C P R – The Center for Physician Rights

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Over the last five years, a physicians’ advocacy work group has been studying increasing infringement of physicians’ due process rights through abuse of administrative regulatory procedures and misuse of peer review and fitness for duty assessments.

We’ve heard hundreds of physicians’ stories about having their careers irreparably harmed by wrongful disciplinary proceedings in medical licensing board, physician health program and peer review proceedings. Innocent hard working physicians were being subjected to unwarranted investigations, ordered to attend costly privately-owned evaluation and treatment programs and disciplined without justification or recourse. The breadth of the abuse, career derailment and lack of legal remedy was shocking.

We also discovered how quickly one becomes immersed in a costly, drawn out process at which one’s very career is at stake. Neither physicians nor in many cases their counsel were aware that while these entities wield tremendous power with state-granted immunity (i.e. they can’t be sued), they operate entirely free of government oversight.

We’ve individually offered guidance and support to physicians who find themselves immersed in what amounts to “guilty until you prove yourself innocent” administrative proceedings.

While we plan to continue helping physicians and counsel prepare for these proceedings with utmost diligence, we’ve realized the need for an independent organization which can more effectively offer a body of knowledge and experience, coordinate these activities, expand the scope of individual volunteer efforts and present itself as the definitive physicians rights advocacy program.

C P R – The Center for Physician Rights

Until now, there has been no central resource for physicians facing such challenges that offers knowledgable guidance and support. Their counsel too have had to negotiate this very complex environment, invariably “reinventing the wheel” in advocating for their client and often unaware of its dangers.

C P R – The Center for Physician Rights builds on the diverse efforts of our advocacy study group and expands its scope.

C P R intends to serve as the “go-to” knowledge resource for physicians and their counsel, briefing them on the unique dangers of the medical administrative legal system and offering an array of approaches to consider to most effectively respond to these proceedings.

C P R will monitor developments nationally and stay abreast of emerging legal and policy developments. We will offer a free service for physicians to confidentially sound out their cases. And we’ll provide vitally needed peer support; with one’s career in the balance, these ordeals are extremely trying.

C P R will be dedicated to bringing about substantial change in strategic ways. We’ll facilitate topical research, undertake legislative advocacy, and outreach to the medical and legal communities. As an independent non-profit, we will be the visible organization fighting to protect physicians’ rights and to ensure transparency and fairness.

You’ll find more about our mission, our services and our plan of development on our website: www.PhysicianRights.net

In sum, after considerable study and individual efforts, we’ve recognized there’s an immediate need to have an organizational non-profit identity which can devote itself not only to provision of direct services but also pursue initiatives that will result in definitive change.

We’re excited about this unique initiative and hope you’ll support its launch.

Deepest appreciation for your interest and support of this initiative.

To stay apprised of our growth, please visit

C P R – The Center for Physician Rights

and be sure to sign up for updates.

We would love to hear your perspectives and any recommendations you might have. Please use the contact form on this page. And we would welcome your referral to any other parties who share our vision and who might assist in C P R’s development. Over the course of this campaign, we will provide updates as the fundraising appeal progresses and keep you informed as we grow.

If you know of one or more physicians who could benefit from our services, please encourage them to contact us at [email protected] so we can establish a time to talk. Our initial case review consultations are free, confidential and without any obligation.

Many thanks! We hope to be of service to the medical and legal communities in advocating for physicians’ rights.

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Dr Horst

I am only a molecular biologist. ‘Moral injury’ done to physicians and healthcare workers sums up your situation aptly. I put it more drastically on my website: GET VACCINATED! Middle Ages and Black Death was bad: People behaved stupidly. They did not know better without science and medicine. 2021 and COVID is worse: We do know better now. Vaccines have proven their value! Callous Antivaxxers and mask dodgers now drive and worsen the Covid pandemic. These antisocial egocentrics insist that their own ‘Civil liberty’ allows them to murder civil liberties of others. Their ruinous and destructive behaviour causes the collapse of general health care for everyone and inflicts greatest damage on society and economies. Antivaxxers willfully ignore and denigrate science, but if their gormlessness gets them infected they don’t go to their holistic quacks, faith healers, or voodoo priests for treatment. Nay! Then they infest hospitals and demand the best that biomedicine can provide. Avoid Antivaxxers like the plague, which they are! I thank everyone who takes forceful countermeasures from simple ‘No Vaccination – No Entry’ to ‘No Jab – No Job’. During a pandemic of stupidity it is the least those who have been vaccinated can do. be safe stay safe and good luck to all of you my best wishes Dr Horst Ibelgaufts

