" Strike Two " : A Pediatrician ' s " Dance " with Alan Levine/Ballad Health - And WHY We Need Federal Medical Whistle-blower Protection For ALL Healthcare " Workers " NOW

This is the story of how government failed me as a Pediatrician - for the second time.  The saddest thing of all is that there is a " Strike Three " .  Nobody cares about Pediatrics - or Pediatricians.  They haven ' t for a very long time.  This is a long post.  Don ' t whine about it.  Read it. CARE that somebody trying to stand up for your children lived it - and not for the first time.Twenty-two years ago, the morally-bankrupt executives of my now fiscally-bankrupt hometown hospital (in Asheboro, North Carolina) railroaded me out of town . . . after I intervened in a nursery case being mis-managed by a then-Cone-Health-owned family medicine doctor. I was called in- at the behest of a terrified charge nurse - in the middle of the night - when I wasn ' t even on-call.  By all accounts, I saved the critically-ill newborn baby ' s life.  The next morning, I reported what happened to hospital Peer Review.  Two weeks later, I was out of a job . . . my dream job . . . a job whose " benefits " included the repayment of my medical-school loans by the state and Federal governments - as an incentive to remain in Asheboro and continue to " serve the under-served " . A medico-legal nightmare ensued.  I ' ve never been able to come home.  What was done to me (and the taxpayer who paid a good portion of the bill) was criminal in its scope.That story is summarizedhere.I ' ve told the story over and over again for litera...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - Category: American Health Tags: Alan Levine Ballad Health Cooperative Agreement COPA ETSU Medical Whistle-blower Pediatric Hospitalist Ralph Northam Randolph Hospital Tennessee Department of Health Virginia Department of Health Source Type: blogs