[How do you like that? Only at Kaiser can you kill two babies and endanger countless others, only to be handed $2 million of member money to quietly resign. The pattern should be glaringly obvious by now. Kaiser always tries to lie and buy its way out of a scandal, and only does [...]

[Kaiser Permanente had no intention of suspending this murdering doctor, and did so only because CMS rejected Kaiser's initial plan of correction (pdf).]
From the LA Times:
Kaiser suspends accused doctor
Co-workers questioned the competency of Hamid Safari, who handled high-risk pregnancies at a Fresno hospital.
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
Kaiser Permanente has [...]

[Same old story: complaints were ignored, patients died, whistleblowers were retaliated against, and Kaiser denies any wrongdoing regardless of copious evidence to the contrary. It happens so often we would be bored if it wasn't so damned tragic. Scroll down to the bottom of the story for a link to the original report about this [...]

[The only thing more reprehensible than Kaiser's failure to protect its patients from this known repeat malpractice offender, is its PRBS release defending its despicable actions. Kaiser Thrive Exposed joins Justen Deal in his demand for the resignation of The Permanente Medical Group CEO, and lead obfuscater, Dr. Robert Pearl. In the meantime, Kaiser [...]

The Kaiser Papers has just posted a detailed declaration by whistleblower Dr. William Moores, in the case of past Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dr. Terry McEnany. This guy was so incompetent and dangerous he makes Jayant Patel look like Marcus Welby, MD.
This is one of the most egregious cover [...]

Received 4/23/07 via the FixKP.org mailing list:
Page one of today’s Wall Street Journal has an article on the email I sent on November 3, along with a look at the events leading up to and following it. You can read the article through this link:
The Wall Street Journal, Critical Case: How an Email Jolted [...]

Update 7/27/07: This post has been up long enough to make its point, so we’re shortening all of the last names to initials.
Update 2/27/07: A little bird tells us there’s a full-fledged witch hunt going on inside KP HealthConnect in response to this post. It’s being reported that Vijaya Rogers has been running around [...]

From San Francisco Business Times:
Kaiser whistleblower settles lawsuit over abrupt firing ? Merlin asked Kaiser for $5 million in damages
by Chris Rauber
David Merlin, the former administrative director of Kaiser Permanente?s troubled Northern California kidney transplant unit, has settled his wrongful termination lawsuit against Kaiser following a Dec. 18 arbitration hearing.
Merlin lost his job in February [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Suit accuses Kaiser of blackballing
Nursing assistant says she hasn’t been able to get work since aiding a patient-dumping probe.
By Tami Abdollah, Times Staff Writer
January 13, 2007
A former employee has sued Kaiser Permanente, claiming that the HMO “blackballed” her for participating in a criminal investigation into the alleged dumping of a homeless [...]

From San Francisco Business Times:
by Chris Rauber
A whistleblower who helped instigate regulatory and media investigations of Kaiser Permanente’s troubled Northern California kidney-transplant unit has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, alleging that senior Kaiser medical-group officials ignored several warnings about mounting problems in the program.
In early May, under pressure from federal and state authorities, Oakland-based Kaiser [...]