tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post252790569770431180..comments2009-06-28T16:57:31.372-04:00Dr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05207266669522973903doctoranonymousblog@gmail.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post-33113621036359352382009-06-28T16:57:31.372-04:002009-06-28T16:57:31.372-04:00Doctor,<br />It is little known that the Joint Commission is really a protection racket. They care not a farthing about patient safety and better medicine.<br /><br />Though they wax poetically in their literature and proclimations, don&#39;t be fooled; they&#39;re in it for the money. A lot of money.<br /><br />Your hospital and all hospitals upon whom they have a strangle hold PAYS for the accreditation; hospitals are also forced, de facto, into PAYING the Joint Commission for consulting with the hospital on how to PASS their accreditation requirements. <br /><br />The Senate Finance Committee has investigated the JC and its other tentacles and have finally been able to pursuade Congress to revoke the exclusive &quot;deeming&quot; authority which the JC has held since 1965, when Medicare began.<br />This legislation was passed last summer, largely with my assistance.<br /><br />The Joint Commission accredits and has accredited healthcare organizations since 1965. Even though they have the power to revoke accreditations or sanction institutions which are found to be errant, they almost never, ever do. Less than 1/10th of one percent of all institutions they have accredited have been had the credentials revoked. The reason is simple: Money. <br /><br />The Joint Commission has now undertaken a sinister effort to accredit hospitals overseas in order that they may receive insurance payments. They do so without the force of law but make it appear that the accreditations of the Joint Commision and the Joint Commission International are one and the same; they are NOT. Simply put, the Joint Commission is a bunch of corporate thugs.<br /><br />The reason they exist is the same reason that forces you to write YOUR comment anonymously: fear.<br /><br />The Joint Commission is in cohots with the medical money players. They are stinking lot.<br /><br />Read how they covered up my son&#39;s death at one of their accredited hospitals in Bangkok; www.bumrungraddeath.com<br /><br />Carefully read their correspondence with me to get a sense of who these bastards are.<br /><br />My upcoming book to be published in the fall will lay the story about these monsters bare. Look for a publication under the name of James Goldberg. It promises to tell a story about how the pieces REALLY fit; the same story which explains why you stressed out and why your patients were deprived of your care. <br /><br />The terrible thing is; that&#39;s they way they want it. For you to be on the mat, Doctor, and for them to be telling you what good medicine is and is not. They pass this same cache onto the insurance companies who, in reality, practice medicine without a license; wait until they really sink their bloody fangs in evidence based medicine. You&#39;ll be practicing based on statistical compilations and not on your judment of proper care.<br /><br />James Goldberg<br />415 877 4280 <br />jimgoldberg@optonline.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com