THE MEDICAL LICENSE OF MICHAEL YOUNG - OUR ATTEMPTS TO HAVE HIM BANNED FROM MEDICINE - Government - http://maxpages.com/darkevilworld/The_Infamous_Dr_Young

September 12, 1999

Ms. Peggy Cryer
Executive Secretary
ARKANSAS STATE MEDICAL BOARD
2100 Riverfront Drive, Suite 200
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202-1793

Dear Ms. Cryer:

I am writing in regard to Dr. Michael Young, whom your Board has repeatedly examined and disciplined regarding various medical and other abused visited upon his patients in the free world, and now regarding his abuse of prisoners of the Arkansas Department of Correction.

I realize that because I also am a prisoner this complaint will be received with some serious reservations, and I understand that. However, I also feel that the time has come where this Board should do more than call Dr. Young alone before it, and to instead conduct a full investigation of his abuses and breaches of the Hypocratic Oath with the other doctors, physician's assistants, nurses, and medical personnel recently under Dr. Young's authority at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. They are a far better source for information regarding the kind and scope of his negligence and malpractice than any of the inmates may be. However, the fact that we are prisoners should not in itself determine what quality of medical care we should receive. We at least have the right not to be abused when we are placed at the mercy of someone like Dr. Young.

I'm writing on behalf of another prisoner who, because of his current status within the prison, and pursuant to rules and regulations, is not presently able to communicate with someone who could assist him with lodging a complaint with the Board regarding his recent abuse at the hands of Dr. Young. To keep from being repetitive, I am attaching an article I wrote for placement on the internet in the effort to stop not only the medical abuses visited upon us as prisoners by CMS and some of the people in its employ, like by Dr. Young, but other abusive prison conditions as well.

It is my intent, and the intent of several inmates and free world persons assisting us to exhibit to the world every instance of the abuses practiced against us by people like Dr. Young. We intend to do this to perpetuity, until the abuses stop. With the many indictments of Arkansas politicians and other officials in recent years and months, we prisoners are finally free from the totalitarian control and power exercised against us by our keepers, and we are finally able to begin to take action against people like Dr. Young without fear of being disciplined, beaten, maltreated or even killed. And, we feel we MUST do everything within our power to rid ourselves of those who abuse us while we still have the chance, once and for all.

Like Mrs. Linda Miller who also wrote to you recently, we feel that this Board already knows about Dr. Young's abuses (as detailed in the official report generated by this Board beginning in 1997 and ending in December, 1998). Because that is so, we feel that the Board has a particular obligation to look more critically at ANY complaints against Dr. Young, from ANY source (even prisoners), than if this were a first complaint against a doctor who did not already have such a nice track record of abuse. We note that "his kind" often find employ with corporations like CMS, a situation of which this Board is also likely aware. The Dr. Youngs of the world help people like CMS preserve the all-important bottom line, at the expense of our health, safety and well-being.

I respectfully ask that the Board review, and receive as an official part of a complaint, the attached article about Inmate Billy Perry, #77377. Per Doctor Young's orders he was denied reasonable medical attention for several hours - as detailed in the article. Several other inmates who are able to contact you personally will advance other examples of Dr. Young's "practice" of medicine. Apart from his abusive demeanor per se, we indeed do feel that we are guinea pigs upon whom he visits his incompetence in the effort to attain that level of training which this Board itself had previously found deficient.

I also wish to join the voice of Linda Miller in saying that not only will I do all in my power to learn about and detail in the public eye every abuse practiced against any of my fellow prisoners by Dr. Young from now on, but as a licensed paralegal I will do all that I can to assist them and their families with pursuing litigation for the medical abuses they suffer. In the case of Dr. Young, we feel that this Board itself is legally culpable if no serious and decisive investigation and action is taken against Dr. Young. In the past, we sought similar and successful resolutions of problems with other medical personnel employed with other health care providers without taking up the Board's time in those matters, but this time we feel that the Board should be made to answer as well if something is not done about Dr. Young.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Please, I realize that the tone of this letter is not ideal, but perhaps in it you will see only the level of frustration, anguish, and suffering to it - and the degree of the determination we have to stop being mistreated at the hands of people like Dr. Young.

