Seems like a case in which an employee who may very well be obstructionist also happened to be right. If she really did present her case to the hospital command before going to JC, and they ignored her, then she did the right thing and should be commended for it. On the other hand, we have a safetly officer here of whom I am reminded as I read this article. Her personal mission is to eliminate 100% of all risk at our hospital (which is, of course, impossible), and to eliminate any physician who derails that plan with any sort of complication - known or otherwise (which is, of course, everyone). She routinely goes around chain-of-command as a first step, and has gone so far as to write scathing letters to our regional command about physicians without having actually discussed the issue with the physician in question, his commander, the hospital commander, her priest, or anyone else at the local level. Sometimes she's right, but occasionally lightening strikes an dingus, right?
Hard to know if it's the same situation at Womack because it's very he-said, she-said. But the hospital could not have picked a worse time to go after her. Seems like the type of thing they should have done earlier if it truly wasn't retaliation.
