It ' s Been A While . . .

Once upon a time, this blog was a force of nature - my nature - not to take the beatings dished out by corporate medicine lying down. It ' s all in the sidebar. I wish I could say it ' s all in the past. But it ' s not. My scars have scars. Every now and then one opens up and oozes.(Insert Disclaimer: I ' ve always/only spoken for me - andonly me - both then and now. It ' s America. I ' m supposed to have that right. When did physicians lose that right?)I blew the whistle on bad care eighteen years ago - in my own hometown hospital. The baby whose life I saved is now a beautiful young woman going off to college - a woman-of-faith whose baptism I attended with tears in my eyes. How can one regret that?It certainly cannot be taken away - never mind that almost everything else I ever worked for and wanted was ripped from my grasp . . . by greedy mill-town good-ole-boys who lied to everyone ' s faces . . . and suffered no consequence whatsoever.Of course, it all happened during the days of " Hillary ' s Village " , so no one cared.This " dime-a-dozen " Pediatrician fought a good fight. I actually " won " the fight " But I didn ' t.The game was fixed from the beginning.I ' m chasing different dreams now . . . as my profession continues to crumble around me . . . and my specialty continues to melt down at the community hospital level (Pediatrics is swimming upstream against forces I identified, and problems I predicted ove...
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