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HCA-Virginia claimed that Vuyyuru was at fault in the care of two patients. Review of the charts show the opposite. Evidence shows a shocking alteration of charts, and that HCA-Virginia may actual have put patients in jeopardy in order to frame Dr. Vuyyuru.
Dr. Blake Moore, president of SSI concluded his investigation: “The medical facts in these cases were reviewed by multiple board certified parties. The care provided by Dr. Vuyyuru was deemed to be appropriate and professional. His care of his patients was found to be of a high quality and consistent with all reasonable standards of professional care.”
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Patient advocacy groups now recognize that frequently peer review matters are not based upon true issues of quality of care but are very commonly motivated by alternative agendas that can include greed or avarice. The SSI press release continued, “Dr. Vuyyuru demonstrates that he had become a very vocal advocate for patient safety and political reform. His actions in convening grand juries to address these concerns certainly generated a climate ripe for personal retaliation. A reasonable individual might conclude that the actions taken by the Virginia Medical Board were not motivated by legitimate concerns for patient safety, but appear to be of a retaliatory nature.”
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SSI, IAW and other patient advocates strongly endorses efforts to ensure fairness and ethics in peer review matters. The public clearly needs to be protected from dangerous medical care. However, when conscientious physicians who speak up as patient advocates are attacked and their ability to act as vocal advocates for their patients are silenced, it is rather ironically that the public health is even greater threatened.
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Dr. Vuyyuru has demonstrated himself to be such a vocal patient advocate. As a newspaper publisher he has attempted to bring attention to quality of care issues. He has mobilized thousands of ordinary citizens to seek action in the furtherance of quality care in Virginia.
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