In a confluence of stupidity, the crank “journal” JPANDS is hosting an article by Andrew Schlafly, their general counsel, and founder of the bizarre neo-fascist Conservapedia. The editorial sounds like much of JPANDS’s crap, with a strong emphasis on paranoia about doctors being in any way held accountable for their actions by governing bodies. In this case it’s some incoherent rant about the Texas State Medical Board. But what really caught my eye was the very last paragraph (emphasis mine):
The testimonies by the victims of the TMB’s abuse of power that day were tragically compelling. The leftist mindset at the face revealed its ideological pattern in its types of victims: a physician who does not take insurance, a veteran, a father dedicated to his family, and a physician persecuted for expressing a harmless but politically incorrect sexual joke to a female patient. The veteran was a fighter pilot who survived many missions for the United States over NorthVietnam, only to be shot down and destroyed as a physician by theTMB.
Up to that point, I had trouble putting together what Schlafly was trying to say, but the last paragraph pretty much says it all. It’s not about medical boards; it’s about the evil liberals. Want to see some more of his writing? Here are some titles (punctuation left out to save space. The first link will give you the list of links. It makes for, um, interesting reading:
Classical liberalDrinking LiberallyGodless liberalHollywood valuesLast wordismLiberal activistsLiberal artsLiberal Arts collegeLiberal BiasLiberal celebrity obsessionLiberal Behavior on ConservapediaLiberal ChristianityLiberal deceitLiberal DemocratsLiberal denialLiberal EliteLiberal FalsehoodsLiberal Fascism
Liberal friendshipLiberal GlossLiberal gradingLiberal hate speechLiberal HypocrisyLiberal hysteriaLiberal ideologyLiberal IntellectualismLiberalism and artLiberal labelsLiberal Lies About the American RightLiberal logicLibera MindLiberal MythsLiberal obfuscationLiberal PartLiberal quotientLiberal supremacistLiberal StyleLiberal toolsLiberal tricksLiberal valuesMassachusetts LiberalProfessor values
This guy has a serious bee in his bonnet about the vast liberal/athiest conspiracy to destroy all that we hold dear. I feel much safer knowing he’s looking out for me, both as a doctor and as an American. </snark>
April 3, 2008 at 10:32 am
I am not sure where you practice but I just wanted to let you know that here in Texas the medical board IS ridiculous. That guy Schlafly may be crazy, I don’t know, I don’t really care about him. What I do know and care about is that the TMB DOES abuse its power. You should watch the tape of the Texas medical board and the Texas subcommittee hearing. The President of our medical board LIED to the Texas congress about her husband making anonymous complaints about her competitors. There are many other claims in the lawsuit by the AAPS and I imagine that everything they claim is true (You should take a look at the suit its quite interesting, and in some way sad). The medical board in Texas is arrogant, arbitrary and simply makes up punishments. There is no one to check their power over our medical licenses and they have gone far overboard. If you don’t kiss their asses or if the barrista at starbucks didn’t give them extra whipped cream you can kiss your medical license goodbye buddy! Seriously, I’ve been in a hearing where one of the medical board members actually fell asleep while the doctor was testifying. Talk about taking your job seriously. Then to top that off, they still recommended that the doctor serve a drastic punishment. This bozo is asleep and still thinks he knows enough to stick it to another doctor! BTW, I do not mean to say that some docs don’t deserve to get their license yanked, some definitely do. But it works on both sides, some doctors in practice abuse their powers and privileges and “well what do ya know?” some of the doctors on the medical board abuse their power too. so i just think that people should have to accept their consequences. Anyway, i like your blog, you are prob right about that schlafly guy, however the TMB sucks and they need to be dismantled and replaced with a system that is a little more just and a little less arbitrary and vindictive.