Locally, a well-known surgeon who has privileges at one of our hospital, was arrested for carrying with intent to sell, 500 grams of cocaine in a mixture. He spent the night in the Walton County, FL jail, and is out on bail. His privileges are still protected at the hospital.
Dr. Michael Reed has an excellent reputation for orthopedic and neurosurgery.
But he is not the only physician in Bay County, FL to be arrested and jailed for drug use or drug distribution.
We are all innocent until proven guilty. BUT, he got caught red-handed. The hospital, Gulf Coast Medical Center, seems to be protecting him. It is my opinion that he should not be allowed to practice under these circumstances. He is a wealthy man, so states the Panama City News Herald. Might he be a flight risk, Judge?
If you and I are fortunate to qualify for employment, we have to be humiliated and forced to produce urine for a test to prove that we are clean of drugs, no matter how menial the job is.
But I have a bigger beef with hospitals or a health system that does not require the physicians and surgeons to be mandatorily drug tested. They, bottom line, have LIVES IN THEIR HANDS,
AND MUST NOT BE IMPAIRED AT ANY TIME.
Why shouldn't ALL health practitioners throughout the United States be randomly tested as part of the program of retaining privileges or setting up a practice?
He may be the greatest guy in the world. He may be the greatest neurosurgeon in the country,
but I don't want someone who is involved in selling cocaine operating on me.
We all have the right to be safe from addicted physicians, no matter what their choice of drug.
As someone who is so pro-freedom and liberty, and who must also live under the restraints of the law - if I have to pee in a bottle before I can wash someone's clothes, type in an office or hold a sign for a road crew, my doctor had damn well better be made to do the same thing.
Read the story in the Panama City News Herald archives May 29, 30, 2009.
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