A North Carolina Pediatric Hospitalist Tells Her Pandemic Story to Senator Richard Burr: Thirteen Months (And Counting) In Medical Whistle-blower Hell - Courtesy Of Private Equity/For-Profit Healthcare And Cruelly-Indifferent/Morally-Bankrupt State & Federal Oversight

Author ' s Note:  I cannot " sound-bite " the last year - and perhaps it ' s time to write the book. Scroll about half-way down to read the letter to Senator Burr.  The bottom line is that for thethird time in 23 years, as a Pediatrician staffing a community hospital, I was fired " with-out cause " immediately after intervening in a neonatal ( " bad baby " ) case, rescuing the situation/ " saving " the baby, and reporting it INTERNALLY to Peer Review.  NO discussion.  NO recourse.  NO review.  A total cover-up.  And EVERY SINGLE TIME I ' ve asked the state/Federal government to enforce their own contracts/rules/standards, they ' ve abandoned me to the corporate wolves.  Total SWAMP-MONSTER.  In order to protect patients, doctors themselves MUST be protected. In the wake of the COVID19 pandemic, and with our government throwing TRILLIONS at hospitals, it ' s way past the time for universal/easy-to-access/timely medical whistle-blower protection for ALL (employed or contracted) doctors/nurses working at hospitals accepting Medicare/Medicaid. It is a fact that, if COVID-19 had affected children with anything remotely close to the same deadly voracity that it does susceptible adults, the American medical infrastructure would have collapsed.  Forthere isNO infrastructure in small communities and rural areas to cope with hoards of very sick/very young children . . . certainly not children sick enough to be i...
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