[net-gold] Last Winkler County Email
- From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:29:47 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:22:40 -0600
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Last Winkler County Email
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Last Winkler County Email
This is my last email on the Winkler
Co debacle unless the medical board
decides to do something with Arafiles'
license. (Star Telegram article
below says they have not acted yet.)
Several of the articles below are
enlightening. All are supportive.....BA
Read more of what Vicki and
Anne had to say after the trial.
<http://www.texasnurses.org/
displaycommon.cfm?an=
1&subarticlenbr=509#verdict>
Medical emergency In reporting a
doctor's mistakes, a West Texas nurse
risked ...
Houston Chronicle
... small thing in tiny Kermit, Texas.
But they saw it as their
professional duty to report what they
believed was shoddy work by Dr.
Rolando G. Arafiles. ...
<snip>
Texas, it turns out, has laws that
protect whistle-blowers but only from
civil suits. Criminal prosecution is
another matter entirely. After the
medical board received the nurses'
anonymous complaint, its investigators
gave a copy to Dr. Arafiles.
That complaint alleged that he'd given
patients inappropriate care, including
sewing a rubber tip not intended to
be attached to humans onto a patient's
crushed finger (a case that the
Texas Department of State Health
Services had red-flagged). Too, the
complaint noted, Arafiles urged
patients to buy Zrii, a questionable
nutrition supplement sold via a
pyramid-marketing structure.
<http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/editorial/6863280.html>
This is very nicely done:
American Federation of Teachers makes
statement following aquittal of Kermit nurse
KOSA
For her to be charged with a crime
for making an anonymous complaint to the
Texas Medical Board, which licenses
and disciplines doctors, was literally
a ...
<http://www.cbs7kosa.com/
news/details.asp?ID=17879>
Whistleblowing Nurse Found Not Guilty
InjuryBoard.com (blog)
The case ignited deep concerns
amongst health care workers about
the implications of whistleblowing
on doctors suspected of medical
malpractice....
<http://lansing.injuryboard.com/
medical-malpractice/whistleblowing-
nurse-found-not-
guilty.aspx?googleid=278076>
Full text from Dallas Morning News:
It's not a felony to blow a whistle
A jury took less than an hour to see
through the absurd prosecution of a
West Texas nurse whose only "crime"
was reporting questionable behavior to
the Texas Medical Board. The New York
Times reported that after the
nurse's unsigned complaint became
known to the doctor, he called his pal
the sheriff to hunt down the anonymous
source. Anne B. Mitchell was
discovered and summarily fired without
cause. Then the Winkler County
district attorney accused the nurse
of acting on a vendetta and charged
her with a felony ("misuse of official
information"). Even the Medical
Board asked officials to back off,
understanding that this could have a
chilling effect on health professionals
who have a duty to report
questionable practices. Sheriff
Robert L. Roberts Jr. and prosecutors said
they had confidence in this bum steer
of a case. Voters should have less
confidence in them.
Texas nurse acquitted of felony
charge for reporting doctor
Fort Worth Star Telegram
By YAMIL BERARD A Kermit nurse did
not commit a felony by reporting
concerns about a doctor to the
state medical board, a West Texas jury
decided Thursday. ...
<http://www.star-telegram.com/
189/story/1963348.html?
storylink=omni_popular>
"Barbara Acello, RN"
<bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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