Gay man sues Brooklyn hospital for discrimination, claims he was ignored and ridiculed by homophobic employees
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, February 4, 2016, 7:33 PM
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gay man seeking emergency medical treatment at Brooklyn's Methodist
Hospital claims he was ignored and ridiculed by homophobic employees who
wrongly assumed he was a junkie afflicted with AIDS.
Mark Hodson, 34, slammed the hospital with a discrimination lawsuit Thursday alleging he was left unconscious on the emergency room floor by callous staffers, including an unidentified health care aide who called him a "f--," a "junkie" and a faker.
Hodson was suffering flu symptoms with a fever of 104-degrees, when he arrived at the hospital in Park Slope on Sept. 1, the Brooklyn Federal Court suit says.
Too weak to speak and barely able to stand, Hodson was helped to the emergency room by people in the waiting room and a security guard, the suit says. After he collapsed in the ER, a health care aide loudly said he did not want to touch him because he probably had AIDS, the suit alleges.
Hodson was "shunted" into an office chair, fell to the floor again striking his head and suffered a seizure, the suit says.
"The nurse screamed that she was going to lose her license, to which the health care aide retorted, 'This f-- isn't going to cause you to lose your license,'" according to the suit.
Adding insult to injury, when an orderly finally moved Hodson he later discovered that his satchel had been looted of credit cards, jewelry and his iPhone. The thief used Hodson's credit card at a restaurant across the street from the hospital.
"Simply put, Mr. Hodson suffered 11 hours of total torture," lawyer Thomas Mullaney states in the court papers.
Hodson and his husband, Babak Kheshti, who is also a plaintiff in the suit, say the nightmarish experience has caused them extreme physical and emotional suffering.
The suit does not allege any discriminatory treatment by hospital physicians.
New York Methodist Hospital did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mark Hodson, 34, slammed the hospital with a discrimination lawsuit Thursday alleging he was left unconscious on the emergency room floor by callous staffers, including an unidentified health care aide who called him a "f--," a "junkie" and a faker.
Hodson was suffering flu symptoms with a fever of 104-degrees, when he arrived at the hospital in Park Slope on Sept. 1, the Brooklyn Federal Court suit says.
Too weak to speak and barely able to stand, Hodson was helped to the emergency room by people in the waiting room and a security guard, the suit says. After he collapsed in the ER, a health care aide loudly said he did not want to touch him because he probably had AIDS, the suit alleges.
Hodson was "shunted" into an office chair, fell to the floor again striking his head and suffered a seizure, the suit says.
"The nurse screamed that she was going to lose her license, to which the health care aide retorted, 'This f-- isn't going to cause you to lose your license,'" according to the suit.
Adding insult to injury, when an orderly finally moved Hodson he later discovered that his satchel had been looted of credit cards, jewelry and his iPhone. The thief used Hodson's credit card at a restaurant across the street from the hospital.
"Simply put, Mr. Hodson suffered 11 hours of total torture," lawyer Thomas Mullaney states in the court papers.
Hodson and his husband, Babak Kheshti, who is also a plaintiff in the suit, say the nightmarish experience has caused them extreme physical and emotional suffering.
The suit does not allege any discriminatory treatment by hospital physicians.
New York Methodist Hospital did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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