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Hurley settles race discrimination complaint that claimed black nurses were banned from treating white baby in Flint
Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com By Gary Ridley | gridley@mlive.com
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on September 27, 2013 at 10:44 AM, updated September 27, 2013 at 10:55 AM
FLINT, MI --
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission says it has settled a race discrimination charge filed with the commission against Hurley Medical Center over allegations that black nurses were forbidden from from treating a white baby.
The EEOC will conduct annual non-discrimination training for the management staff of the hospital and partner with the hospital on a variety of programs and initiatives aimed at educating and developing youth from Flint and the surrounding Genesee County community as part of a five-year collaborative agreement.
"I am pleased that we are able to engage in this partnership and receive the expert resources of the EEOC in a collaborative fashion," Melany Gavulic, Hurley president and CEO, said in a statement sent to The Flint Journal by the EEOC. "All of these initiatives, in partnership with the EEOC, will continue to move us forward in our unending commitment to provide clinical excellence and service to people."
Hurley could not be reached for further comment Friday morning.
The agreement also includes a variety of internal programs focused on workforce development involving youth in the community.
The hospital agreed to pay nearly $200,000 in March to settle a lawsuit that claimed the hospital discriminated against a nurse when it refused to let her treat an infant because she is black.
Nurse Tonya Battle, who works in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, filed a lawsuit claiming the hospital discriminated against her when it fulfilled a father's request not to let black nurses treat his child. Both sides announced they settled the suit Feb. 22. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed.
Hurley agreed to pay Battle $110,000 as part of the settlement. Hurley also agreed to pay two other employees, Lakisha Bah Stewart and Latoya, $41,250 each to settle the claims.
Stewart and Butler, who also work at the hospital, were added to the lawsuit as part of an amended complaint. Both are also black.
The hospital also agreed to staff an "employee advocate" and undertake a "root cause analysis" with the goal of creating an action plan, according to the settlement agreement.
The employee advocate would deal with hospital administration and work on behalf of the hospital's employees.
The father, who was not named in the lawsuit, told the supervisor that he did not want a black nurse taking care of his baby, the suit alleges. The father allegedly rolled up his sleeve and showed a tattoo that was believed to be a swastika while talking with the supervisor, the suit says.
According to the lawsuit, the supervisor then reassigned the infant to a different nurse and posted a note stating, "No African American nurse to take care of baby," on the assignment clipboard.
A lawsuit is still outstanding against the hospital over the incident.
Another lawsuit over the incident is still ongoing. It involves a fourth nurse, Carlotta Armstrong.
The lawsuit, filed in February, echoes the claims made by Battle.
Attorney Tom Pabst, who represents Armstrong, said depositions in the case prove that Hurley has not been forthright in explaining how it handled the issue and he looks forward to the truth being presented at trial.
"I think people should know what Hurley did," Pabst said.
Pabst said he hopes the case will go to trial by the end of the year.
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If a Muslim only wanted a Muslim Physician or nurse is that discrimination? If a Muslim woman only wanted a female to treat her in some capacity and none were available, is that discrimination? These issues and others are coming into the forefront as such lawsuits are now being dealt with.
Are religious based treatment demands radically different from the race based Aryan demands? Suppose the racist man belonged to a church that advocated separation of the races? Would these issues muddy the waters, so to speak. |
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MUSLIM WOMAN NEWS
Muslim woman sues hospital for religious discrimination, she asked female conduct test
Rona Mohammedi went to Somerset Medical Center the night of Feb. 11 with severe chest pains. After hearing she would need an electrocardiogram, she asked for a female to conduct the test.
A Muslim, Mohammedi wears traditional garb, including the hijab, or head scarf. The Basking Ridge woman believes it is her religious duty to maintain modesty before strange men, and an EKG calls for wires to be applied to the chest, shoulders and wrists
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Instead of heeding her request, officials let her languish in the emergency room for five hours until 3:10 a.m., when her husband sought a transfer. She is suing the hospital for discrimination and violating the Patient Bill of Rights.
