The Law of Mice – or Why Heart Surgeons Are Easier to Control than Whistleblowers
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In a newspaper interview, the director of the University Hospital Zurich pays tribute to Whistleblower.
The scandal of seventy deaths of heart patients at Zurich University Hospital also raises the old question of whether there is finally an institutionalised protection for whistleblowers in Switzerland. However, the answer is more complicated than some think.
First white-washing, then general concern Years later: Is Switzerland incapable of dealing with big scandals? The disaster of Crans-Montana could still be dismissed as an expression of the Wallis Copain unculture. But the scandal of the heart surgeon Francesco Maisano and his unsuited cardioband shows so far that all state authorities are incapable of coping with it. From the media, [...]
For his reports of maladministration in Zurich's cardiac surgery, the whistleblower was repeatedly punished – although the facts prove him right.
The head of the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Monika Jänicke, thanked the whistleblower in an interview, who started the scandal.
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