"The Med Board is unaware-- but they are very aware that they don't want to know....".

That is a comment I made to someone recently when trying to explain a series of actions by a past Medical Board. I don't think the Med Board currently has any way to learn about the falsification of information being provided by OMB employees and lawyers.
  Most Board Members are not lawyers. Nor do they study much about the law or about being a judge-- they expect to be able to do this job by being smart and thoughtful and having experts to help them with the legal aspects.
  That might work if they had facts... but consider how the same approach does not work in the practice of Medicine. Almost every hospital worker involved in serial killing of patients-- has been found by statistical analysis of patterns... NOT be recognizing that someone is a murderer.
  Let me provide examples since I am sure that by now any Board Member reading this is thinking that I am simply whining, not telling the truth.
  Example 1:
  a license is suspended and an investigative committee is asked to determine "is this doctor practicing enough to deserve license renewal". Note that there was no law or OMB rule about how much of what a licensed doctor had to do- or how often he had to do it. This was a sham investigation.
  Example 2:
  The committee was assured there is "NO COMPLAINT AGAINST HIM". Note: there actually was a concealed complaint, and after the committee informs him "no violation", there will be two additional complaints-- all of them concealed, with the result that the actual reason(s) for the license inactivation was not apparent.
  Example 3:
  Someone convinced the OMB to ORDER AN EVALUATION of the doctor whose license was inactivated. NOTE: The evaluation will not be binding- it can be ignored. The evaluation will be expensive, intrusive, and time-consuming. And very expensive, many thousands of dollars.
  NOTE: There is no decision for the OMB to make, so the evaluation cannot be of any value EXCEPT as a complaint against the licensee. The OMB was told that he had asked to RE-activate his now inactive license (which was not true, but nobody thinks to look at the renewal form, which DOES NOT EXIST).
  With minimal effort, it becomes clear that the ORDER FOR EVALUATION will be impossible to comply with- impossible FOR ANYONE, EVER, TO COMPLY WITH. Not just unnecessary because there was no decision to be affected, not just punitive for the individual the ORDER was given to... but IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to comply with-- so good only for prosecuting. And that is what happened- convicted of intentionally failing to comply with an unnecessary, punitive, impossible order!
  The reason the ORDER is impossible is that the company named to provide the evaluation does not provide the kind of evaluations that were ordered!! This is really really easy to determine.
AND the company named needs a complaint to guide any evaluation they do actually provide, otherwise they would need to evaluate EVERYTHING. However, the compliants will remain secret and undisclosed for a few more months!
Should every doctor be skilled at removing cataracts from the human eye? Yes, they should be.
  And each should be expert at prescribing and monitoring every drug approved for use in humans.
  The REALITY is that there is state law defining the practice of medicine, and NO law or OMB rule (in 2008) that required a licensed physician do ANYTHING. There was a rule that a licensee could not practice out of state but NOT in Oregon. Even that rule did not specify "how much (and of what)".
  These are REAL examples. All from ONE licensee case (mine). There was a contested case hearing, but one of the complaints was never decided... and a new complaint was added after the hearing was finished ... THEN the case record was falsified by removing sworn testimony before the record was sent to the Oregon Court of Appeals.
  No trick here.
  Why would intelligent Board Members do stuff that was SO STUPID-- SO HARMFUL -- SO MALICIOUS?
  Just like the Milgram experiment: they were told to do it by people they considered authority = the LAWYERS they have to advise them. But the lawyers lied to them. And they did not know what they were doing.
  Do you think you know what you are doing NOW?
  WHY do good people join in and help implement the malice? I think they simply do not know-- DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? Or do you realize that once you know, you will need to pretend that the lies are the best way to operate efficiently. After all, the lies could be true if they were not lies. Sincerely trying to help you, Ralph