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Wistleblowing?

Read this post in Waking Up Costs.

In advocating for patient safety, be forceful but not 'disruptive'

together with this article 'Is whistleblowing worth it?' from Medical Economics.

What would you do if you discovered that conditions at your hospital posed a threat to patient safety? Let's say you reported the problem to your supervisor, and got no response. Would you then go to the hospital's administrator or CEO? Say you do, but he also refuses to deal with the problem. Then what? Would you file a formal report, or contact state or federal health officials?

If you do decide to blow the whistle, chances are you won't be rewarded for your efforts. In fact, you're more likely to be labeled a troublemaker or "disruptive physician." And if you persist in pursuing your cause, you could risk losing your staff privileges or your job.

In our pathetic bolehland, it will cost one more then losing job. So you can't even 'be forceful', what can you do? I suggest you write anonymously to people like Teresa Kok, hopefully she will bring it to parliament as for our bolehland, every sensative issue seems to be needed PM's intervention before the authorities can act on it. Probably because if the issue get over heated, with PM's intervention, it would be the wistleblower (yes, you again, the investigation will start from who is the wistleblower!) and PM's problem, the authorities won't want to step on the tail of something big. Kita orng cari maken je!

posted by LT @ 8:20 AM