Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor

Instead of rewarding an employee for doing the right thing. the nurse not only was fired but arrested.  Read the article and seethe with me.  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/us/07nurses.html

In CT our Medical Examining Board, according to Public Citizen, ranks 47th in the country in taking action against physicians.  There is so much we do not know.  We encourage people to file complaints.  A growing number of our membership have letters that say “After a thorough investigation, we have determined that the standard of care was met.”  No one working at the Department of Public Health or health care professionals themselves would be satisfied with a standard of care that does, in many case, such hard.