Googled her name.She isn't even a GP,just a Phd in applied sciences. And is personnel assistant(read asskisser) to CEO of Luccrum.
Yup. She really knows about what she yaps.

Hummmmmmmm. Maybe google ain't so hot...according to Kate's update.More than one Sheila Leavitt?

There's more than one Sheila Levitt, this one shows up at such authoritative places as Truthout.org

http://www.truthout.org/073109A#comment-84561

There doesn't seem to be a Sheila Leavitt, as a medical doctor, in or near Newton, MA.

The Boston Herald's praise of her as 'one of those rare people who put their convictions on parade and face the consequences' is hypocritical, when we read/hear how the Democrats treat people who also, express their convictions.

A doctor would -have- to be a hard core Democrat partisan to think Obamacare is a good idea.

Its a good idea for Obama, just not so great for everybody else.

According to HowManyOfMe.com, the 1990 US census showed 12 people named Sheila Leavitt in the US.

Like we do here here, the American Medical Association has a web site called physcician finder. All registered physicians should be listed there.

I cannot find a "Leavitt" in either Mass. Iowa, or NJ (all states with a Newton)

Anyone else is welcome to try her in all states. Go to the AMA site and look under Physician Finder.

I don't want to call bogus too early but so far finding her registered as a physician has not been possible.

Way back when in my election grassroots political support days, the thing that amazed me the most about a typical riding in a city was how few people were needed for any form of so-called on the ground productive daytime activity. Today it is all contrived soundbites and MSM BS.

"Obama and the Fanatics" suffer from over planning their rock shows. Giving "face time" to over the top party idiots pretending to be ordinary people at meetings is stupid and depending on the cooperative MSM to cover up their backgrounds won't work today. They would get better numbers by manipulating the town drunk to show up and throw a shoe at him.

Also reminds me of those who spout the HRC party lines in newspapers etc and almost instantly trace back to their assorted gravy trains.

Dr. Sheila Leavitt said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday's meeting appeared to be using the same "talking points" as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.

That would be because those critics, who happen to form a majority of Americans, can see the same problems with ObamaCare.

Are they supposed to have different, other problems with ObamaCare?

Maybe Leavitt could point out what those different, other problems are.

Leavitt is using a Liberal talking point when she characterises people who have a problem with the federal government's unconstitutional intereference in health care as "rowdy" critics with "talking points".

Leavitt is neither listed as a physician in Massachusetts nor Maine, where she has a second home.

Those who believe they can find a Dr. Sheila Leavitt practicing medicine anywhere in Massachusetts are invited to use the following site:
http://profiles.massmedboard.org/MA-Physician-Profile-Find-Doctor.asp

Wonderful. Do the "professional" journalists realize that it only takes one habitual blog reader in an office to spread the debunking from one cubicle to another at the speed of morning coffee (or sodas, in the deep south)?

I am beginning to think that the spin jobs they continue to perpetrate are not for our benefit, but rather, to keep convincing themselves and their colleagues.

And to boot, they keep killing trees by the millions!

The linked article calls her "a trained physician" which could mean that she is an MD but doesn't practice.

Perhaps because of psychological problems?

Thank you Kate!

Does this mean Associated press cannot be relied on for factual information.
Are they as news disseminators inept, just plain lazy, deliberately misleading or out and out corrupt, with a slobbering Democrat agenda?

How can a bunch of bloggers, living in their living rooms, in pyjamas no less, pull the rug out from under the MSM so easily? In the early days of blogging, an exec at CBS didn't think it possible. ;-0

Another aspiring doctor at a town-hall meeting....will the authorities bust her for impersonating a MD?
These people have no shame.........

BUT EVEN IF SHE IS A DOCTOR, it wouldn't necessarily mean much.

To wit: over-heard 3 doctors at a table behind me last nite at a restaurant in WA state. Leaving, I stopped by for a quick parting chat and to relay some info to them.

I ran one of my favourite schticks, when travelling America: DID YOU KNOW THAT IT IS ILLEGAL TO BUY OR SELL PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE IN CANADA.

I tell you it gets 'em every time. Even with the omniscient "I'm a doctor and I want my sausages" doctors. They were truly shocked. One cat even mildly challenged me. And oh, he asked me WHAT I DID. Get my drift. Ass-sniffers the good doctors are eh?

