Patient Safety | 05.05.23
A N.J. Hospital Fired 3 Trauma Surgeons. The Doctors Say It’s Age Discrimination
by NJ.com
Three trauma surgeons are suing Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey for age discrimination. Surgeons Saraswati Dayal, Sanjeev Kaul, and Javier Perez were terminated and replaced with younger and less experienced physicians, according to the recently filed suit. Dayal, Kaul, and Perez are all over 50 and had run the hospital’s trauma center for 14 years as private contractors. According to their suit, they were fired with no explanation. Hackensack University Medical Center has countered that age discrimination played no part in their dismissals. A spokeswoman said in an e-mail to media: "We vehemently deny these allegations and because the litigation is pending cannot comment further." The three surgeons seek back pay; front pay; compensatory damages for emotional pain, suffering, and humiliation; and punitive damages. Three other doctors at the hospital filed a similar age discrimination lawsuit in 2021. That case was settled out of court.Three trauma surgeons are suing Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey for age discrimination. Surgeons Saraswati Dayal, Sanjeev Kaul, and Javier Perez were terminated and replaced with younger and less experienced physicians, according to the recently filed suit. Dayal, Kaul, and Perez are all over 50 and had run the hospital’s trauma center for 14 years as private contractors. According to their suit, they were fired with no explanation. Hackensack University Medical Center has countered that age discrimination played no part in their dismissals. A spokeswoman said in an e-mail to media: "We vehemently deny these allegations and because the litigation is pending cannot comment further." The three surgeons seek back pay; front pay; compensatory damages for emotional pain, suffering, and humiliation; and punitive damages. Three other doctors at the hospital filed a similar age discrimination lawsuit in 2021. That case was settled out of court.
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