Respectfully yours,

Rolf Kaestel
P.O. Box 500/Bks 3
Grady, AR 71644-0500

READ THE DOCUMENT ATTACHED TO THIS LETTER

LINDA C. MILLER
BUCKLEY, WA 98321
(360) 829-9117
lcmiller@tx3.net

September 16, 1999

Arkansas State Medical Board
2100 Riverfront Dr., Suite 200
Little Rock, AR 72202-1793

To whom it may Concern:

SUBJECT: Dr. Michael Young, License #C-7771

Thank you for your prompt reply to my letter and your stated intention of addressing the matter of Michael Young's medical license at your October Board Meeting.

Unfortunately, I have no documents to provide you, as my family has not yet been able to obtain my brother's medical records from the Arkansas Department of Correction. All I can offer, therefore is anecdotal evidence as supplied to me by my brother during the course of his illness. I realize that this will not be sufficient to permit you to adequately address the incompetence of this individual, so I have passed the burden of proof to those who are currently suffering under his continued practice, the inmates of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. You will be hearing from quite a few of them, although not nearly as many as you would have heard from had we been given a longer window of opportunity for passing the word throughout the Unit. I trust you will accept these accounts with the gravity due them.

As a direct result of having witnessed the results of the medical neglect and outright cruelty visited upon my brother while he was dying, I am undertaking a crusade to assure that Arkansas inmates are provided timely and adequate medical care during their incarcerations, something I assure you does not now exist within the ADC. The situation is so dire that in order to pursue this campaign I have been forced to quit my paying job so that I can devote all of my time to this issue. I work harder than I ever have in my life - sometimes as many as 24-32 hours straight on this task because the need is so desperate and I seem to be the only one willing to sacrifice the quality of my life to see it done. We are not wealthy, nor even comfortable. I was a secretary and my husband works in the foundry at Kaiser Aluminum, whose union, of which he is a member, has been on strike since October 1, 1998. We are in dire financial straits, and yet this work MUST be done, and since no one else will, I must do it. I tell you this in order to demonstrate the emergency nature of the situation.

I am in contact with many inmates within the ADC and they all live in continual dread of becoming ill and being subjected to the brutality and incompetence of Dr. Young. I am told by all of them, as I was by my brother that he ENJOYS seeing the men in pain. He often laughs at their injuries and is unnecessarily rough and brutal during examinations in order to cause as much pain as possible. As I told you before, they also state that he seems to have an obsession with anuses and checks those of all inmates confined at the Infirmary on a daily basis.

I would be inclined to assume that there might be an element of exaggeration in the reports except for the fact that I hear the same allegations from so many inmates that the cumulative weight is overwhelmingly convincing. And I knew well my brother's character; how he prided himself on being tough and manly. When he sobbed and moaned in unabated agony I KNOW he was in extreme pain.

Another complaint I often hear from the inmates is Michael Young's withdrawal of pain medication prescribed by other doctors to those with chronic conditions such as acute hepatitis b and c and its replacement with Tylenol. I witnessed the agony my brother endured as he died from this disease following his transfer to the Diagnostic Unit and know, as you do that Tylenol is not an adequate analgesic for the control of that level of pain.

I would like to suggest to you that you review the medical records/licenses of all those medical doctors employed by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) as the ADC's "health care provider". I have attempted and will continue to attempt to obtain a list of these doctors directly from CMS, but they won't comply with my request. I believe, based on the accounts I receive about the medical neglect which is the routine procedure of CMS and the ADC that all, or most of their "doctors" of the same caliber as Michael Young, and that is the reason for their failure to provide me the list that, given competent professional doctors, they should be proud to supply. As soon as I can compile the data I plan to create a web site dealing exclusively with this unethical organization and their abusive neglect of the inmates for whom so many states contract with them to provide medical care. It is an outrage!

