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ALTMAN v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP.

No. 1402, Docket 95-9053.

100 F.3d 1054 (1996)

Kurt ALTMAN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION; Metropolitan Hospital Center; Billy E. Jones, M.D., President, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation; and Dennis A. Gowie, Executive Director, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 21, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pearl Zuchlewski, New York City (Goodman & Zuchlewski, New York City, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Pamela Seider Dolgow, Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel, Leonard Koerner, John P. Woods, New York City, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, WALKER and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

On September 30, 1992, the Medical Director of Metropolitan Hospital Center entered a clinic at the Hospital and found a drunken doctor treating a patient. The doctor was Kurt Altman, Chief of the Hospital's Department of Internal Medicine. The incident led to the disclosure of a history of bizarrely favored treatment for Altman, an admitted alcoholic, and to his subsequent termination as...

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