing ~$750,000 may want to consider living in other
English-speaking countries, pending reform here as the doctor-shortage gets underway. It is predicted by Dr. Richard
Cooper of the University of Pennsylvania (Keynote speech at the Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons,2008) to reach
200,000 doctors by 2020. Today the lawyers and the corporations
control Congress and doctors. Reform at the federal level is unlikely, but local hospital boards are free to require due process in contracts, by-laws, and all other matters
to avoid a local doctor-shortage.
Defense against defamatory political peer-review for profit
can cost $750,000. Doctors in other countries appear not to have
the same problems, while our doctors face loss of their career because of the deliberate defamation permitted under the
Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, a law passed in response to PATRICK v. Burget. Doctors immigrating here are unlikely to be familiar with this law; they are ~25%
of the new doctors.
This web site presents a smorgasbord of hospital
by-laws and contracts so that the 25,000 graduating residents and fellows may find safe places to practice in the Land of
the Free, a land where the Congress legislates for itself an entirely different scale of benefits from what it offers the
People, a land in which corporations ARE people. In addition to listing Model By-Laws and Model Contracts submitted
by any interested party, we will list MD-JD's interested in evaluating offers of employment on behalf of doctors seeking safe
places to practice. They set their own fees. All politics is local, so it is practical and appropriate for graduating
residents to employ a lawyer to review the contracts offered.
PPACA is not the key issue regarding a medical career in this country at this time, but it is another legal
"transformation of American medicine," to paraphrase Professor Starr at Princeton.
PPACA
lacks due process: Without due process there is no career-integrity. Lawyers know this. At the end
of the day we are all patients, so in a sense this entire effort is one of self-interest.
DOCTORS VS. LAWYERS: RETALIATION IN GEORGIA
H.E. Butler III M.D., FACS
Co-Founder, Semmelweis Society International, Incorporated
with Ralph M. Bard M.D., J.D., FACS and Charles William Hinnant M.D., J.D., DABU
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