Letter to Gov. Perry from Kalafut's former partner, Dr. Dan Munton

Steven Hotze, M.D.
October 30, 2007

Dear Colleagues,
 
Greetings! The following is a letter from Dr. Dan Munton, former partner of Dr. Kalafut in Abilene from 2002 - 2004, to Gov. Perry. Dr. Munton is the physician who informed me that while he had worked with Kalafut and her husband, Dr. Brandecker, that Kalafut told him that she would have her husband file anonymous complaints against her competitors and then she would work the TMB to ensure that they were disciplined.
 
Kalafut and her husband have a pain management clinic in Abilene. Their are six other physicians in pain management practices in Abilene who compete with Kalafut and her husband. Of these six physicians, two are neurosurgeons, one radiologist, two anesthesiologists and Dr. Munton, a specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine. All six of Kalafut's competitors have received anonymous complaints from the TMB since Kalafut joined the board. All the members of the Hendrick Medical Center Executive Medical Staff have also received anonymous complaints since Kalafut joined the board. In the late 1990s, Hendrick Medical Center (HMC) terminated Dr. Kalafut's and her husband's management of the rehabilitation program at the HMC. The word out in Abilene is that Kalafut and her husband initiated all these anonymous complaints. The physicians are terrified of her.
 
Dr. Munton is preparing a sworn affidavit, describing the above, which I will present to Ronnie Earle this Thursday when I file my complaint against Kalafut for committing the crime of official oppression. My Austin attorney thinks that we can meet with the Federal Prosecutor, Johnny Sutton, and file federal charges for racketeering, a conviction of which would send Kalafut to the federal penitentiary.
 
The plot thickens like caribou stew.
 
Sincerely yours,
 
Steve Hotze, M.D.
 
 
Dear Governor Perry, 

My name is Dr. Dan Munton, I am the former partner of  Roberta Kalafut D.O. and her husband Ed Brandecker M.D.  I voluntarily for ethical  reasons resigned from their practice in 2004.  I left Abilene to serve out a contractual non compete.  Upon hearing of my planned return to Abilene, Ed Brandecker sent me a threatening letter stating that if I had stayed away they would have "let bygones be bygones".  I shortly thereafter received my first of two "anonymous" complaints from the Texas Medical Board where Roberta sits as President.  Then Vince Viola, my physician assistant, who previously worked for them, was also turned into the board "anonymously".  I don't feel this was all just coincidence.  It has cost me countless hours and thousands of dollars to defend myself from these fraudulent complaints.  

It is very concerning to now hear that after first denying, then admitting her husband has turned in physicians anonymously to the Medical Board with her knowledge.  I think this is an extreme abuse of power.  I am asking you to ask for her resignation.  From the hearings you can now see the countless united physicians across Texas that would agree with this position.

Sincerely,
Dan Munton M.D.