European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Arm Landers letters dear Ann Landers you ran a Teller a few months ago prom a woman who Felt guilty after her physician approached her sexually. You strongly recommended reporting these doctors to licensing Board so they will be unable to practice. Please read the enclosed article from the Reader s digest. It s from a Story by Susan Schmidt of. The Washington Post it proves i that the system is not working. Here s the article. M.f., saunas Calif. Bad Medicine it was Early april i9s6 and the second Day on the Job for the assistant to or. Kook been Ahn a Balti More gynaecologist. The last patient had left and the 20-year-old assistant a Farmer patient of Anns asked if he would examine a Pelvic condition that was both ering her. But Ahn did nut examine her. He raped her. On nov. 12, 1986, a Baltimore circuit court judge convicted the 46-year-old physician of forcible rap and sentenced him to a five year suspended prison term and 1,000 hours of Community service. Under state Law that conviction could have Costan his medical License. It did t. The Maryland com Mission on medical discipline placed him on five years probation and said he could t be a sole practitioner but permitted him to continue seeing patients As Long As he complied with the court s conditions an had a Chaperon present during physical examinations. Although reforms in medical discipline have been launched since the Ahn Case an examination of the commission s 292 decisions Over the past two decades shows Ghitl doctors in Maryland rarely have lost heir licenses even after they were convicted of crimes of moral turpitude or were found to be incompetent. A former president of the state medical society declared it s crazy thai the commission would let a Guy like Ahn continue to practice  after aim s conviction prosecutor Olga Bruning called the commission to find out Why it had not taken away Ann s medical License. They said they did consider it an emergency says Bruning. I said you Don t consider a doctor raping patients on the examination table an emergency " today or. Ahn a convicted rapist is treating women at a walk in clinic in East Baltimore. . T one that this Case proves the system is in Desper ate need of overhauling. Why Don t the decent caring physicians out there. Ride Herd an those Sleazy Letches who Are a disgrace in the profession Why Are the licensing boards Pigie Ting them pm like some answers please. Dear Ann Lander several months ago you wrote about a m Ineolia n.y., Driver who slowed into a wedding party limousine killing the Groom and his brother. The Bride died of injuries 18 Days later. I thought you might like to know How that Case turned out. The 21-year-old Driver s sentence was 28 months to seven years in prison. The judge gave him the Maxi mum and said he was sorry he could t make the sen tence stiffer on the same Page of the newspaper i read where a Man in Lubbock Texas was sentenced to 10 years for tilling off part of a policeman s car. The jury took Only 20 minutes to pronounce him Guilly of aggravated As. Salt. ". Where is Justice. Atlant adear Atlanta a Good question. And 1 hive no answer. Especially today. Writer questions army s civil ionization i am writing this letter in the Hopes you will publish it and in the Hopes of someone somewhere by Reading it wit have a few thoughts provoked. 1 wish to com ment on the civil ionization of the armed forces Buti will confine my examples to the army As i am a regular army sergeant first class. First a Little background about myself. I am a senior personnel sergeant and have been in the personnel held since joining the army 11 years ago. I also hold an additional skill identifier of manpower Force development and a secondary military occupational special to mos of administration sergeant. With seven permanent change of station pcs moves since March 1978 when i left Ait i have had the Opportunity to serve in almost All aspects of personnel management and administration from the Bat Talion to the major command four Star Billet level. I have been Cross trained As As administrative technician a warrant officer mos. All of this information is provided Only to show that i Frei somewhat qualified to Moke the following comments t. There is a Bona fide place in the army for civilian personnel. They provide a continuity and historical knowledge to different areas that is indispensable. Furthermore the majority of civilian personnel with whom 1 have served or had Contact with arc hardworking professionals who take great Pride in their work. There Are duds of course but then i have seen Active duty soldiers who tall into the same category. 