Not Your Usual Doctor's-License Suspension (This

One Includes a 107 MPH Cop Chase)

By Craig Malisow in Spaced CityHair Friday, Mar. 27 2009 @ 2:10PM
Balls reads many Texas
Medical Board notices of
license suspensions, and they
usually involve doctors keeping
poor records or maybe popping
a few pills. But Thursday's
announcement of the
suspension of Victoria doctor
Shirley Pigott's license was in a
league of its own.

Pigott has had a long-standing

beef with the Board -- she's
accused the Board of engaging
in cover-ups and retribution,
and perhaps most seriously, she once wrote that this continued persecution led to her
husband's suicide in January 2008.

The alleged persecution reached a boiling point in September 2007, when Pigott was
arrest for evading a police officer who had pulled her over for speeding. (Pigott believes
a former Board disciplinarian sicced the cops on her.) You can read Pigott's saga in her
own words (including how she gunned the car to a sweet 107 mph to get away from the
DPS officers) right here.

This ultimately led to Pigott's arrest for felony assault on a police officer, according to
the Board's suspension order, which also states that Pigott "has made a number of false
statements about being stalked by the Texas Department of Public Safety officers, and
about conspiracies among a number of state agencies, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of
Texas."

The order also states that the Board's forensic psychiatrist evaluated Pigott and "his
impression from the March 20, 2009, meeting was that she is more likely than not
psychotic and her judgment is seriously impaired by the psychosis....He determined that
she appears to be destabilized and is a continuing threat to her patients and/or the
public due to her impaired status."

Apparently, Pigott is also quite the writer. According to the order, she's "written
numerous e-mails regarding her mental conditions asociated with potential instability
to various Texas legislators and to employees of select Texas state agencies. She also has
 acknowledged that she could go 'berserk.'"

Hair Balls hopes Pigott gets some rest.

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copa says:
Whoa there, let's start at the beginning. You're saying you can hit 107 in a Prius?
Posted On: Friday, Mar. 27 2009 @ 3:06PM

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Shirley Pigott MD says:

Dear Copa,

Yep, you surely can and I did, but there was burning rubber and the smell of a burning engine at 108 mph,
which is why I slowed down to a mere 107.

Now why would a sixty year old female doctor on her way to an out-of-state medical meeting be "fleeing"
from a Texas Department of Public Safety officer at 107 mph?

This particular female doctor had just had her right rear car window smashed in with the heavy flashlight
of a berserk DPS officer with a history of shooting those evading arrest in the back and killing them. (OK,
I'll admit it - I didn't know that at the time.)

When I finally reached the "more lighted, populated area", Wharton city limits, where I was not in fear of
my life, I stopped and was promptly arrested. I spent the night in the Wharton County jail.
About midnight one of the two officers who chased me woke my husband of almost forty years out of a
sound sleep with the unsettling report, "we just arrested your wife who was clocked at 107 mph driving
like a crazy woman high on drugs and, don't you worry, we will have her safe in jail in a little while; we are
testing her for drugs and alcohol as we speak".

My Prius was then seized by the Wharton County District Attorney after he made a warrantless search of
my private financial information. According to my former attorney, David Benning Smith of Victoria,
Texas, Toyota Financial Services cheerfully told this bumbling snoop exactly what I owed on my car and
confirmed it was "worth seizing".

Turns out that the US Supreme Court has ruled on the issue. In order to search a person's private financial
information, the searcher needs a warrant. But first, there must be "probable cause" as to why he believes
he will find evidence of criminal activity or an honest judge won't issue one.

The DA didn't have any such evidence, so he had no warrant. Thus, the "warrantless search".

Attorney Smith wasn't highly motivated to defend my civil rights against unreasonable search and seizure
either. He told me, "The DA seized your car...because he could." Attorney Smith didn't do a thing to stop
it.

There's a lot more to this story than is evident from a Texas Medical Board attorney's "finding" that I am
"mentally impaired". What doesn't meet the eye is dang rotten.
If anybody wants a "Part 2" of this exciting true life story, just post an interesting comment. You won't
find it in the mainstream media.

Sincerely,

Shirley Pigott MD
www.texasmedicalboardwatch.com
Former primary care physician serving Texans for over 25 years.

Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 23 2009 @ 4:51PM