Michael Skapinker of the Financial Times writes a excellent piece about whistleblowing. Thankyou to the Big O and Chris for supplying me with this and here is the link to the FT.
"Few whistleblowers enjoy such sweet revenge. The Government Accountability Project, a US organisation that supports whistleblowers, has a message for anyone else thinking of exposing an employer’s wrongdoing: think hard before you do because you are going to suffer.
In a book called Courage Without Martyrdom, which the organisation has posted on its website, it warns that whistleblowers “pay an enormous professional and personal price for their actions – often a price they did not anticipate”.
Colleagues may treat you as an outcast, the book says. The company will almost certainly exact retribution. A US study in 1989 found that 95 per cent of whistleblowers suffered reprisals. An Australian study put the figure at 94 per cent.
The effects will not disappear. “Long after the public has forgotten your courageous actions, your superiors will remember what you did to them,” the book says"
1 comments:
Answer: know not to blow!
It is impossible for some of us not to communicate the truth and that is punishable by GMC. UK courts are not particularly bothered with law in my experience and abuse of power is the rule. At my recent appeal against GMC High Court Justice Cox secretely ordered that there should be no records of the hearing. No transcripts at all! Oops.
Legal and medical profession are not able to self regulate because of the conflict of interest: the need to protect reputation of the profession as a whole. So, it is easier to kill one doctor professionally who is innocent than a group of badly behaved doctors for example in cases of mobbing.
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