3 years ago

Kernan Manion

Dear CPR Supporters, First, hoping this finds you well and safely protected and, if afflicted with COVID19, that you are on a solid recovery path. Never before has there been such a challenge to the physician community and healthcare providers as a whole. Abundant stories detail the rigors of providing care in this dangerous time. While the detrimental effects of medical boards, PHPs, and sham peer review entities having wrongfully immobilized the careers of thousands of physicians are now glaringly obvious, CPR is also devoting attention to offering peer support to those physicians on the pandemic frontline. Over the past several months, we’ve been developing a private web-based community to enable guidance and support for physicians ensnared with medical regulatory powers and those grappling with burnout. It’s truly an innovative platform enabling live interactive dialog, live webinars and online courses, as well as facilitating private dialog amongst members and their sharing of relevant posts and articles. Below is a view of the topics page (I’ve put the theme concentration in red to highlight three of those core areas.) The great thing about this unique community-oriented Mighty Networks platform is that you can create private groups and courses within it and all the dialog within each of those stays private to the approved members of those courses and groups, in our case registered physicians only. One of those groups that we’ve been developing is devoted exclusively to peer support training. We began that with an aim to offer peer support mainly to those affected by unfair adverse actions in the medical regulatory therapeutic complex (MRTC). However, the need for a forum to provide peer support for all physicians grappling with challenges in this pandemic is becoming more apparent. Below is a screenshot of the private peer support training group page. We’re soon to be updating CPR’s webpage to make “Physician Interrupted” more visible to the physician community. (To learn more about this innovative community-oriented platform, visit Mighty Networks .) While Physician Interrupted is soon to be rolled out to the physician community and still with a central focus on physicians’ medical regulatory and career burnout challenges, we’ve begun to explore how might we do something parallel for our overall CPR community of supporters which include not only physicians but spouses and family members, nurses and others in the healthcare community, lawyers, administrators, and many others concerned. Such a platform of course will entail dedicated effort and require funds to be applied to its development and optimal implementation. But as you see above and in the upcoming CPR newsletter, we’re making significant progress on multiple fronts. So be assured that while we’ve been relatively quiet communication-wise, it’s not been due to inactivity. In fact, quite the opposite. As we move this along, we really need your financial support and would love to have your active involvement as we craft and deploy these unique programs. Please make a contribution today via the Chuffed link. And if you’re interested in exploring how you might become more actively involved in this initiative, drop me a line via this email. Assuming there will be a number of supporters who are interested in exploring how they might participate (and don’t worry, this is simply informational – you’re not committing to anything), what we’ll do is set up a Zoom meeting (your choice of video or audio-only) and tour the Physician Interrupted platform and explore possibilities and what’s needed. More about this via the CPR newsletter mailing going out shortly. (If you’re not yet getting periodic mailings from me via CPR, please visit the CPR contact page. That way, you’ll be assured of getting updates on Physician Interrupted, webinars, initiatives and happenings.) Again, most appreciatively and with wishes for your continued safety, health, and wellbeing. Kernan Kernan Manion, MD Executive Director, CPR Center for Physician Rights, Inc.

Dear CPR Supporters,

First, hoping this finds you well and safely protected and, if afflicted with COVID19, that you are on a solid recovery path.

Never before has there been such a challenge to the physician community and healthcare providers as a whole. Abundant stories detail the rigors of providing care in this dangerous time.

While the detrimental effects of medical boards, PHPs, and sham peer review entities having wrongfully immobilized the careers of thousands of physicians are now glaringly obvious, CPR is also devoting attention to offering peer support to those physicians on the pandemic frontline.

Over the past several months, we’ve been developing a private web-based community to enable guidance and support for physicians ensnared with medical regulatory powers and those grappling with burnout. It’s truly an innovative platform enabling live interactive dialog, live webinars and online courses, as well as facilitating private dialog amongst members and their sharing of relevant posts and articles. Below is a view of the topics page (I’ve put the theme concentration in red to highlight three of those core areas.)

