There is a scandal in Georgia that no one seems to want to highlight.
Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. It’s effectively a catch-all for various tragedies. I didn’t know it existed until nine years ago, and I hope no one else has to join the club.
What no one tells you about infant loss is that the tragedy that started it is only the start. There’s the tragedy about how people in the real world respond, whether it’s callous colleagues who wonder why you might seem upset six weeks after your child died or the heartless hospital bureaucrats who call it an “untoward event.”
Then there’s the agency that could help: The Georgia Composite Medical Board, perhaps the most worthless government agency in a long list of worthless government agencies.
We don’t have the time to recount the many ways this agency is failing Georgians. In short, they don’t properly investigate suspicious deaths. They know it; they privately acknowledge it; they won’t do anything about it.
Perhaps even worse, I have spoken with a growing list of lawmakers who privately agree with me. They, too, won’t act.
I spoke with the agency’s latest head, who told me the Georgia Bureau of Investigation should have been called in to investigate my specific case. He flat-out refused to make the call himself.
The reasons are many, including that they don’t seem to have the appetite to look into previous employees who failed at their jobs. I either am, was or cosplay as a journalist, depending on which moronic definition one prefers.
I know this case is personal, but I have won awards for my news reporting. That is perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever touted, except to say that I know something about the industry.
I know this is a scandal that deserves to be covered, even if far too many people don’t have the hutzpah — or the professional curiosity — to look into it.
What will it take? An audio recording…
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