Last week, I had the joy of interviewing three brave whistleblowers at the Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas, the first hospital in the country to “lead the way” and to “proudly” introduce vaccine mandates in 2021—first, for nurses and other employees, then for credentialed physicians.
The names of the whistleblowers are Dr. Venu Julapalli, Dr. Mary Crow, and nurse Owen Robinson (RN).
In the course of the conversation, I just couldn’t shake off the feeling that I am living in the decaying USSR. Everything they described matched the psychological dynamic that I know too well: the fear of speaking out, the censorship, the abyss between the “public policy” and the “private policy,” the insurmountable absurdity of the public policy, the intellectual paralysis as a reaction to internalized abuse, “knowing the right person” as the only avenue of “g…
