CA Supreme Court upholds "whistleblower" protection for Modesto physician - and on replacing the abuser-favoring connotations of "whistleblower" with "Corporate Integrity Advocate"

"Whistleblower" is a term commonly used to refer to insiders in an organization who do not "go along to get along" or look the other way with regard to corruption and malfeasance.The connotation, of course, is that these individuals are "snitches" and "non-team players", in other words, the "bad guys."  They are then punished for their good deeds.(More on the term "whistleblower" below.)Here's one "whistleblower" who punished back:California Supreme Court upholds whistleblower protection for Modesto physicianBy Ken CarlsonFebruary 20, 2014 http://www.modbee.com/2014/02/20/3201156/california-supreme-court-upholds.htmlThe California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Modesto physician who challenged the termination of his hospital privileges has whistleblower protections.Dr. Mark Fahlen, a kidney specialist, filed a March 2011 whistleblower lawsuit in Stanislaus County Superior Court after Sacramento-based Sutter Health canceled his privileges to care for patients at Memorial Medical Center.Fahlen’s lawsuit claims that Sutter Central Valley Hospitals and Steve Mitchell, then the chief operating officer of Memorial, persuaded the Sutter Gould medical group to fire him and terminated his hospital privileges because of his complaints about insubordination and substandard care by hospital nurses.At least they didn't threaten to plaster his complaints to his forehead as occurred in Ohio (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/07/hows-this-for-patient-rights-affinity.html).His at...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: ad hominem fallacy AHIMA Corporate Integrity Advocate financialization Kim Baldwin Stried-Reich Mark Fahlen MD sham peer review Steve Mitchell Sutter Health whistle-blowers Source Type: blogs