Maryland Medical Society:
A Self-Serving Entity
In the course of time the
original intent of the Maryland Medical Society has been lost. Predating the
Maryland Board of Physicians and its multiple prior incarnations the Society,
commonly called MedChi, has become a commercial entity with little regard for
those who pay its bills. Claiming to represent all licensed physicians in
Maryland its membership rolls are a fraction of the total practitioners
statewide. Presently the Society’s website is designed for commercial ventures
with sidebars stating how this quasi entity is protecting physicians. The
Society is no longer a hedge against an adversarial medical board. Decades ago
reviews of physicians’ practices were governed by The Peer Review Handbook generated
by a cooperation between MedChi and the Board of Physicians. This is no longer
the case as the Society stepped back to take a tertiary role selling insurance
and deceptive enticement to bring unsuspecting physicians into the fold. Their
targets have been younger physicians inexperienced in practice and the
practices of the corrupt Board that licensed them. These doctors will learn quickly
when they need this Society their cries for help will fall on deaf ears.
In recent decades the
Maryland Medical Society has enabled the Board of Physicians to become the
unscrupulous and corrupt Administrative government agency that is in force
today. Hundreds of physicians are picked off every year by an effort between
the Board and Maryland Attorney General’s Office. With absolute immunity the
Board is able to escape retribution by their victims especially when the
evidence goes against them. The Society looks the other way claiming it is the
proverbial watch dog against this errant Board and legislative efforts against
the medical profession. This could not be further from the truth. Both the
Medical Board and Medical Society are managed by lawyers. This is not science
fiction but a reality that physicians end up confronting when the Board turns
its eyes towards them. The cooperative effort between these two entities is
elaborated on in the next section.
In the early 1990s the
Medical Society published a journal which displayed a cooperative effort with
the Maryland Board of Physicians. In this journal the Society would publish raw
data concerning physicians who were condemned by the Medical Board. The Journal
editors refused to take any response to the data from the physician being
victimized by the Board. In the author’s case over a dozen pages of raw data,
later found to be false, were published in the Society’s rag. After being told,
in the most literal sense to go screw myself by the Society when I complained,
the author filed a lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Known for its left
leaning decisions the author won the case after the Society’s lawyers lied
about their connections to the Board. Case number 24C93201023 the Court found
the Society had no direct connection to the Medical Board. Therefore it had no
right or responsibility to published unedited and or raw data about a physician
in their Journal. This author presented this case pro se and remarkably the
judge agreed with me. In the aftermath of this decision the Board began
publishing quarterly publications of sanctions against physicians written in an
abbreviated style.
Maryland Medical Society’s
website is far from accurate. Yes, it owns an insurance company which has
expanded from malpractice coverage to anything and everything that needs to be
insured. Yes, it puts on social events for physicians. Yes, it tries to attract
a crowd of newly minted doctors who are unaware how little the Society will
give them in return. With that stated the Society has not restrained a medical
board whose primary goal is to improve its sanction numbers amongst the states.
The foolish notion this entity will help doctors by overseeing legislative
efforts concerning medical practice is absurd. The onerous rules on physicians’
backs have increased exponentially under this so-called watch dog. Having an
attorney as CEO guarantees there will be little effort to help physicians when
the Board turns its eyes on them. In discussions with a multitude of physicians
over several years my point of view is widespread. Maryland has a medical
society that is self-serving, unwilling and or unable to help physicians
through the sanctioning process and does not have physicians’ welfare at the
center of its existence. For these reasons and more the Maryland Medical
Society only has a sub-segment of Maryland physicians as members displaying how
smart my colleagues really are.
Mark Davis MD victimized
by this Society once but never again.
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