What happened to free speech? (6/29/04)

What happened to free speech in Jay County?

On Wednesday, June 24, I attended the “open” session of the Jay County Hospital Board of Trustees. I had prepared a statement regarding my concerns about events which had occurred at Jay County Hospital over several years which I felt had been to the detriment of the patients there and also Jay County as a whole.

I am a radiologist and practiced at Jay County Hospital for over five years.

I was denied the right to speak at a public meeting for a county-owned institution by Mr. John G. Young, the chairman of the board of trustees! I think this is illegal. When I called a “point of order,” he again refused to allow me to speak!

Previously I had given John G. Young and the hospital chief executive officer Joe Johnston a letter with great detail of many of these matters to be distributed to the other board members and to the county commissioners, which was not forwarded as requested. I would now be willing to make this letter public as these individuals failed their responsibility to the citizens of Jay County.

I feel both these individuals need to resign or the county commissioners need to intervene and correct this problem.

Jay M. Veenendaal, MD

Redkey

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