One cat had been head of the WA Medical association. One cat referred to Canada as socialist (well, yes) when I mentioned I was from Vancouver. I thought it would be rude to ask, but was pretty sure that they would all have voted for Dr Mengelobama.

Oh, and I mentioned the possible cancellation of 6000 surgeries in Vancouver and my friend's daughter in law facing a two year wait for surgery for a newly discovered brain tumour.

I don't like doctors much. I enjoy baiting them. Once, very drunk in Regina, I told a doctor that I had issues with doctor pay. PREGNANT PAUSE. "I don't think you're paid enough".

Well done 'Kate' well done.

I believe that most MSM "journalists" have Rolodexes or high tech equivalents filled with Sheila Leavitts covering all major topics from which to conveniently draw to reinforce PC left-lib or junk science narratives. The stories are essentially pre-written and formulaic. Prior to filing they just need to fill in the quotes. One can only hope that in their next career they find honest work.

Now that's what I call journalism Kate - nice job.

Another good example of how liberals happily abandon the notion of truth. She is close enough to a doctor in their eyes, so let's just call her a doctor.

Scary stuff.

If she hasn't practiced for 26 years I doubt very much that she would get a license to practice today. Most licensed professions require that you demonstrate competence in the profession by some combination of practice, continuing education/upgrading, or re-examination. So unless she is actually licensed (and it appears from database searches that she is not), she is just another individual who went to university 30 years ago. Her opinion has as much validity as any other in the room.

Maybe she's a bone cracker like DR I Ruby Dhalla LOL.

Amazing that I get better (and quicker) American news coverage from a graphic artist in Middle O' Nowhere, Saskatchewan, on DIAL UP, than from the -entire- American media.

Not so amazing that the entire American media is going broke, fast.

Faster, please.

In other news, it seems that The One has called up his posse and kicked some @sses. Single payer option is back on the front burner and nobody never said nuttin' about no co-ops, nuh uh.

But this time they Really Mean It(tm). No more bipartisanship, no more Mr. Nice Guy(tm).

Sure.

"Dr." Sheila Leavitt said she hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who aren't paid as much as specialists.

If primary care physicians were paid as much as specialists, who, in their right mind, would spend the extra time and money to specialize?

Ok, she's ~almost~ a doctor giving her a voice to speak for doctors. Then ... I'm ~almost~ President of the United States of America and hereby declare I will veto any health care bill that includes a public option, raises anyone's taxes, promises abortions for free, allows illegals to get free care, yada.

Maureen is right on with her comment that someone who hasn't practiced medicine in 26 years wouldn't be considered competent to practice today. Each jurisdiction has slightly different criteria of how much time a physician has to spend practicing yearly and how many years of non-practice before they are no longer considered to be qualified physicians. I think the maximum time of non-practice I've seen is 3 years. (Practicing full time this is not an area of medical licensure I think it is necessary for me to be up to date on).

Also, if someone has completed an MD program they have no first hand knowledge of what it actually means to practice medicine on ones own. Even if someone completes an internship, all they know about is what it is like to practice medicine in a hospital under supervision. Things are quite different in the real world when one is on ones own and no longer has a staff physician to turn to for answers when dealing with difficult cases.

Score another one for the bloggers who seem to be the only source of reliable news in N. America at this time.

Sgt Lejaune "...the thing that amazed me the most about a typical riding in a city was how few people were needed for any form of so-called on the ground productive daytime activity."

I hear you Sgt. I was involved with neighborhood groups for the last 8 years and it was very frustrating. You could have 300 people trying to get some attention to a serious area problem and nobody listening. Then one person would complain about bike paths or dog walking and they were on tv or in the newpapers.

Most meetings were small and boring and I used to look around and think that the whole process could be hijacked by the bad guys with very little effort.

And by bad guys I don't mean people on the right or left I mean criminals.

well obviously the doctors are not paid well enough if they have to drive '88 Corollas to work. I like Corollas don't get me wrong, There's nothing wrong with that product.
I just don't see so many of them in the "doctors only parking" beside most hospitals. dunno.

I gather that the Democrats have a new way to insure that they don't get caught with plants anymore.

