This may seem a little tangential but it is reality:
In April 2020, a group of 500 NYU residents petitioned NYU Langone leadership for hazard pay, to compensate for the increased risk of infection that they faced on a daily basis during the first COVID-19 surge in New York City. Carmody, the former vice chair of academic affairs for the emergency medicine department at NYU, said in the lawsuit that her support of this movement and her opposition to the hospital leadership’s alleged hostile responses made her a target for retaliation.
According to the complaint, Carmody ignored her supervisors’ demands to seek out and expose the names of the residents who signed the letter. She claimed that Robert Grossman, MD, the dean and CEO of NYU Langone Health, told her that he was not only keeping track of this group, but he was also compiling a list of their names to place them on a “no-hire” list to hinder their job prospects after completing residency.
Imagine that? Kristin Carmody, MD was fired for supposing residents who work as hard as anyone during the pandemic. And how about that that “no hire” list, huh? Real nice touch.
But that couldn’t happen to you in primary care, right? Wrong. I was fired for not signing a form that would allow a 3rd party to “optimize” my Medicare billing on their own. In that paper was a sentence that I would agree to waive all rights against that 3rd party even if they do anything illegal. In other words, if the government came calling due to fraudulent claims then I am the one responsible. I refused. My firing lasted a month until the administration blinked and backed down. But the writing was on the wall. I quit my job a few months later and the rest is my DPC story.
So, what is the lesson here?
Be your own boss or you are at the whim of administrators, most of which don’t care about you.
Is that why you’re not my doctor anymore!? I completely respect your decision and I really miss you as well.
Hi. No, I just retired from clinical medicine after 30 years. That story of being fired happened in Maine in 2012. That is why I left to come to Va and open Forest DPC. All is well with me after retirement. Running this website and also doing some consulting to helps other spread the DPC movement. I hope you are well.