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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1995)
Bill may open complaint files SAI.IM (AP) - A bill to give the publn greater »<<«’** to disciplinary m ortis involving doctors and others slid through the (irvgon House on a 5.1’ vote Wednesday The measure stents in part front n widely publi cized cssu involving complaints by women that Portland gynecologist Dr Phillip Alberts improp erly touched them during exams Alberts is charged with 2‘» count* of sexual abuse against 18 patients Some of the women said their complaints vanished under a veil of set reev Supporters of HB2403 describe the current -c. tern as a hodgepodge, with some agent ies making full disc Insure of complaints against licensed pro fessionals and some revealing next to nothing We don't have any wav of knowing what's going on" with some boards, said Hep Del Parks, K Kla math Falls He sponsored the bill, whit h now goes to the Senate. Pin ks said targets of complaints, as well as the general public, also have been unable to learn details of m cusations When a Klamath Palls dentist finally obtained his Tile from the state Hoard of Dentistry, Parks said, "there were more blackouts in it than printed words The bill "lor the firs! time will set a standard for performance of professional lit ensing boards.” he said "The lull is not porfet t but it is a marked improvement from what wo have mm The hill covers morn than so regulatory agent tex that license ot i u(tations sui h as plumber*. at < oun tants. i out rat tors and barbers The measure sns complaints ftlisl with the agen tiles are to let public r»* ortls People filing complaints i ould ask to have their Identities kept set ret if they can provide a com pelting reason to do so Hoards would have to make public details of an investigation 120 days after receiving a complaint and t ould not withhold the information until i lives ligations are completed The measure also would require that hoard dis t iplinary hearings !»» open meetings and that the ret ortls !h» available to the pubth An ext option wouW l>e that testimony bv i hildien under 12 could he kept confidential, a provision sought by those concerned about children's testimony in sexual abuse cases The bill would give immunity from civil damage lawsuits to people making good Faith complaints to the boards. State revokes deadbeats’ licenses SAI.KM (AI’) The slate of Oregon has notified 1 i'll jieople owing S t 4 million in child sup port that their licenses are sub ject to suspension. Under a law that took effect last July, tht> state can sus)wnd licens es of common:inl truckers, land scapers. ehH.trii.ians. plumtxirs. commercial fishermen, con struction contractors and real estate agents if they fall more than $2,500 behind in child support To date, the Oregon Depart ment of Justice has rei eived pay ment agreements from 305 peo pit! They don't have to pay the entire amount that is delinquent all at once hut can arrange with the state to set up a payment schedule The state has suspended 74 licenses, and another SH2 people have tieen given notice that they fat e suspension unless they pay within 30 days The state is attempting to contact the rest of the people with that ultimatum The license suspensions are handled administratively by the state Support Enforcement Dm sum. A license suspension can he appealed. though that di**s not put off the suspension indefi nitely "A person can draw this out for several months, possibly, but that's all." says John Kills, assis tan! administrator of the division Ellis said the new law provides the state with a valuable tool to use to go after people who refuse to pay Many of these people are self employed, we i an'l reach their wages by garnishment," he said "So the license suspension is a last resort " State has 50 complaints against Tualatin dentist It IK I LAND (API - Hi* dentist with the most i omplaints on file in the state blame* jealous competitor* for hts problems David f . Naishitt of Tualatin, who limits hts practii *• to the platement of dental implants, has m eived 50 complaints sou tt he taunt had his practice in tom Despite the number of complaints, tin* statu Hoard of Don tistry has never laktin any dis< iplinary action against him Nmsbitt, a 51 year old funner Air Porta' pilot, i hums the thou sands of pages in his complaint file sav more about < utthro.it competition in dentistry than about the quality of his , are He saw his 'one stop shopping style of prm to e threatens conventional dental sjhh uilists who must send patients around 'e\>T il "tin es and sh hs •. fur the pox edure Nmshitt has done all the net essary procedures himself for more than 5.500 patients Naishitt susjhs ts that former patients who seek help from oth er dentists are encouraged to file complaints Thirteen < omplaints were filed by other dentists who at t use Naishitt of misleading advertising, such as calling himself an implantologist ' when no such specialty is ns ognizetl by the American I Kintal Assn* lation Naishitt. who is not a member of the ADA or the affiliated Oregon Dental Association. said through his attorney he does not claim to be a spot inllst hut he has a First Amendment right to t ail himself an implantologist Some of Naisbitt's i ompetitors are blunt in their opinions of Naishitt I here is noltodv who's hated more than him in the dental community, said Dr Nadir M Kassouli.a prosthodontist who heads Sylvan Implant and Kis (instructive I iontistn They think of him as a scum." Dr John I. krump, an oral surgeon who has seen a half-dozen of Naisbitt's former patients, said What they tell me ts that they go bai k to s4si him with a problem and their concerns are not fulfilled, to the point where they refuse to go bar k ' In February, offer news organizations began looking into Naishitt s complaint file, the Hoard of Dentistry notified him that it would hold a contested case hearing in eight < omplaint eases. The hoard also reopened 10 previously investigated com plaints that had iieeu closed, dating bat k to IWtfi OWN. Yours find yours alone MAC. 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