Bammy has got them to buy a case of Mr. Potato Head dolls, which they will then change out the features in the desperate belief that they won't be found out.

Having played with my kid's potato head, I can assure you that they have about the same thought process and intelligence.

Just to add something ...

Even if she did practice medicine 25 years ago so much has changed within the system that her experience is worthless today in relation to a health care reform debate.

How many people would argue that someone with a 25 year old MBA that never had a job using that degree would be an expert to talk about reforming how companies manage IT infrastructure?

"She said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday's meeting appeared to be using the same "talking points" as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country." Sheila Leavitt

You have to give them points for chutzpah for a talking point like the above.

FYI, for those who follow the WH on Twitter... it went silent on ObamaCare for a couple of days, and now they are back selling hard...

What makes me laugh is that through twitter, the WH is preaching to the choir (what's left of it, anyway).

Owebamacare = jerry springer redux???

http://www.lucruminc.com/about/leadership.html
Assistant to CEO...
Same person, even same ear rings as town hall photo on Malkin site...

Shaken, you know very well there's "nothing left" of that choir... ;)

Someone should contact Weird Al to see if Dr. Sheila was his inspiration for the parody of the Madonna song (Like a Virgin), retitled "Like a Surgeon". Is she a plant for ObamaCare or just delusional? Cheers.

The article on her states that she went to Italy and came back and became a homeowner.She also had enough money to take the very expensive university course of medicine and never practice.Did she go to Italy just before the medical degree? She now is in real estate in Italy? Where did the money come from? It sounds to me that maybe some Italian money is involved and maybe there is a Lamborgini and not a Corolla in Italy.I wonder who her relatives were.

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What Cindy Sheehan is an MD now?

So paco, not the same paco of Tim Blair fame, I would guess by that weak link.

I guess you are suggesting that a secretary from Cincinnati, oooh there's that Ohio connection again, traveled all the way to Boston to astroturf Frank's town hall? I am just trying to keep your argument straight. And the nutcase with a medical degree who lives in Boston was in no way involved?

Lt. Frank Drebin: Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago.
Ed Hocken: Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis.
Nordberg: I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati.
Lt. Frank Drebin: No you're thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly.
Ed Hocken: He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin.
Nordberg: Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember it was North or South.
Lt. Frank Drebin: North. South Dakota was his brother. From West Virginia.

http://www.italyhousescout.com/pjp/bts.html

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sheila-leavitt/15/1a0/b81

http://gobnf.org/i/trm/doctors2.pdf
LOL...

http://www.dreamofitaly.com/public/150.cfm?sd=81
"Sheila Leavitt, a.k.a. the Italian House Scout, who bought her own house near Sarteano five or so years ago, steers her clients away from the countryside and into the center of smaller towns, especially in more affordable southern Tuscany."

...just another elitist douche.

http://www.nysed.gov/coms/op001/opsc2a?profcd=60&plicno=138545&namechk=LEA

Leavitt's medical licence.

Is Obamasiah & the WH Minced News Machine is now pounding into our thick skulls ever day now - it s about reforming Health INSURANCE, not health care.

So who gives a flying fig what doctors think about Insurance when their specialty is medicine ?

Just curious

Comrades:

Let me just congratulate the blogging people's representatives for a glorious execution of the Alinsky method of creating peace.

Pick a target and smear as hard as you can until all opposition disappears.

Wait. The fake doctor is being flushed out with the facts.

This is terrible news indeed.

In the Alinsky method, never let the facts stand in the way of a good smear.

Heard anything Kate, re. the AP stringer from Mass? Or do we have to wait for the page 1 correction?

I'm surprised the AP story didn't paint her as a Palestinian refugee.

Thousands of unpolitically connect citizens go to meetings (the ONLY meetings whey are ever likely to get to where an elected official shows up) and Nancy Pelosi screams "MOB" "Fascists" "NAZIs" and "Astroturf".

Day after day ... Democretins with strong party connections and track records as political activists are exposed in their fradulent attempts to portray themselves as something they are not ... that being ordinary citizens .... and still the MSM and the rest ... refuse to call it what it is.

Individualism, enemy of the collective.