The great thing about this unique community-oriented Mighty Networks platform is that you can create private groups and courses within it and all the dialog within each of those stays private to the approved members of those courses and groups, in our case registered physicians only.

One of those groups that we’ve been developing is devoted exclusively to peer support training. We began that with an aim to offer peer support mainly to those affected by unfair adverse actions in the medical regulatory therapeutic complex (MRTC). However, the need for a forum to provide peer support for all physicians grappling with challenges in this pandemic is becoming more apparent. Below is a screenshot of the private peer support training group page.

We’re soon to be updating CPR’s webpage to make “Physician Interrupted” more visible to the physician community.

(To learn more about this innovative community-oriented platform, visit Mighty Networks .)

While Physician Interrupted is soon to be rolled out to the physician community and still with a central focus on physicians’ medical regulatory and career burnout challenges, we’ve begun to explore how might we do something parallel for our overall CPR community of supporters which include not only physicians but spouses and family members, nurses and others in the healthcare community, lawyers, administrators, and many others concerned. Such a platform of course will entail dedicated effort and require funds to be applied to its development and optimal implementation.

But as you see above and in the upcoming CPR newsletter, we’re making significant progress on multiple fronts. So be assured that while we’ve been relatively quiet communication-wise, it’s not been due to inactivity. In fact, quite the opposite.

As we move this along, we really need your financial support and would love to have your active involvement as we craft and deploy these unique programs.

Please make a contribution today via the Chuffed link.

And if you’re interested in exploring how you might become more actively involved in this initiative, drop me a line via this email. Assuming there will be a number of supporters who are interested in exploring how they might participate (and don’t worry, this is simply informational – you’re not committing to anything), what we’ll do is set up a Zoom meeting (your choice of video or audio-only) and tour the Physician Interrupted platform and explore possibilities and what’s needed. More about this via the CPR newsletter mailing going out shortly. (If you’re not yet getting periodic mailings from me via CPR, please visit the CPR contact page. That way, you’ll be assured of getting updates on Physician Interrupted, webinars, initiatives and happenings.)

Again, most appreciatively and with wishes for your continued safety, health, and wellbeing.

Kernan

Kernan Manion, MD

Executive Director, CPR Center for Physician Rights, Inc.

5 years ago

Anonymous

The biggest corrupt threat healthcare in America faces are the regulatory boards of medicine. Their only interests are money and power and they are graded by how many licenses they revoke and how many physicians are discipline, to justify the constant increases in their budgets from the States. Heaven knows, there are many poor physicians out there. But this has become a cottage industry and is run now exclusively for-profit. It doesn’t matter how good a physician you are, but it does matter how connected you are. If you’re not connected, these people will shake you by your heels for every dime you have and every dime you will earn for the next 20 years. They are evil and they are predators. If you die from the stress of their abuse, or commit suicide, they have a ready lie; “Well, that’s just their disease.” In my opinion, the lawyers that seek to defend you against them are almost as bad; but that is another discussion. Beware, and never speak to them alone. If you are a patient, they are harming you most of all, because doctor voices to protect you are silenced, and the frightened doctors that remain are so paralyzed in fear they will not treat you as you need or deserve. — anonymous by necessity

5 years ago

Anonymous

Looking forward to working with the team, to spread awareness of the abuse of boards , abuse of power , and over reach. Forced mental treatment placing stigma on health care workers by a dysfunctional , corrupt boards , is not due process . Exposing the injustices , the boards that are extorting licenses , and making others aware this can happen to them .

5 years ago

Anonymous

We desperately need an organization that does what The Center for Physician Rights does. The behavior of Physician Health Programs is disgusting and egregious.