The complaint filed May 14 in Superior Court in Somerville raises the question of how far hospitals must go for religious accommodations. The rights listed in state statutes say patients can expect treatment without discrimination, and respectful care consistent with sound medical practices.
Mohammedi's lawyer, Tariq Hussain, said the hospital failed those basic tenets
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"According to the patients' bill of rights that exist in New Jersey, hospitals are required to make reasonable accommodations for patients for various reasons," he said. "Patients should not be denied service or discriminated against based on religion."
Spokeswoman Kathleen Roberts said, "We recognize how important it is for our patients to be able to continue to practice their faith and cultural traditions, especially when they or a loved one are coping with a health issue. We strive to accommodate our patients' religious beliefs and cultural customs, such as providing areas for prayer."
In the answer lawyer Raymond Fleming filed for the hospital June 28, officials denied the claims and say she was appropriately informed of her options and left against medical advice.
Hospitals make several accommodations to fit an array of beliefs, said Kerry McKean Kelly, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Hospital Association. The standard in the law is reasonable accommodation. "The first responsibility is to stabilize the patient and provide safe and quality health care to all of the patients present. What is considered reasonable can vary day by day ... based on variables like the number of patients in the emergency department."
Hospital officials at Jersey City Medical Center serve a diverse community and often field such requests, said spokesman Mark Rabson. "We make every effort to make sure that if a person needs and requests a female practitioner in maternity or in the emergency room or radiology, we go out of our way to make sure those people are available," he said. "We'll either call somebody in or work with the patient to have them transferred."
Mohammedi went to Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, where accommodations were made without her asking, Hussain said.
Chief Medical Officer Ira Nash said, "We serve a very culturally diverse community and we have a very diverse staff. That naturally creates an environment where people have appropriate sensitivities to cultural differences and individual patient needs."
Many Muslim women believe they must cover everything but their face and hands in front of men who are not relatives, said Engy Abdelkader, author of "A Muslim Woman's Guide to Her Civil Rights: When Faith Practices Trigger Discrimination in America."
"There are definitely a number of hijab-related lawsuits that have been filed," she said. "There have been settlements in those cases and compromises that have been reached. The religious beliefs are respected, and by the same token the concerns of the other party are also recognized, whether they are homeland security concerns or personal safety issues."
The Patient Bill of Rights doesn't mention lawsuits, said Michael F. Schaff, chair of the health care department at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer and a board member for the American Health Lawyers Association.
Generally, in New Jersey courts, that means you can sue "but it's got to be a breach of a standard of care owed by the hospital," he said. "There is no obligation to require hospitals to have a physician on staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week based on their sex, religion or nationality."
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Muslim woman sues hospital for religious discrimination, she asked female conduct test
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The reason I bring this issue up is because I am preparing a story along a similar vein of discrimination in the hospitals based upon religion.
Questions here are:
Is the Emergency Room the place to pick and chose a doctor? If the lady was having a heart attack, and no female doctor was available, would they deny service to protect her dignity over her life? Do demands on hospitals for specific treatment create an unnecessary burden on some hospitals. Not all hospitals have the good fortune to have a completely diverse staff on a 24/7 basis. |
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The relationship of Egyptian doctors and the Muslim Brotherhood
Behind the Brotherhood's losses in historic Doctors' Syndicate elections
After 30 years on top of the syndicate, the Muslim Brotherhood has failed to connect with and represent a new generation of doctors open to pressing the government for the sake of their profession
Mostafa Ali, Thursday 20 Oct 2011
That was how the blur started. A few days before the Egyptian Doctors’ Syndicate held its first internal elections in 19 years, the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood electoral list, Doctors for Egypt, organised a press conference which seemed more like an early victory celebration than a leg in an electoral campaign.
Feeling confident that the Brotherhood, which has dominated the union for 30 years, would sweep the elections and retain its tight hold over the Syndicate, Doctors for Egypt merrily titled their press conference “Looking ahead towards a new future for our syndicate.”
