If you are from Guam, please sign our petition to remove Dr. Nathaniel Berg
from the Guam Board of Medical Examiners. Please help us to protect injured or
killed patients due to medical substandard care and/or medical negligence by
Guam doctors. Please help to protect victims of sexual misconduct by Guam
doctors. Dr. Berg and the Guam Board of Medical Examiners have failed to fulfill
their mission of protecting the public in these areas and have actually worked
against consumer rights and medical accountability.
There is no one on Guam that can debate the fact that the Guam Board of
Medical Examiners, Chaired by Dr. Nathaniel Berg, has been a key factor in the
demise of medical care on Guam. These, among other issues, as presented here
warrant a removal of Dr. Berg from the Guam Board of medical Examiners.
At least 9 women made sexual misconduct allegations against Guam
doctors that were licensed by Berg and the Guam Board of Medical Examiners.
These doctors had previous histories of this behavior before coming to Guam, but
Berg, as Chair of The Board, licensed them anyway.
There are also cases of medical negligent doctors with known histories
before coming to Guam licensed by this Board, and then they did the same thing
again on Guam. The Board licenses doctors to work on Guam who have injured
patients in other places.
Berg and the Guam Board of Medical Examiners have also, in my opinion,
covered up medical negligence investigations by making decisions in a vacuum,
not involving the victims and refusing to give victims input, instead releasing the
flawed investigation to the media with no input to the victim.
Investigations of complaints against doctors are considered confidential,
but instead of keeping confidence, Berg and the Board released results of an
investigation to the Pacific Daily News without telling the victim’s family, forcing
them to read the results in the PDN.
Berg is tasked to investigate doctors and clinics that also make referrals to
his business or where he has placed his imaging machines. He makes big bucks off
of these clinics and doesn't recuse himself from the investigations. This major
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conflict of interest seriously puts consumers at risk. The appearance of a conflict
of interest, if not an actual conflict, over shadows any required impartial
investigation, keeping doctors protected who have injured Guam medical
consumers.
Berg has done everything possible to make sure doctors who commit
medical negligence are not held accountable, again putting Guam Medical
consumers at risk. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
found that doctors who are sued once for malpractice are more likely to be sued
again. The study found that one percent of doctors paid 32 percent of all
malpractice claims. The researchers also found that the more doctors are sued,
the more likely they are to be sued again. It is a vicious cycle that leaves a trail of
injured patients in its wake. Dr. Berg has privately met many times with senators
and others pushing to keep laws on the book that protect negligent doctors and
that put medical consumers at risk. These are the same laws that attract doctors
to Guam who have negligent histories, who then get licensed by this Board. I call
it the “circle of medical negligence” that greatly put the people of Guam at risk.
It's a repeat performance medical sin that Berg and the Guam Board of Medical
Examiners want to protect negligent doctors, rather than protecting the
consumers.
Our information indicates that in near 40 cases that fell under Bergs tenure
with the Board, not one has been decided in favor of a victim compliant against a
doctor.
Berg and the Guam Board of Medical Examiners are required to list doctor’s
profiles online by a 10 year old consumer protection law with recent
amendments, including negative negligent histories. They have not done it yet,
but instead have come up with excuses while blaming Speaker Terlaje of the
Guam legislature and Senator Taitague. Berg has stated publicly that he does NOT
want to follow this law and instead states that the consumer protection law must
be changed. This is another ploy by Berg to prevent medical accountability and to
cover up medical negligence or sexual misconduct histories.
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The Guam legislature has held oversight hearings regarding the numerous
complaints against this Board. In true arrogance, Berg was unable to answer
questions that were given to him in advance or refused to answer them. He was
even asked how they lost a four month old complaint regarding sexual
misconduct against a doctor. He blamed others but he is the Chair.
When consumer victims spoke at the legislature, Berg, as in the past left
the room. As Chair of the Guam Board of Medical Examiners, it’s his role to
protect the public not walk out on them when they speak.
Judge Barcinas mandated that Berg and the Guam Board of Medical
Examiners must develop policies for investigations of complaints to keep them
impartially standardized. Judge Barcinas also mandated that Berg and the Board
develop the website with doctor’s profiles for consumers. Instead of
doing these consumer protection mandates ordered by Judge Barcinas, Berg and
the Board decided to use tax dollars from the people of Guam to have the
Attorney General fight to keep the status quo and not follow the Judge’s
mandates that help to protect consumers. They, in essence, are using tax dollars
to limit tax payers’ rights and to keep the status quo, the same status quo that
has brought on all of the complaints against Berg and the Board.
Dr. Berg has repeatedly showed disrespect to our elected leaders who are
trying to protect the people of Guam, including in the peoples hall at the
legislature. Please watch this video.
https://youtu.be/0DSVc5VP05Y
Deaths, injuries and sexual misconduct is what the Guam Board of Medical
Examiners is responsible for thru their policies or lack thereof, and lack of an
impartial process for investigating physician complaints. Dr. Nathaniel Berg, as the
Chair, is fighting the loudest to keep consumers from being protected and to keep
doctors not accountable.
This video below especially shows what Guam consumers are up against
with Berg and the Guam Board of Medical Examiners.
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https://youtu.be/jvCVqSAdQDo
Please sign the petition to improve medical care on Guam by removing Dr. Berg
from the Guam Board of Medical Examiners.