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Who In The Medical Community Is Watching Out For Patient Safety?

We can explain the prosecution of these Texas nurses on local politics. Explaining the silence of the national healthcare organizations (other than the ANA) is more difficult? Why is the ANA slone? Where are JCAHO, the AMA, and the AHA? The silence tells everyone who stands up for patient safety: 1. You may be right. 2. You may be doing exactly what we say you should do. 3. But you are alone. If you go to jail, count on us to do this: nothing. Want to be safe when you go to the hospital? Who is going to jail for 10 years to make sure your care is safe? I am concerned about these nurses. I am far more concerned about what happens over the course of the next 5 years when nurses have to decide whether to blow the whistle. The fact that no one stands up for these nurses if profoundly disturbing.