[net-gold] MEDICAL: NURSES AND NURSING : UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS : WHISTLE BLOWING AND WHISTLE BLOWERS : LAW: CASES: Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor
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MEDICAL: NURSES AND NURSING :
UNITED STATES: STATES: TEXAS :
WHISTLE BLOWING AND WHISTLE BLOWERS :
LAW: CASES:
Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor
Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor
By KEVIN SACK
Published: February 6, 2010
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/us/07nurses.html?hpw>
KERMIT, Tex. It occurred to Anne Mitchell as she was writing the letter
that she might lose her job, which is why she chose not to sign it. But it
was beyond her conception that she would be indicted and threatened with
10 years in prison for doing what she knew a nurse must: inform state
regulators that a doctor at her rural hospital was practicing bad
medicine.
When she was fingerprinted and photographed at the jail here last June, it
felt as if she had entered a parallel universe, albeit one situated in
this barren scrap of West Texas oil patch.
It was surreal, said Mrs. Mitchell, 52, the wife of an oil field mechanic
and mother of a teenage son. I said how can this be? You cant go to prison
for doing the right thing.
But in what may be an unprecedented prosecution, Mrs. Mitchell is
scheduled to stand trial in state court on Monday for misuse of official
information, a third-degree felony in Texas.
The prosecutor said he would show that Mrs. Mitchell had a history of
making inflammatory statements about Dr. Rolando G. Arafiles Jr. and
intended to damage his reputation when she reported him last April to the
Texas Medical Board, which licenses and disciplines doctors.
Mrs. Mitchell counters that as an administrative nurse, she had a
professional obligation to protect patients from what she saw as a pattern
of improper prescribing and surgical procedures including a failed skin
graft that Dr. Arafiles performed in the emergency room, without surgical
privileges. He also sutured a rubber tip to a patients crushed finger for
protection, an unconventional remedy that was later flagged as
inappropriate by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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