Damned Liberal

Only in America:

Kermit (not the frog), Texas:

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An experienced nurse was concerned about the obviously egregious actions of a hospital's doctor.

She and another nurse sent an unsigned letter to the Texas Medical Board.

They ended up being indicted by a Texas grand jury (says a lot about Texans, doesn't it?), and now one of the nurses is facing a felony criminal trial. They've both lost their jobs and probably will never find the same sort of job again. They find themselves stared at when they're out in public.

The County Attorney claims the complaint was made in “bad faith” to carry out a personal vendetta against the doctor. WTF?

The doctor:

• Performed a failed skin graft in an emergency room even though he didn't have surgical privileges.
• sutured a rubber tip to a patient’s crushed finger
• was sending e-mail messages to patients about an herbal supplement he sold on the side
• had been reprimanded on several occasions for improprieties in writing prescriptions and performing surgery
• had a restriction on his license stemming from his supervision of a weight-loss clinic

WTF????

The guy sounds like a quack!
"Personal vendetta"???

HERE's "personal vendetta":

When the medical board notified Dr. Arafiles of the anonymous complaint, he protested to his friend, the Winkler County sheriff, that he was being harassed. The sheriff, an admiring patient who credits the doctor with saving him after a heart attack, obtained a search warrant to seize the two nurses’ work computers and found the letter.

This serves to reinforce my opinion of Texas as one of the world's craziest places.

Stories:
N.Y. Times
ModernHealthCare.com

P.s. And Republicans keep screaming about malpractice lawsuits against doctors.
They should make all Republicans move to Texas.