US public health workers leaving ‘in droves’ amid pandemic burnout

In the past 3 years, I've had about six jobs. I work in regulatory compliance for medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Let me tell you how those jobs ended -

2019, silicon manufacturer fired me because I would not fake audit reports so his company could get preferred supplier discounts from Intel (yeah the processor company).

2019, radiopharmaceutical company fired me because I told them they needed to report a complaint in which a product they manufactured resulted in a broken toe. This is required by regulation.

2019, medical device manufacturer makes a speculum that gets stuck open. Yeah. I was the quality lead. I was terminated for telling them to issue a field notice warning users of the potential for a speculum to get stuck open in patients. They did nothing. That product is still out there. CEO told me it was a cheap Chinese piece of garbage. Marketing called it a "premium medical product".

2020, medical device manufacturer fires me for saying "a 2 drawer file cabinet is not a sufficient quality management system". I was also asking for more security, because we were handling patient data on unprotected Excel files (12k rows of patient data).

2020, Fired from one of the worlds largest global pharmaceutical manufacturers. I told the Executive of quality that I could demonstrate they were using risk assessments as a loophole to not investigate deviations from the clinical protocol. I also demonstrated they were only investigating 17% of those deviations. So if you're a patient in one of their clinical trials, there's a 17% chance anyone asked the doctor why he deviated from protocol. This data is presented to global regulatory authorities.

None of these companies have changed their ways. In fact, that last company promoted the woman who made the decision not to investigation clinical protocol deviations. She's a VP now!

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