Right Wing Physicians Weird War Against the Texas Medical Board

[TexasTowelie]

It's October 23, 2007, and one of the most powerful men in Houston Republican circles is telling the president of the Texas Medical Board she needs a spanking.

Dr. Steven Hotze is testifying before the State House Committee on Appropriations, accusing Dr. Roberta Kalafut of running the medical board like the Gestapo. Hotze, a physician who serves a clientele composed almost exclusively of über-affluent women, alleges that Kalafut flipped out during a board hearing he attended.

"You stood up and made an ass out of yourself!" Hotze proclaims from his seat behind a table that's facing a panel of legislators. "It was horrible. If I hadn't been in such a precarious situation, I would have given you a good tongue-lashing — you deserved it! Your momma needed to take you over her knee, is what she needed to do."

Exit Kalafut. The Abilene spine specialist books out of the room, which is filled mostly with Hotze's allies, and makes a beeline to the ladies' room, where she promptly loses it. Hotze's diatribe came about nine hours into an 11-and-a-half-hour ambush of Kalafut and fellow board members and staff. What was to have been a routine appropriations hearing turned out to be a Trojan horse for disgruntled physicians who believed they had been unfairly targeted by a rogue board bent on driving them out of business.

More at http://www.houstonpress.com/2014-03-27/news/steven-hotze-texas-medical-board/ .

[DonViejo]

1. Good grief! The Louie Gohmert followers in the medical profession...

this is freaking sickening:

And Rea's not alone. There's the poor, innocent neuropath who found himself in the medical board's crosshairs just because he left an anesthetized patient with an open surgical site in the operating room for 12 minutes without an attending physician while he hit the cafeteria chow line. There's the ob-gyn who told a patient suffering from female sexual dysfunction that he needed to examine her throat in order to determine whether she had had oral sex. The family-practice physician who led police officers on a high-speed chase, saying she was afraid the medical board had sent them after her. Victims, all.

[TexasTowelie]

3. And this:

Unfortunately for the board, Rea had a particularly powerful ally: Steven Hotze, a Houston physician who in 1986 aligned himself with a group called the Coalition on Revival, which believed that all disease and disability is caused by the sin of Adam and Eve; that doctors shouldn't provide medical services on the Sabbath; and that Christians "need better health" than "non-Christian counterparts, for the advancement of God's Kingdom."

[DonViejo]

5. The Republican base...

Andrew Schlafly is also the founder of Conservapedia, Wikipedia's bizarro twin, which tells us, among other things, that a key tenet of the Homosexual Agenda is preventing five-year-old gay kids from "attending therapy to repair their sexual preference." (Note: Per Conservapedia, if a five-year-old boy is gay, there's a strong chance that either he devotes too much time to figure skating instead of baseball or he hates his dad.)

[TxDemChem]

7. OMFG! And these people have MDs?

Scary thought.

[Gothmog]

2. Hotze is an idiot

Hotze is a joke and is upset that his candidate for Harris County GOP party chair was beaten in March. Hotze is really mad at everyone due to this defeat

[DonViejo]

4. That's probably very, very true but....

there's more than anger at play with this guy, he is quite evil, I think.

[Ilsa]

6. I think some people, even doctors, can become

quite perverse about everything. Maybe they can't really emotionally handle pain and suffering. I've wondered if some have PTSD.

[TxDemChem]

8. Just read the entire article. Wow.

Quackery, death threats, frivolous complaints. And that crazy bitch who sped off in her Prius. WTF is up with these people. I feel bad for Kalafut and her husband. I hope all of those ignorant, paranoid bastards lose their licenses and get taken to court. They deserve it.

[Paladin]

9. Hotze has been a force of right wing evil for years. (nt)