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Dr Mills's View of the Events
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I am Geraldine Mills, M.D. from
Warwick, Rhode
Island. I grew up in Rhode
Island but did not move back there until 1989, having left in
1976 for Cleveland, Ohio. I was accepted to Case Western Reserve
University graduate
school in Pathology.
My interest from an early age was in Biology. I attended the University of Rhode Island (had other “acceptances”
to Bard and Simmons colleges), graduating magna cum laude with a major in
Zoology and minor in Chemistry. While in my senior year of college, I began
working to support my way through college, taking courses part time. I took
an extra year of graduate courses in Physiology and Biochemistry. I
worked as a Histopathology technician at Rhode Island Hospital
preparing surgical and biopsy slides for a little over one year. The four
candidates “admitted” to the CWRU (Case Western) graduate
school in Pathology all had work experience in the field of Pathology, just
as I had. I had been PreMed at URI (University of Rhode
Island) but withdrew my application to MCAS
because I wanted to obtain a PhD in Pathology. I applied to four programs in
Pathology. When applying to CWRU I had no idea I would be taking the two year
medical curriculum concurrent with my graduate research and graduate studies.
I
have placed the words “acceptances” and “admitted” in quotes for a specific
reason related to the suspension of my medical license. Please go to the
section on the RHODE
ISLAND HOSPITAL
application to understand the significance of these two words, acceptances
and admitted. (see below- 2007 letter
to Charles Alexander-Division of Professional Regulation, R.I. Department of
Health)
I became aware of the fact that I would have to do work in both the Medical
school as well as the graduate school, on the day I arrived at CWRU. I was
told that I would have to complete certain registration in the medical school
and pick up and pay for the “Phase I syllabus.” This was the complete
syllabus to be used by the medical students during the first year (Phase II
for second year).
I completed two (2) full years of the basic sciences curriculum (with the
medical students) and passed the two day final exams (equivalent of National
Boards Parts 1 and 2). I never obtained the PhD but transferred my credits to
Ross University School of Medicine, took the MSKP exam (see my scores here as
an exhibit), and successfully passed all entrance requirements to Ross. I
completed the clinical sciences course while living on the island of Dominica,
West Indies, for one year. I arranged many
of my third and fourth year clinical medical clerkships in Case Western
affiliated hospitals. I took Pediatrics at the Rainbow Children’s Hospital (
part of University Hospitals of Cleveland)
and in particular NICU rotation that was supervised in part by the well known
neonatologist Dr Avery Fanaroff. I took my ER rotation at St Luke’s Hospital
(another Case Western affiliated hospital), Psychiatry at Fallsview
(affiliation with Northeast Ohio School of Medicine), Internal Medicine and
Surgery at Huron Road Hospital (another Case Western affiliated hospital, and
on and on.
I obtained my Medical
Doctorate degree (MD) in January 1984 from Ross University School of
Medicine, WI. I was now a Foreign Medical Graduate or (FMG) as some call it.
I took the ECFMG exam which I successfully passed on the first attempt (1983)
and took the FLEX exam in 1986 in Pennsylvania,
again successfully passing. Having passed the FLEX in Pennsylvania,
I was able to obtain a Pennsylvania
medical license. I received my Rhode Island License in 1988 and a Florida
Medical license in 1991.
I was told by so many
that obtaining an internship in a United States hospital was very
difficult for any foreign medical graduate. I therefore, applied to I believe
28 hospitals in the Resident Matching program for the year July 1984. I
actually interviewed at Mercy Catholic hospital in Philadelphia
and at St Raphaels in New Haven,
Connecticut in one weekend. It
was a grueling experience. I interviewed at least fifteen hospitals. I
received two letters one from the St Raphaels hospital at Yale and the other
from the Pawtucket Memorial hospital at Brown. These letters read, “we are highly
ranking you for our program” and we would very much like to have you as one
of our candidates” and “we have selected you as one of our match candidates.”
Not everyone interviewing received these letters, as I had befriended others,
had their numbers and they informed me that they did not receive these types
of communications. I know at that time the hospitals were not to send such
letters because it would skew the program and allow those candidates who knew
they had a great chance of getting the program to place them on their list,
in the highest spot. The letters were regarding their Internal Medicine
programs.
I chose to remain in Ohio because I was hoping to marry a man who lived in Cleveland all of his life.
I was told that one should place their first choice either third or fourth. I
took this advice and placed the Ohio
hospital in fourth place. I got my fourth choice being St
Thomas hospital in Akron Ohio, just 30 miles from my home in Cleveland (where I had lived since 1976
making it then 8 years).
