doctors also get in trouble when they speak out

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That's terrible. What's the answer?

How do people get to testify in front of congress? Maybe this is something for them. Hospitals just have way too much power.

How do you get to the article listed at the bottom of the page, a South Carolina surgeon is blackballed? I did a search on that site but didn't come up with anything.

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

Thanks for sharing this, Oramar. I see it is not just nurses who are being "silenced" about unsafe patient-care situations. For some reason, hospitals tend to protect their most inept and bullying employees and punish those who are the whistleblowers. Or, sometimes it is simply a "systems" problem-- dangerous staffing levels (competent nurses who truly care who are overwhelmed trying to take care of too many very sick patients). Patient care is what health care is all about and the patient's best interests should always be CENTRAL (not money, politics, the hospital's reputation in the community, etc). These brave doctors (AND nurses who speak up) deserve medals for what they have done--they are true heroes and have paid a terrible price.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Part 4: The Cost of Courage: Doctor says whistleblowers need more protection

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03302/235115.stm

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Doctors pay for reporting suspicions

Statistics linked deaths to a single nurse, but hospital officials didn't want to hear about it

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03301/234730.stm

Rules of fair play don't always apply

In going up against hospitals, physicians find the deck is stacked against them

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03300/234533.stm

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Thank you for posting the links.

What is this crazy world coming to?

Good always prevails over evil? I don't think so!!!!!

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Wow!

I just read the one about the surgeon in Charleston, S.C.

Sounds like the lunatics are running the asylum.

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Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.

Bumping up this thread.

Yes, the lunatics are running the asylum. Great analogy, cannoli.

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Specializes in ER, PED'S, NICU, CLINICAL M., ONCO..

:zzzzz I've read these articles with special attention. They made me reflex over past experiences working at the public hospital I don't want neither remember nor talk about.

You see, medicine is a huge business everywhere. It manages money and power. Remember things like what happens with blood banks when aids appear for the first time on the eighties. They preferred having thousands of people infected before loosing money. Only against the possibility of loosing more money through trial confrontation, they accepted testing the stored blood.

You cannot beat the giant (I mean the system) without expecting the giant crushing you. It is not a fight fore the brave but for the astute.

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