Pediatric Bookends, Part 1: Letter To The Secretary of NCDHHS Regarding Randolph Hospital
8/21/2019Mandy Cohen, M.D., MPH,Secretary, NC Department of Health and Human Services2001 Mail Service CenterRaleigh, N.C. 27699-2000Re: Randolph Hospital, Asheboro“I sat with my Anger long enough . . . until she told me her real name was Grief.”-UnknownDr. Cohen,A friend of a friend connected me to Sam Hedrick – who advised that if I composed a letter and e-mailed it to her, it would be put into the hands of the Secretary. This finished product is three weeks later than planned . . . because I briefly faltered . . . wondering (for good reason), “What IS the point?”. But I had to do MORE than ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - August 21, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What Profit Is There To Be Found In One Pediatrician's Two Decades Of Wandering - And A Hospital's Downfall?
I ' ve not blogged in a very long time. But it does seems to be TIME to pick the pen back up.Twenty years ago, executives running my hometown hospital (Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, North Carolina) fired me just two weeks after I answered the call of a terrified charge nurse and intervened in a " bad-baby " case being managed by a Cone-Healthcare-employed Family Practitioner. After I stabilized the baby and shipped her to North Carolina Baptist/Brenner Children ' s Hospital, the doctor I " rescued " trashed me to the baby ' s parents - falsely alleging that I had somehow caused her harm - when, in fact, by ALL...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 17, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
For One Of The First To Speak Out About What Corporate Medicine Does To Good Doctors, The Journey Ends With A Single Step . . . Off The Beaten Path Where She Was So Mercilessly Beaten
In January 2013 . . . after eight years of " citizen journalism " in the " progressive " Greensboro N.C. ether . . . after all of the political flame-wars and even getting cyber-stalked . . . I stopped blogging. Regular posting stopped. The Twitter feed was also deactivated. As of January 2018, all of Dr. J ' s Housecalls has been archived for reference purposes.In 2013, I reworked the blog ' s sidebar over and over again - trying to figure out how much I wanted to say about the decision to stop. All I wound up doing was was telling the story onemore time. This post is that sidebar - it ' s as good as way a...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - January 12, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What Goes Around: Fewer U.S. Community Hospitals Can Properly Care For Children
MEDSCAPE ARTICLE (VIA THE UK DAILY MAIL): FEWER U.S. COMMUNITY HOSPITALS CAN PROVIDE BASIC CARE FOR CHILDRENI offered commentary on this story on my (private) Facebook page a day or so ago. Sharing my opinions with friends has been relatively safe and comfortable, but now I am compelled to come out of the shell I ' ve been in since leaving the Greensboro blogosphere in 2013.That would be the same blogosphere where I was routinely maligned/insulted/ridiculed and ultimately cyber-stalked by politically-motivated progressive know-it-alls (led by Edward Cone of the Moses Cone Healthcare Cones) . . . all because (back in the da...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 23, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Humbled, Praying, Seeking, Turning
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2nd Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) (Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls)
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - November 8, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
It's Been A While . . .
Once upon a time, this blog was a force of nature - my nature - not to take the beatings dished out by corporate medicine lying down. It ' s all in the sidebar. I wish I could say it ' s all in the past. But it ' s not. My scars have scars. Every now and then one opens up and oozes.(Insert Disclaimer: I ' ve always/only spoken for me - andonly me - both then and now. It ' s America. I ' m supposed to have that right. When did physicians lose that right?)I blew the whistle on bad care eighteen years ago - in my own hometown hospital. The baby whose life I saved is now a beautiful...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - August 22, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
With a Firm Reliance On The Protection Of Divine Providence . . .
(Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls)
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 5, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Memorial Day: Lest We Forget
Fort Snelling National Cemetery (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Frank Glick, 2011. (Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls)
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 25, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Good Friday 2015
In anticipation of making some fundamental changes in life and work, I've been working on stream-lining the Housecalls' sidebar, archiving, and composing what will very likely be the last post I ever put up on this blog.I still follow some of the local blogs. Yesterday, Dr. Joe Guarino shared a 1986 JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) article on the the mechanics of how Jesus Christ died on the Cross.It seemed like a good thing for a Christian doctor-blogger to share on Good Friday.He's Alive! (Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls)
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - April 3, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Get your kids vaccinated!!!
