Jim,
Ok, so you are NOT claiming that I or Glenn have a conflict of interest, just Dr. Gude.
That was VERY unclear in your earlier posts.
So, here is what you need to know: When Dr. Gude offerred to be the INTERIM CEO (until someone more qualified could be hired), it was with the understanding that OffsiteCare, Jim's company would have to DONATE all of its services to Palm Drive going forward. Jim was willing to do this to save the hospital at great expense to himself.
What we were not aware of at the time was that he would have had to have stopped providing care a year earlier to avoid a conflict. (Remember, we only had 1 week to put together a proposal, not enough time to do any legal research.) When we heard from Colin Cofffee at the start of the meeting that this was the case, we immediately changed course. Unfortunately, we did not have time to get another CEO lined up 5 minutes before a meeting and so asked Dr. Stebbins to stand in, not the best choice as we found out later. If you recall from the meeting, we did not even have a chance to tell Dr. Gude, who discovered that he had been 'fired' during the meeting.
You should now understand that I was the FIRST person to become aware of the conflict Dr. Gude would have and acted on it immediately. So your statement "why can't you recognize his conflict of interest" is deserving of at least a retraction.
farmerdan