A CaroMont Health doctor has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Atrium Health, and its employees alleging he was wrongfully terminated.
Dr. Barry Scanlan had worked at Riverwood Medical Associates along Union Road for more than two decades when Atrium Health abruptly terminated him in 2019. Atrium Health, then Carolinas HealthCare System, had acquired the Gastonia practice in 2008.
In a lawsuit filed in May 2021, Scanlan accuses his former employer of firing him without cause – supposedly keeping him from notifying his patients of the sudden departure – causing him emotional distress, and failing to properly pay him benefits after his termination.
He claims losses in excess of $25,000.
Opinion: Thank you CaroMont Health for a shot in the arm
Bob Lancaster
We wanted to do a shout out for the great team at CaroMont Health in Dallas.
When North Carolina opened up the next phase of COVID vaccines availability, I received a call the next day about scheduling the vaccine shot for both my wife and I.
We assumed we would have to wait a month or two but was wrong based upon the proactive approach taken by this facility.
My wife and I want to personally thank Dr. Barry Scanlan, Rhonda, Connie and the rest of the team for taking care of their patients in such a wonderful way. Because of this call, we were able to communicate this experience to other friends in the CaroMont system and they too got on the schedule very quickly.
to be exposed to five rem per year. the laws that limit the american public to receiving doses of 1/10 of one rem per year. so a lot of radiation, certainly a lot more viewed than acceptable, is being emitted from that area. joining us is barry scanlan, former fema official under president clinton. and the weather clanle s bryan norcross, has a lot of information for us on how this particulate can spread. my understanding is that the primary risk is that the atmosphere takes the particulate in and spreads it around. is there a way to assess how much of that is happening and how much of that could happen? well, the issue is getting this radioactive material into the atmosphere or into the water, and then having the
of lives lost. how does the nation begin to address this crisis? joining me is former fema official barry scanlan is with us. thanks for joining us. you take a look at the human toll and immediate needs of people. there is food, and there is water and energy and supplies and blackouts. magnitude of that, 10,000 plus dead, tolls still rising. hundreds of thousands are homeless. what the sirs fing first thing you ve got to do? this is a massive lodge gistal effort. there is urban search and rescue teams. and to find victims and safe them if you can. there are numbers of 400 and 5,000,000 people. you need to get safe and sound surroundings for them.
the surrounding area. however, that s only if they keep it reasonably well contained, as they have so far, reasonably well. barry, if we are so fortunate to be blessed by winds and other variables that don t spread the material around, it doesn t address the on the ground issue of the fact that, again, you ve got four rem per hour coming off of unit four when the u.s. threshold for nuclear workers is five rem per year. is there any contingency, any material, are there jackets, are there coats, anything that the human beings that are close to it that facility, whether they work there or simply can get away from it, can physically put on their body? well, dylan, i think that they ve done the evacuation as best they can in a phased approach, two miles, five miles and further out to get people to safety as best they can. there s potassium iodine tablets