COVID: Tallahassee ER doctor ousted from hospital after promoting $50 mask opt-out letters

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Tallahassee Democrat

COVID: Tallahassee ER doctor ousted from hospital after promoting $50 mask opt-out letters

Jeffrey Schweers, Capital Bureau USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida
Published 8:17 a.m. ET Aug. 25, 2021 | Updated 4:24 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2021

An emergency room physician who charged $50 for opt-out letters to Leon County parents who don’t want their kids to wear masks in school has been removed from Capital Regional Medical Center following a social media outcry for his ouster.

As a stricter mask mandate requiring a medical excuse took hold Sunday in Florida's capital county, Dr. Brian Warden posted a notice on a statewide anti-mask site inviting Leon County parents to contact him if they need a medical exemption letter. In another post, Warden said he’d provide a medical opt out letter on signed stationery for $50. Screenshots of the posts ricocheted around social media.

The recent medical school graduate had moved from Philadelphia to Tallahassee with his family to work for a physicians group that contracted with CRMC.

“We act with absolute integrity in all that we do, and it is our expectation that providers behave in a way that is consistent with those values,” CRMC spokeswoman Rachel Stiles said in an email Tuesday night. “Immediately upon learning of this physician’s actions, we began the process of removing him from providing services to our hospital patients.”

The hospital's CEO Alan Keesee informed the board of trustees of the decision at their regular meeting Tuesday, she said.

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

FL Doctor Fired For Selling $50 Mask Opt-Out Letters
August 25, 2021

https://www.joemygod.com/2021/08/fl-doctor-fired-for-selling-50-vaccine-opt-out-letters/

[Gore1FL]

1. The firing should be the start of the consequences.

I would think his medical license needs to be reviewed given the apparent ethical shortcomings.

[Phoenix61]

3. I hope the hospital made the appropriate referral. nt

[Irish_Dem]

18. Hospitals tend to just fire bad docs. But don't want to have the doc's license taken away.

Opens them up to all kinds of lawsuits if they take away a doc's income.

This doc is clearly unethical and should be sent up before the licensing board.
I am sure he is shady in other ways too. One of his patients should contact the board and report him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Should hope so. Sell his career for $50 a pop? Did he cheat through med school? Not too bright

Does he also prescribe Ivermectin to sheeple?

[3Hotdogs]

9. What's-a-matterU? Don't-ja know sheeple don't get ivermectin.

Patriots get ivermectin.


Sheeple get the vaccine.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Refinement of your post: Self-styled patriots demand ivermectin, those they call sheeple get the vax

Both groups are following the advice of people they respect.

In one case (vaxers) it is scientists, doctors, and epidemiologists they are following.

In the other, it is talking heads, internet bloggers and demon sperm doctors that they are respect.

We know which are the true sheeple. Plus it fits with "livestock deworming".

[soldierant]

13. Half of all doctors

were in the bottom 50% of theirmedical school classes.

Though it should be hard enough to get into med school in the first place for that not to be quite such a low bar.

[Initech]

20. He should lose his license for this!

[hadEnuf]

2. Trying to profit off of potentially killing children?

These people aren't even human.

[XanaDUer2]

5. This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of

and he's at the beginning of his career, too.

[3Hotdogs]

10. and probably the ending of his career. Like Nelson Rockefeller,

he didn't know if he was coming or going.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. What's up, doc?

Before this disappears:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-warden-84272657

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[Tiger8]

7. Ah, so he's a religious nut

And all the education, but no degree from Trump University?

Well, no wonder he failed. /sarcasm

[ShazzieB]

8. I'm confused.

The story calls him an "ER Doc."

His LI profile says "Medical School Student" at the top.
Under About, it says "Temple University School of Medicine Class of 2018."

Under Education, it says:
Temple University School of Medicine
Degree Name: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
2014 – 2018

Further down, under Volunteer experience, we have this:

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Nov 2014 – Present * 6 yrs 10 mos

What does "2014 - Present" mean? Did he graduate from medical school in 2018 or not? Also, medical school is supposed to last 3 years. How could he be a "student organizer" for almost 7 years?

There's no actual work experience listed since 2014. IF he has graduated from medical school, wlhat's he done since then?

It may just be that he hasn't bothered to update his LI resume in several years, but if so, why not? If you graduated from medical school, wouldn't you be just bursting to put it in there? This dude seems kind of sketchy to me.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. Smdh

[aggiesal]

12. What an idiot! ...

Why risk your career over a measly $50?

[jmowreader]

15. That's $50 per letter

If you can write 500 letters in a week, that’s good money until you get caught, fired, lose your license and face fraud charges.

[aggiesal]

17. Right, but it only takes one person (i.e. $50) to blow this scheme ...

that's why I asked "Why risk your career over a measly $50?"

Every letter he wrote, he only got $50, and he risked his career for $50.

[Blasphemer]

19. I agree... why is it worth it?

Ditto for the pharmacist who was getting $10 per card for fake vaccination cards. He was busted after selling just 125 of them. What a waste.

[dalton99a]

16. Nice way to launch a career to pay off your med school debts