Employee makes ‘whistleblower report’ on doctor colleague after he takes on overlapping shifts in the emergency room and the psych ER, potentially putting patients at risk: ‘He has been terminated because of it’

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Jun 7, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Have you ever had that colleague who seems to constantly bend the rules (or simply break them entirely) without getting caught? The ones who think it's okay to just get up and cheat the system just because they can? Hey, I'm antiwork just like the next guy, but it comes to a point where they gotta realize they're not the only ones in the equation and their selfish actions actually affect other people. Breaking news: Employee learns empathy. I'd like to see that as a headline one day.

In this next story, an employee reports his doctor coworker for taking overlapping shifts in different sections of their hospital's emergency room. Not only is this a double-pay for half the work situation, but he's also potentially endangering the lives of all of the patients who will come into the emergency room that night. If there's only one doctor per emergency room, and he is supposed to be both of them, what then? Well, our little whistleblower comes to the rescue, and commenters thank him for doing the bare minimum in the medical field. Scroll to read the entire story below.

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  • In a utopic world, we'd all be paid more. Granted, doctors are pretty well paid because of the life-saving work they do, so part of me wonders if the employee's colleagues' hamartia was greed. At the end of the day, it is one of the seven sins…

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  • "I made a whistleblower report on my colleague and now he got l**d off his job"

    I have a colleague, who's both greedy and braggy, and completely unscrupulous. We started around the same time at
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  • the same hospital as doctors, and I quickly came to learn that all John really cares about is money and wealth.
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  • As months passed, the list of ways he cheated grew bigger, and he was openly bragging about it.
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  • It became a subject we were discussing between colleagues when he wasn't around, because it p ed all of us off that he was
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  • cheating the system the way he was. We're in a country with universal health care, which I think for a lot of us means a bigger sense of justice when it comes to someone leeching off of the public funds.
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  • The straw which broke the camel's back for me was one time where he had taken overlapping shifts in the ER (physically there) and the psych ER (on-call), which to me is putting patients health at stake.
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  • So me and one colleague made a whistleblower report. And yesterday he told me he has been terminated because of it. He has
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  • no idea it was me. I hear from others that he has made some guesses on who made the report, and he has no idea it was us.
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  • I really hope he learns that his actions have consequences. But I'm afraid he might just become more subtle about cheating the system moving forward.
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  • millievibes · You did the right thing. It takes real courage to stand up for integrity, especially when it involves a colleague. In a profession where people's lives are on the line, cheating the system isn't just unethical, it's dangerous. You didn't act out of
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  • spite, but out of a sense of duty to your patients and your peers. I hope he reflects on his actions, but even if he doesn't, you helped protect others from the harm he could've caused. That matters
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  • Spiritual_Cake5053 I've been a whistleblower all my life, and I take my hat off to you. It takes a lot of courage to do it and courage after while you anticipate and potential fallout. In my country we have official systems in place to protect whistleblowers. Do you have that where you are? They should be supporting tou right now.
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  • SassyYanah Patient safety and public trust matter more than his paycheck, his consequences are his own doing. You did the right thing.
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  • Key-7373 You did the right thing. Cheating in healthcare endangers lives and undermines trust.
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  • Illprobp sUoff I guess he got what he deserved
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  • Mercedes_Gullwing Greed and such is fine IMO however it's very different when people's lives are at stake. Doctors have a special obligation towards their patients health and safety. He chose the wrong profession if he wanted wealth and such at any cost. Did he get fired with cause? Will this follow him around? Or was he let go without cause?
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  • 1throwaway2rta Well greed is one thing - a character flaw I guess. But he cheated and I realize after I've seen the comments on my post actually committed fraud. I didn't ask too much about "what happened", because he just told me he got terminated due to a "staff matter" (not sure exactly how to translate this), and said something like "oh I thought you heard, but if you haven't, then let's not talk about that".
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