The Cumberland Times-News in Maryland reports on a breach of contract lawsuit filed against a obstetrician and gynecologist at Tri-State
Community Health Center's women's center in Memorial Hospital who was fired n November. The doctor claims he was hired to fill a need and agreed to work for "the busiest OB practice in town." The doctor had complained that theobstetrician and gynecologist who ran the practice saw all of the patients leaving few for the plaintiff, according to the lawsuit.
One point of contention in the lawsuit: did the doctor lie to his new employer about whether he has even been the subject of a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit? The letter that fired the doctor claimed that while the doctor indicated that he had never been the subject of a medical malpractice claim
"when, in fact, a legal action was commenced against [the doctor] on June 6, 2008." Apparently, the malpractice lawsuit was dropped and never even served on the doctor.
The blog post is hard to write because I would prefer just to name the doctors by name which makes for an easier read. But my preference is not to name people by name just because they filed a lawsuit. I would like my clients - and the doctors they for malpractice - to be afforded the same courtesy.
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