5 years ago

Colin Pemberton

I volunteered to pay $3900.00 to have an intake done for the Florida Board’s Physician Resource Network by Caron Treatment Centers in Wernersville Pennsylvania starting 9/16/19 to 9/19/19. On 9/16/19, I had hair, urine, and blood samples taken from me. The tester performed the tests on me in her office while she was training another individual. She produced electric hair clippers from an opened box on her desk. She then proceeded to remove hair from my chest and place it in a laboratory collection foil wrapper. I completed the intake on 9/19/19 and was called on 9/27/19 for a phone conference with Caron officials, who I had interacted with while I was there. I was notified during the phone conversation, that although there were no signs or symptoms of impairment noted by any of the staff/healthcare professionals, that there recommendation was I enter into the Drug Rehabilitation program because my hair tested positive for THC and cocaine. I immediately thought about the situation that occurred when the tester removed my hair from my chest and realized there must be an error in specimen collection technique. Electric clippers cannot be sterilized. I immediately thanked them for the enlightening experience I had interacting with people who suffered with addiction problems, but I need to do independent testing please refer me to a laboratory immediately. They declined and stated there only recommendation would be to enter into the Rehabilitation program. I found that Concentra Urgent Care could perform the hair testing. I paid and had them remove hair from my legs on October 1, 2019. On October 2, as requested, I visited the NJ PAP (NJ Physician health program) who indicated that he had to follow protocols and recommend the rehabilitation previously suggested. He also stated that if I got a negative sample then he would continue the discussion. So, I left his office in Princeton and drove directly to Concentra and had them remove hair from my scalp. Both times Concentra used a sterile blade as outlined in the American Society of Hair Testing. On October 3 and 4 I received negative results on both hair samples as well as the urine and blood that I asked them to test on October 1. All tests were negative. But under the recommendation of the NJ PAP, the NJ Medical Board suspended my license on 10/8/19. I have 2 samples and an expert testimonial from a toxicologist that said that “ The level that Caron reported of 1307 would not only have been positive on the subsequent tests done at Concentra, but also that the urine and blood samples that were done at Caron would have been positive as well. Furthermore, the Caron hair sample had no metabolites. Therefore, as per the national guidelines for drug testing, it must be environmental exposure, not consumption. This hair test has been proven to be a false positive as well as the lack of metabolite proves that it was environmental exposure (the electric clippers) and there was no consumption! It should also be in the interest of the Board of Medical Examiners and the legal counsel that represents their actions, that the governance of these scientific evidence show scientific proof. I can show without a doubt that one cannot reject the null hypothesis… a test must be able to be replicated. I have a more sensitive test (I obtained scalp hair), I have the chain of custody, and I also have over a hundred samples collected by my urine monitor in NJ as well as the samples I gave PAP office on October 2. Caron’s test is clearly false positive and it was likely an error in specimen collection technique and/or specimen processing. Also, I have noted in my research that a doctor at Caron plead guilty to falsifying documents on June 1, 2019 according to the Office of the Inspector General. So, how is he able to manage my case at Caron Treatment Center? There seems to exist a pattern of inaccurate documentation by Caron health Care professionals. There is also a pattern of inconsistent testing. Myself, and two individuals, whom agreed to give testimony, can help to prevent Caron from harming other patients. I was a patient at Caron Health Care facility. I volunteered to go because I am seeking licensure in another state to expand my practice of medicine. I need the NJ Board to see the scientific process. I have demonstrated sound evidence that proves that not only am I not impaired, but that I also have found other individuals who have been hurt by these individuals. As an advocate for the public and a fellow member of the public who was victimized by this process, I have clearly shown from my hair testing that I have followed the rules and regulations of the Professional Assistance Program (PAP) and I have volunteered to offer myself not once but twice for additional testing. I have filed complaints with the COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUREAU OF PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS and intend to file malpractice lawsuits against Caron Treatment Facilities and any other individuals who may have involved in this tragic circumstance. My reputation has been irreparably damaged, I have many patients who require my attention, and it is not in the interest of public safety to suspend me when the 2018 consent order said “confirmed urine positive results or a prima facie showing of impairment”. Prima facie means “based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise.” I have been the victim of careless and inaccurate testing by individuals outside of the jurisdiction of New Jersey and a conspiracy by the PAP and other individuals who have a financial interest in forcing me to go to inpatient rehab. Please assist me in bringing these individuals to justice before they harm another innocent person in the public.

5 years ago

Anonymous

As a physician who was mutilated by a whimsical Board of Medical Examiners in New Jersey, I am in total agreement with the need to change this process. Without recourse to protect yourself, your professional and personal lives are constantly in jeopardy.

