The Story from American Public Media - Blowing the Whistle http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_619_Blowing_The_Whistle.mp3 Joyce Molino blew the whistle on the nursing home where she worked and faced the consequences. Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_619_Blowing_The_Whistle.mp3/logo.jpg Blowing the Whistle http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_619_Blowing_The_Whistle.mp3 <h4>Blowing the Whistle</h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/38e73b6d6f3f9cd4eee8fe5101c19e51" alt="Joyce Molino" height="100" width="100" />Joyce Molino</p><p>Abuses at nursing homes made the news several times this summer. Joyce Molino has seen those abuses herself. She worked at a nursing home for the mentally ill in Chicago. Shortly after she started, she saw roaches in the hallway and residents being beaten. The breaking point for her came when a female patient was raped. </p><p>Joyce talks with host Dick Gordon about what happened after she blew the whistle.</p><p></p><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a><br /><h4>Appraised Out of Business</h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/49bb909ea5fadf911c3a701bd084a9fa" alt="Bill Thornton" height="100" width="100" />Bill Thornton</p><p>For Bill Thornton, this month's dismal economic news has been a kind of absolution. For 20 years, he was a home appraiser. But as prices climbed during the housing boom, lenders stopped calling him. As he tells Dick, Bill eventually closed his business and reluctantly became a truck driver. Yet when he recently heard how Wall Street helped create the housing and financial meltdown, he realized that losing his business wasn't exactly his fault.</p><blockquote><p><i>Music heard in this story: "Truckin'" from the "Pickin' On Series" for the album "Pickin' On the Grateful Dead - A Tribute"</i><br /></p></blockquote><p></p><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:00