The North Dakota Charges Against Brian Gale, DPM |
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Read Dr. Vogler's Expert Report and see how easy it is to come to the same conclusions as 100's of other doctors and lay people . Testimony in the ND Senate & House Brian Gale is Being Hunted like the Witch Trials
IT'S LIKE
THE I.R.S. ON STEROIDS
It's Time To Put An End To The Persecution
of Dr. Gale by the ND Board! - John Trench, III, DPM
Newsflash - The Courage to be a
Man
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The Case Against Brian Gale, DPM
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By anyone's assessment, Brian Gale's career was off to a great start. After finishing 4 years of postgraduate training at St. Joseph's in Philadelphia with John Buckholtz, DPM and Harold Vogler, DPM, he was recruited by Barry Scurran, DPM at Kaiser Permanente in northern California, to practice the full range of orthopedic and surgical podiatry that he had been trained for. After a 3 years with Kaiser, and dozens of successful ORIF ankle fracture repairs and other advanced procedures, the Kaiser orthopods decided that he had attained too much success too soon and attempted to have him removed. After a short legal battle, he was paid a settlement to leave quietly. With this interruption in his career behind him, he decided to try private practice and joined the existing practice of DR X (Name edited out), DPM in Bismark, one of only 15 podiatry practices in the state of North Dakota. But meeting DR X (Name edited out) and going to work for him was not to be the path of success for Dr. Gale. In fact, it was to be the start of his worst nightmare and an apt demonstration of the vulnerability that one's career has in the big sky country in the country's far north. |
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"But there is a more general lesson for us all to learn from the case of Brian Gale, DPM. After 3 decades of fighting on multiple fronts to establish ourselves as the surgical specialists of the foot and ankle, as this new century unfolds, due to competition from orthopedic surgeons and in some case, other local podiatrists, most podiatrists still cannot practice to the level of skill that they received training for in their residencies. The quest for success for the most well trained podiatric surgeons is often a frustrating one, during which they can spend years finding a community where they are allowed to practice the advanced surgical techniques they were trained for. Many succumb to the need to support their families, establish general podiatry office practices and never use their advanced surgical skills. We will now visit a few sides of the Brian Gale, DPM story and witness an example of a talented podiatric surgeon who seemed to do everything right, but for whom everything went wrong." from PODIATRY ONLINE |
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Here is Brian Gale's Story, in his own words: |
In 1992-93 I was employed by Dr. X (Name edited out), DPM. When I left his practice he sued me and has been “after” me ever since then. On 1/27/00 the NDBPM voted to discipline me. Dr. X is the President of the NDBPM and has been for 15 out of the past 21years. Three out of the other four board members have also been on the Board for 8 years or more. The Board members are appointed by the Governor. The Governor’s attorney is Dr. X’s brother in law! The Board members are to serve four year terms but they have all been reappointed despite the fact that other DPM’s in the state have been willing to serve on the Board. They have replaced only one in the past 8 or more years. "See specific wording of board membership in Century Code." There were no complaints sent in against me while I was with Dr. X from 7/92-10/93. Within a few months of me leaving him, the complaints started. Most of the complaints have been from orthopedic surgeons (Bone & Joint Clinic) in the local area except for one. There have been no other complaints sent in from any other type of doctors except orthopedic surgeons. The only patient complaints have been from one’s who were being treated by Dr. X. An example of one complaint is a patient was seen by me once and treated for heel pain. The local foot and ankle orthopod sent in a complaint to the Board without ever seeing my records. Three of the five complaints they just acted upon where submitted in 1994. The patients involved have never been interviewed and I have never been given a chance to have a discussion with any of the Board members to explain the facts they have wrong. None of these patients have sued me and none of them have applied for any type of disability. I have had other DPM’s in North Dakota read the records and they have found that nothing is out of the ordinary in my treatment of these patients. I have an attorney and we are appealing the discipline, but unless the Board members are changed this will just continue until they revoke my license or I have to close my practice due to financial hardship. There are only about fifteen practicing DPM’s in North Dakota. So the Board makes up about 30% of them. |
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I’m asking that all of you
read the information that I’m supplying. I have removed the names of the
experts to avoid distractions and controversy concerning them. If you would like to
see the actual patient records I can fax them to you. I’m looking for a strong show
of support to help me try to end this before I lose the past 22 years of my life. Thank you. Brian Gale, DPM |
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