A physician who faced investigation by an internal review board regarding standards of patient care filed suit against her workplace and several review
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March 2, 2021 A physician who faced investigation by an internal review board regarding standards of patient care filed suit against her workplace and several review board members Monday in the Southern District of Ohio, alleging that the defendants’ peer review was not conducted in good faith nor without bias and that they violated antitrust laws through conspiring to eliminate the plaintiff as a competitor in the workforce.
Dr. Amanda McAleer, an Ohio OB/GYN, has been employed by the Wilson Health Medical Group since Jan. 2, 2019. In her complaint, she described an August 2019 incident that unfolded between her and defendant Carrie Huber another OB/GYN at Wilson Health, who also chairs the Medical Peer Review Committee (MPRC) and is a voting member of the Medical Executive Committee (MEC) in which Huber allegedly “left several angry and unprofessional messages” for McAleer after learning that she had taken a vacation day to work a