Miss. Lawmaker’s Kin Is Refused Treatment | AP | 6.11.04
A plastic surgeon declined to treat the daughter of a lawmaker who opposed limits in damage lawsuits against doctors in Mississippi. …
Kimberly Banks said she went to Dr. Michael Kanosky’s office Wednesday seeking to have scars removed from third-degree burns she suffered while cooking earlier this year. …
“He asked me who I worked for and then asked me who my father was,” Banks told The Associated Press. “I told him Earle Banks. He told me, ‘I can’t see you because your father is against tort reform.’” …
“We just felt that there was a conflict of interest, and my wife was a lobbyist for the doctors,” Kanosky told WLBT. “I explained the concerns about conflict of interest. She (Banks) seemed OK with that. I have to be ethical and present those conflicts to the patients.” …
It is very hard to see the conflict of interest here—seems to be a lack of any better excuse.