Newsflash 8/16/00 from Podiatry On Line

Posted to Newsflash Podiatry ONLINE, 8/16/2000

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From: Richard Willner, DPM
Subj: Valid Complaints or Nonsense? Decide for yourself!

I met Brian Gale for the first time in the lobby of the Philadelphia Marriott. I was standing alone at the Lobby talking to the Clerk and Brian and Tami recognized my voice. We had missed one
another at the airport terminal.

Brian's matter was to be adjudicated by the APMA Board of Inquiry during the APMA House of Delegates. Unfortunately, the Board of Inquiry postponed their meeting as they plan on taking
much more time for their investigation of the individuals of the North Dakota Board of Podiatric Medicine, as per the regulations as published by the APMA.

Brian was appointed as the Delegate from North Dakota by the President of the ND APMA!! Not bad for a man who is in acute danger of losing his Podiatry License!!

We went to our rooms and Brian handed me a 12-inch box of additional source documents. While it was impossible for me to have stronger thoughts than that Brian is 100 percent right in his
matter, I was more shocked and outraged!

The North Dakota Board of Podiatric Medicine has plans on using the 6 "New" "Complaints" as a rationale to take away Brian's Podiatry License at the next meeting or in the very near future.

I read these "Complaints". So did many other Podiatrists both at the APMA House of Delegates and APMA Convention and others who have requested them to be mailed to them. If you consider a valid complaint some trivial thing you did six (6) years ago, or a patient refusing to pay an office visit six (6) years ago.... well, then Brian should lose his license and so should I.

These "complaints" are total nonsense. It is my opinion that every Podiatrist should be ashamed that a colleague has to be put through this torture.

Remember not one patient who issued a Complaint sued Brian, or initiated a disability claim. These "Complaints" have more in common, but I don't want to give away the plot to this movie.

If you want to see these "Complaints" for yourself, and I encourage everyone to make up his own mind, please Email Brian at brian@briangale.com and he will mail a set to you.

As time passes, these "Complaints" will be scanned into the website, http://www.briangale.com for interested parties to download.

Additional letters about Brian Gale can be found at http://www.geocities.com/podiatryforum Thank you.

Richard Willner, DPM
amandawillner@email.msn.com