THE ACCOUNTABILITY SERIES Blog by Liz Florentino, Survivor On a Mission

THE ACCOUNTABILITY SERIES: Crickets, Part 4

Sep 19, 2025

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THE ACCOUNTABILITY SERIES: Poking Darkness With a Stick, Part 3

Sep 14, 2025

Every utterance against injustice is like poking at Darkness with a stick, testing how far I’ve actually come on my healing journey. I expect (fingers crossed) I can outrun Darkness this time if it comes after me.

THE ACCOUNTABILITY SERIES: A Forgotten Mission Statement, Part 2

Sep 17, 2025

A business mission statement is a mirror into its soul. It states the bottom line, nitty-gritty, deepest intentions that guide its operations through ups and downs like its very own north star. It’s the pulse, the heart. Unless…

THE ACCOUNTABILITY SERIES: Shining the Light on Brick Wall Systems, Part 1

Sep 25, 2025

The Accountability Series is a call for change — a public record and a reminder that patients deserve to be heard. Healthcare accountability should be standard, not a battle that injured patients and their families are forced to fight, only to be dismissed and left to pick up the pieces alone. Through this series, I’m opening a window into an ongoing campaign — it’s an invitation for hospital decision-makers to finally step up after more than four years of denying the abuse and injuries I sustained by one of their surgeons. I am drawing from my personal malpractice journey, yet it mirrors untold numbers of malpractice journeys where the injured have been and will be shut out and failed by rigid, inhumane brick wall systems.

What if they'd said, "Tell us more, let's figure this out."?

Sep 14, 2025

While I was being swallowed up by suffocating injustice, I understood that the systems weren’t going to change their ways for me. If I had any hope of moving on, I had to be the one to evolve.