Two health care professionals allege they faced retaliation at a Lansing clinic after reporting sexual harassment by a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
Nurse practitioner Alexis Phillips and Dr. Sarah Denham have filed discrimination complaints through the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeking the right to sue in federal court, their attorneys say.
That’s after they say they were subjected to frequent harassment from Dr. Joseph Kozlowski while working alongside him at Kozmic Family Practice, which is part of Capital Internal Medicine Associates.
That included sexually inappropriate comments, sometimes in the presence of other staff, Phillips said. And she said Kozlowski twice grabbed her by the belt loop while making vulgar comments about her body.
Phillips said Kozlowski first made an inappropriate remark to her when she was a student in 2018, but that when she reported his escalating conduct in 2021, the reaction was not reassuring.
"I would like to be able to provide quality health care to my patients while also not having to protect them from seeing sexual harassment every time they come in for treatment," Phillips said. "I'm scared to come into work, because I don't know what's going to happen. But, regardless of what happens, I know that my employer does not support me."
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