I'm not actively blogging. Really. But this gem could not go un-posted. YES! FINALLY! YES! YES! YES! AMEN!What bothers you more? Doctors swearing or children dying from preventable diseases? (Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls)
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - March 2, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Death, Art, Journalism And An "Invisible" Pediatrician In Asheboro, North Carolina
I've not blogged in a long while - and I do not really intend to resume it as a regular activity (especially given the technical problems I had with Blogger getting this post up). But one of my Mother's best friends died this morning. I also just got (belated) word of the death of one of my high school teachers - who pushed and prodded me to be someone better than I was at the time. I wasn't everybody's golden child (that honor belonged to someone else and the rest of us pretty much gave up on trying), but she KNEW I had it in me.Both of these women were great dames - who, in their way, helped make me, ME...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - January 27, 2015 Category: Pediatricians Tags: Cone Healthcare Courier Tribune Edward Cone Invisible Man NHSC Non-profit Pediatrics Physician Whistleblower Randolph Hospital Randolph Medical Associates Robert Morrison Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs
Randolph Hospital Is The Biggest " Non-Profit " In Randolph County, North Carolina . . . And The Courier Tribune Must Protect It . . . At All Costs (Subtitled: What Does A Million Healthcare Dollars Buy In Asheboro?)
I ' ve not blogged regularly since early 2013 - having moved my online activities over to Facebook . . . and, until fairly recently, curbed the time I spent there. & nbsp;I have enjoyed the time away from blogging, and have only put something up when the stars aligned and begged for commentary. < br / > < br / > < strike > Over the next week or so, I ' m going to put up at least three posts < /strike > *. . . all inspired by what passes for newspaper " coverage " of local healthcare these days. < br / > < br / > (* < i > I never got around to it.) < /i > < br / > < br / > < b > It ' s only gotten worse since I began blogg...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 20, 2014 Category: American Health Tags: 501 (c)(3) Asheboro Bob Morrison Chip Womick Cone Hospital Courier Tribune IRS National Health Service Corps NHSC Non-profit Pediatrics Randolph Hospital Randolph Medical Associates Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs
Randolph Hospital Is The Biggest "Non-Profit" In Randolph County, North Carolina . . . And The Courier Tribune Must Protect It . . . At All Costs (Subtitled: What Does A Million Healthcare Dollars Buy In Asheboro?)
I've not blogged regularly since early 2013 - having moved my online activities over to Facebook . . . and, until fairly recently, curbed the time I spent there. I have enjoyed the time away from blogging, and have only put something up when the stars aligned and begged for commentary.Over the next week or so, I'm going to put up at least three posts . . . all inspired by what passes for newspaper "coverage" of local healthcare these days. It's only gotten worse since I began blogging in 2005. The world prefers "sound bites" (except when legislators are writing healthcare "reform" - then it's a 2000 page pile-o...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 20, 2014 Category: Pediatricians Tags: 501 (c)(3) Asheboro Bob Morrison Chip Womick Cone Hospital Courier Tribune IRS National Health Service Corps NHSC Non-profit Pediatrics Randolph Hospital Randolph Medical Associates Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs
The (Con)e Is Up: Word Down
I left regular blogging in January 2013. Most of this blog is archived now because I have plans for the material. But every now and then something comes along that inspires my fingers to dance on the keyboards again. Billy Jones put up such a post this morning and I responded on his blog. (Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls)
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - June 8, 2014 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs
Former Randolph Hospital CEO, Bob Morrison on "Nurses' Week": The Most Hollow And Hypocritical Of "Thank You's"
As I hold my breath . . . anticipating the certification of Keith Crisco’s loss to Clay Aiken in the Democratic Primary for North Carolina’s 2nd District Congressional Seat, the perpetually-out-of-touch-with-the-community-they-serve Editorial staff at the Courier Tribune are once again giving Crisco’s long-time-good-buddy-and-partner-in-mill-town-killing-crime, Bob Morrison, a forum from which he can rehabilitate his reputation as Asheboro’s own $700,000 man. Just like Crisco’s stint on the Asheboro School Board gave “Evil Keith” the stones – if not the actual creds – to claim...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 11, 2014 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs
