Patrice Woeppel, Ed.D. has had a long career in hospital, healthcare, and mental health administration, as well as serving on many state and community boards, and as a hospital board officer. Dr. Woeppel has been involved in many civil rights and human rights issues over the years.

All across America, in every state, across industries and occupations, workers are being injured, or killed on the job, or exposed to toxic chemicals from which they are dying.

What has happened to our nation that has allowed corporations and insurers to throw away the lives, the health of so many without caring, without fear of exposure, without being held accountable? It's called Workers' Compensation: the system we thought was there to protect us if we were injured on the job.

The title refers to a Workers' Compensation system in which worker deaths often cost an employer far less than correcting a safety/health hazard in the workplace; and a system in which the employer is virtually immune from prosecution for the depraved indifference that results in severe injury, toxic exposure, or death.

Depraved Indifference represents over five years of research and interviews. The last chapter explores where we can go from here to create a system of fairness and justice, a system that works; that puts the responsibility and accountability on the employer to make the workplace safe for workers.

KGO Radio is the Citidel owned #1 Neilsen rated 50,000 watt clear-channel Newstalk AM station in San Francisco that can be heard all over the Western United States in the night & evenings.

The National Organization of Injured Workers and it's members always look forward to having the opportunity to speak to injured workers from around the state via KGO Radio. We thank them and John Rothmann for giving injured workers an on-the-air forum on such a high profile radio station (#1 in the market)to make these issues known to the public. If you missed the program, here is the audio track in it's entirety.

Click on the microphone to hear the mp3 podcast of the show.

We decided to take this rare opportunity and document our hour with John Rothmann at KGO radio commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, so here it is, uncut & unedited, most of the hour from inside the radio studio; a glimpse into bigtime radio, San Francisco style and the guests that walk thru the swinging doors.

Click on the camera to see the uncut & unedited videocast of the show.