A Texas nurse is on trial this week for reporting a doctor whose practices she believed endangered patients. As Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports, last year Anne Mitchell submitted a report expressing her concerns about Dr. Rolando G. Arafiles Jr.’s prescription and surgical procedures—including sewing a rubber tip onto a patient’s finger for “protection,” a technique that was later questioned and found improper by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Yet, after Arafiles complained to local county sheriff, Robert L. Roberts Jr. who had been a patient after undergoing heart surgery, Mitchell was arrested and fingerprinted last June. She is now being tried on charges of “misuse of official information,” a third-degree felony in Texas that can mean up to a 10-year prison sentence if she is convicted.
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