From Arnold Gore: Hi Activists & Consumers, I recently received the message below from Dr.Jennifer Daniels,MD. Dr.

Daniels was the Green party candidate for liutenant governor in New York State in 2002.She is one of the alternative medical doctors who has had her license suspended and is searching for an employnent opportunity using her excellent, medical. business and political training and experience. In her letter Dr.Daniels does not specifically mention that the case leading to the investigation was the SUCCESSFUL treatment of a patient with diabetes using only diet and exercise. In August of 2001, Health & Human Services Secretary Thompson held a major press conference to announce the results of a very large study demonstrating that DIET & EXERCISE was MORE effective than drug therapy and he wanted to get this information out to ALL those practicing doctors. If you know of an employment opportunity for this versatile hard working doctor please contact me or her at jenniferdaniels@twcny.rr.com JENNIFER DANIELS, MD/MBA 3100 S. Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13205 315-475-3393 To whom it may concern: I am an African American graduate of Harvard University (Cum Laude), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. I was Board Certified in Family Practice, a member in good standing of the American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Practice and The American Medical Women's Association. I returned to my hometown of Syracuse with this fine education and was unable to find employment. I purchased a city block and built a medical office. Soon after I opened my medical office, I realized that the insurance companies would not pay me. I then asked the patients to pay me, and they did. In exchange, I saw them on time, researched their problems, informed them of options, and gave a $1,000 annual scholarship to assist kids in the neighborhood with college expenses. In 10 years of medical practice, I received numerous commendations; even one from Governor Pataki himself. There were no malpractice cases or complaints in those 10 years. In 1999, the Health Department began an investigation and requested a patient's records. I gave them the records. They then said that they wanted to see the records of the 4,000 patients who had seen me over the prior 10 years because this case represented a pattern of inappropriate practice. I refused the search

because it was not a pattern, only 1 case. The Health Department then changed the reason to one case of negligence or incompetence. I refused because the therapy was effective, therefore this case could not be a case of negligence or incompetence. The Health Department then changed the charges to NONcooperation because I refused to allow them to see the charts of 4,000 patients unrelated to the initial case. I have retained numerous attorneys. The State threatened one of my attorneys and told her that they would investigate her and fine her or remove her license if she filed any legal action on my behalf. She resigned. Photographs and an eyewitness affidavit then became available indicating that the complaint was false. I was subjected to a one-day hearing and allowed no witnesses. A copy of the patient chart as well as the evidence that the complaint was false was excluded from the hearing. I was convicted of noncooperation. The penalty by law is a letter of warning. I received a license suspension. A suspension by law should be finite. Mine is forever. The law states that the Health Department has no jurisdiction to investigate therapy that is effective; I was investigated anyway. Case law says the State may not use a false complaint as a basis for an investigation. The complaint is false, yet I was investigated. The prosecutor in my case, with the cooperation of the judge, suppressed exculpatory evidence. This is prosecutorial misconduct. Here I am, a 45-year-old single, unemployed mother of three children aged 9,12,and 15. If I had been a teenage mother, the children would be grown by now and I would be better off. Instead, I borrowed money and spent 14 years of my youth getting an education only to practice medicine for 10 years and have my license suspended without cause. My license was suspended 18 months ago and I was the last African American Solo Family Practice Physician in Onondaga County. My medical practice was located in a medically underserved ghetto. The medical practice received no government grants, no Medicaid and no Medicare. I paid real estate taxes of $10,000 a year, state taxes of $17,000 and federal taxes of $57,000. Now I pay no taxes and tax dollars are being spent to keep it that way. If this situation cannot be resolved promptly, there is an obligation to inform our youth that borrowing for an education is the path to a lifetime of indentured servitude with no economic means to repay the debt. I know you cannot solve the problems of the world. Just start by restoring my license and letting my kids eat. If you cannot restore my license, help me find a job. This matter is urgent. I can be reached at the address above. Rev. Dr. Jennifer Daniels, MD/MBA