WWMT Smoke Screen

Tomorrow night at 11pm WWMT of Kalamazoo will air and "undercover" report they found on a doctor handing out scripts without doing any physical. WWMT using the tag line with this report will push law makers into stiffening the laws. Just thought i would put this out here for people to see.


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Well, you can reasonably expect that info to get every patient on that guy's "approved" list to get gone over with a fine-toothed comb. I expected this to happen, but hoped it wouldn't. It just gives us all a bad rep.

I knew that when I left Dr. Harwell's clinic in cadillac I would hear about this guy on the news. I got certified by him, I brought about 30+ pages of my medical records for my condition He didn't even ask to see them until I said I have my records here. He then took one glance at them and said yup ok . I thought it was weird that the receptionist and another man (i dont know who he was) was telling me all the laws and pretty much how to set up my garden before I even went in to see the doc. They already knew that I was going to be walking out of there with a certification. I know about a half dozen people who have went in there with no qualifying condition what so ever and walked out certified.

The ease of qualification makes me wonder if the state is looking at possibly just giving things a rubber stamp during the initial process, and has intentions of coming back to check medical records and verify eligibility at some point in the future, once the initial rush of applications has subsided a bit. Might be a lot of surprised people getting revocation letters in the mail who got their card without a qualifying condition. (People with conditions that SHOULD qualify but weren't included on the initial list not included in that. There's a few mental conditions in there that I would have had on the starting list that aren't.)

I am wondering the same thing. I myself have no worries if they do look into me, as I have the medical records to back it up. As for the people who do not who know what will happen if anything. My prediction is they will be looking in to these "In and out" certification centers and many more will join that list.

LordWinter said:

The ease of qualification makes me wonder if the state is looking at possibly just giving things a rubber stamp during the initial process, and has intentions of coming back to check medical records and verify eligibility at some point in the future, once the initial rush of applications has subsided a bit. Might be a lot of surprised people getting revocation letters in the mail who got their card without a qualifying condition. (People with conditions that SHOULD qualify but weren't included on the initial list not included in that. There's a few mental conditions in there that I would have had on the starting list that aren't.)

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This would be an overwhelmingly difficult task not only because of the number of people but because of red tape including HIPPA - I really doubt they could ever do this, I work in the medical field and I would never give someones records without a release form signed from the patient - this is standard practice and they drill it through your head every year when you work with medical records as they should because disclosing medical records without consent can net you a fine of around $30,000 along with losing your job. If you never signed a 'coordination of care' then they can't even share your records with other medical providers even if you are sitting in their emergency room. Your records are locked away safely on PAPER as electronic records are new to the state and many still operate on paper. I am not saying it is an impossibility, however, I am saying that it is highly unlikely.

Travis9226 said:

Tomorrow night at 11pm WWMT of Kalamazoo will air and "undercover" report they found on a doctor handing out scripts without doing any physical. WWMT using the tag line with this report will push law makers into stiffening the laws. Just thought i would put this out here for people to see.


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It'll be a sad day when news outlets, whos job it is to air only the worst of the worst of news are able simply through their
stories to affect changes in law.
The "action news" programs of the country have become nothing more than a ploy to grab more ratings points.
If this were the case, then they've failed the citizens, and more importantly, the drivers of the United States
who are killed by drunk drivers on an hourly basis.
I've not even touched on the doctors who use pharmasutical factories to turn active children into the walking dead with drugs like prozac and ritalin. Thanks to those designer drug manufacturing outlets, we have a whole generation of numbed well behaved zombies.

I think the news reporter who went to the hotel room and lied about having a medical condition should get some kind of punishment. Isn't it illegal to lie about a medical condition and falsify documents stating you do? It's not like the reporter when in and said "I wanna smoke marijuana just to get high give me a card" and the doctor wrote up all the paper work.

lame gonna ruin it for all of us