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Any employee writing a sticky note keeping a nurse in good standing from doing their job would be immediately reprimanded ...
As a physician in practice for 30 years, I found the premise of this book ridiculous. Hospitals do not let patients or their families get to decide who treats them, although the occasional patient or family will attempt to dictate this. Any employee writing a sticky note keeping a nurse in good standing from doing their job would be immediately reprimanded and the hospital would be at risk for a lawsuit from the nurse. Then, the nurse who agrees to not treating this particular baby ends up alone with him after a procedure and a tragedy occurs. Would any intelligent, experienced nurse allow herself to be put in this precarious position? Not likely. Then, the hospital lawyer, who has not done anything other than speak to the staff involved in the incident, tells the father to sue the nurse rather than the hospital? That nurse is a hospital employee, the lawyer is supposed to represent her. Also, what person is going to sue a nurse rather than the hospital, which will be on the hook for millions of dollars? Then, an indictment is handed down in a few days after the tragedy, and the nurse LOSES her license. Pretty fast for this sort of thing, and nurses do not lose their licenses, they have them suspended, at the very worst, while an investigation is underway. Then, the police break the nurse's door down in the middle of the night to arrest her...seriously? She is not a mass murderer, she is a nurse under investigation. The fantasy just goes on and on. While I think the issues of race, discrimination and inequality in this country continue to be important to write about, this story seems far-fetched and predictable, and does not give the reader an accurate or thoughtful view of the issues.
March 2017 · Books