Falling in line with the group’s cocky posture towards the outcome of the historic vote, all major media outlets and newspapers, including this website’s parent newspaper, predicted that the Brotherhood, favourites to win a sizeable chunk of the seats in next month’s parliamentary elections, would finish off their closest competitors, the Independence List, with a knockout punch.
Shortly after 5pm on Friday 14 October, many hours before monitoring judges opened all the ballot boxes, and even before the phosphoric voting ink on the thumbs of some of the doctors who voted had dried, media outlets rushed to declare that Doctors for Egypt had won by a landslide.
Reliable preliminary results added to this sense by showing that the independent candidate endorsed by the Brotherhood for the position of the Syndiacte's national president, Dr Khairy Abdel Dayem, had secured a landslide victory against 22 other competitors, including his closest challanger Dr Tarek El-Gazaly Harb, who was portrayed by the media as a "secular" alternative to the Brotherhood's candidate.
Abdel Dayem’s victory seemed to confirm all earlier predictions that the Brotherhood could be on its way to securing massive majorities in provincial battles across all 27 governorates.
However, after the last ballot was tallied, the country discovered that the Brotherhood not only failed to win by a landslide, but had actually suffered huge losses across the board.
The Independence List stunned all observers by winning solid majorities of seats in syndicate boards in 14 out of 27 governorates, and trounced the Brotherhood in a number of places they never dreamed of losing.
In the national syndicate board elections, the Independence List won six out of 24 seats, and broke the Brotherhood’s monopoly over power there.
The Indepenence List also won total, or near total, control of provincial syndicate boards in Ismailiya, Suez and Aswan – governorates where the Brotherhood could claim widespread support for its brand of politics.
In Alexandria, the country’s second largest city and one of the most important strongholds of the Brotherhood, and Islamists in general, Independence candidates won 14 out of 16 seats. The Brotherhood were left with two seats, and plenty to think about.
Back in Cairo, home to the country’s largest concentration of physicians, the Indpendence List garnered almost 70 per cent of the vote.
When the dust had settled, and it became strikingly clear to everyone that the Independence List and its allies had made a huge breakthrough, the Brotherhood attempted to put a positive spin on the defeats it accrued by arguing that the real winner in the elections was the doctors who made the union’s first democratic elections in decades a success.
Doctors for Egypt leaders hastily congratulated Independence winners and welcomed what they called “new blood” into the Syndicate’s leadership. They also urged everyone to put the elections behind them and announced that they were ready to cooperate with newcomers for the country’s good.
However, few of the Syndicate’s Brotherhood leaders were willing to publicly admit that their losses in the election might have been the result of anger against them brewing among a large number of physicians over time.
Indeed, many independent and partisan observers believe that the Brotherhood’s conservative record in office over the last three decades and its inability to fight against the Mubarak regime to improve doctors’ conditions set the stage for last weekend’s defeats.
El-Sayed Refaat, a physician and long-time Brotherhood activist in Suez, told Ahram Online that in his opinion the Brotherhood suffered heavy losses in the elections because it became too comfortable in its union offices, and was not able to adjust its policies and rhetoric to accommodate a new generation of radical doctors, especially since the revolution
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Ahmed Nour, a 27 year-old physician and a campaigner for the Independence List in Port Said, believes that the Brotherhood’s current woes date back to how they ran the Syndicate when assuming full control back in the 1980s, and has worsened in recent years.
Nour believes that the Brotherhood failed to mobilise doctors to take a stand against conditions that steadily infuriated more and more doctors.
“They did very little to fight deteriorating salaries or working conditions for doctors. They did not fight to improve infra-structure in public hospitals where 100,000 government doctors who are union members serve millions of poor people,” Nour said.
Some critics also charge that the Brotherhood leadership tried to impose an "Islamic" colouring on medical convoys that the Syndicate periodically sent to service poor Egyptians in the countryside, and even medical caravans to support Palestinians besieged by Israel in Gaza, in order gain a political advantage for the group.
