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Welcome to
the homepage for A White Wall and In this era
of headlines demonstrating that corruption abounds in "the people's
business" (from the near-billion dollar plundering of Medicaid’s
disproportionate share” program, to NC prosecutors & police chiefs who
withhold information and evidence), Dr. Mary Johnson believes it is important
to share her eight-year ordeal as a physician wronged with the public.
Fired after hospital administrators threatened her for voicing legitimate
concerns about Pediatric quality of care issues at The
prominent doctors and local businessmen comprising the Randolph Hospital Board
of Directors (chaired by Robert Shaffner) both passively and actively
condoned their actions – following the advice of lawyers who blatantly
ignored or simply did not trouble themselves to know the law. Randolph Hospital’s Board of Directors
& Medical Executive Committee have done NOTHING to address the unethical
and illegal actions of their administrators (in fact, these gentlemen enjoyed
very “generous” raises in the same time period they were literally driving a
physician from her home). There is
NOTHING remotely “honorable” about it. First
informed of the perjury and contempt in 2003, Randolph County District
Attorney This is a
complicated case. But at its core it
is about liars who cheated a public servant out of an opportunity she MORE
than earned: the opportunity to transition
the practice she spent three years building (with the assistance of federal
money), and stay & practice in her hometown. It’s also about the government that let
them do it. For just
the ugly facts of the case, you may begin with the criminal complaint filed
with Anybody who
needs the “condensed” version of this story can check out Dr. Johnson’s profile on her nascent blog: www.drjshousecalls.blogspot.com
The
pursuit of justice denied continues: Recent
letters to (1) Randolph County Assistant District Attorney Andy Gregson, (2)
Asheboro Police Chief Gary Mason, (3) City Manager, John Ogburn, the Asheboro
City Council & the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments, (4) Randolph
Hospital Chief of Staff, Dr. Craig Gaccione, (5) NC Congressman Howard
Coble, (6) NC Legislators Harold Brubaker, Arlie Culp & Jerry
Tillman, and (7) NC Attorney General Roy Cooper are linked as
supplemental information pertinent to the current status of the case.
*Letter
to Assistant District Attorney Andy Gregson . .
. IN (DA) GARLAND YATE’S WORLD, SOME
PEOPLE
*Letter
to Asheboro Police Chief Gary Mason . . .
LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES NOT TREAT *Letter
to City Manager, John Ogburn and the Asheboro City Council . . . THE
FARCE OF “ *Letter
to Randolph Hospital Chief of Staff, Dr. Craig Gaccione . . . SO
MUCH FOR INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS OR “
*Letter
to NC Congressman (R-6th) Howard Coble . . . DITTO FOR “ETHICS” IN GOVERNMENT.
DOES PERJURY MATTER TO THIS HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBER?
*Letter
to NC Legislators Harold Brubaker, Arlie Culp, and Jerry Tillman .
. . LOCAL REPS TURNING A DEAF *Letter
to NC Attorney General Roy Cooper . . . THE MYTH OF FISCAL “ACCOUNTABILITY”
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NO due process, NO checks, NO balances. Furthermore, Dr. Johnson and her partner received NO HELP OR PROTECTION from the state & federal governments they served in protecting and defending their practices – or the taxpayer’s nearly $200,000 investment. These young physicians - who really cared about their patients - and who wanted to simply make a living rather than live off of the community - did everything we're all told we're supposed to do in our high school civics classes to right a wrong. But the administrators and regulators and politicians did not read the textbook they want the rest of us to play by. The sad fact is that, in this day and age, lawyers hunt physicians and "legal ethics" is a contradiction in terms . . . ill-conceived laws actually shield malpractice rather than stop it . . . hospital governing boards are often ripe with conflicted interests - offering a rubberstamp to anything an administrator wants to do . . . medical boards require duties they do not protect or defend . . . politicians cater to the biggest lobby (according to USA Today - frequently corporate interests poorly disguised as "not-for-profits") . . . and the press is often in the pocket of the highest advertising budget (which in small towns, is often the local hospital). |
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Dr. Johnson
is not alone. The reader's attention is directed to the four-part
award-winning investigative news series by Steve Twedt of the Philadelphia
Post Gazette: "The
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03299/234499.stm |
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In 2005, Dr. Johnson was quoted in a Medical Economics article on Medical Peer Review:
http://www.memag.com/memag/content/contentDetail.jsp?id=147405 |
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In 2006, Dr. Johnson
was interviewed by Edward Martin of Business
North Carolina for an article on why the current arguments for “tort
reform” do not stand up. Dr. Johnson
believes her case demonstrates major flaws in both medical and legal
oversight . . . and in order for effective malpractice “tort reform” to
ultimately fly, the public is going to have to be convinced that doctors and
lawyers can police their own – both in terms of “quality” and “ethics”. Ethics reform is going to have to get more
than lip service. Here’s the link to
the story: http://www.businessnc.com/archives/2006/01/athwart_torts.html |
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