Friday was a busy day, Saturday is a blur, and I forgot all about my Friday feature.
I've been hearing a lot through the various grapevines - about local lay-offs & hiring freezes at the big/named healthcare institutions and people being out of work becaue of other people's greed (of course, I'll note the big guns still have their jobs and their phat salaries).
I sympathize, I really, really do. You can train all the doctors nurses to fill all the shortages in the world . . .
. . . but it doesn't matter if (1) you cannot afford to do it on your own and/or, (2) no one is hiring.
Alas, truthfully, I'm also just a little ambivalent. For way back when, when I found myself kicked to Asheboro's curb for doing the right thing . . . for going above and beyond . . . because of other people's greed . . . none of those people getting laid off now gave a royal damn.
Moreover, as the Melvin Levine case plays out, I see more and more that it's not so much about what might embarrass him - or even the Medical Board - but what might embarrass the world-renowned medical institution (in this case, UNC-Chapel Hill) were these very-bad things allegedly happened.
Again, I have to say "allegedly", because the North Carolina Medical Board's quest for the trust screeched to a halt at UNC's back door. The "solution" they came up with is actually a non-solution. We The ignorant-because-we've-purposely-been-kept-in-the-dark-People don't know the truth, and won't know the truth from anything that the Medical Board did. And the lawyers for either side can continue to spin.
As the years have passed, I have come to understand that what happened to me at Randolph Hospital . . . not-to-mention the crap I have been put through in the GSO blogosphere . . . has been mostly about an institution and a name that the truth threatened.
That would be Cone.
Here's Friday's post, two days late.
Every Friday afternoon, until Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin are fired "for cause" and the state/federal regulatory & legal systems holds them - and their hospital - accountable for their crimes, I am going to post the same post:
Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin, senior executives of Randolph Hospital, in Asheboro, North Carolina, are overpaid, over-rated liars and cheats . . . unconvicted felons. They made promises to me - and to my former colleagues (many long gone) - and the community as a whole - that they have, in no way, kept.
They pitted doctor against doctor, and played favorites. They threatened, then retaliated against a Pediatrician in public service for doing her job and her sworn duty. They violated federal contracts (decimating the stated "mission" of the taxpayer-funded programs that brought the Pediatrician home), trampled the confidentiality & privilege of internal mechanisms intended to improve quality of care, used the legal system as a weapon, and ultimately broke the law in order to further their warped agenda of total economic dominance of healthcare in Asheboro.
Randolph Hospital lied to the public about what they did and why - in order to perpetuate a medical cover-up . . . a cover-up that also served the best interests of Cone Hospital - with whom they enjoy a "cooperative relationship".
Every act was drenched in greed and malice. Morrison and Eblin are not honorable men. Mark my words, young physicians, not a single word out of their mouths or document they sign can be trusted . . . my best/most sincere advice to you, especially if you are a Pediatrician, is to STEER CLEAR of entrusting your future to this hospital.
And patients, know this. In this case, a newborn baby's life was endangered by false advertising and grossly inadequate care. Instead of commending and/or rewarding the doctor who put the patient first and stepped in to help (despite threats against her livelihood), Randolph Hospital did everything it could to cover the mess up and destroy that doctor's reputation and career.
This farce of medicine and justice is not solely limited to the executives who did the dirty work. Plenty of responsibility lies at the feet of the "honorable" hospital Board members and medical staff who all looked in the other direction while this was going on . . . and who did nothing to stop it. Moreover, they've done nothing since evidence of perjury, contempt and fraud on the part of executives (trying to minimize the damage when they finally had to pony up) were brought to their attention six years ago. These "honorable" folk have made it clear what they value - and it is not honesty or good care.
This was/is NOT "care you can trust". I realize that choices in Asheboro are somewhat limited, but keep this in mind as you chose where you and your loved ones seek medical care.
While we are on the subject of limited choices, Morrison & Eblin's brand of "leadership" has proven to be a menace to the community - especially to the children they sold out and dumped on the Merce Clinic . . . children they stepped over in order to build fancy/flashy ER's and cancer centers.
For well over a decade, Bob Morrison and Steven have been shielded and protected and even rewarded by all the "right people" in Asheboro and Greensboro and Raleigh and Washington . . . people at the NC & US Departments of Heath & Human Services, at the Medical Board, at the State Bar, in the Governor's & Attorney Generals' offices, who despite their pretty words about ethics, and transparency and accountability have strained their necks to look the other way - and have done nothing to help the doctor wronged.
Dr. Mary Johnson is not going away until they go away.
This post will be up very Friday . . . generating Google hits from anyone (physician or patient) doing research on either institution . . . until Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin and Randolph Hospital do the accountability dance.
Change is here. I don't care who you are or who you know or how many snobbish/elitist "dine-arounds" you attend. You do not get to lie and cheat and steal . . . you do not get to hammer good doctors . . . and continue to collect the phat pay checks/get away with it.
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