Brotherhood leaders, for example, often made sure that Syndicate banners at the front of those medical convoys carried the group’s two-crossed swords logo, critics recall.
“The Syndicate under their control alienated many doctors because Brotherhood leaders were preoccupied with religious preaching and supporting Islamist-run healthcare charities and clinics, and they ignored mobilising doctors around basic bread and butter issues,” Nour added.
Moreover, the Brotherhood’s strategy of putting Islamic faith issues and slogans front and centre in Syndicate activities alienated Christian doctors who make up between 20 and 25 per cent of its membership, and further weakened the union.
As a result, a younger generation of doctors came into the medical profession in the latter years of the Mubarak regime only to find that all their Syndicate leaders were for the most part bearded men in their 60s who have held office without elections since Mubarak passed laws in 1993 to make it near impossible for professional syndicates to hold polls or elect accountable leaders.
Furthermore, a new generation of physicians entered professional life and joined the Syndicate only to find that the preacher-doctors who controlled it methodically violated their self-professed puritanical values in practice as they systematically doled out administrative positions to friends, political supporters and co-religionists.
"Because there were no elections in the Syndicate for many long years, the Brotherhood leadership simply replaced administrators who passed away with political supporters of the Brotherhood," Nour told Ahram Online.
Ultimately, according to Nour, the Brotherhood’s national syndicate board members, after thirty years on the top, grew comfortable in their positions of power, and even maintained a semi-cordial relationship with Hamdy El-Sayed – Mubarak’s National Democratic Party’s president of the Syndicate since 1978.
"The Brotherhood leaders failed both to mount a strong fight around doctors' demands for better wages and launch effective campaigns to force the regime to allow democratic elections in the organisation," says Nour.
Indeed, in the last years of Mubarak, a younger generation of doctors started to organise in rank and file militant groups such as Doctors Without Rights (DWR) outside of the Syndicate’s internal body, against both Mubarak’s regime and the Brotherhood’s conservative union policies.
In the aftermath of the January 25 revolution, these radical doctors, many of whom actually took part in the uprising against the dictator and were emboldened by their success in ousting him, embarked on organising their co-workers for campaigns to take workplace actions and strikes to improve their conditions
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Still, the Syndicate’s Brotherhood leadership persisted in its no-strikes, non-confrontational strategies and proved either unable or unwilling to adjust their actions or rhetoric to the new reality.
This contrast between the new attitude of emboldened members and a static leadership was illustrated during the unprecedented national doctors’ strike last May. When doctors in public hospitals took industrial action against the government to demand minimum salaries and increased spending on healthcare from 4 per cent to 15 per cent of the budget, both the president of the Syndicate, Hamdy El-Sayed, and the Brotherhood-controlled national syndicate board denounced the strikers.
Dr Mona Mina, a member of DWR who won a seat on the new national syndicate board in last Friday’s election and was one of the organisers of that historic strike, told Ahram Online that doctors found it hard to win that battle because of the Syndicate’s hostile position.
Indeed, the national leadership of the Brotherhood dispatched physicians who support it around the country to talk strikers into returning to work, arguing that negotiations with the government were the only reasonable course of action. Brotherhood anti-strike doctors enthusiastically worked in across the country, especially in areas such as Ismailiya where the strike enjoyed overwhelming support, to convince others to return to work.
On a national level, the Brotherhood took an anti-strike position, aligning itself with the government and military council against revolutionaries and workers.
Dr Essam El-Erian, a senior Brotherhood figure and a one-time young radical member of the Doctors’ Syndicate himself, spoke out against the decision to press for their demands in the media by striking.
“We were not just fighting against government intransigence and anti-doctor propaganda in the mainstream media. Our own syndicate was against us. They campaigned against us in the media. They let doctors in managerial positions in hospitals and clinics take punitive measures against strikers to break the action,” Dr Mina revealed
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Indeed, the Syndicate’s role in undermining the strikers’ efforts last May confirmed to many doctors that the success of their battle against the government is partly predicated on changing the old, conservative leaders within their ranks.
