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What to do about slander?

Long story but I'll cut to the chase. I was working as an experienced RN in a new position at a local hospital. On Saturday, I admitted a pt. whose dr. I had never met. On Monday morning, a staff member from his office called my nurse manager to report that I had called told the dr. he was incompetent. I didn't know anything about him positive or negative and didn't call him incompetent. I can't understand why he would do that. The nurse manager wanted me to sign a statement saying I wouldn't do it again. I refused saying that since it didn't happen in the first place if I signed a statement saying I wouldn't do it again, I would be signing an admission of guilt. I told her I was ready to take it to the next level, that a dr. cannot make a false statement without proof and that legally what he did was slander. She called the DON who said that I could write out my side of the story with my denial and that would be OK.

Well it is not OK with me a dr. or anyone in any profession cannot make a false unsubstantiated claim.

I want to send him a letter demanding that he send a letter to the nurse manager retracting his statement and I want an apology, but I am afraid to b/c I am afraid he may retaliate. I should have some means of recourse when a dr. lies and makes a statement that I didn't make but I don't know what to do short of consult an attorney.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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I support getting this issue mediated with the accuser present and definitely clear your name and conscience. Don't feel so bad and sit in it. The Dr deserves to know the right person (if any) that made the comment and you deserve to be apologized to and be appeased. Whoever made that comment needs to know a better way to address people. I definitely feel for you having been misunderstood by a supervisor before. It is a horrible feeling. I'm sorry you have to go through it.:loveya:

Maybe after he thought about it, he realized he should have ordered telemetry in the first place.

Maybe he was feeling incompetent and projected it, accusing you of saying that he was.

I wouldn't want to work there.

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