Hello Carlbrun. I am sorry to see noone has added to your message or responded directly to you. I am shocked you have not heard from the Heath Department. If my understanding is correct, your wife found out she had Hepatitis C on her own somehow, but was not informed of this by the Health Department, nor interviewed by the Health Department as to how she may have contracted it or for any other reason. Is my understanding correct?

Maybe you should contact the National Health Department in Atlanta...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A. Switchboard: (404) 639-3311 / Public Inquiries: (404) 639-3534 / (800) 311-3435 - Be sure to included information on your previous calls and/or letters (copies) to our local Health Department and their lack of response to you.

This is not to say you shouldn't follow-up with local authorities on the fact that our own local Health Department has not contacted you regarding your wife's 3 reports.

As you said you have records, I would also suggest, since you are not seeing action with our health department, take your records to an attorney. If you are correct, and your records document this, then you will see your justice in the arena of a courtroom.

I can't get out of this screen... so I think someone is trying to tell me to say it. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT THE BOARD TO SAY. They are not doing the job they profess to do here. I have met very few doctors who feel compelled to do their jobs and work helping the patients and earn their pay because they know there is no real consequence if they chase the buck instead. How many people feel like they have just been run through a greedy pen, like a herd of cattle, left walking out in a daze, wondering what did they just pay for? What in the hell! Why wouldn't they keep on keeping on soaking the patients and insurance companies. Aren't these items of concern to this board. NO, NOT ONCE did they concern themselves what this lack of care does to individuals. DAH! Why doesn't the Board do anything about things "as small" as this? People die because diagnosis were not even looked into or given, because no attempt was made. So many doctors are to busy thinking about the buck and rushing to the next in line, only to do the same to that next patient. This has been a problem for so long and has never been dealt with by the Board. Every one walks. It comes down to this each and every time someone makes a complaint, yet it is never tended to. Enough already. Get the brothers off the Board. Of course they took the license of convicted child molesters and drug addicts and so called doctors selling drugs. If not, that would have brought the government officials down here just like these dirty outpatient surgery centers did. DAH!!! We need real action to get this under control. This Board will never change... All I see is excuses, excuses, excuses. They examples of punishments given here are nothing less than that!

KC: The FBI and the Federal Health Department from Atlanta are two (2) entities that are here to "cover ours". We are mad, totally rightfully and understandably. So far so good I think with the investigations. I fear the longer it takes and is quiet, the more we won't learn, but this really feels like it is our only chance to get ahold of the mess our medical system is in. The gloves are off and they are hashing through it. They are seeing the light, we need to stand behind them rather than jump on them in our anger. We need to stand behind them when they put the trash on the table. If you ask me, they need more support from us than anyone realizes. It takes a lot to speak out against and up to some of the powerful people involved in this. So far, I can see they are doing this and I think that is brave, daring and deserving of our thanks and respect. I'll go further and beg that they just keep on digging through it until it is all out there.

I feel like the heat is coming down and it won't matter if the Medical Board won't stand up... which they won't.... Hopefully our government will put a stop to that mess too.

Dear hfcooke: Why would an insurance company be inclined to watch over this clinic. Think about that, not only do I think that may be against the law, but most importantly... how much would watching over the clinic cost them. Taking into account that these doctors liability is about $50,000 and not more, why would the insurance company add additional expense to that. You know if their liability is only $50,000, the insurance companies do not make a profit if they spend it watching over the doctors and the clinic. It really is not their place either. What do they know, they are glorified accountants. Looks like we are back to making money 101 in Las Vegas again. Money really makes the world go around huh. There has got to be a better way to balance it than this $50,000 cap for all our sakes.

Patient2008: I agree, people file the silliest, most stupid and very greedy lawsuits. Some people will say they do it because it is a free country and they can. The Courts sometimes need to think more about the Defendants rights as well, but in reality, they do that. When was the last time anyone heard of the Court ordering costs to be paid from a Plaintiff in a bogus case which they just simply were laughed out of Court after wasting everyone's precious time. The Court's sometimes really do make the Plaintiffs pay the Defendants costs fighting that case, but if the person who sues doesn't have the money it is useless. Why don't we just look into other ways to make them pay.... like restitution - make them work it off while the payment/paycheck goes to the Defendant. But that is just a fleeting thought. There does have to be a way, I just don't think it was looked at by the able minded law makers. I'll tell you this much though... there are lawyers learning lessons on those types of cases. If it is a contingency fee agreement... they put work into it and if they lose, they make nothing for all their work. That helps slow the flimsy lawsuits down when noone is willing to take them anymore. The other side of that coin is that when there is a viable case, like medical malpractice and someone is injured or ripped off by not getting the treatment they go to these doctors for, There are not many attorneys at all that would take that case because all they can sue for is $50,000 and that is not enough for the time and energy they put into a case. Here we go with money makes the world go around again. Hard to balance that in a "free country"... unless you have money... you can buy it, not matter what IT is. Round and Round it goes.

Didn't you mean the doctor's insurance rates will go up? Medical malpractice insurance may go up if the hoards of government officials undo what should have never been done and turn that medical malpractice cap around. And I still say, the doctors who screw up and commit negligent medical malpractice, especially because of greed, should have their medical malpractice rates raised. To bad it is usually only raised years after a medical malpractice suit and the insurance finally had to pay up to the injured. I believe the doctor who is good, kind and attends to his/her patients needs should only have to pay the rates of their good record, but the abusers should see that money go the same way it came.