“The strike debacle confirmed to us that we needed to elect a new leadership for our Syndicate, a leadership that could back doctors’ demands, and unite all doctors in order to fight for a better future for the profession,” Dr Mina told Ahram Online.
Despite growing criticism among the rank and file of the Syndicate’s leaders, the Brotherhood insisted on maintaining its policy of avoiding confrontation with the state, and averted taking up issues that could antagonise the government – the ruling military council at this point.
For example, Doctors for Egypt campaign material failed to endorse a number of key demands that doctors have been fighting for in recent months such as a minimum monthly salary of 1200 pounds for doctors, a 700-750 pounds monthly stipend for first year residents and all expenses incurred by mandatory post-graduate academic training met by the government.
Oblivious to the financial crunch those young medics who earn an impoverishing 250-300 pounds per month suffer, Doctors for Egypt merely suggested that Syndicate leaders could help doctors finish post-graduate work by securing low-interest loans for them.
Staying true to Brotherhood non-confrontational strategies, Doctors for Egypt insisted in its campaign rhetoric and material that patient negotiations, and not strikes, were the only ways to put forward demands.
Moreover, Doctors for Egypt, continuing a Brotherhood tradition from thirty years atop the Syndicate, employed verses from the Quran in campaign material to rally the faithful among its supporters.
In this way the group’s candidates continued to alienate Coptic Christian voters, as well as Muslims who wanted religion out of union politics.
At the end, the Brotherhood candidates failed, by and large, to connect with a new generation of doctors who have become more open to ideas of struggle along the lines of industrial action.
In contrast, the Independence candidates, fresh from leading strikes and other rank-and-file campaigns, put great emphasis in their electoral campaigns on higher wages, a 12-hour cap on shifts and increased government spending on healthcare, and in this way managed to connect with doctors’ anger and desire for change.
Indeed, Independence won landslide victories in the places where the May strike was particularly solid, such as Ismailiya, the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Moreover, the Independence laid out a strategy that was based on empowering Syndicate members, and championed the establishment, for the first time, of Syndicate chapters in all hospitals to represent doctors on a day to day basis.
On healthcare in general, the Independence candidates insisted on one of the key demands that doctors struck over last spring: increased government spending on healthcare to 15 per cent of the budget.
In tandem with the Independence efforts, Tahrir Doctors, another rank and file group of radical doctors who played a big role in treating those injured during the 18-day uprising against Mubarak, also ran candidates on a radical program.
Both groups coordinated their activities in a number of places such as Cairo and Alexandria to defeat Brotherhood incumbents.
Although the Brotherhood backed Abdel Dayem for the position of Syndicate president, the Islamist group will not be able to count on him as an erstwhile ally.
In fact, a large number of those who supported Independence and Tahrir candidates also voted for Khairy Abdel Dayem to head the Syndicate.
Indeed, Dr Mona Mina herself supported Abdel Dayem for syndicate president.
A closer look at Abdel Dayem’s campaign literature and interviews to media actually showed that he pushed economic demands and healthcare reform proposals almost identical to those raised by the Independence and Tahrir lists.
This suggests that Abdel Dayem’s radical positions might have been a key factor behind his success, not the Brotherhood’s endorsement.
Dr Nour, the 27-year-old doctor who campaigned for radicals, told Ahram Online that he and friends among Independence and Tahrir candidates had acquired organisational experience and gained the trust of many young doctors through their participation in strikes and in the uprising. They were able to utilise this to their advantage at the ballot boxes.
Dr Mona Mina, now one of six Independence members of the national syndicate board, insisted that the Independence List does not have an anti-Brotherhood agenda.
“On the contrary, we want to unify all doctors regardless of political background in order to build a strong organisation which is capable of fighting for doctors’ interests and better healthcare in Egypt,” Dr Mina said.
“We want this to be a strong professional union and we will work with anyone who wants the same thing,” she added.
Meanwhile, Dr Refaat told Ahram Online that he is happy that Dr Mona Mina was elected to the national board.
