On Sep 21, 5:28 pm, "Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" <lov...@thetruth.com>
wrote:

http://jackanapes.ws/pastorino.html

And while we're driving down memory lane:

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Dr. Chung:
Any comments I make at this time are mine alone and do not
necessarily
reflect the views of CFHC. (Reference to Central Florida Heart
Center;
Ching was fired after only 88 days on the job.)

After going through this difficult time with you, I understand that
you
are probably not interested in anything I have to say. Also, I
believe
what I do say will probably be twisted or interpreted by you to suit
your purposes. For that reason I will be as direct and declarative as
possible.

Your website comments about cardiology in Ocala, FL are detractions
and
border on slander. These are legal terms, and one of the important
features of them is that the comments are published. Your website
fulfills that requirement. Now just reflect on the fact that you are
the only one to make such insinuations or allegations. Any reasonable
person seeing these things may justifiably conclude that it is you
that
is out of step, not the other 15 or 20 cardiologists in Ocala. As I
have in the past, I am trying to get you to see the reality of the
situation from outside your head. You have chosen to ignore the good
advice I tried to give while you were here. I hope you will soon
realize you are doing yourself more harm than good by publishing your
dispute. It would be better to let it go, before your reputation
suffers more.

Speaking of reputations, I have spent 35 years building mine. I can
call on physicians from around the world and this community to attest
to it. I can also call upon the many physicians I trained to do
cardiac
catheterization (over 25 years) to offer a positive opinion about my
work. You can't. Being just out of training, you have no reputation
except the one you have just established here in Ocala. You are
continuing to establish your reputation by publishing your website.
How
do you think what you have said would look to another physician-
perhaps
an employer- when he reads it? Do you think he or anyone would
conclude
that you are a reputable physician, easy to work with and a team
player?

Personally, if I find that you speak disparagingly of me, or my work
to
any patient or physician, be assured I will not take the matter
lightly. Whatever you think of me personally, or whatever you think
of
my professional activity, you do not have the right to condemn either
me or the work to another and thereby compromise my reputation. You
may
disagree with me, or state we have a difference of opinion, but you
may
not state that I am practicing less that optimum cardiology. Once
again, if I find that you have done so (and I hope it has not
happened
yet) I will certainly take the matter to the State Board of Medicine
for a hearing. If the Florida State Board finds cause, and renders a
censure, that must be transmitted to all other State Boards on your
next and all future applications for licensure. And once again, just
common sense should tell you that hitting back in your situation is
counterproductive and could be disastrous for you. But as I told you
face to face, you may
have great book smarts, but your actions have shown that you have no
common sense that permits you to operate successfully in a
professional
community. And, once again, I will tell you what I did before, you do
not operate in a vacuum. Your practice, wherever it may be, must be
according to the community standard, regardless of what you perceive
that to be. And an attitude that you vocalized by saying that you
were
unable to change the community standard in Ocala speaks loudly and
clearly about your perception of reality and your inability to work
with your colleagues.

Dr. Chung, I urgently advise you to let the past go. Look to your
future which could be bright. If you persist in these efforts of
hitting back and trying to justify your actions to a world that looks
upon such attempts as childish or immature and unprofessional, you
will
continue to do yourself a disservice. You lost your job because you
talked yourself out of it.

Frank Hildner MD

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-PF, Atl.
etc.