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Letters – 5/19

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May 19, 2011

Thanks to law enforcement

This letter is directed to all the commissioned officers who work in or are retired from law enforcement.

During this National Police Week, I want to thank all of you commissioned officers for making me feel good about our county and feel safe living here. I don’t want to get sappy, but I might.

You guys and gals do an amazing job that very few can or will. I had the opportunity to ride with a deputy this past weekend and can’t believe the things you all do, day in and day out. You have no idea how great you are.

After a code run to a gang fight, transporting gang members to the jail, a code run to a burglary out in the county where a door had been kicked in at a residence, I was ready to call it quits. This might not sound like anything to all of you since you do it all the time, but it’s something. It’s not the television show “Cops,” it’s your life.

As a civilian watching a policeman go through a dark residence alone and search the dark outside area with vehicles and shrubs all around, gun drawn, not knowing what he was going to find, I about wet my pants. Seriously. And that’s another thing. Just finding a place to go to the bathroom after midnight is a miracle in a rural county. At least for a girl.

So, after six hours of all this I was exhausted and ready to go home. As I was leaving the car I asked him how he could stand this. And he said, “I know, this rain is driving me nuts, I hate it getting on my glasses.”

Honestly, he thought I meant the rain! And that’s how you guys are. You do this service for us without hesitating or even realizing you are heroes. You are one of the big reasons that America is so great. You certainly aren’t shown enough appreciation.

Thank you. Thank you for making our lives so much better. I wouldn’t want to go to bed at night if I didn’t know you all were on the front lines for us.

Many of us appreciate you so much, but forget to tell you. Thank you. And thank your other half for me, too. They are the other half of the hero team.

— Joyce Edie, Rural Mattawa

More from Cornu-Labat

I want to thank QVPR’s editor, Chuck Allen, for the opportunity to respond thoroughly to this aberrant suspension of my license recently issued by DOH and in doing such, genuinely inform the public.

In this regard, I categorically state that in this case there has never been a genuine question about my personal and professional suitability since there has been not a single valid reason or argument to even doubt such. To the contrary, I have demonstrated beyond any doubt through more than 30 testimonies — neighbors, colleagues, co-workers and patients — added to my impeccable professional record and the 4 psychological and psychiatric evaluations already done, my suitability as a person and a professional.

By law DOH must base such decision on credible and reliable evidence and provide the grounds that establish the evidence as such. DOH never provided such grounds, since, obviously, none exist. On top of this, DOH did not even carry out a serious and appropriate investigation of this case and what little had been done was not even shared with me in its entirety, despite being obliged to do so.

Furthermore — as I have clearly exposed in the videos available in YouTube : “Department Of Health, the inquisition?”- I presented these mental health evaluation to DOH and they invalidated them and refused to accept them. Not having DOH accepted these evaluations from professionals licensed by this same DOH and that irrefutably prove my perfectly healthy psycho-mental state is to invalidate these professional’s authority and capacity to establish simple diagnosis and is by extension to invalidate every other licensed professional in practice. If DOH deems professionals licensed by DOH itself as incapable of establishing simple diagnosis, much less they would be capable of participating in any process of healing; an obvious conclusion of DOH’s decision in this case that is of course preposterous and also an assault to what medical practitioners represent.

The implications of resolutions such as this one are of profound significance to the public not only for what they represent locally for us here in Quincy having DOH, while being part of the problem, made every possible effort to sweep under the rug all the irregularities and negligence that have surfaced in QVMC, but for what they represent for the health care system where practitioners are this system’s axis and the only genuine engines of possible change in a system which has been unquestionably established as in profound crisis.

These implications have been the ones for which I have been fighting tirelessly and for which I have placed myself and my family in harm’s way. I refused to comply with DOH’s order as a matter of principle based of the facts that DOH displayed a profound lack of seriousness and professionalism, clear bad faith and a clear intention to damage and discredit me. I originally placed myself at DOH’s disposition but with the expectation of a coherent, reasonable and fair process by an “authority” that could be respected as such and not one that with very little seriousness and professionalism was plagued in every one of their actions with bad faith and oriented in every sense to intimidate and punish me, flexing muscle as the only sign of authority they have been able to display.

These facts prompted my most assertive and logical defense, not accepting under any circumstance such assault on my person and my career and such trampling over my rights as a professional, a citizen and a person, absolutely refusing to comply with such unfounded and malicious imposition.

Lastly, for DOH to act in this fashion, in a capricious, authoritarian, abusive and unlawful way with senseless impositions –possibly the same way that during the Dark Ages the Inquisition did — is and has been to trample over the constitutional rights of every medical practitioner that at some point has legitimately questioned some aspect of the health care system and that, be it due to lack of capacity, strength or will, has been silently neutralized with impunity by these abusive systems of power. Despite DOH’s aberrant ruling against me I will continue fighting unwaveringly for good, truth and justice to prevail.