But to the matter at hand, I can offer only the first-hand accounts of the poor souls who are currently the victims of the medicine practiced by Michael Young, and implore you once again to consider their true accounts with the gravity they deserve. You have undoubtedly already received some of those letters and will receive more before September 22.

Once again, I thank you for addressing this dire matter, and pray that you will do the right thing and revoke this man's license as a member of the medical community.

Sincerely,

LINDA C. MILLER

September 16, 1999

Rolf Kaestel
#76784
P.O. Box 500, Bks. #4
Grady, AR 71644-0500

Dear Mr. Kaestel:

This letter will acknowledge receipt of your complaint.

Pursuant to Act 937 of 1997(attached) you will be required to exhaust all Administrative Remedies through the Inmate Grievance Procedure number 96-18, before the Board may consider your complaint.

To assure you have exhausted all Administrative Remedies, you will need to attach a copy of Attachment II (Deputy/ Assistant Director's Decision) to your complaint. The documentation is required before we may proceed.

Your original complaint is being returned to you.

Sincerely,

Peggy Pryor Cryer
Executive Secretary

cc:
Max Mobley - Deputy Director for Health/Correctional Programs
John Byus - Administrator for Medical/Dental Services
Tiffany Compton - ADC Inmate Grievance Coordinator

Enclosures:
Grievance Procedure for Offenders
Administrative Directive
Act 937
Original Complaint

PPC/th

ARKANSAS STATE MEDICAL BOARD
2100 Riverfront Drive, Suite 200
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202-1793
(501) 296-1802
FAX: (501) 296-1805

September 22, 1999

Linda C. Miller
Buckley, WA 98321

Re: Michael young, M.D.

Dear Ms. Miller:

This Board is in receipt of your second letter dated September 16, 1999 regarding Dr. Michael Young and his practice of medicine. As stated in our previous correspondence, we are still inneed of your brother's name to retrieve medical records. When this information has been obtained, it will then be presented to the Board. This information will not likely be obtained in time for the October Board Meeting.

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me at the number listed above.

Sincerely,

Peggy Pryor Cryer
Executive Secretary

PPC/th

Mrs. Peggy Pryor Cryer
Arkansas State Medical Board
2100 Riverfront Drive, Suite 200
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202-1793

September 23, 1999

Dear Mrs. Cryer,

I am in receipt of your return of my letter of complaint and the attachments that I had sent on September 12, and the attachments to your return letter dated September 16. Thank you.

Please be advised that I was aware of the Act 937 of 1997 directing that prisoners of the ADC are required to exhaust administrative procedures via the Inmate Grievance Process. That is a general requirement also for the filing of lawsuits into state or federal courts pursuant to the Prison Reform Litigation Act of 1996. However, please be advised that it is also the law that no prisoner is required to exhaust a "futile" remedy - in this case meaning that if the process that must otherwise be exhausted is not available for pursuit of the aggrieved issue(s), then an inmate does not have to waste time, make the effort, or incur expenses either to himself or to the public in pursuing what would legally be frivolous under the law itself.

Specifically, I draw your attention to Administrative Directive (AD) 96-18 and Administrative Regulation (AR) 835 - Grievance Procedure - section 6; "Matters Not Grievable":

5. State and federal Caselaw, LAWS OR REGULATIONS (e.g. those of this Board_
6. ANTICIPATED EVENTS (e.g. continued abuses)
7. MATTERS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF the Department of Correction (e.g. medical licensing)
8. REQUESTED DISCIPLINARY ACTION against employees (e.g. of CMS Healthcare staff)

In that light please not that my complaint dealt with, and only with, these issues in that I have requested the investigation of and disciplinary action against an abusive doctor; matters that are wholly beyond the legal authority of the ADC to address. Technically, Dr. Young is not even an employee of the ADC, but of the private healthcare provider. Also, for future purposes, please be advised that no prisoner can pursue an ADC grievance on behalf of another prisoner under ADC regulations - while my complaint to the Board in part concerned Dr. Young's abuse of Inmate Perry.

