An NYC surgeon has filed a lawsuit against her former employer for repeatedly questioning her sex life after she removed an object from a male patient’s anus.
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Dr. Deborah Keller,41, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan and claimed she was targeted by administrators at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital after she helped her colleagues remove the object from a male patient in February 2020. Keller said she was placed on administrative leave and was repeatedly questioned by admins who thought the object was a ‘dildo’ in addition to being accused of having an affair with a male surgeon. She was fired from the hospital and added that administrators submitted false reports about her termination to the National Practitioner Data Dank, preventing her to get another job as a surgeon.
‘They kept using inappropriate terms for the foreign [object], it was just getting contentious and questions that just didn’t have anything to do with the practice of medicine or patient care or colorectal surgery, making what I do seem like a joke,’
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Keller believes she was targeted because she filed previous complaints of gender discrimination against the hospitals’ chief of colorectal surgery, Pokala Ravi Kiran. However, she did confess to sharing photos of the object with a surgical resident and said it was to educate them about the procedure.
Currently, Keller works as a researcher and assistant professor at the University of California.
SOURCE: Daily Mail