I am Edward Snowden

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88. I am a little bit

I tried to do what I had been trained to do and because of it, I have been blackballed from my former profession.

Edited to add, the failure of people to even respond to this post just indicates how easy it is for people to be destroyed.

I was a travel nurse working at an HMO. I have an extensive background and had been an RN for many years. One patient had every indication of having suffered a myocardial infarction (an MI, AKA heart attack). His cardiac enzymes were elevated as an objective indication of this, and his EKG had changes also indicative of damage but the MD would not accept these results. He even sent the blood to a different lab, got the same results and still would not accept that this patient had a heart problem. Another patient also had EKG changes that indicated a grave cardiac problem, but the MD would not see them and insisted the problem was of a different origin. This second patient died that night of a massive heart attack. After extensive investigation, I determined that the HMO was trying to save money by misdiagnosing expensive disorders.

Here is the most appalling part of this scenario, the doctor in the ER was a friend to a male nurse I worked with and would admit attractive, young females, who did not warrant admission, for this male nurse to play with. So, they were wasting money on prurient desires while letting people suffer and die.

The disinformation campaign against me when I resisted the party-line was fierce. My professional reputation was trashed. At one point, to get new a job, I was able to bypass references from former employers using the reference from a teacher who knew of my work and past, shining evaluations from former employers, the same former employers who were now so willing to sacrifice me. An investment company of the same ilk as the HMO bought up enough of my new company to replace the director and human resource person. Soon all the best managers and people were gone. The stock soared but the company became a very difficult place for anyone with knowledge and ethics to work. And while I had been appreciated by previous mangers and coworkers I became the object of gossip and scorn.

I only wish I had Ed's youth and had left the country when I still could.