I've kept in touch with Michael Volpe in the months since he garnered some blog-love from Joe Guarino for taking local Congressman, Brad Miller to task . . . for his woefully-uninformed, ill-advised advocacy of a Pennsylvania physician named Anna Chacko . . . once employed by the Pittsburgh Veterans Administration . . . who has styled herself as a medical-whistleblower.
(Here's a hint: She's not. And picking up her gauntlet was all politics on Miller's part.)
At the time (and as the real-deal), I had some things to say about Miller taking the plunge for a non-constituent . . . particularly when there are legitimate/real (older) whistle-blower retaliation cases screaming for attention right under Miller's stuck-up, deep-blue nose.
Earlier this week, Volpe, e-mailed me with some "new" information recently published by Dr. Chacko (stuff I could barely make heads or tails of . . . and stuff that did not look remotely new).
Freshly-wounded from the legal farce that was the cyber-stalking case, I declined to bite.
In our e-mail exchange, Michael made some suggestions of people/organizations that he thought I should contact . . . people and grass-roots organizations that might be helpful in seeing justice finally done in my case.
Alas, the suggestions Michael made were avenues I have already travelled (I may practice in Eastern North Carolina now, guys & gals, but it's not a vacuum or a black hole) . . . and/or am resolved to steer clear of . . . because not everyone out there claiming to be a medical-whistle-blower actually is one (and I really don't have the resources, money or time to sort out who is who).
That, and most of these cases ARE very complicated, and you can waste a lot of precious energy and time fighting someone else's battle without getting any help yourself.
Been there, done that. Lots of scrubs.
Today, Michael e-mailed me a link to a new post at the Provocateur today, entitled, "The Deafening Silence of Congressman Miller and General Shinseki".
This gem, from the aforementioned "new information" authored by the freshly-fired Chacko (fired after a thorough investigation - which is a key point and another key difference between she and I), and recently published on the Internet, caught my eye:
"The VA has apparently developed a well-honed and scripted method of dealing with whistleblowers — humiliation, isolation, character and professional assassination."
Chacko's obviously been studying all the moves. And I had to chuckle. Because if you change the name from the VA to Randolph Hospital and the Moses Cone Healthcare System, you would have summarized my beef with both LOCAL institutions fairly well.
The National Health Services Corps and and N.C. Department of Rural Health and North Carolina Medical Board and JCAHO all just sat back and watched . . . each organization doing the equivalent of taking the Fifth when it came to their responsibilities of oversight.
And for their indifference and apathy and gross negligence, I hope to have all of them in Court and squirming by the end of the year.
Of course, just like a host of deep-blues before him, Brad Miller, the people's representative, is not going to upset any local apple carts or do anything that might directly or indirectly take on the mighty/hallowed name of Cone. I'm dog meat to him. But because Chacko's accusations suit his bias/agenda/purpose, he mounted the white horse . . .
. . . and rode off the credibility cliff.
The story gets even better. Chacko's latest "memo" caught the attention of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and was published.
But this time her advocates remain silent.
Hummmmmmm . . . I wonder why?
And that leads me to a post at Word Up today . . . where Edward-Cone-of-the-Cones, with his tongue not-so-firmly-in-his-cheek chides Liberty University for not taking the publications of serious bloggers seriously. The University elected to ignore the buzz-on-the-blogs until local newspapers started making a stink.
For the sad truth is that the path to the general public remains primarily through the mainstream media.
Of course, I'm quite sure that the fact that the University was founded by the uber-conservative, right-of-right, religious zealot Jerry Falwell has nothing to do with Ed's decision to chide.
But the thing is, GSO blogger-king & local journalist, Edward Cone, has ZERO maneuvering room to chide anybody about ignoring corruption stories.
I've sat here, in the "blogging cheap seats" of Randolph County, pleading my case to the deaf ears of local journalists for years . . . this despite being invited here by some of those same journalists.
The Courier Tribune (even new & improved) won't touch the story for obvious reasons (although I am considering diving in on their nascent blogs very shortly - and seeing how long I can go before I get banned).
Meanwhile, for all of its noble prattle about "citizen-journalism", the Greensboro News & Record wouldn't even let me buy an ad publicizing Housecalls.
But Ed Cone, who often writes for the N&R . . . who once offered to interview me (about blogging as opposed to my case) . . . and who often laments blogging's lack of relevancy, has the numbnuts to chide Liberty University?
Puhlease.
I believe Ed's online nemesis, Sam Spagnola (champion of free-speech, but deleter of my comments when they don't worship at his altar), would call it "liberal hypocrisy". That is, if Sam could pull his head out of his butt for more than two seconds and acknowledge that his precious legal system is corrupt and often does not work for those who do not have big bank accounts or big names or law degrees they can use to bully people.
Ed & company will defend to their last breath Congressman Miller's actions with regards to Chacko . . . who is, fairly obviously, a total fraud/wannabe in the medical-whistleblower department.
Meanwhile, they will continue to ignore and/or malign the real medical whistleblower who has been blogging-her-heart-out for five years right under their nose. It's just swell with all of these hign-minded folk that Dr. Mary Johnson has been consistently, deliberately and methodically battered black and blue under the hooves of those jockeying the white horses that are going to save medicine from itself.
But, hey, Jeff Martin says they'd do anything to help "ease my pain".
Yeah right. And that's not liberal hypocrisy, that's just hypocrisy.
And not just a lie, but a damned lie.
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