07/17/2010

Texas Medical Board Weighs in on Whistleblowing Case

Map of Texas highlighting Winkler CountyImage via Wikipedia

Although this is not an academic facility, this episode is, nonetheless, instructive concerning whistleblowing. Note that the whistleblowers got fired even though everything seems to indicate they were right. Very often, whistleblowers have to attain personal justice after the fact.

Physician in Whistle-Blower Case Charged by Texas Medical Board
July 15, 2010 — The Texas Medical Board (TMB) has charged a family physician at the center of a nationally publicized whistle-blower case involving 2 nurses with poor medical judgment, nontherapeutic prescribing, failure to maintain adequate records, overbilling, witness intimidation, and other violations.

The charges follow a report that the 2 nurses — Anne Mitchell, RN, and Vickilyn Galle, RN — made anonymously to the TMB last year about patient care rendered by Rolando Arafiles, Jr, MD, at Winkler County Memorial Hospital in Kermit, Texas, where the 2 nurses and Dr. Arafiles worked.


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