Citing a discharge notice,
the Los Angeles Times reported that Dr. Kwong was terminated.
“Your inappropriate, disparaging comments and actions were offensive, and created an uncomfortable, hostile, and demoralizing work environment for others,” Griselda Gutierrez, the hospital’s chief medical officer, wrote in the notice, The Times reported.
Kwong’s attorney told The Times he’s appealing his discharge with the County’s Civil Service Commission.
“Dr. Kwong disagrees with the County’s decision to terminate his employment and denies the manufactured allegations against him,” attorney Michelle Ferber told Law&Crime in an email. “Dr. Kwong looks forward to defeating these sensationalized claims through the appeals process, not in the press.”
Kwong faces two lawsuits by three former female doctors, who experienced “horrors perpetrated by a powerful man, one whose actions were protected for more than a decade by the highest levels of County hospital leadership,” lawyer Carol Gillam, who is representing all three women, said in a statement to Law&Crime. “No longer can Kwong threaten the careers of young resident doctors and medical students who might speak out about what happened inside his operating rooms. We will not rest until all are held accountable.”
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