Hospital Fired NY Podiatrist for Reporting Workplace Harassment: Suit
God-awful medicine isn’t the only thing that flourishes at Coney Island Hospital. The Brooklyn medical center, which consistently ranks among the nation’s worst, also allows harassment to thrive there, a new lawsuit charges. The union for podiatry resident Bella Mednik, 33, says in the suit that its member was canned in August after a three-year stint at the hospital because she complained about the harassment. The court papers cite a series of off-color text messages allegedly shared among the hospital’s podiatry team.
An arbitrator had ruled that Mednik violated nearly a dozen hospital protocols, including failing to correctly document the vital signs of a patient with gangrene in July 2016, leading up to her firing. The union says Mednik was actually fired in retaliation for blowing the whistle on the workplace harassment back in February 2017.
Source: Julia Marsh, NY Post [11/12/18]
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