D.C. Medical Board -- Complaint Against Albert H. Taub, M.D.

I began psychiatric treatment with Albert H. Taub, M.D. on Friday August 7, 1998 at the P Street Clinic (D.C. Department of Mental Health).  Dr. Taub recommended anti-psychotic medication (Zyprexa) for me, but he refused to sign an informed consent statement that I had prepared.  I proceeded to file a complaint against Dr. Taub with the D.C. Medical Board.

November 24, 1998
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
#136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

Government of the District of Columbia
Dept. Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
Occupational & Professional Licensing Admin.
Room 202-LL
605 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Dear Sir:

I submit a collection of documents that concern my current psychiatric treatment by Albert H. Taub, M.D., a medical doctor licensed to practice in the District of Columbia.

I am concerned that Dr. Taub refuses to prepare and sign a statement, such as the statement outlined in the letter addressed to him dated August 17, 1998 (copy attached), that would allow me to proceed with my medical treatment.

I suffer from an apparently rare form of paranoid schizophrenia that cannot be detected on comprehensive psychological testing and that has left my intellectual functioning intact. I had previously suffered from bi-polar disorder; fortunately, that illness has gone into spontaneous remission. Incidentally, paranoid schizophrenia is a rule-out for bi-polar disorder.

The enclosed letter addressed to the District Court for the District of Columbia (dated November 23, 1998) details serious concerns about my mental health and stability, including a reported risk of violence including homicide. You may review details about the serious acts of violence that I committed during my employment at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld by contacting Dennis M. Race, Esq., a senior attorney at the firm, who (along with Christine Robertson, who determined that I was homicidal) terminated my employment in October 1991. Mr. Race can be reached at (202) 887-4028.

May I suggest that you review this matter with the U.S. Attorney's Office?

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

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January 11, 1999
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
#136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

Government of the District of Columbia
Dept. Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
Occupational & Professional Licensing Admin.
Room 202-LL
605 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Dear Sir:

Further to my previous letter to the Board of Medicine dated November 24, 1998 (copy attached) I want to inform that my situation remains unchanged, but that I continue in out-patient psychiatric treatment with Albert H. Taub, M.D.

Among my apparently disturbed beliefs, I continue to believe that the month of "October" is a month that falls late in the year, not early in the year as assumed by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

One hopes that with a lot of continued hard work at the Community Mental Health Center (North Annex) run by the District of Columbia, and thousands of additional dollars to be billed by Albert H. Taub, M.D. to Maryland Medicare, I will eventually curb my irresistible impulse to say "October, November, December" and correctly intone "January, February, October . . ."

The ravages of severe mental illness are indeed tragic.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

The above letter refers to the D.C. Court of Appeals decision issued on September 1, 1998 in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights.  The Court's opinion referred to a retaliatory memo written by my supervisor (Chris Robertson) at Akin Gump that was in fact written in late October 1991; the court incorrectly referred to the letter as having been written in "early 1991," thereby denuding the letter of its retaliatory animus.