A supervising physician told him he needed to work from home during the pandemic “because of [his] age and because of the risk of contracting COVID, and if [he] was on a ventilator, [he]’d be a goner.”
A neurosurgeon for Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group, hired at age 75 and fired three years later based in part on the medical group’s growing reliance on advanced practice professionals (APPs), failed to establish a violation of the ADEA, the Seventh Circuit affirmed. Although a supervising physician’s statements to him in July 2020 indicated that his age was a factor in the employer’s decision to keep him at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he was terminated 60 days later, this alleged “suspicious timing,” was not enough to create an inference of discrimination on its own, and in the employer’s view, because the neurosurgeon’s role was more akin to that of an APP, his productivity was significantly lower than that of other neurosurgeons and was inconsistent with its new business model (Richardson v. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, No. 25-1782 (7th Cir. July 29, 2026)).
RMG and its neurosurgeons. Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group (RMG) is a medical group working at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) and Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital. As Level II trauma centers, the hospitals require on-call neurosurgeons to review any cases requiring urgent evaluation or surgical intervention independently and to perform any necessary...
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