A Kansas radiologist who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate -- but later found his campaign embroiled in controversy -- is claiming to have been exonerated by the state's medical board for making Facebook posts with images of dead patients.
Dr. Milton Wolf on August 3 posted a message to his website stating that the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts had officially closed its probe into whether he violated patient confidentiality by making the posts, which came to light during Wolf's 2014 run against incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) for one of the state's two Senate seats.
Wolf had been mounting a strong challenge to Roberts in the Republican primary when a number of Facebook posts came to light that Wolf had made several years previously, joking about x-ray images of fatal gunshot wounds received by patients. One particular image was his "all-time favorite," Wolf had written, while the pro-gun candidate commented "I've got to get one of those" in response to another particularly gruesome picture.
Wolf admitted to making the posts and later removing them, but he claimed that the investigation into whether he had violated the confidentiality of the patients was politically motivated. Wolf repeated these claims in his announcement this week that the board had cleared him.
"It's time we stand up to these bullies in Washington and Topeka, both Democrats and Republicans, who are ruining our country and our state," Wolf wrote. "They did everything they could to destroy me but they failed. I'm still standing and I won't back down."
