On The Retirement Of Randolph Hospital's Bob Morrison

Confirming rumors that have been swirling for a while now, Randolph Hospital's $700,000 man, Bob Morrison (Questions?  Check the hospital's IRS "2008" 990's as posted at Guidestar - page 30 - the link takes several moments to load), has announced his retirement.  No effective date was given. 

I'd say it cannot come soon enough, but given what I'm working on, I'd be lying. 

And I don't lie nearly as well as Bob.

In the part of the press release that one can actually read online in Bob's own personal local newsletter (excuse me, Asheboro's always fawning, slobbering Courier Tribune) . . . right before the article dives below a paywall . . . Morrison states his part in was "small" and "the heavy lifting done by others". 

Ergo, the massive paycheck from the small mill town hospital, eh, Bob?   I certainly won't argue that yours was the best job anyone could have ever had.  It's nice to be king and coated in Teflon.

Let those you "serve" eat cake.

I would be very surprised if Bob's successor is not his left-hand-man, Steven Eblin.  One can only hope that the (what I hear from the grapes is a largely disgusted) Medical Staff will finally rise up and condemn that kind of "transition" . . . which really isn't a transition at all.  But I'm not holding my breath . . .

. . . because, you see, Asheboro's medical "community" has a long history of not standing for anything but what will not upset their apple carts.  Ethics, smethics.  Go along to get along.  Ignore the guts of your colleagues splattered on Bob's walls.  The big guns on Randolph's medical staff and mill-town BOD stood by deaf, dumb and blind while this home-grown Pediatrician got professionally eviscerated for defying the threats of Bob's Cone-loving minions and saving a newborn baby's life. 

Any stupid, amoral thing Bob wanted, Bob got.  Rubber-stamped all the way.  No questions asked.

Quite the "family", that crowd.  What they did to Dr. Mary Johnson is something they can all be very proud of.  And while I had no choice but to move on, I've never gotten over it.

If you believe the always-slick marketing proffered by the "team" of Morrison and Eblin, their stewardship has always been about delivering "world class", "award-winning", "care you can trust".  Unless you were that baby that night . . . or her parents . . . or any of the rest of my patients/parents who, in the aftermath of a fiasco brought about by false marketing, arrogance and greed, found themselves suddenly without a Pediatrician - with no reason/explanation forthcoming from the collection of wagons circled around Bob & his "team" of corporate bullies but a pile of bold-faced, self-serving lies.

And then there was the farce of what passes for "justice" in Randolph County and North Carolina.  In-your-face BAD FAITH and PERJURY is a-okay with Garland Yates.  Mary Johnson wasn't "right people", you see. 

It's all in the sidebar folks.  As I said before, I'm done jumping through the blogging hoops.

Dr. Mary remains on break - working on a little project that, if it flies, will showcase some of Bob Morrison's "good works" while at the helm of Randolph Hospital.

You could call it "heavy lifting".  I'm used to it.

Evening Update:  Shortly after this post went up this morning, I sent an e-mail to April Thronton, Randolph Hospital's PR queen.  I requested copies of Randolph Hospital's latest IRS 990 returns - specifically, the fiscal years 2009 and 2010 (which ended last month).  I had already requested 2009, but never got it. 

It will be interesting to see how much money this "non-profit" hospital's Board of Directors has poured into Bob's benefit package (in anticipation of his retirement) since that last mind-blowing return (2008) posted on Guidestar.

Of course, once again, I do not expect anyone to "occupy Asheboro" and protest our own version of Wall Street-style greed at the public's expense.

"Mill-town mentality" runs deep.  You have to know your place.

Sunday Morning Update: 

In the spirit of "Occupying" (which has apparently replaced Tea-Partying as the in thing to do), I was informed yesterday, that Lynwood White, Randolph's Chief Financial Officer, is also leaving/retiring - also with a very nice bye-bye package.

Running Randolph Hospital has been very good to the people who don't actually see patients.

And, despite my suspicion that the "search" to replace Bob will only lead back to his trusted flunky, Steve Eblin, I cannot help but smell yet another young Schmidly in the distance.

As I vaguely recall, my ex-lawyer (the one I trusted with my future who totally sold me out), spawned a hospital executive.  A simple Google search produced this tidbit which certainly fits my recollection (if I've accidentally ascribed familial bonds which do not exist, I certain apologize to the younger Schmidly in Texas).

I'm wondering about conflicts-of-interest (not that conflicts-of-interest have EVER mattered to the crew running this hospital) if the hospital recruited the son while being represented (in any capacity) by the daughter.

I also recall being told that this fine young man wouldn't touch Randolph Hospital with a ten-foot-pole.  I'm not losing much sleep over this possibility because a quick scan of the services provided by the hospital he operates would indicate that it would be a backward career trajectory.  As someone-more-astute-than-I-when-it-comes-to-business-matters commented:  The only reason to enterain that kind of less-than-lateral move would be the opportunity to indiscriminately pillage and plunder the hospital's coffers without anyone on the Board of Directors so much as saying, "Boo!".

But times and fortunes do change.  I've come to understand that people don't.  Not really.  Steve Schmidly was always a lying, opportunistic rat - a "right person" wannabe who finally found his way into Asheboro's top tiers via booze.  My mistake was in trusting and believing him - just as I once trusted Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin.

It's my opinion, and I've more than earned it.