Hospital Horror Stories: World Class Pathologist replaced by Rookies

If you read the previous Hospital Horror Stories post you would know about the employee who illegally entered the HMNMH computer system and looked at some 300 patient files. Well, that hospital employee is the pathologist who resigned. What is really sad for the community is the fact that the former pathologist was world famous and had written 13 pathology books and consults with the United Nations.

What the administration did was get the snooping pathologist to resign and then she was to enter the negotiations to be rehired by the hospital. But in the middle of the negotiations she was outed by a hospital supervisor and then the hospital had to take her name off the list of potential pathologist. So the hospital was firing the world class pathologist who served this community for years and was at the top of the lists for best pathologist in California.

Now the administration was in a big hunt to find a new pathologist. They hired two doctors and then quality started to slip. Cancer was sometimes misinterpreted as normal and vice a versa. Now the local doctor's started sending out their biopsies to other non hospital pathologists because they could not trust the hospital pathologist reports. From the best pathologist to the new duo was a steep fall to mediocrity.

The administrator resisted any logical sense of what is best for the community to bring on a pair of rookie pathologists. I would ask your doctor to send any pathology reports needed to an outside facility.