US Mount Sinai Hospital Apr 2015 Misuse (Q9396)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Mount Sinai Hospital Apr 2015 Misuse |
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April 2015
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Allegations that a nurse at a major Chicago hospital tweeted about a shooting victims death and blood-soaked hospital room are a stunning cautionary tale that health care providers can use to hammer home how workers may be held liable for privacy lapses, attorneys say. The allegations surfaced in a new lawsuit accusing Karrie Anne Runtz, a trauma nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital, of recklessly and outrageously tweeting about the April 2015 death of 24-year-old Mikal Johnson. According to the suit, Runtz sent tweets to 1,300 followers describing Johnson as DOA and included a grisly photograph of a large pool of blood in his treatment room. The now-deleted Twitter account, which was known to local media, used the screename Dixie McCall, the handle @traumanatrix and the hashtags #sinaitrauma an (English)