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0802h.asp

I didn't think much about this until I saw her car. I live in Massachusetts and work in Newton, MA. I often get lunch at the Whole Foods which is about a half-mile from the office. Guess who's a regular shopper there? That's right!! The good 'Doctor'! I've seen her car in the lot several times.

After reading the anti-Obamacare WSJ editorial by the Whole Foods CEO, I don't suppose I'll be seeing that piece of crap in the lot anytime soon. Bummer!!!

Keep being awesome, Doc!

Funny that the fake POTUS has supporters that feel they need to fake opinions. The wing nuts don't have much faith in the Obama.

I guess they heard that all the homeless shelters in Chicago are missing their resident (1960's) Communist hair ball, they are now Obama advisors ((comrades) ... Obama needs to go back to Chicago and pimp for bag ladies & fake Doctors.

I trust the NYT will do a full exposee on her laims to be a doctor of authority.

Update: A commentor purporting to be Leavitt's son at Bucks Right states Leavitt received the required medical training but has not practiced in 26 years.
When the "Dr." Roxana Mayer phoney was reported in the Chronicle paper from Florida (sorry, I've forgotten the paper's full name), a commenter claimed that "Dr Mayer" had delivered her quintuplets and treated them for swine flu in 2008. It was a lie too. (There were a couple of sets of quints born in Texas in the time frame, but neither family's blog mentioned the kids contracting swine flu; and Texas's first case of swine flu was in 2009 not in 2008 etc.)

She's drives her own kids around on bald tires and pretends she's concerned about the future.

someone writing stuff for me?

hassan bin sobah.............

Intersting!
Now who do you suppose told the Whole Foods CEO to shut up and threatened some dort of boycot?

Busy woman ........!

One more time with spelling checked:

hassan bin sobah.............

Interseting!

Now who do you suppose told the Whole Foods CEO to shut up and threatened some sort of boycot?

Busy woman ........!

Andrew Lichtman, Shelia Leavitt's husband, is an MD who feeds off the taxpayer through NIH grants.

These NIH grants (supplied by taxpayers) are persistently abused and frittered away on things like non-essential or unecessary repetitive research that just benefits the researcher's wallet. And many more underhanded activities.

But Newton Massachusetts is a den of iniquity. Lots of high earners in the health field that spend a lot to hide assets and play games with their taxes. Excuse me, cheat on their taxes. While they tell other people they should be paying more taxes.

The state Representative of Newton is a particularly unsavory character named Kay Khan. She is a psychiatric nurse. Her husband Nasir Khan runs a psychiatric hospital. Khan does things like get laws passed making it easier for psychiatric nurses to strip people of their personal rights and freedoms and whimsically throw them in a psych hospital, where guess what, people like her husband profit. When the taxpayer has to pay for all these false psychiatric incarcerations, people like Khan and her husband will roll in the profits.

See Khan's page? http://www.kaykhan.org/bio.php Notice the awards from things like the Mass Psychological Association and others? That's because Khan is making it easier for her and her husband's BUSINESS CRONIES (like the members of the Mass Psychological Association) to make more money from the taxpayer. And Khan HERSELF is profiting from her lawmaking through her husband.

A total conflict of interest!

She's co chair of the Legislative Mental Health Caucus, changing the laws to funnel tax dollars into the pockets of people like her husband.

A COMPLETE conflict of interest.

Notice the committees and panels she gets herself on? The Female Offender Review Panel she is on? All a personal effort to direct tax dollars into the pockets of her family's business cronies pushing "treatment" that is usually useless.

Most of Khan's legislative work through her career has been to personally advance her own and her husband's health business interests, as well as their associates.

This is all about the money for all these types. They will be able to feed off the taxpayer to an even greater degree with Obamacare.

Sheila Leavitt is just a stand in for this group of health industry pilferers.

All the talk about "caring about people" is just subterfuge for ripping off the taxpayer and robbing us blind.

And as for the pitiful children of people like this? The children are maintained and get their bills paid for by the parents well into adulthood.

The children feed off the taxpayer too.

All that youthful "activism" is more about supporting mommy and daddy being able to rake in other people's tax money to buy sons and daughters condos and houses, expensive vacations, cars, and all the rest.

This is selfishness and gluttony hiding under a bunch of peacenik, pseudo progressive, "helping people" fakery.