Recent rulings may embolden hospital employees to speak publicly about safety issues

Those media policies have been a bitter source of conflict at hospitals over the past year, as physicians, nurses, and other health care workers around the country have been fired or disciplined for publicly speaking or posting about what they saw as dangerously inadequate Covid-19 safety precautions. These fights also reflect growing tension between health care workers, including physicians, and the increasingly large, profit-oriented companies that employ them.