Reported a man for child abuse and now he is making veiled threats against me. Lets talk about workplace carrying as a medical provider.

Kind of a long story, but please bear with me.I am a medical provider working in a rural urgent care setting. My employer has a broad, one sentence "no weapons" policy. The policy doesn't even specify no weapons on company property, no weapons at work. It just says that employees cant possess weapons. It reads like someone wrote it in 15 seconds and then said "yeah, I accomplished something today". So according to this I cant carry pepper spray at work and I guess I am in violation simply by going to the range on my day off.Approximately three weeks ago I had a patient encounter with a young girl and her father. I wont go into the details for HIPAA reasons, but I had reason to suspect child abuse and neglect. I got written statements from my MA and rad tech who also had similar concerns and notified the DCYF after hours line within one hour of the encounter. I did not have any acute safety concerns (no risk of death or serous injury in next 2-3 days) so I couldn't justify calling the police. In speaking with the DCYF staff, they assured me that they would keep this report confidential. They did not. They called the suspect directly and without giving my name, stated that the report came from "an urgent care center that you visited on [specific date]" making it obvious who made the complaint. Yesterday, the outraged suspect called and spoke with our RN, who without any hesitation gave out my first and last name, as well as what time employees typically leave at. After our practice manager spoke with him at length, she immediately came out and asked if everyone knew how to use the panic buttons at work, which no one did. He evidently never made any specific threats, if he had I would have just called local PD and have him arrested on the spot. Instead he made vague statements like that I am going to be sorry, which can be interpreted as either violence or as future litigation, meaning that it would never hold up. This individual is known to be on disability for mental issues, seemed at his witts end when I saw them, and is in the process of losing his daughter due to my DCYF complaint. Last evening I had to get escorted out to my car by the local police. This is not sustainable and they aren't going to do this regularly. The other piece of concern is that my state's board of medicine mistakenly published my personal, not professional address. After fighting with bureaucrats for three weeks, I finally got them to change this. However, there was an overlap for a few days where this man knew that I was the one who made the complaint against him and had access to my home address where my family lives. The fact that he had to ask for my name and info makes me think that he probably didnt access this information before it was changed.I pitched a fit yesterday at work and demanded that my employer do something about this. The best that they could initially come up with is that when I leave work, I should walk to my car with a colleague. She is very sweet, but she admittedly is a middle aged woman with significant back issues. So instead of one medical provider armed with nothing more than a clicky pen light, we will now have two unarmed medical providers with nothing more than clicky pen lights. In speaking with my manager, I was advised that I could carry at work if I wanted to. She was 100% in support of it. I insisted that I wanted that in writing. Concealed means concealed and its ridiculously easy to carry under a white coat, but I still wanted it in writing. She ran it by her boss the regional manager, who was also in support of this. Both are of the mentality that the corporate policy against any employees ever possessing weapons is comically ridiculous. Originally they said that they would put it in writing and then walked that back, out of concern that they could lose their job if they are caught undermining corporate policy. I have text messages from my manager stating that she is aware that I am planning on carrying at work and 100% in support of it. To be honest, I am really uncertain about this because it is still against the companys policy and I have nothing in writing in case anyone notices. I dont care as much about being fired, but I am more concerned about the possibility of having my license to practice medicine being revoked due to broad interpretations of "professional misconduct". I can't find any case law on this, but I am still very uncomfortable with it. I do have a Shield that I am very familiar with and ordered a belly band since scrubs have no pockets or support to IWB carry on pants. Personally, I have always been a "if I am not at work, in the shower, or sleeping, then I am carrying kind of guy" but I have never carried at work.I did get off the phone about a half hour ago with our companys medical director, someone who is like four levels above my manager. He was a really nice guy to talk with and gave me some reassurance on "most people bark but dont bite", but also entirely acknowledged that at the end of the day, its just me walking into a dark parking lot at night. I didn't bring up the guy issue with him because I didn't think it would go over well. He struck me as a more corporate type and isnt going to undermine the current policy and if I ask, then they no know that I am considering it. Tbh, a lot of the conversation felt kind of tone deaf. He was extremely nice, but at the same time his solutions like "just walk to your car with a medical assistant at night" didnt really reassure me. Fine, now if I get shot or stabbed, maybe someone will call 911 before 0730 the following morning when I otherwise would get found. He talked about how after recent school shootings, the company has considered "active shooter" drills and said that they may push up the time table on this. At the end of the day, the clinic is still going to be a soft target where anyone can wreak havoc until someone shows up with the capacity for significant force (probably a police officer) and actually stops them. They seem to think that practicing running out the back door through the break room is going to prevent any loss of life. Admittedly, this wont do shit for me because I spend 80% of my time in exam rooms treating patients and by the time I figure out what is going on, there would be no clear path to run to the back door. Its all ludicrous and non reassuring. They also talked about sending out a memo and writing an email explaining the situation to important people in the company. Again, it was pretty tone deaf as when I asked how that is actually going to improve safety the answer was basically "You dont understand, I am going to CC like FIVE PEOPLE on this email." I want to be like "Well so fucking what. Are those five people going to come protect me from some nut with nothing to lose in a dark parking lot at 9:30 at night?" I used to work in a locked inpt psych hospital. This is not the first time that I have been targeted and certainly not the first DCYF case that I have launched. However, I am used to working behind locked security doors that would take an hour to get through with a sledgehammer and being escorted to my car by armed security officers when there are safety concerns. There's absolutely nothing worse than feeling like you have no control over your own safety because a piece of paper threatens you with consequences.I really just dont know what to do. I hate having to choose between my safety one one hand and my passion for medicine and my livelihood on the other. I feel like the system has failed me. DCYF botched their anonymous investigation and fingered me as the claim maker, my nurse gave out way more information than she should have with no hesitation, and the board of medicine gave out my home address. Now I am being asked to continue to trust in that system. My wife and I are trying to start a family and losing my medical license would be catastrophic. Do you all recommend carrying? Do you like belly bands and scrubs? I want to make corporate take out a restraining order from this individual against coming onto any of our properties. Would this restraining order prevent him from purchasing firearms or demand removal of these firearms? What other suggestions can people put on the table?Thanks a ton for the all the help from a truly grateful r/ccw member. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/2EpSrL2