“I always speak my mind even if my own group disagrees with me. Our leadership woke up after the revolution to find that 40 per cent of doctors were young people in their early thirties, and they wanted to fight,” said Dr Refaat.
“I can say in all honesty that our people in the Brotherhood took doctors for granted. Many doctors felt that it might be time for change,” he lamented. |
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U.S. Muslim Brotherhood doctor speaks out on Syria
By culturaljihad
“Chemical weapons in the hands of someone with a “mafia mentality” is problem for the entire world … They can spread it all over the place” – Dr. Yahia Rahim
The News Herald of Panama City, FL published an article featuring a Syrian-born physician residing in Northwest Florida regarding his thoughts on recent events in Syria. The article did not mention the doctor’s affiliation as the financial head of the U.S. based Muslim Brotherhood.
As identified in the Holy Land Terror Funding trial, Muslim Brotherhood organizations have provided financing to known terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement. Both groups have been responsible for suicide bombings and rocket attacks – many of the victims being children.
From: Panama City News Herald (FL)
By S. Brady Calhoun, August 28, 2013
PANAMA CITY – Children dying because they can’t breathe.
That was the story local doctor Yahia Rahim got from a fellow doctor in Syria last week after reports that the Syrian Government used chemical weapons on its own people. The Syrian government denies the allegation and blames the rebels for the attack.
It is unclear how many people died in the attack.
Rahim said he spoke with a physician who tried to assist about 50 children who were having trouble breathing after the attack. All of them died in less than an hour, Rahim said.
Rahim was one of the first working physicians to get into refugee camps outside Syria after the conflict erupted in 2011 and has been back several times during the conflict between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian rebels. During his trips Rahim has treated people for a a variety of issues including dehydration and infections and injuries that resulted from the conflict. The Syrian native has lived in America for more than 30 years.
He says a military response is probably the only way to stop the killing.
“I personally feel the international community should help,” he said.
Full Story: http://www.newsherald.com/news/government/local-doctor-syrian-native-talks-about-chemical-warfare-1.193479
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COMMENTS: Dr. Rahim’s reference to a “mafia mentality” is ironic, in that the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operates along the lines of a criminal syndicate with a myriad of front groups (see Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America).
The unfortunate reality is that much of the American public, including the media, is oblivious to what is happening in their communities as it pertains to “radical Islam” and affiliated groups. Within the U.S. much of the focus is on funding as well as increasing political capital/influence. Steven Merley’s The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States is an excellent source to help understand some of the inner workings of the MB as well as goals/objectives.
In the 1992 Phone Book seized during the Holyland Foundation investigation into terrorist funding, Dr. Rahim (Y. Abdul-Raheem) was listed as the economic head of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.
Dr. Rahim is currently listed as the NAIT contact for the Bay County Islamic Society and is a director of the the Panama City Advanced School Corporation. The school’s head, Rashid Karaman (Qurman), was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, attachment A, part III, no. 46.
Former MB leader, Ahmed Elkadi was based in Panama City, FL during the 1980s – 90s. He later moved to Northern Virginia then to Tampa, where he died in 2009.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 at 10:43 am and tagged with Muslim Brotherhood, Panama City, Syria and posted in Financing the Cause, News and Analysis. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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Hurley Medical Center is now embroiled in another discrimination lawsuit, this one alleging Hurley allowed Muslim doctors to discriminate against and mistreat doctors of other ethnicities and religions. The lawsuit is asking for a judgment in excess of $100,000.
The case, filed by Attorney Tom Pabst, is Dr. Devakinada Pasupuleti versus The Hurley Board of managers of Hurley medical Center and/or Hurley medical Center, Khalid Ahmed, individually, and Faisal Ahmed, individually. The case number is 13-99632 Neithercutt.
Dr. Pasupuleti was a doctor practicing medicine, a Professor teaching medicine and was Director at Hurley Medical Center.
Dr. Khalid Ahmded, defendant, was/is the Chief of Staff at Hurley medical center. He is stated to be Muslim following the tenets of Islam.
