Correction wrote on August 29, 2008 05:14 PM: Cynical Observer made some incredibly ill-informed observations in your comments dated 8/20/08.

First, you are completely wrong about the law and the facts. Dr. Tate's license to practice medicine is granted by the state, not Clark County. Second, Kathy Silver cannot revoke his license, and she didn't revoke his license. If you has half a brain, you would know that since Dr. Tate continues to practice on the general surgery call at UMC.

Second, all that happened to Dr. Tate was that he was removed from the call schedule. His license and medical privileges are not altered.

Third, you claim (based on your prior erroneous assumptions) that Dr. Tate is entitled to a due process hearing. Courts have held that due process is involved where there is a property right. Call schedule does not involve a property right. Thus, with no property right involved, no due process hearing is required. If no due process hearing is required, then there was no violation of Dr. Tate's civil rights.


Fourth, you make a baseless claim that Dr. Tate has a libel claim against Ms. Silver. However, there are no facts to even remotely suggest that Ms. Silver knowingly made a false statement about Dr. Tate.

Finally, the only one that "is profoundly stupid in terms of . . . knowledge about doctors' rights to practice at the hospital, and requirements for due process" is the person who tried to play lawyer called Cynical Observer, who hasn't even the slightest clue about the law or hospitals.

westside ignorance wrote on August 26, 2008 03:56 PM: How do you know the family isnt black?

Westsides answers wrote on August 26, 2008 10:12 AM: Security was right there as well as multiple nurses.They all made statements. The family did ask for another Dr (a burn specialist because the burn nurses said that he needed to be re-admitted even though Tate had sent him home) when Dr. Tate came to the burn cleaning room he tried sending the boy home for the 2nd time! (THE morning AFTER Dr. Tate released him the 1st time 2 days after he was dug under a car for 41 ft and is STILL IN THE HOSPITAL with NO SET RELEASE DATE) that is when Dr Tate became aggressive insisting that he was above any burn Dr and he knows what he is talking about.The father told Dr Tate that he wanted a specialist and that is when his smart comment of GO F*** YOUR B**** OF A MOTHER came out of Tates mouth. The parents/grandparents never insisted on skin grafts because at this point they didnt even know that he had to have them. The Father nor grandmother ever laid a finger on Tate he pushed the grandmother. This story will soon all come to life. THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT.This story that Tate has made about race,Dr Desai and the Hep-C cases is totally absurd in every way possible This is about his traumatic actions against a family who are going through a hard enough time as it is without the stress of a Dr. trying to release their son when he is in obvious need of long term hospital care. And assualting a Grandmother who is only wanting a second opinion as to whether her grandson should be sent home. To much of a blow to Dr. Tates ego I guess.

Westside wrote on August 26, 2008 09:45 AM: Are you telling me that this doctor just assaulted this family and jumped on this grandmother. Please.

You say don't bring in race but where was security? I've been to UMC and you better believe if there is a black family in a room the security staff knows about it.

Where were the nurses? Where did the altercation take place? Why didn't the family ask for a different doctor?

You know the family? What the hell does that mean. (There not like that!) Isn't that what you say before you stick it to the black community.

Fern, says let's bless this little boy. Fern with all your experience I am sure you have seen doctors accused of things that didn't happen? What are you ashamed of that the doctor advised caution before performing skin grafts or that he pushed someone who was committing assault?

fern wrote on August 25, 2008 07:34 PM: What a sad and disturbing story. A young teen horribly injured, a family traumatized by his accident and now by the treatment of his physician. As a nurse who has many years of experience in critical care and emergency medicine in a busy urban hospital, I have never been so embarrased by the behavior of a physician. May God bless this boy as he heals, and may God forgive the shameful behavior of the "good doctor".

D & J wrote on August 23, 2008 08:31 PM: we are family to this little boy and dr. tate has lied to the rj and las vegas. to ever bring race into this is absurd in everyway! he abused the boys grandmother and there's proof! and the "yo,mama" reply to the boys father was the short version.... add "go f**k yo' to momma" is actually what he really said. professional??? please! the boy, three weeks later, is still in the hospital and not set to be released yet but tate tried to release him two days after?? and the boy was screaming in pain from the horrid road rash which is now 3rd degree burns and he is still currently on morphine. this dr. sent him home with broken ribs and burns all through his upper body with a bottle of percocets! let me run you over, dr. tate, on 150 degree black top then send you home with a bottle of percocets and have your burns cleaned out with no ample pain killers! talk about a modern day lynching! and to the person who said the parents were at the bar taking shots at 10 am before they went to the hosptial!! Come on! to throw stones like that when you don't even know the family is ignorant! their kid just got hit by a truck and almost died. how stupid and horrible can you be? I applaud UMC for doingwhat was right. he was suspended because of this incident and nothing to do with the hep-c case! Dr. tate is just worried about how he is going to make his mortgage payments on 30% of his salary. next time you should think before you act, Dr. tate! our family is going to see this through and prevail!

DeAnna wrote on August 23, 2008 08:06 PM: anyone who is routing for this doctor will soon be putting their tail between their legs when then they find out the truth about this doctors verbal and physical abuse on the 14 year old boys, GRANDMOTHER! the boys father didn't touch him but doctor Tate did put his hands on the grandmother of the injured boy. In the hospital it is a felony it put your hands on a doctor, signs say that everywhere. So if doctor tate is telling the truth why wasn't the parents and grandparents arrested? because tate was the one at fault and he was the abuser. He has a bad rep at the hospital and all this will soon be aired out. IM FURIOUS THAT THIS DOCTOR WOULD BE SO IGNORANT TO FABRICATE SUCH A BOLD FACE LIE THE REVIEW JOURNAL. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!!!!

joe mama wrote on August 23, 2008 03:24 PM: Dr. Maurice D. Gregory Jr, a vice president of the local chapter of the Association of Black Physicians, said Monday that what happened to Tate constitutes "a modern-day lynching."

LYNCHING??? REALLY???

Again, leave it to a black to capitalize on his race and use it to defend himself as once again, "another victim of the whiteman." This incident has absolutely nothing to do with Dr. Tate's race. He is a black community activist with ties to the black panthers and has before used racism to defend Assemblyman Wendell Williams. Again... it had nothing to do with race. I have had some interaction with Dr. Tate on numerous occasions and I can say that he is extremely arrogant and talks down to everyone beneth him, nurses, other doctors, paramedics, etc.

<> wrote on August 22, 2008 03:28 PM: Yo Mama?????????

........................................................... wrote on August 22, 2008 03:11 PM: :( sad day

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