Posted on 06/30/2006 6:36:24 PM PDT by wagglebee
Florida, June 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A North Country Gazette exclusive reveals that Florida’s Department of Health has demanded the nursing license and nearly $1700 dollars in fines and administrative costs from a nurse who gave public testimony in the case of Terri Schiavo. This comes at the same time that the Department of Health has dropped action against Michael Schiavo, also a registered nurse, for falsifying his guardianship papers.
Carla Sauer Iyer, a nurse who cared for Terri Schiavo until 1996, has given numerous affidavits on her experience with Terri, and is facing the wrath of the DOH for repeating the public record in a CNN interview.
The Department of Health launched it’s campaign to strip Ms. Iyer of her nurse’s license after receiving a complaint from a Ms. Eileen Sullivan about Ms. Iyer’s statements to CNN’s Bill Hemmer in a March 21, 2005 interview. Sullivan said in her complaint that Iyer made “inflammatory comments” by revealing that Michael Schiavo’s care of Terri included words such as “when is that bitch going to die?” Ms. Sullivan demanded that “Ms. Sauer-Iyer should be disciplined for her breach of faith with Theresa Schiavo and with her profession as a registered nurse”.
As the Gazette reports, the complaint filed in April remained dormant for 11 months until evidence was released in March 2006 that Michael Schiavo had falsified his guardianship papers, by perjuring his oath that he had received a degree from Buck’s Community College. The DOH, however, found that in light of this evidence there was “no probable cause” to discipline Michael for these offences, but discovered “probable cause” to revoke Iyer of her nursing license for discussing the public record of her experiences with Terri on CNN.
Ms. Iyer’s attorney, Allen Grossman, has pointed out that all of Ms. Iyer’s statements were apart of the public record, and thus did not involve a breach of confidential information. Grossman said that her CNN interview was “little more than a rendition of the same information already provided in the public record”, and that the “privilege of confidentiality is waived to the extent that the patient’s medical/mental status is placed directly at issue in a legal proceeding.”
The Gazette conducted an exclusive interview in which Ms. Sullivan said that even though what Ms. Iyer spoke about had been public record for over 18 months, the difference was that the CNN interview reached “millions of viewers”, instead of confining the facts to an obscure courtroom. Ms. Sullivan also stated that while she did not know that Michael Schiavo was also a registered nurse since January 2000, she thought it was entirely proper that he discuss Schiavo's case as part of the legal proceedings he needed to defend.
Among the facts revealed to the broader public in the CNN interview was that Iyer witnessed Terri say, “Mommy, help me”, and “pain”, and would also interact with the nurses and visitors. Iyer maintained that there exists over 4 hours of videotape from ’95 and ’96 proving this, but that it was placed under gag-order, including her own testimony about Michael Schiavo’s treatment of Terri.
This is not the first time the allies of Michael Schiavo have acted to end Ms. Iyer’s career. Ms. Iyer’s care of Terri Schiavo was ended back in 1996 after she informed the police and her superiors of Palm Garden of Largo Convalescent Center in Largo, Florida that she believed Michael Schiavo attempted to kill his wife with insulin injections. She claims she discovered needle marks on Terri, and found that Terri’s blood sugar was so dangerously low that her levels would not register on a glucometer. Instead of having an investigation launched into the matter, her career was terminated.
I worked for health care professional licensure board, you have to proof to revoke licensure. They just don't do based on emotionalism. Unlike the Terri supporters here on FR.
Show us where she lost her license.
I'd still like an (accurate) answer to that question. Any takers?
She was given swallow tests and failed them. Its all documented by her guardian.
What year?
Oops I meant the nurse who lost her licensure. You all know who I meant.
In the article above. Didn't you read it?
Are you sure you're not confusing her with Eileen Sullivan?
Nothing else is this case was handled based on legal precedent (like when they ignored a Congressional subpoena), I don't have any reason to think they would start now.
This is what the world comes to when you yield to the will of the godless............................
"We don't know that. Believe me, the police investigate every report that's filed. Obviously, the woman had credibility issues and it led to the revocation of licensure."
This is absurd. I can say from sorry personal experience that police do not investigate all crime reports, and when they do, the process may be a sham. I also know that licensing boards are highly political and often corrupt.
You mean her estranged "husband"?
Whatever.
No, her court appointed medical doctor.
Then why were they unwilling to let her have any water as she was dying? If she was actually unable to swallow it, that would have helped sway public opinion in their direction.
Its called criminal trespass.
Yes, I did read a little more than the headline.
A North Country Gazette exclusive reveals that Florida’s Department of Health has demanded the nursing license and nearly $1700 dollars in fines and administrative costs from a nurse who gave public testimony in the case of Terri Schiavo.
Really, I would call it enforcing a Congressional subpoena.
What do you think the word "demanded" means?
One of us is misunderstanding this -
Quote from the article: Sullivan said in her complaint that Iyer made “inflammatory comments” by revealing that Michael Schiavo’s care of Terri included words such as “when is that bitch going to die?” Ms. Sullivan demanded that “Ms. Sauer-Iyer should be disciplined for her breach of faith with Theresa Schiavo and with her profession as a registered nurse”.
Read that carefully.
She is not being charge with defaming or lying about what he said - but for "revealing" it! and should be punished for this because it was a 'breach of faith with Teresa Schiavo." (this would be Terri. I point this out because there seems to be some with reading/discernment deficit here)
As she pointed out to Colmes, who accused her of breach of faith, she pointed out that her loyalty was to her patient and her duty to protect her patient.
To try to protect Terri - or any patient - from harm is hardly a "breach of faith" to that patient!
Am I reading this right or has this country slipped so far into upside-down socialism that I am odd man out?
Maybe it's time for me to retire from this madding crowd and get further back into the woods where some sanity still exists.
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