Ohio doctor fired after tweet about giving Jews 'wrong meds' surfaces

The Cleveland Clinic fired a first-year resident after finding out she posted anti-Semitic messages on social media, including one post saying she would give Jewish patients "the wrong meds."

The resident, Lara Kollab, started at the Cleveland Clinic in July 2018 and was fired in September, CBS News reports. Her messages were discovered by Canary Mission, a website that exposes anti-Semitic posts; Canary Mission said it found dozens of offensive posts from 2011 to 2017, with Kollab calling Jews "dogs" and trivializing the Holocaust. She has since deleted all of her social media profiles.

In a statement, the Cleveland Clinic said that "in no way do these beliefs reflect those of our organization," and that as soon as Canary Mission shared the posts, action was taken. "For first-year residents, multiple safeguards and direction supervision are required for patient care and prescribing medicine," the hospital added. "In addition, there have been no reports of any patient harm related to her work during the time she was here."

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