5 years ago

Colin Pemberton

feel free to email me so we can fight the board! @Anonymous

5 years ago

Anonymous

I currently am in this position with the state medical board. Mine was not regarding any substance use, but rather false accusations by a patient’s parent. The child had bitten me, and I yelled at the child to discipline him th hat one does not do this sort of thing. The child had impulse control problems and mom made no attempts to guide him toward appropriate behavior. Mom reported me to medical board for verbally assaulting her child, and now my license is in jeopardy because he bit me….where is the justice at all in this process. It has now been 8 months and I still have not heard the disposition from the state board.

5 years ago

Kernan Manion

Major ADA Progress Against PHP Abuses Very pleased to report that CPR colleague Tom Horiagon MD is making major progress in confronting ADA abuse by the Colorado PHP. In fact, he has all but singlehandedly disrupted the anti-competitive automatic CPHP contract renewal and further engaged CO authorities in more closely examining CPHP’s alleged ADA violations. This is exactly the network effort we envisioned CPR to enable. Sharing knowledge, resources and support to confront a powerful and well-funded cabal. You can visit Tom’s blog posts on this at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fsphp-2019-peer-guidelines-fundamental-attack-federal-tom/ Additionally, our colleague Pamela Wible MD, perhaps the most dynamic force out there confronting the physician suicide epidemic, has written extensively about Boards and PHPs and their contribution to physician suicide. She just published an amazing piece on how half of US medical boards are likely in overt violation of the ADA, at a minimum by asking impermissible questions on licensure applications about one’s mental health history. It is these sorts of impermissible questions that are one of the main reasons why docs are extremely reluctant to seek mental health care. Answer affirmatively, and you get sent down the corrupt PHP chute, bankrupted and marked for life as “impaired.” Together, we are planning a nationwide initiative to compel the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division to investigate these violations. Our belief: once DOJ gets involved, then they’ll get to explore what’s really behind PHPs’ willful disregard of ADA and other federal laws and see their true self-interested motivation and the extraordinary harm they’ve caused. Here’s her study on the impermissible questions: https://www.idealmedicalcare.org/physician-friendly-states-for-mental-health-a-review-of-medical-boards/ There is no doubt, with your and your colleagues’ continued commitment, we will prevail. Again, many thanks for your support as we become stronger, more visible and widely known, in confronting the profound abuse of physicians’ rights by these illegally acting entities. Do continue to spread the word. With heartfelt appreciation, Kernan

Very pleased to report that CPR colleague Tom Horiagon MD is making major progress in confronting ADA abuse by the Colorado PHP. In fact, he has all but singlehandedly disrupted the anti-competitive automatic CPHP contract renewal and further engaged CO authorities in more closely examining CPHP’s alleged ADA violations.

This is exactly the network effort we envisioned CPR to enable. Sharing knowledge, resources and support to confront a powerful and well-funded cabal.

You can visit Tom’s blog posts on this at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fsphp-2019-peer-guidelines-fundamental-attack-federal-tom/

Additionally, our colleague Pamela Wible MD, perhaps the most dynamic force out there confronting the physician suicide epidemic, has written extensively about Boards and PHPs and their contribution to physician suicide.

She just published an amazing piece on how half of US medical boards are likely in overt violation of the ADA, at a minimum by asking impermissible questions on licensure applications about one’s mental health history.

It is these sorts of impermissible questions that are one of the main reasons why docs are extremely reluctant to seek mental health care. Answer affirmatively, and you get sent down the corrupt PHP chute, bankrupted and marked for life as “impaired.”

Our belief: once DOJ gets involved, then they’ll get to explore what’s really behind PHPs’ willful disregard of ADA and other federal laws and see their true self-interested motivation and the extraordinary harm they’ve caused.

Here’s her study on the impermissible questions:

Physician-Friendly States for Mental Health: A Review of Medical Boards

Again, many thanks for your support as we become stronger, more visible and widely known, in confronting the profound abuse of physicians’ rights by these illegally acting entities. Do continue to spread the word.

With heartfelt appreciation,

Kernan

5 years ago

Israel Soto Alicea

Im finallt going to end veteran suicide using your mindsense model you showed us FMF corpsmens in my team. #bootsondeckinc #impeachtheva

5 years ago

Kernan Manion

@Israel Soto Alicea Thanks immensely Israel. Greatly appreciate your support and look forward to collaborating with you in implementing the MindSense model in your work with vets.

5 years ago

Umar Asif

I’m with you guys till the end!!