I placed the Brown and
Yale affiliated hospitals at the 7th and 8th positions on my matching list so
that I would not be “admitted” to those programs because I chose to stay in Ohio. The Yale
affiliate St Raphaels did not complete their match-meaning that they did not
get all of their positions filled. One remained open. If I had not gotten my
fourth choice or any choice or spot I could have called St Raphael’s and may
have been able to have still gone there. When you are given a position/spot
in the match you cannot change it. I was very happy with my choice and the
fact that I got to stay in Ohio.
My father took ill
during the years of 1983 and 1984 and had a stroke and I desperately needed
to return home to New England and did so in
July 1985. I began in the Internal Medicine program at Carney
Hospital in Dorchester, just outside
of Boston Massachusetts.
During my time in
training at St Thomas Hospital and Carney Hospital,
in Internal Medicine, I also knew that I wanted to train in Pediatrics. There
were no combined Internal Medicine-Pediatric programs at that time, in fact
they began just a short while later. I did my elective rotations at the Akron
Children’s hospital and at Boston Children’s hospital. (See Recommendation
letters- as those from Dr Bithoney at BCH and the letter from Akron
Childrens). During these minimum of two months in Pediatrics, I learned that
I wanted to do more training in Pediatrics and did so at the Winthrop
University Hospitals of Mineola Long Island, N.Y., and at the Medical College
of Pennsylvania.
After this training,
completed in July 1989, I interviewed with Alfred Toselli, M.D., for an
opening as House Officer in Pediatrics at St Joseph
Hospital in North Providence R.I.
He offered me the job at my interview. I later accepted the offer and soon
after received a call from the Tritown
Health Center
in Johnston R.I. The female physician that had the St Joseph hospital Pediatric House Officer job prior to
me, also worked as a Pediatrician for the Tritown Health
Center. Kimberly
Coleman adamantly refused a “No” answer and continued to ask me to take this
job as well. I finally agreed since it would only be every Thursday night
from 6 until 9 pm.
I worked at St Joseph hospital at both the Fatima (North Providence)
and the Peace Street
(South Providence) Units from July 1, 1989
until July 1, 1993. Late in December 1992, after three years of doing call
nights Every Tuesday and Friday night, Dr Toselli, Chief of Pediatrics, put
me on a 48 hour straight shift after I had just completed a 36 hour straight
shift. The date was December 16, 1992 when I had to tell him it would not be
safe for me or the patients to work this many consecutive hours that week. Dr
Toselli screamed out in front of patients, parents, employees “your
contract will not be renewed.” I answered, “you cannot be serious.”
He answered, "I am dead serious.” My contract was not renewed. I went
directly to the Senior Vice President Mark Hough and he told me, “Don’t
worry, Jerry, you will not lose your job. He will calm down and everything
will be alright, you can feel safe with your job.”
On January 27, 1994, I
was called into Mark Hough’s office and told my contract would not be
renewed. I then went to the Chief Administrative Officer of the Medical Board
of Licensure, then Milton Hamolsky, M.D. He told me that things would work
out and not to worry. I had no misconduct while at St Joseph, I had no malpractice cases against me; Mark Hough wrote “she gave quality care to her
patients.”
I received recommendation letters from almost every staff Pediatrician at St Joseph as well as the
Director
of the ER, two
charge nurses for Pediatrics, other ER physicians, from more than five
subspecialty physicians and at least three obstetricians (see letters of recommendation).
In July 1993, I was an
unemployed doctor and began collecting in the unemployment line.
Administration at St Joseph had to send a
letter to the Department of Labor stating that my entire time at St Joseph was free of
any misconduct. I was accepted for more than one year of unemployment
payments and then began interviewing. I looked in Florida
and Massachusetts.
I received two contracts but finally decided to open my own private practice.
I applied for full
active staff privileges in Pediatrics at St Joseph Hospital
and was accepted in December 1993. (This differed from being an employee of
the hospital during which time I was not on “active staff”). When I knew that
I would no longer be working at St Joseph, I
applied for full staff privileges at the Kent
Hospital as well as Rhode Island Hospital. The date of the RI Hospital
application known as a pre-application was January 28, 1993. Though Dr
Toselli recommended me to the St Joseph staff in Pediatrics and signed two
documents to the Massachusetts Board of Medical Licensure recommending me, he
spoke to John J Cronan at Rhode Island Hospital (Credentials Committee)
stating that I was “a near bordering psychotic incapable of doing the job,
that he would never hire me again, and that I was litigious and had a brother
to fight my legal battles.” The date of this conversation was November 16,
1993.
