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You need an attorney that does this work fulltime and has a list of docs to contact to assist you. This is not the type of problem to be using counsel that is having you try to find a doctor on an internet forum. Best of luck.Yes, the PD lied to the Department of Health/ medical board, resulting in a fraudulent case pending against me. The medical license lawyer told me I can't be the one to say the PD is lying and someone else has to say it.
Hi all. I am wondering if anyone can help at all. I had a vindictive PD lie about me to the DOH. It is incredibly obvious to anyone in psychiatry if they read the report that the PD lied, but I am needing to find someone to help call it out to the DOH. Lawyer told me I can't just say the PD is lying and that someone else has to say it. I don't know if I need a forensic psychiatrist or what. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much in advance.
Yeah. Your attorney telling you YOU need to find experts screams 'I've never handled a case remotely resembling this in my life'. You need someone who has done this before. Or at minimum the junior partner of someone who has.You need an attorney that does this work fulltime and has a list of docs to contact to assist you. This is not the type of problem to be using counsel that is having you try to find a doctor on an internet forum. Best of luck.
I am not giving legal advice.To provide a little context, they tried to write their report about me as if our clinic is set up family medicine style, with separate exam rooms and separate offices, to make things look entirely different.
They said they could't find me when expected to see patients (implying that there is a common work area)...Even though I was in my office on the phone. Like where in the world else would I be other than in my personal office, which is where I am regardless whether I am seeing my patients on my schedule or dealing with paperwork, notes, phone calls, etc.
And my office was the same spot the entire year. It hadn't changed and they knew where my office was.
So either the PD has cognitive issues or is a flat out liar...which I believe the second to be the case.
Yeah, the location should actually be pretty easy to verify, if the OP were logged into the EHR or has Google maps location history that can verify having been in the building.It sounds like you say you were in your office and your PD says you were nowhere to be found. That isn't really a question a forensic psychiatrist is qualified to resolve. Forensic psychiatrists offer opinions and education about mental illness and how it impacts on a particular case. A question such as "was mcatqueen in their office on the following dates" is up to the board (or court) to decide.
Broadly speaking I agree with others, the attorney (not you) should generally be choosing, reaching out to, and retaining any experts when they are needed.
That is a good idea. I was logged into my desktop, so I'll have to reach out to tech to see if they have anything that can show that. All our patients are individually assigned to us in Epic. I actually had none on my schedule that morning, so was dealing with refills, myChart messages, etc and had made a phone call too.Yeah, the location should actually be pretty easy to verify, if the OP were logged into the EHR or has Google maps location history that can verify having been in the building.
I had something vaguely similar, but it never advanced this far. I was on call in the Psych ED and there were no patients to be seen. The director of the ED called my program director to complain that I was reading (the assigned readings for didactics) when patients were waiting. I just showed in the EHR that literally no patients were waiting, that the cpep director was just starting ****.
They ended up firing the cpep director, who had to be escorted out in handcuffs, for similar psychotic accusations of residents and attendings. My program ended up giving me an award for efficient use of down time.
Except they are investigating it...It is so utterly ridiculous. PD is vindictive and no longer in the program because of them.
This combination of events is...bizarre...The PD is quite unusual is the problem...They fired me, then went out of their way to lie and file a false report. Truly another level of vindictiveness
Quite obviously.Something is missing here. The story doesn’t add up
While I agree with you that this post doesn't all add up, I also wouldn't put it past a narcissistic PD to lie about a resident they dislike even at risk to their own career. I dealt with a PD who actively tried to sabotage my career and flat out lied multiple times with no discernible benefit to himself. Thankfully I kept meticulous records, CC'ed myself on an external email account to create a paper trail that couldn't be deleted, and then brought everything to the attention of the ombudsman. He was removed (there were other factors as well) and there was minimal lasting damage to me but I could easily see it having cost me dearly if I hadn't taken all these steps as soon as I got a whiff of how he was trying to portray me. There were allegations that would have come down to "he said-he said" if I hadn't been creating a paper trail the whole time. I legit wondered if I was being overly paranoid when I started documenting everything but it paid off when the time came. So I empathize with OP who may well be dealing with a vindictive PD.I'm sorry, but you're asking us to believe that someone hired on as program director is willing to risk their career and LIE about a resident who they "could not find in clinic?" This reads like a troll post.
I am not able to talk to anyone there, plus I think they'd be at risk of retaliation too.Quite obviously.
Are we all expected to believe a medical board complaint was filed against you because a vindictive PD couldn't find you in your office on a clinic day? Huh? What does the board violation even say, "I looked for this resident all day but couldn't find them" ......or "This resident did not show up for clinic duty on multiple days without letting any members of our team know."
Then if that wasn't ridiculous enough, we now also have to believe that you consulted with a lawyer who told you to go find someone to accuse the PD of lying? Presumably, you would have asked your co-residents to help with this. Or are they all in on this elaborate plan to ruin your medical career too?
I'm sorry, but you're asking us to believe that someone hired on as program director is willing to risk their career and LIE about a resident who they "could not find in clinic?" This reads like a troll post.
What's that Biden quote, "Come on, man...."
There is a personality conflict and the PD is very vindictive. I'm a bit more outspoken on things, which has made me a target too.
I dont understand how it would be a medical board complaint that someone couldnt find you in their office. Like how would they would even investigate that? Im just confused. I believe you that people can be vindictive, but to fire you and then report you to the medical board is so extreme.
i would recommend just being careful with being too opinionated in work settings, often people can have different views which can cause conflictProper patient care, ethics, etc.
they're required to "open an investigation" for every complaint. They need to investigate it until they can see it has no merit. What that person was saying is that they will drop it without really investigating it, most likely. Like, they'll look into it cursorily, determine that your program already punished you a lot, and likely determine that was enough punishment, then drop it without investigating further.But they opened an investigation already...
But they opened an investigation already...