Dr. Faisal Ahmed, defendant, was/is a doctor practicing medicine at Hurley. He is stated to be Muslim following the tenets of Islam.
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Count 1-Discrimination in Violation of Civil Rights Statue
An anti-discrimination/victim protection law/statute in Michigan provided that two or more persons shall not do certain things including-
(a) Fail or refuse to hire, or recruit, or discharge, or otherwise discriminate against an individual with respect to employment, compensation, or a term, condition, or privilege of employment, because of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, or marital status;
(b) Limit, segregate, or classify an employee or applicant for employment in a way which deprives or tends to deprive the employee or applicant of an employment opportunity or otherwise adversely affects the status of an employee or applicant because of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, or marital status;
(c) Segregate, classify, or otherwise discriminate against a person on the basis of religion, and/or race and/or national origin and/or age and/or sex with respect to a term, condition, or privilege of employment including a benefit plan or system;
(d) Retaliate or discriminate against a person;
(e) Aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce a person to engage in a violation of this act;
(f) Attempt, directly or indirectly, to commit an act prohibited by this act; and
(g) Ratify and/or acquiesce in the illegal misconduct of others.
MCLA 37.2101 et.seq.
MCLA 37.2302 (a)
MCLA 37.2701. et. seq.
"Unlawful conduct has been extended to include "harassment" on any of the above prohibited bases.
See Downey v Charlevoix County Board of Road Commissioners, 227 Mich App 621, 633-634 (1998). |
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Allegations:
The allegations state Muslim doctors were allowed to yell at Dr Pasupuleti in meetings and when he tried to offer a rebuttal he was cut off or publicly belittled. Employees were allowed to refer to the dotor as an "old bag" despite his recognized and established reputation in the field of medicine.
Patients that should have been assigned to Dr. Pasupuleti were instead routed to Muslim doctors, even when the patients requested Dr. Pasupuleti. Patients with medical coverage were assigned to Muslim doctors and large numbers of patients without medical insurance were assigned to the non-Muslim Dr. Pasupuleti.
Muslim doctors were allowed to circumvent following the rules and policies in place for patient/public safety but the rules were enforced for non-Muslim doctors.
That a series of false rumor campaigns were waged against Dr. Pasupuleti
That he was terminated because he hates Muslims, and/or Arabs, and/or
African Americans. That Dr. Pasupuleti does not have his own practice, that he misdiagnosed patients, and that he refused to go to the hospital or attend hospital meetings.
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Count II- Opposition/Retaliation in violation of the Civil Rights Statute
Dr. Pasupuleti complained about racism and acts of discrimination in the work place, including discrimination against non-Muslims, but these complints were not investigated.
Dr. Pasupuleti made complaints about racism and discrimination of patients, including African-American patients who were treated as second class citizens bfore being treated by a doctor. These complaints were never investigated.
On November 28, 2012 a meeting was held to investigate a complaint made by Dr. Pasupuleti on November 11, 2012 regarding his complaints of reverse discrimination and professional harassment. His complaints were discounted and not investigated including those complaints made regarding patient safety.
The case further alleges that the defendants then retaliated and discriminated against Dr. Pasupuleti for engaging in a protected activity and complaining about violations of his civil rights. |
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Count III
Hostile Work Environment/ Harassment in Violation of Civil Rights Statute
(29) "That Defendants herein did in fact harass Dr. Pasupaleti, Plaintiff, repeatedly, making his life "hellish" in the workplace at Defendant Hurley Hospital's place of business, and attempting to ruin his reputation outside of the hospital, and ultimately constructively discharged Dr. Pasupaleti for pretextural reasons and/or interfered with his ability to perform his job."
Count IV
Breach of Contract
Alleges that when the Plaintiff, Dr. Pasupuleti attempted to comply with all of the terms of his contract he was punished and the Defendants breached the contract. |
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo
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Islam USA
Information for Health Care Providers when dealing with a Muslim Patient PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Shahid Athar
I. Your Muslim Patient
With the growing Muslim population in the USA, the encounter between a Muslim patient and American hospitals and physicians is likely to increase. Knowing the religion of your patients will improve the communication and health care.
