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ALGORITHMS OF RESPONSE

Healthcare professional under reprisal

If you believe you are under career-threatening reprisal by your healthcare organization, take the following inventory:

1. How do I document reprisal by my organization?

a. I submitted a constructively critical document to protect patients from harm, or to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse.

b. I have evidence of immediate threat or warning from a member of the leadership after I submitted the document.

c. ……………

2. How do I protect against further reprisal?

a. To whom should I make a report of reprisal?

b. What about the press?

c. ……………

3. How do I have false and misleading documents expunged from my records?

a. To what authority and to which laws can I appeal?

b. How can I continue to work while such expunging of documents is pending?

c. ……………

4. How do I move on with my life?

a. What professional licenses or certificates can I secure in these circumstances?

b. …………..

5. How do I protect my family from becoming casualties of despair in this situation?

a. …………..

(To be continued…..)

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