A physician whose hospital staff privileges were revoked, allegedly due to racial animus, can maintain an action for injunctive relief but cannot collect monetary damages, a federal district court construing state law said Oct. 20 (Awwad v. Largo Medical Center Inc., M.D. Fla., 8:11-cv-01638-SCB-TBM, 10/20/11).
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida held that Fla. Stat. § 395.0193(5) barred Dr. Abraham Awwad from seeking damages against Largo Medical Center (LMC) for terminating his staff privileges following a peer review proceeding. Awwad alleged that LMC terminated him because he is Palestinian and “not white.”
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