tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post8724443700933631642..comments2024-03-18T17:01:07.165-07:00Comments on The Provocateur: The Stunning Hubris of the Texas Medical Boardmike volpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-49874761454517041662008-10-16T08:30:00.000-07:002008-10-16T08:30:00.000-07:00I have not been please with the TMB's refusal to i...I have not been please with the TMB's refusal to investigate what I consider blatant wrongdoing. A formal complaint was filed against the psych that "treated" Andrea Yates. 5 different medical professionals doing independent reviews arrived at the same conclusion -that the psych grossly mistreated her. What did the TMB do with this multi-page complaint? No discipline, nothing was done to stop this guy, yet 5 kids ended up dead and a family in ruins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-58850220689311563112008-10-15T10:53:00.000-07:002008-10-15T10:53:00.000-07:00With all due respect, I don't need your help. I kn...With all due respect, I don't need your help. I know this case quite well and just because you claim to have expertise, doesn't actually mean you do. Children may gain weight in response to medication, but a nine year old gaining 20 pounds is flat out dangerous. Of course, his weight gain isn't the only thing that Blotcky created. I wrote a full story about the circumstances. He threatened this nine year old with removing him from his mother forever if he didn't shape up. Furthermore, he isn't a hired gun. He is a court appointed psychiatrist which is supposed to act in an unbiased manner and yet, that isn't what he is doing at all, and I have made a clear pattern. This so called unbiased expert, said that one of the two parties had munchhausen by proxy even though he never treated her as a patient. Of course, the attorney challenged his testimony however in the Dallas Family Court System expert witnesses are treated as something close to the lord. <BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>It is the duty of the psychiatrist to monitor what the drugs do to the patient he is treating. This has nothing to do with what privileges he has. If he doesn't take the time to notice that a nine year old has gained 20 pounds in ten weeks as a result of prescriptions he prescribed, the psychiatrist is not, in my opinion, competent to practice medicine.mike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-3646705338528888452008-10-15T10:45:00.000-07:002008-10-15T10:45:00.000-07:00just a couple of comments--it is extremely common ...just a couple of comments--it is extremely common for these children to gain weight very quickly when put on psyc meds, except for stimulants (which suppress appetites). That is NOT an issue of medical competency, it is a side effect of a medicine. Second, this guy was being asked to give his expert opinion, and any competent atty would have made him state in depo or trial that he was giving an opinion not based on exam. <BR/><BR/>Quite frankly, i am trying to help you out here--I suggest trying to get his testimony thrown out because he is a hired gun---the APA may have some guidelines, and he may be violating them. The AMA has expert guidelines.According to TMB website he does not have hospital privileges, and so how could he treat potentially life threatening complications of meds he prescribed? Not weight gain, but other complications? <BR/><BR/>There are many ways to skin a cat, if you get my drift. I am actually trying to help you out, but it appears you have a lot of emotion tied up in this case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-67392505251670124952008-10-15T10:27:00.000-07:002008-10-15T10:27:00.000-07:00With all due respect, I understand how the TMB wor...With all due respect, I understand how the TMB works just fine. If a doctor diagnosis someone as having munchhausen by proxy without actually treating them, and that ISN'T a case of "medical incompetency" then what exactly is. Give me a break here. He prescribed a drug cocktail to a nine year old and the child gained 20 pounds, and you think that this isn't evidence of medical incompetency. At what point is a doctor not medically competent, when their prescriptions kill someone. What the TMB has done here is thrown up a red herring that is laughable. <BR/><BR/>If Dr. Mark Blotcky, who has taken advantage of thousands of parents, doesn't fall under their jurisdiction of oversight, then who exactly does? At what point can they determine "medical competency". Do you think that a psychiatrist making a diagnoses about someone that isn't his patient is "medically competent"?mike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-18037930278389159502008-10-15T10:19:00.000-07:002008-10-15T10:19:00.000-07:00Mr. Volpe: I read your blog today. I think you d...Mr. Volpe: I read your blog today. I think you don't understand how the TMB works. First, it decides if the complaint is in their jurisdiction. If yes, it decides the statute the complaint falls under --this case it was Chap 154.058--determination of medical competency. Mari Robinson, JD, responded to the complaint by saying that their initial review found the complaint did not meet the criteria of medical competency. Therefore it was dismissed and further investigation was not needed. The next correspondence just advised Dr. Pigott that she has an appeals process in the TMB rules under section 178.8 if she wants to appeal the dismissal. Nothing nefarious here. Just bureaucratic legalese. Just my opinion, but I think the doctor used a statute with a very high bar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-68902354046558514522008-10-14T22:49:00.000-07:002008-10-14T22:49:00.000-07:00This reminds me of TeenScreen and how parents are ...This reminds me of TeenScreen and how parents are losing custody of children by that too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com