The Rule Of Law Is Missing In Action In Florida

There is an interesting case where a Florida state panel of nurses found that there is probable cause to revoke the license of Carla Sauer-Iyer a former nurse of Terri Schiavo of breaching medical confidentiality by giving testimony to the media.

What I find so interesting is that Carla Sauer-Iyer testimony states that Terri was “was reactive to her environment, to herself, and to other people”. Now if what she said was false then it would not be a breach of confidentiality. Just imagine you tell a friend a secret and that friend tell another person a lie about what that secret is. Did you friend breach your confidentiality by telling that lie? So the charge against nurse Sauer-Iyer is only valid if what she said was true and if so it reveals there is something rotten in Florida and it is most likely the rule of law.

Governor Bush stepped in and like most politicians missed the contradiction and said that the nurse Sauer-Iver should not loose her license because what she said was on public record.

This is most likely true as Carla Sauer-Iyer states she made a report to the Pinellas County sheriff's office. This is the same police office where Michael Schiavo was employed at starting in late 2004 and his mistress’s mother retired from in 1999 after 20 years of service. Sheriff Everett Rice who was her supervisor hired Michael.

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