Injured patients who want to help and be heard,
click here.
Thomas Jefferson said that given the choice between
government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would choose
newspapers.
In medicine we have government without newspapers. Patients
cannot find out what they need to know to make informed choices. No one in
medicine records or reports the information patients need to know the most. So
patients will have to do it.
Nurse Training
Whether or not nurses in general would characterize it this
way,
their universal failure to report or record malfeasance would suggest
that this excerpt from this letter from a former accute-care nurse is accurate
"As for the discharge of my own moral and professional responsibilities, I
said nothing to the families, nothing to any "higher authority", nothing to the
news media because I had been formally trained as a nurse not to tell the
secrets of the medical profession. In fact, my education heavily stressed that
to go outside the chain of command was unprofessional conduct, disloyal, would
make me unemployable (bad references, etc.) and could possibly result in the
loss of my nursing license."
From:
Faith Gibson, Community Midwife (1917 Article 24, exempt)
Certified Professional Midwife, #96050001
North American Registry of Midwives
She worked in acute-care hospitals as a staff nurse for 20 years and as an
out-of-hospital midwife for 13 additional years.
If you want to say something about any of my
sites, my phone number is on almost every page. So is my
email address. There even
are Feedback Forms where you can communicate
anonymously. I am listening. I will be sensitive to what you say.