How to opensource- and maybe get arrested in the process

I've decided that I'm going to opensource some code I wrote- although I have been advised not to. What can possibly happen? Sure technically it's the property of the hospital I worked for, and they seem to have suddenly realized there might be SOME commercial value in the lines of code I wrote...but my salary was highly subsidized by TAXPAYERS! It's time I had my Che Guevera, MD moment, and started giving back to the people what belongs to them.

By doing this I may make myself a pariah in parts of the local medical community. I don't care, I work for patients, not bureaucrats or worse corrupt kleptocrats.

You will soon be able to find all kinds of open source code on my GitHub. If you are not a technical person, email or get in touch, and I will try to help you get the code. Why?

Because there are people out there who need this code: refugees in Greece or citizens in Guyana, Tanzania, Malawi or the USA for that matter. Anyone can imagine how painfully hard it is to advocate for healthcare for refugees- the argument from angered locals is usually what about us already here? When you called that ambulance for that feverish child, my kid now has to wait for the ambulance. Anything I can do to pull down the cost of healthcare will make these arguments less painful...it will also make the lives of citizens in many countries less awful. The WHO estimates that MOST people on the planet do not have access to basic radiological services. Anyone who even quickly peruses the data available from their department of Essential Health Technologies will realize how awful it might be to get sick in a neglected area. What isn't apparent from the data you can find on the WHO is how awful it is to be sick inside a corrupt system like the US healthcare system. I think back to my time working in emergency there- every little thing was scrutinized in terms of cost down to the amount of suture material I would use to sew up gashes in children's arms...I wish my fellow Americans lived in a country where the argument about who gets what radiological imaging was about the amount of radiation versus benefit, but in the USA, it's also about cost.

I'm going to add some comments into my code- and slowly start opensourcing it one program every few days...I'll be releasing programs at a rate of maybe one a week because I do have to work for money like everyone else most of the time. But go into my Github opensource4medicine folder- and you can even request that I rush certain programs if I made them. It shouldn't be hard to guess which ones I might make from what is there. If there are no more blogs from me ever it may reflect that someone with power has decided to make an example out of me. Whatever, hasta la victoria....and to be perfectly honest I woke up and discovered Microsoft Windows writing a bunch of garbage to my hard drive. I'm turning into Richard Stallman, but some proprietary software IS evil. Free the software!