What Profit Is There To Be Found In One Pediatrician ' s Two Decades Of Wandering - And A Hospital ' s Downfall?

I ' ve not blogged in a very long time.  But it does seems to be TIME to pick the pen back up.Twenty years ago, executives running my hometown hospital (Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, North Carolina) fired me just two weeks after I answered the call of a terrified charge nurse and intervened in a " bad-baby " case being managed by a Cone-Healthcare-employed Family Practitioner.  After I stabilized the baby and shipped her to North Carolina Baptist/Brenner Children ' s Hospital, the doctor I " rescued " trashed me to the baby ' s parents - falsely alleging that I had somehow caused her harm - when, in fact, by ALL accounts, I saved her life (the Randolph nursing staff - as well as former colleagues/teachers at NCBH - quickly set them straight on who really was responsible for their medical nightmare . . . and it wasn ' t Mary Johnson).Now, I don ' t mind rescuing situations/people.  But the professional libel I simply could not abide.  The next morning, I reported what had happened to hospital Peer Review.  Peer review a quality-of-care activity supposedly protected by law.  The problem is that those who serve on such committees are protected - but those who blow the whistle on bad care are not.I recently got schooled on that again.I had just completed concurrent two-year service obligations to Asheboro/Randolph County, through the National Health Service Corps and the NC Office of Rural Health.  In other words, the state and Federal governme...
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