Kollab had disabled all her social media accounts, but many of the posts and tweets were preserved in screenshot.Kollab worked at the Cleveland Clinic as a first-year resident from July 2018 to September 2018. The Clinic initially said early last week in a statement that Kollab no longer worked for the medical center but declined to offer a reason. It later revised the statement to note that Kollab was fired because of the social media post that threatened Jewish patients.“When we learned of the social media post, we took immediate action, conducted an internal review and placed her on administrative leave. Her departure was related to those posts and she has not worked at Cleveland Clinic since September,” the statement said.It added that: “For first-year residents, multiple safeguards and direct supervision are required for patient care and prescribing medicine. In addition, there have been no reports of any patient harm related to her work during the time she was here.” Kollab said in her apology that “I matured into a young adult during the years I attended college and medical school, and adopted strong values of inclusion, tolerance, and humanity. I take my profession and the Hippocratic Oath seriously and would never intentionally cause harm to any patient seeking medical care.” She added that “I pray that the Jewish community will understand and forgive me.”Kollab attended medical school at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York, which calls itself “the largest private university in the US with Jewish roots.” In a tweet, the college said that it is “shocked that one of our graduates would voice statements that are antithetical to Touro and to the physicians’ Hippocratic Oath.”Dr Lara Kollab - Follow the Canary Mission blog, as new details emerge...https://t.co/XMrqaHe15E pic.twitter.com/jQ7PTmXnAM
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