At age 15, Samson Cournane created a Change.org petition with fellow University of Maine students and directed it to his congressman. His goal was to highlight “serious patient safety issues” at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, the second-largest hospital in the Pine Tree State.
He alleged intimidation of his mother, pediatric critical care physician Anne Yered, for protesting the purportedly unqualified director of the pediatric ICU, and her forced exit after bringing concerns to Northern Light Health’s CEO on behalf of physicians.
Cournane promoted the petition through Twitter and a letter to the editor of the student newspaper, The Maine Campus.
The hospital responded by threatening to sue Yered for defamation as her son’s supposed ghostwriter, starting a two-year saga that ended Nov. 7 when the statute of limitations expired.
Cournane told Just the News as the milestone approached that he could finally “go back to a normal social media experience, but I doubt it will ever be normal again and “I’m going to be a lot more hesitant about writing certain things in the future.” […]
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