3. University of Texas Medical Branch whistleblowing case
At number three on our list of examples of whistleblowing in nursing and healthcare we have Stephanie Hohman and Lisa Lippert that were registered nurses working in University of Texas Medical Branch emergency room when Dr. William Mileski was hired to improve the quality of procedures performed there. Both nurses soon after noticed a pattern in which patients were declared “trauma evaluation” cases and “subjected to a myriad of painful, unwanted, and at times unnecessary procedures, to which the patients refused, resisted, and/or to which they unknowingly submitted based on false information that the procedure was necessary to preserve their health.” After they filled a complaint, both hospital and Dr. Mileski personally unleashed a string of harassment that eventually brought them to resignation. Nurses won a case and were awarded compensation for lost wages and compensatory damages.
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