![]() In the interest of making the letter something we can all stand behind as we try to provide reassurance to our community, I have changed some of the wording. This letter is certainly not intended as a tool to encourage people to choose sides. I also want to acknowledge the concerns being voiced about the letter directly addressing the situation involving Dr. I want to thank you all for the huge outpouring of support for this letter. Please note the change of tack in the prologue. Lin’s name is deleted and on Thursday afternoon the doctors are asked again to sign, with PeaceHealth PR manager Beverly Mayhew - by her own admission to me - “helping” and “facilitating” the signings. Remember, a full newspaper page ad in the Herald must have been reserved for Sunday. So, mid-day it was revised and sent around again. I want you to hear our story.īut many doctors would not sign this version because it criticized Dr. I want you to hear the other side of the story. And it’s heart-wrenching to watch our collective achievements become overshadowed by the opinions of a single physician. Joseph Medical Center, I am seeing first-hand the extraordinary amount of work my colleagues are doing to prepare our hospital and clinics for Covid-19. My heart is filled with despair as I watch division and distrust spread through our community following the departure of Dr. Dowling did not send the letter, but it was sent “on her behalf.” This is the PR folks operating. Lin features, then is removed, then returns via innuendo after the hospital’s doctors have signed.īelow is the preamble of the first version of the letter, from Thursday morning. Let’s look at the three iterations of this letter and how Dr. Several hospital staff, and those who work with staff, have reinforced this for me over the past couple weeks. Joe’s - I should say PeaceHealth - has a reputation among their staff of retaliatory action for speaking out or criticizing. Any time the boss asks an employee to do something outside the job they are hired to do, there is a certain amount of intimidation. Yet, Mayhew admitted to me in a phone call that she “helped” and “facilitated” getting the doctors to sign the letter. PeaceHealth insists there was no coercion, that it was just an email requesting doctors to sign. They wanted only a forward-looking letter. It was revised later in the day after many doctors refused to sign because it mentioned Dr. The letter started circulating Thursday morning, April 2. The full page ad in the Sunday Bellingham Herald had to have been contracted days ahead of time - and the ad had to be to the Herald by Friday. I did not believe her then, and certainly do not believe her now. She told me that the idea and the letter came from St. One contact, Beverly Mayhew, manages the PR for St. PeaceHealth corporate has nine media contacts for the 10 hospitals it owns. His purpose was to get improved protection for his fellow employees. He criticized PeaceHealth for not implementing the safety measures and practices for staff and patients that other hospitals in the Puget Sound area were using. ![]() ![]() Joseph Medical Center, was the target of his criticism for not providing PPE to the staff - the doctors, nurses, facilities staff, and clerical folks. PeaceHealth, the corporate manager and owner of St. He never criticized the achievements of his fellow staff members. Lin never criticized his fellow hospital staff, many of whom he worked with for 17 years. The public relations (PR) folks at PeaceHealth set up a straw man and criticized it, in an attempt to counter Dr. And that remains a serious shortcoming at the hospital. Lin criticized, which was the lack of personal protection equipment (PPE) for this same valued hospital staff under the direction of PeaceHealth administrators. But it does not say a word about what Dr. To wit: “And it’s heart-wrenching to watch our collective achievements become overshadowed by the opinions of a single physician.”īottom line is this: The letter praises the personal work of the entire hospital staff for their efforts to meet the Covid-19 crisis. The letter from PeaceHealth that appeared in the Sunday Bellingham Herald attempts to counter the efforts of an unnamed physician, but obviously it’s Dr. Topics: Bellingham, News Media, Health ,. ![]()
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