By: Tamzin A. Rosenwasser, M.D.
I’m just a doctor, and I take care of patients one at a time. My influence, and any harm I could do, is strictly limited by the number of patients I am able to see. Patients talk to me directly. They can look at the diplomas on my wall, look for information on me on the medical licensure board website, or even look at internet ratings sites. They can fire me and seek care from another physician at any moment.
Yet before receiving a license to practice medicine in the State of Florida, I was required to present information on any and all past medical licenses; give my Social Security number and detailed information on my undergraduate and medical education; detail my internship and residency, with exact timing of attendance and all addresses during internship and residency, with dates; and give information on staff privileges at all institutions, including whether any privileges were suspended, revoked, modified, restricted, placed on probation, and whether I was asked to resign, asked to take a temporary leave of absence, or otherwise acted against.
I also had to provide a list of all medical affiliations, with dates of membership and addresses, and say whether I am a United States citizen and whether I have ever been in the military or U.S. Public Health Service. I was required to certify that I have passed examinations of the National Board of Medical Examiners and say whether I have ever failed a State Board, Flex, National Board or USMLE examination. I had to state whether or not I am certified by a specialty board, and which one(s). I had to list all practice/employment experience, in chronological order, detailing activity in any unaccounted-for periods. I had to divulge whether I have ever legally changed my name.
As documentation, I had to present notarized copies of diplomas, medical school transcript, and internship and residency completion certificates. I had to fill out information about my health, and sign an affidavit, being first duly sworn, authorizing all hospitals, institutions, organizations, references, personal physicians, employers, past and present, and all governmental instrumentalities (local, state, federal or foreign) to release to the Florida Board of Medicine any information material to my application for licensure.
This is not an exhaustive list of the requirements.
Now, I would like to know more about the people who have so much more power to harm us than any physician, and who influence all the medical care that we receive. This includes Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and all members of any Independent Payment Advisory Board.
Obama signed the fraudulently named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and will almost certainly veto any attempts to repeal it. Sebelius, as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (an agency we did very well without for the first 200 or so years of our history), is named in the bill many times, with extraordinary powers over the personal medical care of American citizens. Reid has the power to block any measures to mitigate the damage, and he has used it constantly. Pelosi, when she was Speaker of the House, rammed the bill through. The Independent Payment Advisory Board, made up of 15 people appointed by the President, is slated to decide what medical procedures, services, and pharmaceuticals will be provided in a government medical dictatorship, and how much will be paid to the serfs who will actually see you in the offices, hospitals, and operating rooms.
We can’t speak to these people, fire them, or have any appeal of their decisions. So let’s check out their qualifications, education, and experience.
The holes in Obama’s resume are such that he could never qualify for a medical license or hospital staff privileges even if he had an M.D. degree. Sebelius majored in political science, then got a Master’s degree in “Public Administration.” What is the evidence of any background that qualifies her to make medical decisions? There is none. Zip Zilch, Zero, Nada, Nothing.
Americans should not be forced into a medical system controlled by government. My patients are not livestock on a government ranch, and I am not a ranch hand.
Dr Tamzin Rosenwasser earned her MD from Washington University in St Louis. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Dermatology and has practiced Emergency Medicine and Dermatology. Dr. Rosenwasser served as President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) in 2007-2008 and is currently on the Board of Directors. She also serves as the chair of the Research Advisory Committee of the Newfoundland Club of America. As a life-long dog lover and trainer, she realizes that her dogs have better access to medical care an d more medical privacy than she has, and her veterinarians are paid more than physicians in the United States for exactly the same types of surgery.
