When Hospital CEO ' s and Leapfrog LIE to the Public: False Advertising Based On Old/Bad Data

This morning, I sent out a passel of e-mails to selected representatives and Senators in the NC General Assembly . . . begging for much-needed, post-pandemic medical reforms in North Carolina.I am all for the NC General Assembly supporting the healthcare industry in North Carolina - but they need to do it without otherwise killing the doctors and nurses working in it.  The " right to work " for doctors and nurses in North Carolina (if we are indeed doing what the Governor calls " God ' s work " ) MUST be about something other than the right to have our lives devalued, disrupted and brutally eviscerated (as mine was last year) at an MBA ' s whim.  Our medical labor and contract laws are 30 years behind the times.  Everybody knows it.  No one has FIXED it. If you want to know why healthcare unions are getting a foothold, look no further than my life ' s story . .. as Pediatrician fired three times in 23 years for blowing the whistle on bad care.  The NC Medical Board, the NC Medical and Pediatric Societies, JCAHO, Leapfrog, NCDHHS/CMS . . . ALL of the agencies and regulatory bodies charged with patient and provider safety/advocacy have been ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL as " corporate " ran over everybody (and our politicians took their money).Something has to change.  I can roll over and die (at 59) or I can FIGHT.  I chose to FIGHT.I was not really planning to do any more posts this weekend.  But I got a "MyMindIsBlown" message from a d...
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