Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center must face trial on claims by the former acting director of a shuttered division, who says she was fired because of neurological problems she developed and for reporting other doctors’ suspected fraudulent activity, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.
A lower court wrongly discounted direct evidence that the firing decision was tied to the doctor’s disability, a unanimous panel said. This included a statement by the chair of the hospital’s credentials committee, who allegedly made the decision, that the doctor was “on disability” after another doctor asked why Misty Blanchette Porter was being terminated, the panel said.
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