John Anderson King, the osteopathic surgeon who generated 122 medical malpractice suits while a staff physician at Putnam General Hospital in Winfield from November 2002 to June 2003, now wants to become a real estate appraiser in Tennessee.
John Anderson King, the osteopathic surgeon who generated 122 medical malpractice suits while a staff physician at Putnam General Hospital in Winfield from November 2002 to June 2003, now wants to become a real estate appraiser in Tennessee.
The Tennessee Real Estate Appraiser Commission unanimously approved King's application "for trainee registration and exam approval" during its Dec. 10 meeting in Nashville.
According to minutes from the meeting, King told the commission "he is disabled with a left hand injury, but still wishes to retain his [medical] license in Tennessee so that he can work part time with physicians.
"He stated that appraising would be the majority of his work and that he would only be working as a physician for 10 to 12 days a year," the minutes stated.
King apparently told commission members nothing about the medical malpractice suits pending against him in West Virginia.
King also did not mention two additional malpractice suits filed against him after he worked briefly for health clinics operated by American Family Care near Birmingham, Ala., in the fall of 2006.
The commission's minutes, however, stated King claimed he left West Virginia because "he was a whistleblower against a group of physicians who were participating in health-care fraud.
"He stated that those individuals made false accusations against him to the West Virginia Medical Board that led to other medical boards suspending his license."
King has already surrendered medical licenses, or had them suspended or revoked, in 10 states. Those actions all resulted from a range of problems he faced, including medical malpractice suits and stealing medical records from a hospital in Florida.
King formally surrendered his license to West Virginia's Board of Osteopathy in August 2003.
During the Dec. 10 meeting, King told the Tennessee Commission he still had medical licenses in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and New York.
Alabama medical board officials are investigating whether or not to suspend his license there.
John Anderson King, the osteopathic surgeon who generated 122 medical malpractice suits while a staff physician at Putnam General Hospital in Winfield from November 2002 to June 2003, now wants to become a real estate appraiser in Tennessee.
The Tennessee Real Estate Appraiser Commission unanimously approved King's application "for trainee registration and exam approval" during its Dec. 10 meeting in Nashville.
According to minutes from the meeting, King told the commission "he is disabled with a left hand injury, but still wishes to retain his [medical] license in Tennessee so that he can work part time with physicians.
"He stated that appraising would be the majority of his work and that he would only be working as a physician for 10 to 12 days a year," the minutes stated.
King apparently told commission members nothing about the medical malpractice suits pending against him in West Virginia.
King also did not mention two additional malpractice suits filed against him after he worked briefly for health clinics operated by American Family Care near Birmingham, Ala., in the fall of 2006.
The commission's minutes, however, stated King claimed he left West Virginia because "he was a whistleblower against a group of physicians who were participating in health-care fraud.
"He stated that those individuals made false accusations against him to the West Virginia Medical Board that led to other medical boards suspending his license."
King has already surrendered medical licenses, or had them suspended or revoked, in 10 states. Those actions all resulted from a range of problems he faced, including medical malpractice suits and stealing medical records from a hospital in Florida.
King formally surrendered his license to West Virginia's Board of Osteopathy in August 2003.
During the Dec. 10 meeting, King told the Tennessee Commission he still had medical licenses in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and New York.
Alabama medical board officials are investigating whether or not to suspend his license there.
Nikole Avers, administrative director of the Tennessee Commission, wrote a memorandum on Dec. 13 to the national Appraisal Foundation in Washington, D.C., asking questions about how to process King's application.
Avers ended her memo stating, "This guy [King] is a real hot head and I am quite done with him yelling at our staff."
When King filed his application to become a real estate appraiser trainee in Tennessee on Nov. 27, he listed a home address in Chattanooga, Tenn. On Tuesday, no one answered his home telephone.
On the Tennessee application, King listed his business address as the offices of Joseph M. Ramirez III, a Chattanooga appraiser and his "primary sponsor" in seeking an appraiser's license. Ramirez did not return a telephone call on Tuesday.
But King signed sworn statements that he lived in Birmingham, Ala., in two other legal filings dated Nov. 14 and Dec. 14, 2007:
On Nov., 14, King filed papers to change his name back to John A. King in the Jefferson County Probate Court in Birmingham. In March 2006, King became Christopher Wallace Martin, telling a probate judge in Dothan, Ala., he wanted a new name because he was the victim of identity theft by a former co-worker.On Dec. 4, when he filed for Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy in federal bankruptcy court in Alabama, King listed two addresses in Birmingham, the city where his mother lives.In his bankruptcy filing, King listed $500 in personal assets - the value of his 1983 Volvo - and $125,204 in liabilities. Those liabilities might be underestimated because King listed only $1 in debts to several creditors.
King was born in Birmingham in 1958, graduated from Briarwood Christian School in Birmingham in 1976, from Birmingham Southern College in 1980 and received a doctor of osteopathy degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine, in 1984.
On his appraiser's application, King also stated he received a Master of Laws degree in international taxation from the St. Thomas School of Law in Miami Gardens, Fla., in 2007.
After King filed for personal bankruptcy, lawyers for Putnam General Hospital and the Hospital Corporation of America - the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain that owned Putnam General when King was there - asked that all 122 medial malpractice cases be transferred to the federal district court in Charleston.
Lawyers for King's patients have asked U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver to return the cases to Putnam County Circuit Court. That motion is still pending.
The first trials had been scheduled to begin in Winfield in early December, before the transfer.
To contact staff writer Paul J. Nyden, use e-mail or call 348-5164.
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