I was given a hearing
at the Rhode Island Hospital on March 31, 1994 during which time I learned
that Dr Cronan did not “factfind” as was his duty, but that he altered the
recommendations of several physicians, he stated, “we do not deal with
that institution here,” my four
witnesses’ -parents Rose, Voisinet, Barre and Houtchens-testimony was deleted
from my file and hearing transcript, as well as a letter from Senior VP of St Joseph Hospital, Mark
Hough. Dr Domenic Petronio’s letter of recommendation was also “misplaced”
but when my legal counsel questioned this issue, stating we will just have Dr
Petronio resubmit it, RI Hospital found this letter.
I had begun my private
practice June 1, 1994 with just the Barre family (previously seen at Tritown
Health. I did not buy a practice nor inherit one. I got into a call group
where 11 other pediatricians in solo practices shared call. I kept my
practice open on my call nights (usually Monday nights) and on my call
weekends to help me get started. By 1999, when I was shut down on September
21, 1999, I had over 700 patient families and was doing call for thousands
others.
I was extremely content
with my practice and received very good feedback from the parents and other
physicians. The practice grew merely by word of mouth. I did not need to
advertise and had not since I began the business. I accepted all welfare and
in fact 90% of my practice was indigent or welfare. Some patients without
insurance paid for their medical visits by baking zucchini cakes or by
bringing pizza. I was asked by parents to attend first birthdays, communions,
name changes at the family court, and sixth birthdays. I attended my
employees weddings and took their children to street fairs. The parents and
children accepted me as a family member. When my patients were hospitalized
out of state as at Boston Children’s, I would go visit them there, even
though I did not have privileges there. If the parents of my patients were
ill, I could determine that on their children’s visits and arrange their
medical care before they left my office. Two parents had hypertension with
systolic blood pressures almost 200, another father could not breathe when he
brought his daughter to the office. I arranged for him to get a chest xray
immediately, thinking it was pneumonia. I received a call back that it was
heart failure and arranged for him to see a cardiologist. Another parent
complained of being very tired but being only 24 I had her get a thyroid
test. She had hypothyroidism - Hashimotos.
Drs Greco, a
Pediatrician and Passero, an allergist and pulmonary physician voted on my
behalf to be on staff at Rhode Island Hospital, Dr DeLuca, a pediatric
surgeon abstained from voting and the surgeons at the hospital voted against
me. It was a 4-2 vote of denial to let me on staff. This vote was on March
31, 1994. On July 26, 1994, I went to see Dr Hamolsky at the Medical Board
for the second time. I again asked him why this was happening to me. This time
he told me, “Have you ever thought that it could be because you are a JEW
Jerry?” I began to cry. I could not believe what I had heard. I went home and
told my parents (my mother is a German Protestant, my father a Russian Jew).
I was brought up in the Jewish faith and went to Hebrew School
every day after my public school for eight years and received my Bat Mizvah.
I attended a conservative synagogue with my father and brother (not my
mother). My family had agreed to this arrangement and it worked very well for
us because there was always communication regarding our goals with our faith.
I have always been proud to have been brought up Jewish but it certainly has
not been easy. It has been truly an awakening of the realities of life to see
that what Dr Hamolsky told me that day on July 26, 1994, was true. I had
never mentioned his words to anyone but my parents.
On December 10, 1999
Bruce McIntyre (then Acting Chief Administrative Officer for the Medical
Board taking on Dr Hamolsky’s duties), wrote that I called Dr Pietro Russo,
ANTISEMITIC. I never did this and Dr Russo has admitted to never having even
spoken to the Medical Board nor to Bruce McIntyre prior to McIntyre’s writing
this on the adversarial witness list for my hearing. On December 20, 1999 when
I received this witness list, I immediately called Dr Russo. This
conversation has been kept in its original form.
I was sent a letter
from RI Hospital answering my request for an appeal of the denial for
privileges- date set at August 8, 1994. On July 26, 1994 DR Hamolsky advised
me to voluntarily withdraw my application which I did. I brought a letter to
him as well as to the law firm of Edwards and Angell, to the RI Hospital
counsel Ken Arnold and a copy to my brother, then my attorney of record. The
letter stated that the application was to be withdrawn and never to be
considered for any purpose. I thought this was an agreement. However, more
than five (5) years later this agreement was breached by Dr Hamolsky when he
signed a subpoena for this application from RI Hospital so that it could
become Count I of my suspension.
