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April 5, 2025 - Epoch Times
09:48
A surgeon blew the whistle on a secret transgender program at the hospital where he worked
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I mean it's truly unbelievable because January 24th is when my case was dismissed but that day and then the night before especially I was getting ready to go to jail I was giving my wife all of my media contacts you know we were thinking about like if they show up to my work because I was operating the next day And we were fully getting ready to prepare for the worst.
And all this came about because I spoke out, right?
I expressed my opinion about what was going on in this case.
And the judge was threatening to send me to jail for violating a de facto gag order, something he had not even signed.
And on the same day that I was possibly going to jail, he ended up signing the dismissal of the case.
And it was dismissed.
Let's backtrack a bit.
This goes way back to 2023 when you blew the whistle on some very unfortunate activities.
Give me a picture of what happened.
I was a surgery resident in general surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, which is one of the academic institutions in the Texas Medical Center.
Part of the program During your training is you go to different hospitals.
One of those hospitals is Texas Children's Hospital, one of the most prestigious.
And we spent a lot of time training there.
And it actually goes back one year before because in 2022, this is when the transgender issue was really coming to the mainstream.
You know, it was after COVID that it went into the schools, went into the hospitals everywhere.
And in March 2022, the hospital had released a very public statement saying that they were shutting down their transgender program because of the potential criminal ramifications.
And the reason they said that was because a few weeks earlier, the Attorney General of Texas said that it could be investigated as child abuse, right?
So it makes sense why they would release that statement.
And over the next couple of months, what I found out is that the hospital did not shut down the program.
They not only continued it, but expanded it, all of it behind closed doors.
The reason I knew this was because I worked there, and the people who were doing these surgeries You
said that this was part of your job.
Speaking out.
Explain to me what your thought is behind that.
Yeah, well, when you take your oath as a doctor, you say to do no harm, right?
But that not only involves the patients who are on your operating room table, the people I see in clinic, but also the profession.
Because my dad's a doctor.
He's a pulmonologist.
And when I was growing up, he always told me, you have to take care of your patients.
That's the most important thing.
But you also have to take care of your profession.
So part of that is holding other doctors accountable if they're lying or they're harming patients.
because you have a responsibility to those people.
If you see something going wrong, you have to say something about it.
You have to do something, even if that means you may have to sacrifice because the job of being a doctor is so important There's no other option.
I think this is a rare view from what I've seen over the last several years.
I think a lot of that view came from what I saw during COVID because Everything I saw going on in the hospital, people dying alone, these kids who were being abused because they were locked down at home, and all that came from doctors not following through with their oaths to their profession.
So many were willing to stay silent in the face of lies.
And because of that, the people who we were supposed to take care of were the ones who were suffering the most.
And seeing all this...
Right? It was horrific.
I mean, warehouses full of dead bodies that were not able to see the people they loved the most before they passed away.
And even though I did my best to try to fight against it, at some point I'm complicit, right?
I'm guilty of it.
And I just couldn't live with my life, right?
I couldn't look in the mirror if this other thing is happening and I didn't do anything about it because I knew I could.
So... I blew the whistle May 16th, 2023, and I was anonymous, so no one knew who I was.
I was just planning on moving on with my life because I was about to finish my surgical residency and start my new job.
But on the day of my graduation, a month later, June 23rd, 2023, a few hours before the ceremony, a few hours before I'm about to meet up with my parents and my entire program, I get an aggressive knock.
On my door.
And I open it and there's two armed agents with Health and Human Services.
And they tell me that they're investigating a case regarding medical records.
And that's when I knew that the Federal Leviathan showed up to my door and that this was going to be a fight.
Luckily, my wife is an attorney.
She's actually a federal prosecutor.
She works at DOJ.
And she had advised me not to speak with them without an attorney.
But they gave me a target letter that named me as the target of an investigation.
And what followed after that was so corrupt, so treacherous, a case that was so wrong that it's hard to even put it into words.
There's so many layers of corruption that we were always surprised by the depth.
They were willing to go.
What were you charged with?
So in general, what they were charging me with was accessing records without authorization.
And then initially they charged me with disclosure.
Those were the two big things, the two operational components of HIPAA.
Access and then disclosure.
The thing with this case which makes it unprecedented in American history is that Their own evidence, the evidence they gave us, showed that I had access to the hospital because I was working there.
And then their first indictment was built on a fabricated story.
So that one fell apart.
So they had to drop the...
Disclosure, because I had never released patient names, right?
Everything was de-identified.
The same type of information that hospitals give to public health agencies or news organizations to report about public health diseases.
So they had reinterpreted the law in the most radical way possible, essentially to charge me with a non-crime.
They had never even defined the nature of the charges after all these months of fighting.
I still don't know what they were charging me with because they never told us.
And so you mentioned the first indictment, so there was a second.
Yeah. So there were three total.
And just imagine how much...
Legal costs that took to get through three.
The first indictment fell apart because their story was...
Not real.
They said after January 2021, I had no reason to be at Texas Children's Hospital.
So they were making it seem like I was some type of, you know, like grifter, some type of liar who was lying about needing to access records at TCH in order to get into the medical system.
That was not true.
I was working there.
I was rotating at the hospital in April and May of 2023.
So once that became known, Then they had to go back to a grand jury and get a second indictment.
The second indictment fell apart because the language they used in the charges were not part of the statute, which is like a big deal.
So they charged me with something that wasn't a crime.
But then also, they included a typo in their indictment.
And not just like a their, their type thing.
Instead of subchapter XI, they wrote subchapter XL.
The problem with that is that it doesn't exist.
That's a major legal problem if you charge someone with a crime that's not on the books.
So we had this long hearing.
The judge ripped into the prosecutor, and they ended up having to get a third indictment.
So this was after months and months of fighting in court.
And this, you know, I just want to mention, I saw that there's 148 filings in this case, which is really kind of, well, let's just say it's a lot, right?
And all of these things, as you mentioned, are expensive.
And so, you know, there's incredible resources were used here.
Yeah, and it's really remarkable because when you go to the legal docket, you can go online and when you scroll through all of them, it actually takes some time to scroll through them.
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