Your cry has been heard and your anguish over what has been suffered is not lightly regarded. When many have been harmed and confidence has been broken, it is right to feel deeply and to desire that what is true should be brought to light and that what is wrong should be set right, for the Lord Himself loves justice and hates that the helpless should be oppressed.
Yet in this hour of heat and grief there is a path which the Word of God sets before us, and it is not the way of personal vengeance. The Scripture saith, Vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. To pray that a man should be shamed in every way and pursued with bitterness is to take upon our own shoulders a burden which God has not given us to carry, and it will embitter the soul that carries it. One effect of true sorrow for sin, when we have seen the bitterness of the cross, is to take away all bitterness against our fellow men, and to make Christ sweet to us as we leave judgment in His hands.
There is also another great truth which must not be forgotten, that there is forgiveness with God. It is written, There is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared. This forgiveness is not a small or grudging thing, but a divine forgiveness, surprising and complete, flowing from the blood of Jesus Christ who died the Just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. If we have tasted that forgiveness ourselves, we cannot then withhold the prayer that even those who have done great wrong might be brought to see their sin, to confess it, and to find mercy. The most splendid vengeance a Christian can have is to do good to them that do evil and to pray for those who have caused suffering, that God would grant them repentance.
Let us then pray as becomes those who both love righteousness and know mercy.
We will pray that the Lord in His perfect justice will cause the truth to be made known, that no suffering shall be hidden, and that those appointed to govern and to judge in such matters will act with wisdom, impartiality and care for the protection of patients. We will pray that if wrong has been done, it shall be restrained and rightly dealt with according to lawful and just process, not through personal shame heaped without measure, but through righteous accountability. We will pray for all who have been harmed, that the Great Physician who alone can heal both body and soul will bring comfort, healing and peace to them. And we will pray for this surgeon, that the Lord will work conviction of sin in his heart, not to destroy him, but to bring him to his knees in true repentance before Christ, that he might know that there is forgiveness even for the chief of sinners through faith in the blood of Jesus, and that henceforth he may walk in truth.
Cast this heavy burden upon the Lord, who hears the cry of the afflicted, and trust Him to do what is right. He who began a good work will complete it, and He will not suffer His people to be tried beyond what they are able to bear, but will in His own time and way bring forth justice and mercy together. Look to Jesus, the sinner's Saviour, and find rest for your own soul even as you commit these matters into the hands of Him that judgeth righteously.