2. We Are All aware of the contents of the myth that purports contracting out and civilian zing slots saves  it May reduce the accounting classification from which Active duty pay is drawn but it does t reduce the Overall military budget one Penn except through reduction in services. Ask yourself one question Whai is the first thing stopped to save Money toward the Middle of each fiscal year civilian hiring awarding of contracts the answer is a tossup since both Are usually halted almost simultaneously year Afler year after year. 3. Commanders before you get upset with the level of support you Are receiving from that combat support is or combat service support ass unit that is sitting at 100 percent or higher of their authorized military strength ask them How Many civilian positions arc sitting vacant. In my particular shop 12 military positions were converted to id civilian positions. Through natural Attri Tion our military strength is fast approaching authorize Levels. How Many civilians have we hired we were Al Lowed to hire none last fiscal year and we can hire Only one this fiscal year. Of can we hire for one of the vacant military personnel clerk positions gs-5 ? no. We can hire for the one clerk typist position gs-3. Arc you be ginning to get the picture 4. When the is and ass units can no in Erncr form their Mission support the Soldier who docs the Mission the Soldier himself of course. Before you complain about it taking a Soldier All Day at the Mili tary personnel office Milfor Hospital Etc. To take care of a simple problem take the time to hang around for a Day or two and see what goes on in these places Day after Day. Had the army As a whole functioned this Way in 1944 we would still be sitting on the beaches at Normandy. 5. Automation simplifies and thereby reduces the workload. Sure it does Tell me which system is the army automation system sippers taccs7 Pamis Capers if you arc unfamiliar with some of these Don t fed bad i probably Don l know All the automation systems you use either. Is anyone working on developing one system thai allows All sys tems to communicate and thereby eliminate duplicate Triplicate or even Quadruplicate data entries of i be aired my complaints and concerns now let me air my recommendations to solve them. In response to my first Point no Resolution Nec Essary. Civilians in the military perform a valid viable and necessary function. Second Point commanders and other Powers that be before you consider civil Ian Zinc or contract ing Oul a function took at the Cost of replacing exactly what you arc getting now. Don t Cut Down to a Bare Bones nearly functional operation and then compare the Cost of replacing 1/ial with a contract or civilian against what you had before Throe if posit ions Are going to be civilian cd. Then civilian inc them Don t change the authorization and the let the position sit vacant. You can get the same effect it the same Cost by no replacing military losses but that makes the strength figures look bad it s easier to say a particular unit or operation is at 100 percent strength and then blame the people assigned Here for nol doing he work. Maybe just maybe thai position does t need Tobe filled which would indicate the work does t really need lobe done. Look at ways to reduce the amount of information assembled compiled and published. Who knows you May find out the local commander is inc Best judge and the one who should be responsible for getting the Job done without Felling the whole world ii i been done. Talk id inc people who support you with inc attitude of let s work together for the Benefit of  nol with the attitude of you re nol doing your Job to support  you May be surprised at How far some people arc willing to go if they think you Are trying Low Ork with them to Benefit your soldiers and nol Stab them in the Back. Cul Down on useless paper. The army used to move on its stomach now we seem to move on an undulating sea of paper. Is it really necessary if sol Diers spend their time filling out forms quest Ion Aires surveys Csc when do they train is it really necessary for everyone to Sec everyone just to sign in and Oul of a unit the unit commander and first sergeant should be Able to handle thai Little chore in about 20 minutes should t they before i get dismissed As not having a grasp on inc big picture let me borrow a phrase from , Griffin s brotherhood of War series of books which i feel pretty Well sums up my understanding of that elusive entity. No matter who you Are or what you re doing in inc army it s a pretty Safe bet that someone somewhere is doing something just As or More important than you.". St. 1st class Rodney ii. Koy Lan Stuhl West Germany editor s note Swift he d. Woldman chief table of distribution and allowances Tda  management univ ii , replies the writer expressed Stoat valid concerns about Salt Tenn thai affects the entire army. It is important id stale from the outlet however that civil ionization is not done to save Money. On the contrary the la department of the army Tail Matiie which started drills Rozhon in Usa eur converted 3,700 Tda Mili tary spaces to civilian. These military spaces were not 1ml to us a eur but were instead used to enhance the Readi  tactical it of unit i at the same time Usa Keur received 3,700 extra civilian spaces to pay this Bill. So civilian Whitlon actually Cost the army More Money instead of less. We paid this Price to take soldiers out of jobs which could be performed by civilians and put them into jobs which require their Soldier skills. It is an unfortunate Foci of life thai budget constraints Force us to Cut Back in Many ways and Cyl civilian hiring and contracting Are usually jut Ionn the first casualties. 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