Rama Bar-Adon
Attorney At Law
7718 Broadway
San Antonio, Texas 78209
210-828-6777
Fax 210-855-8009
June 27, 2004

Lee S. Anderson, M.D. 
President, Texas State Board of Medical Examiners
P.,O.  Box 2018
Austin, TX 78768-2018

Dear Dr. Anderson:

This Letter is written in support of Dr. Philip Leonard.  I urge you to allow 
Dr. Leonard to resume practicing medicine immediately.  My parents, Aaron and 
Zipporah Bar-Adon, join me in supporting Dr. Leonard.  They have known Dr. 
Leonard since the 1970?s.  My father, Professor Aaron Bar-Adon (age 81), has 
been his patient for many years.  He wants to resume treatment with Dr. Leonard 
as soon as possible.  It has worked a hardship on my father to be without his 
doctor?s care.

As an attorney whose practice includes personal injury plaintiffs? 
representation, based on the fine care Dr. Leonard provided out family over the 
years, I 
often referred injured clients, including attractive single women, to Dr.. 
Leonard for competent neurological evaluation and treatment.  I also referred 
people that were not clients to Dr Leonard.  Some of these patents did not 
disclose they were referred by me.  Without exception, both the women and the 
men I 
referred during more than a decade delivered glowing reports regarding Dr. 
Leonard?s professionalism and competence.  Not one person reported any 
misconduct or negative incident.  Dr. Leonard always delivered quality care to 
the 
patients I referred him.  Being compassionate, he accepted patients that could 
not 
afford treatment otherwise and that other doctors refused to assist due to 
inability to pay.  He uniformly delivered excellent care to all, regardless of 
ability to pay. Several patients I referred to him had been treated 
unsuccessfully by other doctors for years, but were treated successfully by him 
(Mr. 
Morris Smith, for example).  

Dr. Leonard was one of my treating physicians after I was injured in a an 
automobile accident in 1994.  He always delivered excellent care to me as a 
physician and acted professionally at all times.  My opinion of him could not 
be 
higher.

I have known Dr. Leonard since 1988.  Our young children carpooled to 
preschool and played together.  I entrusted my son to his care without 
reservation.  
I was alone with Dr. Leonard many times.  He never acted inappropriately (even 
though  I was a divorcee that was considered attractive).  I have been with 
Dr. Leonard in many social settings over the years.  It has been my experience 
and that of female friends and referrals to him that he was always been a 
gentleman whether socially or professionally.

We found the charges against Dr. Leonard ludicrous and outrageous and are 
glad to see that the Court system is proving this to be the case.  We know Dr. 
Leonard to be a caring, competent, ethical doctor and human being who should be 
allowed to resume the practice of medicine without restriction as soon as 
possible for his patients sake.

Being an attorney, I can verify that I have at time been approached by 
litigious prospective clients who were looking r a "deep pocket" to sue for 
financial gain or had emotional problems that led them to fabricate claims or 
misconstrue situations.  Some of these prospective clients, after hearing of a 
case, tried to cash in by making similar, wrongly allegations.  Unfortunately, they 
could count on a natural desire to err on the side of caution and on a 
presumption of guilt once an accusation was made. I turned these cases down, 
but other attorneys often took them.  These included wrongful medical malpractice 
cases.  Dr. Leonard's patients, including my father, are distraught that he is 
not practicing medicine.  These female and male patients I have talked to are 
unable to find his level of quality care elsewhere.  We urge the Texas State 
Board of Medical Examiners to reinstate Dr. Leonard to his practice of medicine for 
the good of his patients and the community.

Sincerely,

Rama Bar-Adon, et al