Health Care Blog March 18, 2025
Four days after emergency surgery and barely able to walk, Heather Sherman flew from Chicago to Washington for first-day-of-work onboarding at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fourteen months later, Sherman suddenly became one of the thousands of federal employees summarily dismissed by a weekend email telling them they were “not fit for future employment.”
The trauma of that abrupt ending in mid-February — giving her just a few hours before all access was shut off — still lingers. “This was my dream job,” Sherman told me.
If Sherman were an air traffic controller or nuclear materials expert, her work keeping the public safe would be obvious. But as a mid-level employee with a technical role at a little-known...
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