“It’s time for a change,” said Dr. Deborah Keller, whose attorneys accuse her former institution of tolerating a “toxic culture of gender discrimination.”
Dr. Deborah Keller in Tampa, Fla., on May 1, 2022. While it is primarily focused on gender discrimination, her lawsuit also puts a spotlight on systemic problems within the medical field, in which there are gender disparities in compensation, grant funding and more.The surgeon faced a dilemma: continue an operation that could kill an extremely sick patient on the operating table or sew the patient up, extending their life by only a few painful days at most.
The brusque remark during the 2019 operation was not out of the ordinary for Kiran, Keller says. She claims he would also comment on her appearance and make her do administrative duties that male colleagues were excused from and that he hired her at a lower starting salary than her male teammates. Given how ill the patient was in the operating room that day, Keller says, any supervisor would have offered the same advice hers did. But she feels her boss would have addressed the other surgeons on her team — all men — more respectfully had they been in the same situation.
Andrew Goodstadt, a managing partner at Goodstadt Law Group who is representing Keller, said the alleged retaliation in Keller’s case is an example of why it’s difficult for employees to “come forward and raise these types of claims.” The operation, to remove a foreign object from a patient’s rectum, was successful. But the next day, according to her lawsuit, hospital administrators put her on administrative leave, and they later interrogated her about whether she was having an intimate relationship with the male surgeon who had been in charge of the patient. It was a question they did not pose to him, the lawsuit says.
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