Phone: 360-809-3058

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E-mail:

MedicalWhistleblower@gmail.com

P.O. Box C

Lawrence, KS 66044

Medical Whistleblower

Medical

Whistleblower # 21

Partners

with Law

Enforcement

Tel: 360-809-3058

Supporting the Emotional Health of All Whistleblowers and their Friends,

Supporters and Families.

Medical Whistleblowers come from all walks of life

and many professional disciplines. Anyone with

access to information related to medical fraud,

abuse and neglect can be a Medical Whistle-

blower. Medical Whistleblower supports those

who have already made that choice and those still

considering their future path. There is no cost to

request support from Medical Whistleblower.

Medical Whistleblower is not a counseling service

and does not provide legal representation. We are

an advocate for change and provide meaningful

information related to the Medical Whistleblower’s

experience and networking contacts for further

support. Medical Whistleblowers can be Doctors,

Pharmacists, Researchers, Police Officers, Fed-

eral Law Enforcement Agents, Nurses, Medical

Technicians, Certified Public Accountants, Attor-

neys, Judges, Therapists, Prosecutors, Hospital

CEO’s, Academic Medical Instructors, Veterans,

Emergency Medical Technicians, and even Pa-

tients and their families. Medical Whistleblowers

are a great untapped resource of dedicated and

highly trained professionals – many with medical

degrees and even Advanced Medical Board Certi-

fications, who are willing to communicate with and

assist law enforcement efforts. Medical Whistle-

blowers wish to actively participate in problem

solving activities with Law Enforcement agencies

to help to prevent the repeat victimization of pa-

tients. Medical Whistleblowers have capabilities

that can enhance efforts to investigate and prevent

crime. Medical Whistleblowers can identify pat-

terns of crime as well as gaps and deficiencies in

police services that police may not know of other-

wise. Medical Whistleblowers are competent and

capable professionals who courageously risk their

livelihoods when they come forward in the name of

transparency and openness, to reveal criminal ac-

tivity. It is a sad fact that currently the medical sys-

tem often repays their advocacy by retaliating

against them and they often lose their cherished

right to privacy and suffer severe personal loss.

Who are Medical

Whistleblowers? Every police officer when sworn into

office, commits to upholding the na-

tion’s prime guarantor of rights, the

U.S. Constitution. To be effective, a

police department and its individual

officers must be seen primarily as pro-

tectors of civil rights. The effective-

ness of police in their varied mis-

sions—from law enforcement to com-

munity service—depends on the trust

and confidence of the community. Pub-

lic trust and confidence are severely

reduced when individuals’ civil rights

are compromised. Leaders in Law En-

forcement must clearly convey a simul-

taneous commitment to effective law

enforcement against criminal behavior

within the medical community and civil

rights protection for both patients and

their advocates (Medical Whistleblow-

ers). Without this protection the medi-

cal community will lose its trust in law

enforcement and all cooperation and

potential partnership with the police to

meet common goals will be under-

mined.

Partners with Law Enforcement

Here at Medical Whistleblower we en-

courage our Registered Medical Whis-

tleblowers to cooperate and collaborate

effectively with our Law Enforcement

partners. The community policing phi-

losophy emphasizes the importance of

problem-solving partnerships. Law en-

forcement professionals have shown over and over

again that crime and disorder problems are most

efficiently and effectively solved when all the stake-

holders are represented in the solution. Medical

Whistleblowers represent dedicated advocates for

the victims of medical fraud, patient abuse and pa-

tient neglect caused by a failure to protect the vul-

nerable in our society. Patient abuse can be physi-

cal, financial, emotional, psychological or sexual

abuse. Medical Whistleblowers represent signifi-

cant sources of intelligence about criminal activity

and violation of patients rights within the medical

community due to their unique access to informa-

tion not readily available to law enforcement. Medi-

cal Whistleblowers often do not know how to report

and adequately interface with law enforcement .

Medical Whistleblowers often have too little infor-

mation about police procedure and what happens

during the initial response to and subsequent in-

vestigation of a crime. Interaction with a Medical

Whistleblower by the field police officer should in-

clude an educational component designed to in-

crease understanding and facilitate the Whistle-

blower’s active participation in problem-solving. It

is necessary to be pro-active in efforts to provide

necessary support and advocacy for the Medical

Whistleblowers in order to build collaborative prob-

lem solving relationships, so that Law Enforcement

can effectively combat criminal activity within the

medical community.

Preventing Re-Victimization of

Medical Whistleblowers

Because of their efforts to ―Tell Truth to Power‖

Medical Whistleblowers often become themselves

victims of crime. Medical Whistleblowers are often

retaliated against by those whose criminal wrongdo-

ings the Whistleblower is exposing. The types of

crimes Medical Whistleblowers can be victims of

include: bullying in the workplace, witness intimida-

tion and obstruction of justice, physical assault, sex-

ual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, privacy

violations, illegal break and entry, criminal conspir-

acy to violate Civil Rights, and many others. Medi-

cal Whistleblowers need to get adequate protection

so that they can ―Tell Truth to Power‖ without intimi-

dation by those who are criminally involved. Law

Enforcement officials need to act pro-actively to pre-

vent repeat victimization of Medical Whistleblowers.

The risk of re-victimization increases with each vic-

timization. Criminal cases are lost because of the

inevitable loss of physical evidence and the loss of

testimony of witnesses due to intimidation. Many

Medical Whistleblowers are unable to withstand the

onslaught of the oppressive retaliation that includes

threats to remove their medical licenses, which then

proceeds without due process to a kangaroo court

(Bad Faith Peer Review) and a loss of their medical

license and right to practice their chosen profession.

The grueling nature of being a victim of this kind of

workplace psychological violence has often driven

Medical Whistleblowers to desperation and poverty.

Some Medical Whistleblowers who have exposed

millions of dollars of Medical Fraud have even faced

homelessness in spite of their professional creden-

tials and competence. Others have even been so

distraught about their inability to get Due Process

and Protection under the Law, that they have re-

sorted to the act of suicide. The most fundamental

principle of ethical behavior is ―Do No Harm,‖ this is

true in the law enforcement field as well as the

medical field.

By working to prevent repeat victimization, police

can prevent serious negative effects on the Whis-

tleblower, reduce the occurrence of crime and

enhance individual and community safety. Medi-

cal Whistleblower as an organization is willing to

work with Law Enforcement agencies in order to

address the safety issues of Registered Medical

Whistleblowers to develop strategies to maximize

the Medical Whistleblower’s safety and security.

through ―safety planning‖.

Resources Available to Law

Enforcement

Medical Whistleblower offers 50 brochures on

various subjects related to the issues about

―Blowing the Whistle in the Medical Community.‖

These brochures are available at no cost as pdf

files to any Law Enforcement agency wishing

them. Due to budgetary constraints Medical

Whistleblower does not usually mail printed bro-

chures but will e-mail the pdf files to your agency

at your request. In addition Medical Whistle-

blower is able to provide to any verifiable Law

Enforcement agency or officer a free subscription

to Medical Whistleblower’s Newsletter— Canary

Notes, which is published monthly. There is no

cost to the Law Enforcement Agency or officer to

receive a copy of Canary Notes but a valid e-mail

address is necessary to complete your order. If

instead your agency wishes to obtain printed ma-

terials, then please write to arrange to cover the

cost of printing and mailing the materials. Medical

Whistleblower is able to arrange for professional

presentations and consultations by our Medical

Experts for a fee, on a wide range of topics of

interest to Law Enforcement. Please write to us

to request a list of possible program topics or sug-

gest an area of your interest. We hope to hear

from you and be able to meet your request.