5 years ago

Kernan Manion

@Umar Asif Thanks Umar – much appreciated. I have no doubt we’re going to make a difference in confronting medical board and sham peer review abuses and supporting physicians rights.

5 years ago

Umar Asif

I’m with you guys till the end!!

5 years ago

Kernan Manion

Dear CPR members, I want to tell you about an exciting emerging legal development that we’re actively working on. We’ve discovered through extensive consultation with a notable attorney specializing in disability law that a particular federal law – the ADA – likely has immense applicability to all who have been ensnared in the MLB-PHP complex. You see, unbeknownst to many, including apparently to medical boards and PHPs, the ADA has explicitly clear guidelines as to what types of fitness for duty evaluations and what extent of burden can be imposed upon those who are alleged to be impaired. This may come as a shock to many – it sure did to me: you don’t have to have an actual disability to be covered under the ADA. If you are “regarded as” having a disability – and clearly everyone who’s been referred by their medical board or hospital or peer review committee to a PHP for “assessment” fits that criterion – you are covered. After literally years of study and most recently months of immersion in this particular law, we have discovered a powerful legal inroad to compel review of these abuses. It involves a multi-pronged approach: – guiding counsel through the steps to prepare appropriate litigation – guiding affected physicians through the federal complaint process – and broadly reaching out to physicians to enable them to take action This bold initiative is in its early stages, and it is going to call for significant manpower resources, and, as these matters go, simply cannot be delayed. And to accomplish this, we need your help. So I ask you to support us in this initiative. I will definitely keep you posted as we progress. I’ll be posting a video shortly on our CPR website and will let everyone here know. As you may know, CPR is now formally incorporated as a non-profit corporation and we are in process of obtaining 501c3 designation. On behalf of CPR, I deeply appreciate your support and ask that you contribute today to help us with this initiative. Kindest regards, Kernan Manion MD Founder and Executive Director, CPR

Dear CPR members,

I want to tell you about an exciting emerging legal development that we’re actively working on.

We’ve discovered through extensive consultation with a notable attorney specializing in disability law that a particular federal law – the ADA – likely has immense applicability to all who have been ensnared in the MLB-PHP complex.

You see, unbeknownst to many, including apparently to medical boards and PHPs, the ADA has explicitly clear guidelines as to what types of fitness for duty evaluations and what extent of burden can be imposed upon those who are alleged to be impaired. This may come as a shock to many – it sure did to me: you don’t have to have an actual disability to be covered under the ADA. If you are “regarded as” having a disability – and clearly everyone who’s been referred by their medical board or hospital or peer review committee to a PHP for “assessment” fits that criterion – you are covered.

After literally years of study and most recently months of immersion in this particular law, we have discovered a powerful legal inroad to compel review of these abuses. It involves a multi-pronged approach:

– guiding counsel through the steps to prepare appropriate litigation

– guiding affected physicians through the federal complaint process

– and broadly reaching out to physicians to enable them to take action

This bold initiative is in its early stages, and it is going to call for significant manpower resources, and, as these matters go, simply cannot be delayed.

And to accomplish this, we need your help.

So I ask you to support us in this initiative. I will definitely keep you posted as we progress. I’ll be posting a video shortly on our CPR website and will let everyone here know.

As you may know, CPR is now formally incorporated as a non-profit corporation and we are in process of obtaining 501c3 designation.

On behalf of CPR, I deeply appreciate your support and ask that you contribute today to help us with this initiative.

Kindest regards,

Kernan Manion MD

Founder and Executive Director, CPR

5 years ago

Colin Pemberton

we are with you! @Kernan Manion

5 years ago

Kevin Kazakevich

The center for physician rights is new. Doctors do not have a union for protection. Employee and school abuses such as 36 to 48 continuous hours on call can not be resolved in most courts and are mis labeled as psychological. The same with the epidemic of sexual harassment cases and the same with various environmental toxins in the workplace or food.