Further, there is noting in the legal code suggesting that the Board may act ONLY upon a FORMAL complaint from any party - but may act any time INFORMATION is received from some source. Except for the parenthetical remarks which are mine, the law in question in pertinent part reads:

MEDICAL PRACTICES ACT & REGULATION
Filed November 8, 1993

SMB - REGULATION No. 1

The provisions if the Arkansas Medical Practices Act as now written and future amendments and all other relevant Arkansas statues shall govern all substantive and procedural acts of the Arkansas State Medical Board.

B. The Board meets at least quarterly to examine applicants for licensure, hear complaints and transact other business that comes before it. The day to day business of the Board is conducted by the Executive Secretary.

C. Persons seeking information from OR SUBMITTING information to (not file a formal complaint) the Board may do so by written communication to the Secretary.

2. A. The Board holds hearings on licensees pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act. UPON RECEIPT OF INFORMATION INDICATING A POSSIBLE VIOLATION of a licensing statute, THE BOARD OR ITS DESIGNEE MAY INVESTIGATE THE INFORMATION AND REPORT TO THE FULL BOARD. If warranted, a complaint and notice of hearing will be ISSUED (by the investigator and Board) informing the licensee of the alleged statutory or regulatory violation, the factual basis of the allegation, and the date, time, and place of the hearing. This complaint and notice of hearing shall be sent at least thirty (30) days in advance of the scheduled hearing date and shall contain a copy of this and any other pertinent regulation.

B. If the Board RECEIVES INFORMATION INDICATING THAT THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, OR WELFARE requires emergency action (not only that of a formal complaint), the Board may suspend a person's license PENDING PROCEEDINGS FOR REVOCATION OR OTHER ACTION. An emergency order of suspension will be issued informing the licensee of the facts or conduct warranting the suspension, and the date, time and place of the hearing. This emergency order shall contain a copy of this and any other pertinent regulation.

SMB - REGULATION No. 2

The Arkansas Medical Practices Act authorizes the Arkansas State Medical Board to revoke or suspend the license issued by the Board to practice medicine if the holder thereof has been found guilty of grossly negligent or ignorant malpractice.

"Malpractice" includes ANY PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT, unreasonable lack of SKILL OR FIDELITY in professional duties, evil practice, or illegal or IMMORAL conduct in the practice of medicine and surgery.

Mrs. Cryer, I can imagine that this Board receives a few frivolous complaints from inmates, or complaints that cannot be "substantiated." Although I have my own thoughts about why those few complaints are frivolous or why they cannot be "substantiated", the law is the law. However, I also feel compelled to state that the law is also a two-edged sword that applies to everyone - including the Board, and by that I mean that before complaints such as the one submitted by me are summarily returned on a professed legal basis, it would be legally advised that an objective determination first be made by someone who has the legal authority to render this kind of judgement upon complaints in the context of whether or not they have complied with laws such as grievance procedure or Act 937.

I want to reiterate that it is not our intent to cause grief to the Arkansas Medical Board, or to embarrass you, or in any other way to do other than to appeal to you to inquire into the malicious and even criminal practices of an abusive doctor who has a long track record of abuse by the Board's own findings. If this will all become yet another battle of technicalities while the human rights issues underpinning this are simply ignored just because we are prisoners - then so be it.

I am resubmitting the materials I sent the first time, only this time please receive them not as a FORMAL complaint, but as "information received" under sections C, C(2), and C(2) (A-B), upon which the Board can exercise its official judgements as to whether an investigation is warranted or not. Should Dr. Young ever have the occasion to visit his malpractice upon me you may be assured that you will hear of it very officially, including by way of summons to the Board itself.

In the meantime, all our communications will appear on the internet to allow the public to adjudge for itself whatever it will.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Respectfully yours,

Rolf Kaestel

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