Here’s a couple of suggestions:
1. HIRE PHYSICIANS WHO SPEAK AND COMPREHEND ENGLISH!
I’m gonna piss some people off here and name names. Think I won’t? Try me. Seems the trend the last few years is to hire “hospitalists” – doctors who work only in the hospital (internal med) and are assigned to whomever comes in. Problem is, most of them are from somewhere else. I personally have come across plenty of these so called physicians who barely speak or understand passing English, screw up medications, etc. I had a friend from Virginia who told me they hired these doctors and didn’t check their credentials too closely cause they needed doctors so bad. However, when it comes at a risk to the patient, what good is it doing anybody? I have a list of doctors I personally would toss out of my hospital room if they so much as set foot in it. Tulsa hospitals have gotten bad about this, I’m guessing it’s the same everywhere else.
2. STOP HIRING DOCTORS WHO ARE NOTHING MORE THAN COMMON CRIMINALS, STOP PROTECTING THEM, STOP MOVING THEM AROUND TO OTHER HOSPITALS WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN IN TROUBLE, FIRE THEM, TAKE AWAY THEIR LICENSE, NOTIFY THE PUBLIC! SIMPLE!!!!
OK this is another big one, more than a few examples and all of these cases are common knowledge, however, in most cases the doctor just goes somewhere else and its kept quiet (kind of like the Catholic priests).
Want some examples, here ya’ go:
Hospitalists from elsewhere:
Southcrest and Hillcrest (Tulsa)Hassam Ghannoum, MD; Baishali Nair, MD; MD; Muhamed Darkazally, MD, Shravan Shrestha, MD; Joe Zein, MD. Kusum Bhandari, MD.; Basher Salem, MD. St. Francis: Syed Ali, MD; Imran Khalidi, MD, Chitra Gopal, MD., Mopelola Isola, MD; Amgad Helmy, MD; Karamba Ceesay, MD.
“Doctors” who have already been in deep shit:
Kirk Smith, MD (arrested for molestation of his stepchild) court records at www.oscn.net ; George Cohlmia, MD -malpractice, malpractice, malpractice – court records at www.oscn.net (still practicing at Tahlequah City Hospital); George Carstens, MD sexual misconduct www.okmedicalboard.org http://www.okmedicalboard.org/display.php?content=med_directory:med_directory&ref=names&TYPE=NAME&PROFESSION=MD&LICENSE=20153 (still practicing at Tulsa Spine Hospital).
