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Re: Nurse to stand trial for reporting physician's malpractice |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Feb 7 12:08:22 2010, in response to Re: Nurse to stand trial for reporting physician's malpractice, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 12:02:37 2010. They complained to the proper hospital authorities who disagreed with their conclusion. They should have left it at that.What stops the nurses from reporting what they reasonably believe to be manifest unprofessionalism and malpractice to the state's medical board? This sounds like fairly serious stuff: a pattern of improper prescribing and surgical procedures — including a failed skin graft that Dr. Arafiles performed in the emergency room, without surgical privileges. He also sutured a rubber tip to a patient’s crushed finger for protection, an unconventional remedy that was later flagged as inappropriate by the Texas Department of State Health Services. ... The letter also mentioned that Dr. Arafiles was sending e-mail messages to patients about an herbal supplement he sold on the side. Mrs. Mitchell typed the letter and mailed it with a separate complaint signed by a third nurse, who wrote that she had resigned because of similar concerns about Dr. Arafiles. The hospital administrator, Stan Wiley, said in an interview that Dr. Arafiles had been reprimanded on several occasions for improprieties in writing prescriptions and performing surgery and had agreed to make changes. Mr. Wiley, who said it was difficult to recruit physicians to remote West Texas, said he knew when he hired Dr. Arafiles that he had a restriction on his license stemming from his supervision of a weight-loss clinic. In a surprise inspection last September, state investigators found several violations by Dr. Arafiles and concluded that the hospital had discriminated against the nurses by firing them for “reporting in good faith.” Sounds like cronyism between the Sheriff and his physician. |
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