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

Dear CPR Friend, I’m pleased to report that CPR played a key informational role in a feature story that aired Feb 14th on NBC station KSDK in St. Louis, MO. Investigative journalist P.J. Randhawa responded to physicians’ invitations there to examine the Physician Health Program corruption scandal as manifested in MO. Needless to say, like nearly everyone who first encounters this problematic system, it took her and her team a while in preparing the story to get their heads around the extent of the systematized injustice. We had multiple conversations which provided her and her producer abundant detail we’ve amassed in our research. She interviewed numerous CPR physician colleagues and produced a succinct but powerful piece quite critical of this PHP’s alleged abuses. Here’s the link to the 5 minute video replay. Be sure also to read the accompanying story which contains information not reported in the video. “Doctors fear controversial program made to help them” http://bit.ly/MOPHPconcerns As a result of her story and CPR’s spreading the word in social media about it and our unique mission, CPR’s visibility has significantly increased. And that’s led to more networking and more “curbside consults.” You’ll be pleased to know that CPR is indeed in the right place at the right time and that your contribution is being put to use to build CPR and ensure that it can realize its mission – to protect and advocate for physicians’ rights. I’m led to believe that she and her team may pursue similar stories and ally with other state NBC teams. Wouldn’t that be great?! Even though she wasn’t able to use a clip from my studio interview with her, I was honored to be interviewed. Here’s a pic of me at the studio. And I was very pleased that my colleague Dr. Wes Boyd was able to offer strong statements which PJ incorporated calling attention to the need for independent national oversight of these programs. (Dr. Wes Boyd) Please do share the story link and also information about CPR’s efforts. CPR – The Center for Physician Rights: www.PhysicianRights.net And, when passing around, be sure to let people know they can support our efforts just as you have done by visiting our launch campaign here on Chuffed. CPR on Chuffed – https://chuffed.org/project/cpr-center-for-physician-rights With heartfelt appreciation! Kernan

Dear CPR Friend,

I’m pleased to report that CPR played a key informational role in a feature story that aired Feb 14th on NBC station KSDK in St. Louis, MO. Investigative journalist P.J. Randhawa responded to physicians’ invitations there to examine the Physician Health Program corruption scandal as manifested in MO.

Needless to say, like nearly everyone who first encounters this problematic system, it took her and her team a while in preparing the story to get their heads around the extent of the systematized injustice. We had multiple conversations which provided her and her producer abundant detail we’ve amassed in our research.

She interviewed numerous CPR physician colleagues and produced a succinct but powerful piece quite critical of this PHP’s alleged abuses.

Here’s the link to the 5 minute video replay. Be sure also to read the accompanying story which contains information not reported in the video.

“Doctors fear controversial program made to help them”

http://bit.ly/MOPHPconcerns

As a result of her story and CPR’s spreading the word in social media about it and our unique mission, CPR’s visibility has significantly increased. And that’s led to more networking and more “curbside consults.”

You’ll be pleased to know that CPR is indeed in the right place at the right time and that your contribution is being put to use to build CPR and ensure that it can realize its mission – to protect and advocate for physicians’ rights.

I’m led to believe that she and her team may pursue similar stories and ally with other state NBC teams. Wouldn’t that be great?!

Even though she wasn’t able to use a clip from my studio interview with her, I was honored to be interviewed. Here’s a pic of me at the studio.

And I was very pleased that my colleague Dr. Wes Boyd was able to offer strong statements which PJ incorporated calling attention to the need for independent national oversight of these programs.

(Dr. Wes Boyd)

Please do share the story link and also information about CPR’s efforts.

CPR – The Center for Physician Rights: www.PhysicianRights.net

And, when passing around, be sure to let people know they can support our efforts just as you have done by visiting our launch campaign here on Chuffed.

CPR on Chuffed – https://chuffed.org/project/cpr-center-for-physician-rights

With heartfelt appreciation!

Kernan

6 years ago

Douna Montazeralghaem

Thank you for all that you do!

6 years ago

Martina Nicholson, MD, FACOG

Thanks for undertaking this most needed and most sophisticated battle with the administrative forces trying to curtail the rights of physicians!

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

Dear C P R Supporters, On behalf of C P R, heartfelt THANKS for your generous support. From the feedback we’ve gotten from physicians, residents and med students across the country, please be assured we’re already making a significant difference. And I’m confident there’ll be more exiting news to share as we grow in 2019. A book in process; medical news and social media visibility, a national gathering of thought leaders on protecting physicians’ rights, more peer support, medical society presentations …. Your contributions have helped us get off the ground and enabled us to become a visible organizational presence. On behalf of all of us at C P R, best wishes for a Christmas and winter holiday filled with warmth, joy and love. Kernan Manion, MD Founder & Director, C P R CPR’s home town – Gloucester MA and its beautiful coastline in winter! Kernan exploring Gloucester’s Atlantic coast.