Islam means peace and submission to the will of God (Allah). Muslims believe in one God (Allah) and the last Messenger, Mohammed. They also believe in all the other prophets from Adam to Jesus, all the revealed books, the angels and the last day.
The Five Pillars of Islam are Faith, Prayer, Fasting, Charity and Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca).
II. How Muslims View Illness
Muslims receive illness and death with patience and prayers. They consider an illness as atonement for their sins. They consider death as apart of a journey to meet their Lord. However,they are strongly encouraged to seek treatment and care.
III. Some Islamic Health Practices
Cleanliness is considered "half of the faith." Qur'an, the holy book, prohibits eating pork or pork products, meat of dead animals, blood and all intoxicants. Fasting from dawn to dusk daily for one month a year brings rest to the body and has many medical values. Meditation and prayers bring psychological tranquility.
IV. Additional Islamic Health Practices
* Regard for the sanctity of life is an injunction.
* Circumcision of the male infants is recommended.
* Blood transfusions are allowed after proper screening.
* Assisted suicide and euthanasia are not permitted.
* Autopsy is not permitted unless required by law.
* Maintaining a terminal patient on artificial life support for a prolonged period in a vegetative state is not encouraged.
* Abortion is not allowed except to save the mother's life.
* Transplantation in general is allowed with some restrictions.
* Artificial reproductive technology is permitted between husband and wife only during the span of intact marriage.
* While Islam opposes homosexuality, it does not prohibit Muslim physicians from caring for AIDS patients.
* Muslims can have a livingwill or a case manager.
* Genetic engineering to cure a disease is acceptable but not cloning.
What the Health Care Providers Can Do For Their Muslim Patient
* Respect their modesty and privacy. Some examinations can be done over a gown.
* Provide Muslim or Kosher meals.
* Allow them to pray if they can and read the Qur'an.
* Inform them of their rights as patients and encourage a living will.
* Take time to explain tests, procedures and treatment. Many Muslims are new immigrants and may have a language problem.
* Allow their Imam to visit them.
* Allow the family to bring food if there are no restrictions.
* Do not insist on autopsy or organ donation.
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Always examine a female patient in the presence of another female.
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Allow the family and Imam to follow Islamic guidelines for preparing the dead body for an Islamic funeral. The female body should be given the same respect and privacy as she was living.
* Identify Muslim patients with word Muslim in the chart, name tag or bracelet.
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Provide same sex health care person (MD or RN) if possible.
* Preferable no male in the delivery room except the husband
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REFERENCES
1. ATHAR, SHAHID: 25 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Islam. Published By Dawa Information Group, Indianapolis.
2. ATHAR, SHAHID: Health Concerns For The Believers. Published By Kazi Publication, Chicago.
Members ofthe Ethics Committee of IMA are:
I . Hassan Hatliout, M.D.
(818) 572-9932.
2. Wahhaj Alimed, M.D.
(910) 822-0477.
3. Faroque Khan, M.D.
(516) 572-6501.
4. Hossam Fadel, M.D.
(706) 724-2148.
5. Ahmed El Kadi, M.D.
(904) 785-6162.
6. Shahid Athar, M.D.
(317) 844-3646
FAX: (317) 872-5150
E-Mail: SATHAR3624@AOL.COM
For further information about Islam, contact:
I . Your local mosque or Islamic organization.
2. lslamic Society of North America
P.O.Box 38
Plainfield, IN 46168
(317) 839-8157.
3. The Islamic Circle of North America
P.O.Box 3174
Jamaica, NY 11432
(718) 658-1199.
4. Dawa Information Group
8424 Naab Road, Suite 2D
Indianapolis, IN 46260
(317) 872-5159.
5. Islamic Health & Human Services
Book Tower Bldg. #2040
1249 Washington Blvd.
Detroit, Ml 48226
(313) 961-0678.
6. http://www.islam-usa.com
IMANA.ORG
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