Cardiologist Who Revealed Echo Errors Out of a Job - MedPage Today

MILWAUKEE -- A cardiologist whose research at a national medical meeting revealed that other doctors at her hospital were misreading a substantial number of diagnostic echocardiograms has been fired by that hospital, the Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today have learned.

The fired physician, Kiran Sagar, MD, said she was called into a meeting with Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center officials at the end of August -- two months after the results of her study were presented at the American Society of Echocardiography meeting -- and told that her contract was being terminated.

Sagar said she was told she would be paid until the end of November, but she had to leave her hospital office immediately.

"They said, 'Don't worry, we'll pack up your office,'" Sagar said.

In an interview, she said she was never told why she was being let go. She said she suspects it was because of her research on the misread echocardiograms and the publicity it generated.

"The cardiologists weren't happy," she said. "I think behind the scenes they were saying, 'How can you expose our dirty laundry?'"

via medpagetoday.com

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