Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor

[Emma]

Texas Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor - NYTimes.com

What a load of shit.

Looks like that bitch went a little too far and stuck her nose where it shouldn't have been!

Let's hope she goes to jail for a REAL long time!!!

GO DOCS!!!

ROFL!

But seriously folks...

I have a legal and ethical obligation to report harmful, unethical or illegal practice on the part of any member of the health care team or health care institution; failure to do so puts my license at risk.

 

[Emma]

as long as you allow the ama to police itself...you will have this...they circle the wagons and protect each other to the hilt and could care less if a few nurses get their licenses revoked....by and by a lot of doctors suck and their peers know it...but they all just cover it up....peers...hospital boards....insurance ....amazing...people will look into law suits and never realize most are settled and not made public....

Well, in this case the State Board of Medicine is backing the nurses 100%.

 

[FireGod]

Texas Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor - NYTimes.com

What a load of shit.

Looks like that bitch went a little too far and stuck her nose where it shouldn't have been!

Let's hope she goes to jail for a REAL long time!!!

GO DOCS!!!

ROFL!

But seriously folks...

I have a legal and ethical obligation to report harmful, unethical or illegal practice on the part of any member of the health care team or health care institution; failure to do so puts my license at risk.

So are you now scared to do so in light of the article?

Are you talking about personal or professional ethics?

 

[chanel]

I'm curious if they would have been caught if they didn't use the work computer. And I bet the doc will be using the effed up HIPAA regs. to go after them. It's possible that they compromised the poor rubber finger guy's identity.

Hopefully they will win and encourage more nurses to speak out. We had a situation in our local hospital years ago that uncovered that many of the babies were being delivered by the nurses; not doctors. It took a tragedy for the practice to stop.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I bet the nurses by and large did a better job.

Before Lister came along with his sanitary reforms, having your wife deliver in a hospital under the care of a doctor was next to murder. Midwives were a lot safer.

 

[California Girl]

I'll wait until ALL the facts are available before I judge anyone on this.

 

[xotoxi]

Texas Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor - NYTimes.com

What a load of shit.

Looks like that bitch went a little too far and stuck her nose where it shouldn't have been!

Let's hope she goes to jail for a REAL long time!!!

GO DOCS!!!

ROFL!

But seriously folks...

I have a legal and ethical obligation to report harmful, unethical or illegal practice on the part of any member of the health care team or health care institution; failure to do so puts my license at risk.

This doctor is a friggin idiot!

If he had not said anything, the state medical board would have investigated, told him to improve, and made him sign something. It would not have become a public issue and no one would have ever known about it. That is the way state medical boards function.

Instead, he made a big deal about it, it became national news (going so far as to be discussed on USMB!) and now he is in the spotlight as a sucky doctor. He will lose and will not be able to work anymore.

Which is a good thing.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I have a legal and ethical obligation to report harmful, unethical or illegal practice on the part of any member of the health care team or health care institution; failure to do so puts my license at risk.

This doctor is a friggin idiot!

If he had not said anything, the state medical board would have investigated, told him to improve, and made him sign something. It would not have become a public issue and no one would have ever known about it. That is the way state medical boards function.

Instead, he made a big deal about it, it became national news (going so far as to be discussed on USMB!) and now he is in the spotlight as a sucky doctor. He will lose and will not be able to work anymore.

Which is a good thing.

I think this proves the doctor's level of good judgement, which is one more reason he needs to be a something else for a living.

 

[Emma]

So are you now scared to do so in light of the article?

No.

Are you talking about personal or professional ethics?

Both.

 

[FireGod]

Please pass on your code of conduct to your fellow professionals then.

 

[Emma]

Please pass on your code of conduct to your fellow professionals then.

I've been blessed to work with both doctors and nurses who are true patient advocates.

 

[FireGod]

Please pass on your code of conduct to your fellow professionals then.

I've been blessed to work with both doctors and nurses who are true patient advocates.

Why are there so few of you out there? I am going off of the state of things 4 years ago or so.

 

[Charles Stucker]

as long as you allow the ama to police itself...you will have this...they circle the wagons and protect each other to the hilt and could care less if a few nurses get their licenses revoked....by and by a lot of doctors suck and their peers know it...but they all just cover it up....peers...hospital boards....insurance ....amazing...people will look into law suits and never realize most are settled and not made public....

Well, in this case the State Board of Medicine is backing the nurses 100%.

Perhaps because it IS Texas