On The Recent Assault Of A Child At Brenner Children's Hospital

Have been busy at work, and laboring over a project.  Haven't felt at all like blogging.

But this story out of Winston-Salem, indeed, out of my alma-mater (Bowman Gray/N.C. Baptist/Brenner Children's Hospital) . . . about the scum-sucking-piece-of-excrement who attacked a child he'd apparently already assaulted WHILE SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL AND ON MONITORS . . . has had me scratching my head - for a number of reasons (knowing some of the inner workings of that facility - particularly as it pertains to dealing with those suspected of child abuse) that I shall not divulge here. 

It's acutally very refreshing to see that, rather than bury what happened, Brenners reported the incident and has more-or-less invited scrutiny of its operational policies and procedures (from JCAHO, the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center).

If what I suspect happened, happened, it's about a whole lot MORE than a lowly nurse's decisions - or credentials, and I hope that N.C. Baptist fixes whatever deficits in medical (or other) judgement led to a prolonged and particularly vicious assault on a child-under-their-care, and do not sacrifice some poor night nurse (or other unfortunate medical being lower in the food chain) to to the politically-correct gods of quelling public outrage . . .

. . . the same gods who were asleep in Asheboro thirteen years ago - and are still asleep - because the local press had to cover Randolph Hospital's (and Moses Cone Hospital's) guilty tails.

I've yet to see JCAHO or the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation, or the N.C. Medical Board or the Internal Revenue Service LIFT A FINGER to do anything about what happened in that case (the false advertising, the threats, the sub-standard care leading to a sentinel event) - or what was subsequently done to a physician-in-public-service (the cover-up, the intimidation tactics/SLAPP-suit/the PERJURY) who put duty and a critically-ill baby first.

Of course, it's probably just the difference between delivering - and receiving - "world-class care" in a small town vs. the big city.

Yes, that must be it.

Getting back to my project now.