Post by Logan on Jun 17, 2016 4:09:04 GMT -6
A doctor specializing in women’s medicine alleges she was forced to shut down her medical practice at Charleston Area Medical Center last year because of harassment and discrimination she received from another doctor there.
Dr. Leila E. Sakhai claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday against CAMC and West Virginia University that Dr. Byron Calhoun, a physician at WVU’s Charleston Division, refused to treat her special-needs patients, even though he was one of only two doctors in the region certified in maternal fetal medicine.
Because Calhoun allegedly refused to see Sakhai’s referrals — sometimes because they had chosen to have an abortion — Sakhai says she was unable to offer a full-service OB/GYN practice in the Teays Valley/Charleston area and was forced to close.
Calhoun, who has been criticized for his anti-abortion efforts, isn’t being sued.
- See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news-cops-and-courts/20160616/lawsuit-against-camc-wvu-alleges-harassment-discrimination
Dr. Leila E. Sakhai claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday against CAMC and West Virginia University that Dr. Byron Calhoun, a physician at WVU’s Charleston Division, refused to treat her special-needs patients, even though he was one of only two doctors in the region certified in maternal fetal medicine.
Because Calhoun allegedly refused to see Sakhai’s referrals — sometimes because they had chosen to have an abortion — Sakhai says she was unable to offer a full-service OB/GYN practice in the Teays Valley/Charleston area and was forced to close.
Calhoun, who has been criticized for his anti-abortion efforts, isn’t being sued.
- See more at: www.wvgazettemail.com/news-cops-and-courts/20160616/lawsuit-against-camc-wvu-alleges-harassment-discrimination