The regulations are
that if a denial is not appealed by an applicant, it is to be reported to the
National Practitioners Data Bank and to all Medical Boards of Licensure. With
the agreement between all parties as made on July 26, 1994, my denial was
never reported. It was a discriminatory decision to keep me off staff,
involved slandering FMG's, witness testimony being tampered with and
alteration of recommendations as well as removal of some from my file.
Count I is that I allegedly “falsified
documents in the practice of medicine.” The accusation is that I claimed
to have graduated from two medical schools and was “admitted to” three
residencies in the Match program. These allegations are all false. (see the
details of the Hearing transcripts and the supporting documents and recent
letter of February 2007 to Charles Alexander and Dr David Gifford Director of
Department of Health with Providence Journal News Article details in how the
State of R.I. determines the validity of foreign medical graduate degrees-
citing regulations by former Director of Professional Regulations-
McGluaghflin)
Without any
malpractice suits, any harm, and injury to any patients, there could not be
any way for the Medical Board to suspend my license.
In October 1996 I was
brought before the Medical Board regarding the case of E.P. a two year old
girl that had fallen from a second story window. She was admitted to Kent
hospital where I did not have privileges and placed under the care of a
hospital based physician. On the ER record the name of the primary care
doctor was Keith R Mills. He is my first cousin, a Hematologist/Oncologist
who has never practiced medicine in RI and who had always practiced in Pennsylvania. No
threat of suspension or any form of reprimand was given to me. (see case of
EP for the details)
In October 1997 I mailed in my renewal fee and application for my 1998
license (due January 1998). I put the date of October 24, 1997 on the check
but on the application itself I put the date as 10/ /97. I forgot to put in
the "24". The check and application were sent back to me to correct
this on November 8, 1997. I mailed it back that day and on January 8, 1998, I
received a call from the Board, and was told that my “license” had been
suspended. (See my story regarding the check and supporting documents)
On September 11, 1998 I received a call from a mother D.C. regarding as she
worded it, "the continuity of care of her children.” I found
these to be very unusual words for a parent in her early twenties. (See the
case of DC and BC and supporting documents). This became one of the
counts in the suspension of my medical license.
On September 16, 1999, I received a complaint letter from the Medical
Board that had been typed by parent (mother) J.B. This became the other count
in my suspension. (See the case of J.B and father S.B and supporting
documents). This mother complained that she thought I had become bizarre and
irrational to believe that there was contamination in my Pediatric offices (
see Public DEM record State of R.I. and section on this web site regarding
“Environmental toxins”)
Father S.B. is a state of R.I. child abuse investigator for the Department of
Children Youth and Families so I called the Child Custody Advocate office and
Laureen D’Ambra when I had “A CONCERN” about the possibility of child
abuse in their very family. ( now known to be more than 29 injuries to the
two oldest girls) I was told I
needed to call the hotline as well as them. I called the hotline on October
5, 1999 and was voted by the investigating committee at the Medical Board to
be temporarily suspended on October 13, 1999. The temporary suspension was
signed by the Director of Health Patricia Nolan, M.D. on October 19, 1999. It
reads in my hearing transcripts as Bruce McIntyre states, “ and it was
this last act of reporting this family to DCYF that led to her temporary
suspension.”
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I have been kept from practicing my livelihood and my property
interest for more than seven years now (2007).
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I have been falsely accused of “horrendously abusing these
children.” The only complainants that witnessed against me were the family I
reported to the DCYF hotline for suspected abuse (29 injuries on two of their
girls) and the family of DC and BC (whose youngest child suffered from
failure to thrive).
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I continue to try to protect my constitutional rights, to due
process of law but have really been, as they say, sham peer reviewed.
The Superior Court in
R.I. wrote the denial of my appeal and in so doing changed the meaning of
sentences that I testified, by taking words out of context.
I was “ARBITRARILY
DENIED” MY APPEAL TO THE RI STATE SUPREME COURT AND DENIED A WRIT OF
CERTIORARI TO THE US SUPREME COURT. I was not allowed any witnesses nor was I allowed
any supporting documentation. I tried to reopen for evidence
at least 5 times including motions to the court but was denied each and every
time.
I have been tried
and convicted without any due process or constitutional rights to have witnesses
and evidence.
The supporting documentation is so extensive that I could not have lost my
medical license had it been placed on the record. This is just another case
of being a victim to sham peer review and to my right to have my own
religious beliefs and not be chastised for it.
