Jury awards UC Irvine neurosurgeon $2 million in whistleblower retaliation case

A jury awarded $2 million in damages to UC Irvine neurosurgeon Mark Linskey, who alleged he was retaliated against for filing a grievance against his supervisors.

In the complaint, Linskey alleged patient safety was put at risk in June 2012 when vascular neurosurgery cases — surgery done under a microscope on blood vessels in or around the brain or under the neck — were removed from the general neurosurgery on-call service and that future emergency neurovascular cases were reserved for Delashaw and another doctor.

Linskey also named the UC Board of Regents in the lawsuit, saying it failed to protect him even after he submitted aClayman departed as dean in 2014 to be a professor in the UCI department of urology. He did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday, and his attorneys referred questions to UCI, which declined to comment.

This behavior is v normalized in (many) training programs. Accountability at the top rarely exists; most trainees don’t speak out because they have little to zero legal rights and a career to lose. Glad to see you’re shining a spotlight, there’s more work to do. medtwitter

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