Dear C P R Supporters,

On behalf of C P R, heartfelt THANKS for your generous support.

From the feedback we’ve gotten from physicians, residents and med students across the country, please be assured we’re already making a significant difference.

And I’m confident there’ll be more exiting news to share as we grow in 2019. A book in process; medical news and social media visibility, a national gathering of thought leaders on protecting physicians’ rights, more peer support, medical society presentations ….

Your contributions have helped us get off the ground and enabled us to become a visible organizational presence.

On behalf of all of us at C P R, best wishes for a Christmas and winter holiday filled with warmth, joy and love.

Kernan Manion, MD

Founder & Director, C P R

CPR’s home town – Gloucester MA and its beautiful coastline in winter!

Kernan exploring Gloucester’s Atlantic coast.

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

Heartfelt appreciation to an anonymous physician who has followed CPR’s development since its inception and contributed $2,000.

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

I and two coauthors also associated with CPR published a key paper on abuse of psychiatry in the medical regulatory arena. Here’s the prep release on it: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/systematic-abuse-and-misuse-of-psychiatry-in-physicians-health-programs-discussed-in-the-journal-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-300761899.html And here’s the link to the article itself. http://www.jpands.org/vol23no4/emmons.pdf With your help, we’re making headway, and we will make a difference in confronting abuse and advocating for physicians’ rights.

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

Honored that Medscape just mailed the CPR story to all its psychiatrist subscribers! (There are over 25,000 psychiatrists in the US!) They know how important this issue is, and what a unique need CPR fills. Please take a moment to share our launch with your contacts via easy Facebook and Twitter link above.

6 years ago

Mark Logan

The criminalization of American medicine needs to be exposed to the light of day. We doctors are partly to blame for allowing it to happen on our watch. Its time to turn the tide, and this courageously offered Center is a good start!

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

@Mark Logan Thanks Mark! Indeed, we intend to make a significant difference in guiding physicians through these extraordinary challenges.

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

Thrilled to report that Medscape, the leading medical e-news magazine, just did a feature story on C P R. Here’s the link, though it’s possible you may need to register (free) to view it: New Center for Physician Rights – Medscape My colleague Michael Langan MD who authors the well-regarded blog “DisruptedPhysician.com” also has the story: Disrupted Physician – Center for Physician Rights As a result, physicians from around the country have written and applauded CPR’s launch. Hope you’ll take a moment to view the story and pass it around to colleagues. Thanks again! Kernan

Thrilled to report that Medscape, the leading medical e-news magazine, just did a feature story on C P R.

Here’s the link, though it’s possible you may need to register (free) to view it:

New Center for Physician Rights – Medscape

My colleague Michael Langan MD who authors the well-regarded blog “DisruptedPhysician.com” also has the story:

Disrupted Physician – Center for Physician Rights

As a result, physicians from around the country have written and applauded CPR’s launch.

Hope you’ll take a moment to view the story and pass it around to colleagues.

Thanks again!

Kernan

6 years ago

Kali Miller, Ph.D.

Dr Manion is bringing attention to the abuse of health and mental health professionals by their boards in conjunction with administrative law. No criminal, no matter how heinous their crime, would be allowed to be treated as we, educated dedicated professionals are being treated. With no access to legal assistance after out livlihood has been wrongfully denied us, no access to a trial or to even the basic right of a jury, we lose our income, our career and our reputations. Administrative law judges muzzle us while our boards are allowed to issue flagrantly false press releases to add insult to injury. If I had not witnessed and endured my own board’s behavior it would have been challenging to believe. Thank you Dr. Manion for speaking truth into a hopeless situation.

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

@Kali Miller, Ph.D. Thanks so much Kali. With CPR and affiliated organizational efforts like those of HARBR focusing on broader professional licensing board abuse, we are confident we will bring about change and halt these abusive practices.

6 years ago

JESSE CAVENAR JR, M.D.

A very worthy cause. I hope colleagues will agree and contribute.

6 years ago

Kernan Manion

@JESSE CAVENAR JR, M.D. Thanks greatly. Your years of effort in confronting these abuses have been legendary!

6 years ago

Kernan Manion