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Re: FRI HPV Vaccine --> how you say . . . paranoid?From: ainsron (ainsron@sbcglobal.net)Thu Jun 15 13:34:48 2006
He's referring to a peer review case in Louisiana: "When Dr. Joe Pastorek lost his tenured professorship at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine after what he considered to be a sham peer review, he contacted the Semmelweis Society. The society, which was established in 1986, allowed him to network with other doctors who also believed they had been wronged. Pastorek's case caught the eye of New Orleans cardiologist Dr. Bahram Zamanian, who in the summer of 2000 was awarded a $6 million court settlement after a jury ruled he was the victim of fraudulent peer review. Zamanian, who recently had a judge throw out his court victory and call for a new trial, is helping Pastorek get back on his medical feet. Fired in 1997, Pastorek, an ob/gyn, was reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank. His termination from LSU, where he had been a professor since 1981, also resulted in the loss of his malpractice insurance. The combination of this black mark in the data bank and his lack of insurance prompted the hospitals where he practiced to drop him from their staffs, Pastorek says. Pastorek claims he was fired from LSU after he refused to testify against a colleague who was targeted for wrongful peer review. When he did not play ball, university officials went after him, Pastorek says. According to Pastorek, who is suing LSU, he was professionally assassinated by both the medical school's ob/gyn department chair Thomas Elkins and LSU chancellor Mervin Trial. Elkins is now dead. Calls to Trail's office were not returned. "I have been doing clinic work in a weight reduction clinic," says Pastorek, who gets paid by the hour. "I'm fighting people (in court) and trying to crawl out of the hole at the same time." Several months ago, Zamanian, who recently reviewed Pastorek's case, put in a good word for him with the administration of Kenner Regional Medical Center, a 300- bed hospital just outside of New Orleans. Pastorek's request for privileges is being reviewed by Kenner's medical executive committee and should be ruled on soon. If he is granted privileges, Pastorek says the Semmelweis Society will deserve much of the credit. "It's a way of networking," Pastorek says of the society. "If you get in a position like I am, you can find people who can help out." The Semmelweis Society was founded by a California general surgeon who won a $260,000 court case against several of his competitors after they defamed him through a fraudulent peer-review process. Dr. Verner Waite used a portion of his financial award to start the society, which over the years has had about 4,000 members. (On the Web at http://www.semmelweissociety. org.) "After winning our case, I started to hear from many doctors," Waite says. "We had people who were on the board of governors of their hospital and members of the American College of Surgeons tell us fraudulent peer review is a major problem and we ought to do something about it." Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD, FACOG -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Gail Graham Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: FRI HPV Vaccine --> how you say . . . paranoid? DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
> Joey? You make him sound like a kangaroo! Is Pastorek the care worker who took a patient to her other job when shifts clashed? Or something like that? Gail
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