Whistleblower Wants Tenet to Come Clean

More than three years ago, surgeon Charles Rosen blew the whistle on the Tenet (THC Quote)-owned hospital where he worked.

Rosen, who at the time served as chief of surgery at Tenet's Garden Grove Hospital in suburban Southern California, had just learned that he'd spent months operating with instruments cleaned by what appeared to be broken sterilizers. The "flash" sterilizers, often used to clean surgical instruments soiled during operations, had repeatedly failed to kill resilient spores during routine test runs. And now hospital administrators, aware of the positive spore tests all along, were telling Rosen how to explain the situation when federal inspectors showed up for a big evaluation the following day.

Instead, a nauseated Rosen resigned and went straight to federal authorities. ...