Ms. Toad (28,929 posts)
So I just reported Ted Cruz for practicing medicine without a license.
Back in August I reported a handful medical providers from out-of-state who are advertising their services to customers in Ohio without being licensed in Ohio (for telemed consultations for the purpose of prescribing ivermectin).
At the time I was royally pissed - not merely because of the irresponsibility of the service - BUT because I was denied a telemed consult with MD Anderson - even with a rare cancer for which the recommendation is that **at a minimum** you receive a second opinion as to diagnosis and treatment from one of a half-dozen high volume sarcoma centers. Ohio's protectionist medical licensing laws prohibited it - even at the peak of COVID, even for a disease for which competent care is best provided at a few sites within the country. I debated heading to a parking lot in Michigan, which is part of a multi-state licensing compact so I could do a telemed consult with Mayo (Minnesota is also in the licensing compact), but ultimately ruled it out. That's how hard it is to get a legitimate second opinion if the handful of rare disease treatment centers are not located within the boundaries of your state.
And these fools have the nerve to set up a website expressly advertising they are willing to practice medicine in Ohio via a telemed consult.
At any rate, the one MD I reported in August has modified his listing to exclude Ohio . . . but I just received notice that the Ohio Medical Board wishes to speak with me about the complaint I filed. So I went back to the site and the number of providers has significantly expanded . . . and now includes Ted (Rafael) Cruz. While he used to be licensed in Ohio, he is not currently. I reported him and a half dozen or his buddies.
So - check the laws in your state. Most states require doctors to be licensed in the patient's state in order to provide a telemed consult. If Ted Cruz is offering to practice medicine in your state, chances are he's offering to practice medicine without a license. (Texas is NOT part of the multi-state compact, so he would need to be directly licensed in your state.)
It would be a shame if anyone else reported him.
Oh baby, this toast has legs and everything.
The website she references:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/guide-for-this-website/how-to-get-ivermectin/And the Doctor she references:
Dr. Rafael F. Cruz, MD
Kentuckiana Integrative Medicine
Jeffersonville, IN
For those who never noticed this particular DUmmy, she/he/it claims to be trans-something and has a fondness for telling everyone over there how intelligent they think they are. So, she seems quite pleased that she/he/it has dropped the dime on Ted Cruz. Doesn't occur to her that the doctor in question is a medical doctor and his practice is in Indiana, while Ted Cruz isn't a medical doctor and he lives in Texas.
Ohio Joe (16,877 posts)
1. K & R - nt
First response recommends her killer investigative work.
sinkingfeeling (45,197 posts)
2. Ted Cuz the idiot Senator? How could he offer a telemed consult, he's not a medical doctor?
Second response is just confused.
Star Member Mr.Bill (15,287 posts)
3. It's not the same Rafael Cruz.
I looked at the website in the OP and there is a Rafael Cruz listed, but he is a doctor with a practice in Indiana. And he doesn't call himself Ted. I don't know if the OP is confused or just thinks it's an interesting coincidence.
Surprisingly, it only took three replies before someone called BS on the OP.
Ms. Toad (28,935 posts)
10. Confused. Sleep deprived.
I was confusing the politicians who are pretend doctors with the ones who are retend lawyers -I also misread the state, for some reason. More sleep deprived than I thought, I guess.
Sleep deprived? No, I think just dumb as a bag of hammers. I'd like to think that maybe being so wrong would make her less of a pretentious, self-absorbed attention whore, but I know that wont happen.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216290891
