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Re: Nurse to stand trial for reporting physician's malpractice |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Feb 7 18:20:06 2010, in response to Re: Nurse to stand trial for reporting physician's malpractice, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 13:10:57 2010. Are we reading the same article? It says that he sutured a rubber tip to a patient’s crushed finger for protection, an unconventional remedy that was later flagged as inappropriate. So maybe that wasn't serious and no penalty was necessary. But what about the failed skin graft that Dr. Arafiles performed in the emergency room, without surgical privileges? Isn't that serious? Why is he operating when he was not cleared to do so?Whether the charges were serious or not is not even the point. The point is that someone shouldn't lose their job by merely reporting activity that should not be going on, if it was reported in good faith. And if it turns out what she reported is correct, she should even be rewarded for doing the correct thing, and the doctor should be punished. Even if they find the doctor did nothing wrong, she is still out of a job and stuck with a huge legal bill and that just doesn't seem fair. |
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