The specific purpose of this posting is to offer my patients, colleagues, and all of those looking me up on the Internet a stern rebuttal to the malicious and false postings regarding the Connecticut Consent Order and Investigative Report on the web site which calls itself "Case Watch". Those specific postings deliberately cast me in a false light and misrepresent the essence and purpose of the Connecticut Consent Order and the Investigative Report that preceded it as part of the State's investigation. The Casewatch gratuitous and false comments accompanying their postings of the Investigative Report and the subsequent Connecticut Consent Order have the net effect of defaming me, and my unsullied reputation and practice as a pioneer of Complementary/Alternative Medicine ["CAM".] They are intentionally, knowingly and maliciously attempting to denigrate me by the use of low–down, dirty and illegal smearing tactics. The Casewatch postings utterly fail to disclose the true state of affairs, the limited purpose and total lack of effect that the Connecticut Consent Order has had on my overall illustrious reputation as a practitioner of CAM among those who know the full story..
The deteriorating history and lack of credibility that Casewatch and its sister web site, "Quackwatch" have accumulated since I, personally, destroyed the credibility of the first self –anointed "Quackbuster" – Victor Herbert, MD, JD – is readily apparent to anyone who searches the evidence over the years, or who witnessed the Crusades against those patients that sought for CAM practitioners and the physicians who fought to create a place in the sun for themselves and their clientele. However, that history is not known to new patients and other individuals who have not yet had exposure to Alternative philosophies. This exposé will uncover the lack of credibility and the maliciousness of Casewatch behind their posting of the Connecticut Consent Order to which I am a party.
Specifically, in 2005, I entered into a consent agreement with the State of Connecticut. The purpose of entering into that agreement was not, as the false and malicious Casewatch post suggests, to give Connecticut a means to deny my further license application in the future should I decide to return to Connecticut. To the contrary, the Consent Order was entered into for the benefit of the State of Connecticut and for that of the Department of Health. The purpose of the Connecticut Consent Order was to save the State of Connecticut some serious expenditures and embarrassments in a serious court fight for which we were headed had they persisted in continuing to persecute and prosecute me. The State chose that legal way out of the hole that they had dug themselves into when they decided to come after me without due cause. I had already filed suit in against the State in the civil court for violation of my rights. The Connecticut Consent Order and the specific terms of the same [in which I specifically deny their allegations and contentions,] was the "out" offered by my Attorney, Jacques Simon, Esq, to the state authorities -- not vice versa.
When I left Connecticut in 2003, no charges were pending against me by way of medical discipline in that state, and my intention was quite clear – I was never going to return to that part of the country. It was a business as well as a personal decision for me. I allowed my Connecticut medical license to lapse [as of August 2004] simply by not paying the registration fee when it came due. The Connecticut Consent Order states that fact in no uncertain terms. Thus, Connecticut did not need the Consent Order as a weapon to prevent my return and practice in that state as falsely posted on Casewatch. Their filing of charges to take away my license was a vendetta – I had no license for over 6 months before they filed!
Moreover, there is another rather important point which Casewatch deliberately and conveniently omitted. In the aftermath of the Connecticut Consent Order, the same has to be reported by law – within thirty days from the date when it became a public document – to all other jurisdictions in which I had a license to practice medicine at that time, namely, AZ and NY. That is exactly what my attorney Jacques Simon had to do and did. Moreover, the Consent Order also had to be disclosed to the Virginia authorities in my application for a license to practice medicine in this state.
All these states have reciprocal statutes that permit them to initiate disciplinary actions of their own or to deny a license application based upon disciplinary actions taken in another state against a physician, if such action amounts to a disciplinary matter in the respective states. In this case, NY, AZ and VA – after having very carefully evaluated the Connecticut Consent Order, none of the three states deemed the document an adequate basis for either further disciplinary action or, in the case of Virginia, any license restriction or denial. To the contrary, New York wrote a specific letter indicating that they will not proceed against me based upon the Connecticut Consent Order, Arizona took no disciplinary actions and Virginia granted me an unrestricted license to practice medicine and commended my contributions to CAM in a side letter.
The fact that three other states did not deem the Connecticut Consent order grounds for discipline in their own jurisdiction, speaks volumes as to the purpose and ineffective and benign content of the Connecticut Consent Order as set forth above. All of these facts eviscerate Casewatches' malicious theory that the Connecticut Consent Order was anything other than what it really is: a toothless document designed to spare that State of Connecticut a bloody court fight and embarrassment and further designed at allowing the Connecticut state authorities to "save face" on an issue that in no way whatsoever diminishes my reputation or questions my overall competence as a Physician.
In short, nothing stated in the Connecticut Consent order makes my practice of medicine illegal or in any way sub par. Had that been the case, three other states, NY AZ and VA would have adopted the Connecticut view after reviewing that order, and the events and investigation that led up to it. They simply did not.
The posting of the self serving Connecticut investigative report on the Casewatch site is nothing short of nonsense. Everyone knows that state authorities get their own investigators and witnesses to say pretty much anything the State wants. The fact that Connecticut accepted my outright denial of their allegations to be specifically stated in the Consent Order, (an important item which was negotiated by my attorney Jacques Simon Esq.,, that is usually not accepted unless that state authorities know that they are not on solid grounds), eviscerates the importance of the so called "findings" of the investigative report. So does the non-action of the other three states.
Finally, the actions of the Connecticut Department of Health and its erroneous decision to pursue me after I left Connecticut, which ended in defeat through the benign Consent Order is one in a long string of battles which I have been successfully fighting since the late 1980s against state licensing authorities who attempt to limit the practice of complementary medicine and to cater to private interest groups such as Big Pharma and insurance companies.
Below I am unveiling the history of my battles on behalf of physicians and patients who opt for CAM approaches when allopathic medicine no longer works. Casewatch, Quackbusters, Stephen Barrett, Robert Baratz and their associated assorted goofball friends are known nemeses of health freedom and complementary medicine for many years. Their postings and court cases have been repeatedly discredited and their take on life in general has been systematically eviscerated in court cases which they have recently been losing all over the country.
Consider the abbreviated history outlined below of my role in the fight for CAM which ultimately resulted not only in the defeat of the Connecticut Health Department through their capitulation to the toothless terms of the Consent Order, but over ten years earlier led to the passage of New York State's Alternative Medical Practice Act, just as I was exonerated by the Board of Regents Blue Ribbon Appeals Panel.
