Topic: Cape Doc Suspended-Agressive Lyme treatment cited among other charges
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Neena Chaturvedi has agreed to a voluntary suspension. One of the issues, and perhaps the most serious and important, was her agressive treatment of a Lyme patient. I have placed the paragraph on Lyme at the top here. The entire article, somewhat long, is beneath it. Medical politics can be very ugly.
"In a press conference he called last evening, Rahul Chaturvedi said the hospital's infectious disease consultant disagreed with Neena Chaturvedi's aggressive treatment of a patient's Lyme disease with long-term use of antibiotics, although some physicians consider that a standard treatment protocol."
Cape doctor fighting 11 complaints to state By CYNTHIA McCORMICK STAFF WRITER HYANNIS - A local physician facing an investigation by the state Board of Registration in Medicine has agreed to stop practicing while on maternity leave.
Dr. Neena Chaturvedi: Confident that issues with the medical board will be resolved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Neena Chaturvedi, who is due to have her second child next month, came to a voluntary agreement with the state board Sept. 27, when she stopped seeing patients.
''The purpose was to use this time to ascertain (the) veracity of unproven allegations and implement and document resolutions, if any, to everyone's mutual satisfaction, so she may continue to provide excellent care to her patients,'' her husband, Dr. Rahul Chaturvedi, said in a written statement.
Neena Chaturvedi still has her medical license, but her agreement not to practice while on maternity leave comes at a time when the Cape already is suffering a dearth of primary care physicians.
''We're still several primary care physicians short of where we'd like to be on the Cape,'' said David Reilly, spokesman for Cape Cod Healthcare Inc., which includes Cape Cod Hospital.
Chaturvedi, an internist with Physician Medical Centers at 100 Independence Drive, is on the consulting staff at Cape Cod Hospital.
A copy of her voluntary agreement with the medical board shows she faces 11 open complaints.
Russell Aims, spokesman for the Board of Registration in Medicine, said he could not comment on the nature of the complaints.
But Rahul Chaturvedi, who owns Physician Medical Centers with his wife, said some of the complaints emanated from Cape Cod Hospital itself.
In a press conference he called last evening, Rahul Chaturvedi said the hospital's infectious disease consultant disagreed with Neena Chaturvedi's aggressive treatment of a patient's Lyme disease with long-term use of antibiotics, although some physicians consider that a standard treatment protocol.
In another case, he said his wife was disciplined for lack of responsiveness to a page by nursing staff, although it was determined she was not on call that night.
''This is an emotionally scarring thing,'' Rahul Chaturvedi said. He alleged the hospital's complaints came about after he talked about the possibility of suing doctors at Cape Cod Hospital following the January death of his father.
''We're the largest non-hospital facility on Cape Cod,'' Rahul Chaturvedi said. The practice, he said, which includes three other active physicians besides himself, is one of the largest MassHealth providers in the county.
One of the worst aspects of the situation, the couple alleges, is misinformation spread among area pharmacies about whether to honor Neena Chaturvedi's prescriptions. They said patients can refill without new prescriptions.
''The way it was handled and the way it created panic among people, that was bothersome,'' said Neena Chaturvedi. She said she is confident the issues with the medical board will be resolved and she'll be able to return to work after a two- to three-month maternity leave.
Patient Patricia Yetman of West Yarmouth said she'll wait for her. ''I love her,'' said Yetman, who was seeing one of Rahul Chaturvedi's associates last evening. ''She's very careful, very thorough. She's the kind that actually looks at you and listens to you.''
Reilly said he had no comment on the death of Rahul Chaturvedi's father.
''We wouldn't comment about a specific patient case anyway,'' he said.
Other complaints filed with the medical board against Neena Chaturvedi concern patient delays in getting medical records, according to the couple.
After completing its investigation, the Board of Registration in Medicine could take disciplinary action or close the complaints with no action, Aims said. Disciplinary actions run the gamut from imposing a fine to revoking a doctor's license.
According to her physician profile, which was pulled from the state board's Web site after the voluntary agreement, Neena Chaturvedi went to Maulana Azad Medical College in India and completed a residency program at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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Well, I hope her patients and other lymies in that state will agitate with legislators to stop this prosecution before it happens. Otherwise, the doc will be facing huge legal bills to defend herself and a biased medical board to deal with. We all know what will happen then.
The state legislature has oversight with regard to state agencies and they should be alerted to the problem now.
It is perfectly nuts that a complaint would be honored for failing to respond when she was not even on call. This is basically the hospital ID people on the attack, it looks like.
Anyone who has been misdiagnosed at that hospital should be filing complaints.
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Anyone who has been misdiagnosed at that hospital should be filing complaints
good idea.
This is so clearly an orchestrated witch hunt - you see it also in the newly released IDSA guidelines.
..where it is arbitrarily stated that long term Lyme treatment is dangerous. (arbitrary and unilateral, even tho made by a team - they have no research-base, and no evidence-base) - so now all the ID's think they can attack their collegues with that baseless charge.
Is Mass Lyme advocacy organizing for this Doc? In as much as to write this paper and address the existance of two standards of care in medicine for Lyme disease? (see Lorraine Johnson's legal artical at CALDA) What of the dangers of NOT treating complicated and severe cases of Lyme disease appropriately?
This must be addressed publicly to try and avoid other Docs being scared off of Lyme literacy.
These allegations definately sound trumped up and twisted throughout.
Mo
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Earlier tonight I was reading the MOLD WARRIORS book by Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker. He stated in there that it cost Dr. Burrascano $250 million when he was up for charges!
Look what it's costing Dr. Jones and Jemsek!
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Stand up and be a 24/7 SQUEAKY WHEEL, and get those grease jobs over and over to protect your LLMDs! Bettyg
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Dr. B's defense was definitely expensive, but I do not believe that 250 million could possibly be right. Does Shoemaker actually say that, could you check again in your book, betty?
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Is there any way we could help this Cape Cod LLMD? I wonder if she knows about the other LLMDs. Maybe the other LLMDs can help her.
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quote:Originally posted by lou: Dr. B's defense was definitely expensive, but I do not believe that 250 million could possibly be right. Does Shoemaker actually say that, could you check again in your book, betty?
Lou, here's exact quote from page 206....
"I'd remembered hearing about how Dr. Burrascano had to spent $250,000 to clear his name in an OPMC investigation, and he still didn't even know who are attacking him .
Are there any OPMC investigations that aren't clouded by secdondary motivations? I wondered. From what I heard, Dr. Feingold would probably have a better chance of success winning a McCarthy hearing in 1953 than expsing the OPMC."
I have to get this loaded back from Santa Barbara back to my local library this Sunday so I've still got a lot of reading to do since it's 604 pages! uffda. Bettyg
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I read two different amounts for Burrascano...
250 million ($250,000,000) and 250 thousand ($250,000)
I think that figure, eventually, went much higher but not as high as two hundred fifty million dollars.
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