Today, I was made aware of a website called "Change Board Recertification" that is fighting the new ABMS requirements for Board Recertification . . . a topic I recently blogged about here and here. I was delighted to discover that there is an organized/national grass-roots effort to say, NO!, to the people who breathe the rarefied air in the ivory towers.
Related to what I was "taught" during my "Maintenance of Certification" process this past fall (as opposed to what I learned in real life), today I also spoke by phone with a former non-physician employee of the Moses Cone Healthcare System who did everything she was supposed to do when she made a mistake (including reporting it herself) . . . but despite the under-staffing and SYSTEM FAILURES which contributed to her mistake (a mistake that did not harm the patient) . . . and the fact that JCAHO's "new" team-oriented patient-safety initiatives are meant to be "non-punitive" . . . she was FIRED from the organization where she had worked for over two decades.
She's been unable to find work locally, and is fairly certain she's been black-balled. She lost her car, and would have lost her home had it not already been paid for. This highly-trained, hard-working, HONEST medical technician is working at a bakery.
The lawyers, of course, have been fairly useless. Most people do not find that out until after they've been canned.
I want to re-iterate here that employment laws in North Carolina for doctors/nurses/other medical personnel SUCK.
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