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Most employers grievance procedures are a joke, they are simply a dog and pony show unfortunately. I was wondering if any of you guys had seen the web site of americansmadandagry...here is a link that will show some reasons WHY it is so important that we continue to speak out. The site /link is :
http://www.americansmadandangry.org/real_stories.php
This site is real life stories of events that should never have happened, much like ours here. If you are looking for hospitals to do the right thing it just doesnt happen 99.9% of the time. In this link somewhere there is a stroy about a little girl named Josie King. She basically died (according to the story) of dehydration in one of out TOP hospitals in the US.The only...the only way the family found out her cause of death was from the MD being forthcoming because of his guilt. The family said the MD attended the funeral and that after the funeral the only...the ONLY person that this family wanted to see at the after funeral gathering at her home was this MD. The mother said she wanted him to understand that their lack of attention / errors destroyed a perfect family. This is why it was so important to the family that the MD come to their home after the funeral.
In healthcare ...we are not perfect...but we must be accountable and forthcoming. If we are not...people die. The event that this Josie King family describes took place in one of the nations top hospitals......my event took place in one of the nations best ( supposedly) hospitals and the climate at that hospital was not propatient.It said it was a patient safety priority hospital but it was in reality a polar opposite.