Now the NC Medical board

Ever have a problem with a doctor? If you do you, and you file a complaint, you will have the pleasure of dealing with The North Carolina Medical Board. Let me tell you before hand that they do not see things the same way normal people do. They will be extremely sympathetic to your complaint at first. They may even go so far as to act like they can't believe a doctor would do something like "that".
Then they send you a letter saying that only a small number of complaints are actually investigated. If your's happens to be one of the small number, you will wait a couple of months for a reply. In my case as with all the other agencies, they start by saying how sorry they are about your loss, then comes the we could not find any reason to discipline the doctor. They will assure you that they did a thorough investigation of your complaint, and that it will be kept on file in case there are any more complaints.
Yesterday, I filed another complaint against Dr. Larry Joe Russell of Hendersonville NC. The complaint was based on facts that I just discovered by talking to Linda Burhans at the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Within hours of filing the complaint I got an email back from Judie Clark, director of the Complaint department. Here it is:

As you know, this matter has already been reviewed by the Board and they found no basis to take any action against the MD’s license to practice medicine.  I will provide your additional information to the Board to determine if there is any basis to change their original decision.  It will be the latter part of September before you receive a final letter from the Board.

Keep in mind that the complaint was for something different from the original one. I felt the information was significant enough to go through the process of filing a new complaint. I guess the way they look at it is if you have one complaint against a doctor, it encompasses anything else as well.

I emailed them back and told them that I felt this was a seperate issue, and deserved their consideration. The response from Judie Clark was : As stated in my previous email, your initial complaint and your subsequent information will be provided to the Board for their review and consideration.The Board (not me) will make a decision as to their final resolution of this case.
I can almost gurantee that it will go like this:
Thank you for taking the time complete the complaint form on line. We have reviewed the information you provided .  However, as  we informed you in our previous letter, there was no basis to take any action against the MD's license to practice medicine. I guess I'll have to wait till the "latter part of September" to find out. I sure am lucky it's not important!!