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Profile In Courage: A Beleaguered Whistle-Blower Physician Fights for Patients and Jobs -- and Wins

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In Murtagh's case, argues Spix, two hugely powerful Atlanta institutions -- its flagship university and its major urban hospital -- "have dragged out the arbitration process interminably, and quite obviously in a continuing effort to exhaust both Murtagh's patience and his financial resources."

 

Concludes the attorney who helped win the intrepid whistle blower his greatest legal victory to date:  "When you look at how Jim Murtagh has stood up to two of the most politically powerful institutions in Georgia, and when you consider that he did it in an effort to help reform them both, you have to conclude that he's actually a pretty heroic figure -- one of those undaunted truth-tellers who refuses to stop telling it like it is, regardless of personal cost."

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Investigative journalist Tom Nugent has reported for the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and many other publications.  He is the author of Death at Buffalo Creek (W.W. Norton), a book of (more...)
 

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