Troubled by what you see in your healthcare workplace?
I’d like to talk to you about 3 things you can do when you decide to blow the whistle.
Unfortunately, you may find yourself in a position that compromises your patient’s safety. Your workplace may be billing for services that were never performed. You might even be asked to participate. Maybe you see an impaired doctor who endangers patients and routinely escapes discipline. Dangerous practices that you want to stop. What do you do?
First, take action. You’re in healthcare to help people – not watch healthcare abuses harm people. Dangers that stay hidden can’t be eliminated. Fortunately, reporting dangerous practices is one thing you can do to keep your patients safe. When watching abuse is no longer an option, take action.
Second, organize your thoughts. “Whistleblowers” – are healthcare insiders who expose abuses. Lives are at stake. Healthcare wrongdoing that’s kept secret allows dangerous practices, healthcare fraud, and improper billing to continue. Organize your thoughts. Ask yourself, who, what, when, where and why?
Third, Call a whistleblower lawyer. As trial lawyers, we share your passion for patient safety. If you work in a healthcare facility, hospital, nursing home, medical practice, laboratory, imaging facility, etc, and know about unsafe or fraudulent practices in your workplace, call us today to talk about how you can report workplace wrongdoing. We need your help.
Until next time…
James Hugh Potts II