IN RETROSPECT
While
reviewing the file from the Board of Licensure (received on November 10, 1999
from my then Counsel Paul Foster), in 2007, I noticed a letter which I do not
believe I had seen before. At least the date on it did not register with me.
It was a letter dated September 29, 1999 from the Board to JB. It said that a
“full hearing” was going to take place regarding her complaint. The first
entire page of her complaint was her belief that there was “no” contamination
to my offices. The 7 page document that she wrote on September 29,1999 and which the Board dated as received
September 30, 1999 was also in that file. I also received and read that
document on November 10, 1999. On November 10, 1999 late at night, I learned
that “apnea” event on daughter SB was at Bridgeport Hospital.
I contacted the hospital at 4:30 AM and was told that SB born in 1980 had
medical records still on microfiche at that hospital. The mother had told me
they were “lost in the Navy,” just as she had told Dr Aspirinio on 10/18/90
when SB was just 10 years old.
Counsel Bruce
W. McIntyre of the RI Board of Medical Licensure testified, “ it was that last act which led to her temporary
suspension.” He refers to my contacting DCYF regarding the injuries to 15
year old EB, injuries to her sister SB and to mother JB-a fractured shoulder.
I made this call on October 5, 1999. When I made this call, I had NO
knowledge of a Bridgeport Hospital, No knowledge that JB on September 29,
1999 was “setting me up with Bruce McIntyre” by writing in her letter, “Bridgeport records
missing as well as SB’s infancy records all missing.” She was falsely
alleging, on September 29, 1999 that I took these records out of SB’s old
file that the mother had “ hand delivered to me.” Did this mother and
McIntyre realize that Dr Aspirinio and Dr Barrett, her former two
Pediatricians also never received these records as per Dr Aspirinio’s
progress note of 10/18/90? I THINK THEY DID NOT REALIZE THIS.
I learned on
November 10, 1999 that I had more than a “concern” about child abuse in this
family. I learned that is was a “suspicion,” and one that definitely needed
to be investigated. It is 2007 and it has never been properly investigated. I
contacted Dr Carol Jenny of R.I.
Hospital. She deals
with the issues of Child Abuse and has written on head injuries in infancy
and apnea. Dr Jenny told me she should have had those Bridgeport medical
records on SB to fully do a proper investigation of the case, but she never
got them.
ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1999 IT WAS
WRITTEN THAT I WOULD BE GETTING A FULL HEARING BASED ON JB’S COMPLAINT AND
SHE WAS ALLEGING THAT I WITH UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT ALTERED SB’S MEDICAL
RECORDS- I DID NOT KNOW THIS ON OCTOBER 5, 1999 WHEN I CONTACTED DCYF ABOUT
ALL THE INJURIES I SAW IN THE OLD MEDICAL RECORDS OF EB AND SB ON SEPTEMBER
25, 1999 (see pages from letter Dr Mills to Attorney in Mass dated September
25, 1999 which reads “ what do I do with this information, I do not want them
to think it is retaliation”)
I
WAS TO BE SUSPENDED AFTER THE HEARING EVEN IF I HAD NOT CONTACTED DCYF. I
LEARNED WHAT WAS REALLY TAKING
PLACE BY METICULOUSLY READING MY FILE AND
FINDING JB’S 7 PAGE DOCUMENT.
MCINTYRE WAS GOING TO SUSPEND ME
BASED ON JB’S FALSE TESTIMONY THAT I TOOK THE BRIDGEPORT MEDICAL RECORDS OUT OF SB’S OLD
MEDICAL RECORD
INSTEAD I AM SUSPENDED BECAUSE I
MADE A MANDATED REPORT TO DCYF ABOUT A THEN “CONCERN” OF TOO MANY INJURIES TO
THREE PEOPLE
THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS WHEN
SOMEONE WITH AS MUCH POWER AS BRUCE W. MCINTYRE, WANTS TO DESTROY YOU, IT
WILL BE DONE EVEN IF YOU ARE THE MOST ETHICAL, MORAL, AND RIGHTEOUS PERSON
and PHYSICIAN
Thank you for taking
the time to be interested in my story.
Geraldine Mills, M.D. (
G Mills, M.D.)
At the end of the
support section you will find a Petition to sign in support of
“A Matter of Justice.” My Story,” is currently a 45part
story with all supporting evidence, my witness letters. You can find pictures
of the office building ( toxic waste site) and News articles under “In the
News” and in “ Articles.”
Please click on to My Story below.
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