Posted :  (259) MAY 28, 2000 LETTERS/WEB MEDICAL MAGAZINE Podiatry Online NewsFlash ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| LETTERS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| From: David Zuckerman, DPM Subj: Brian Gale, DPM I feel the only way to get the APMA to listen is to stop paying dues. Money talks. So lets stop paying dues until there is a response from the APMA leadership. I do know in my state of New Jersey the dues statements will be coming out. So all of you who really want to help Brian Gale or who feel that our leaders aren't listening, hold back the dues and wait until satisfaction comes forth. I will start this with myself. Anyone ready to join in the strike? David Zuckerman, DPM Twenty year APMA member Twenty year NJPMA member footcare@home.com PS: The organization is the membership, don't ever forget this!!!!!! _____________________________ From: Len Simmons, DPM Subj: Brian Gale, DPM It would seem that Dr. Gale is indeed being treated with a great deal of injustice, and very little fairness. However, don't you think that prior to verbally lynching the North Dakota board, the fair thing might be to ask to hear their side of the story? In my experience, as a sitting member of a medical board, there are usually at least 2 sides to a story...lots of gray...usually not as black and white as Dr. Gale's story might imply. Len Simmons, DPM wvfootdoc@yahoo.com \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\// NOTE from Editor: I'd love to hear their side of the story,* but the impression that I've gotten is that they're unlikely to oppose Dr. Olson in public. I'd love to have that assumption proven wrong. I hereby issue this public invitation to the North Dakota Board of Podiatric Medicine members: I will make this public forum available to you to tell your side of the story. Not knowing if they receive the Podiatry Online NewsFlash, I would invite all that receive this message to forward it to them. Alan Sherman, D.P.M. Editor - Podiatry Online * we have been offering to post rebuttal opinions from the NDBPM for 2 1/2 months both in Podiatry Online as well as Briangale.com  ... none have been forthcoming