Judge Rules for D-H In Discrimination Suit
Lebanon — A federal judge has ended a lawsuit by a former Dartmouth-Hitchcock resident who suffered from insomnia and alleged that D-H, which fired her in 2010, discriminated against her because of her disability and because she is African-American. Judge Steven McAuliffe of the U.S. District Court in Concord granted D-H’s motion for summary judgment in the case of Christyna Faulkner, who graduated from medical school in 2007 and in...
The Life of a Resident Doctor
Lebanon — During Kevin Koo’s hardest day as a resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, he sat in a conference room with the family of a critically ill patient as they debated which, if any, invasive medical steps should be taken to keep their loved one alive through the coming night. “In that moment I had to call on all of the lessons about the patient’s disease, about the patient’s physiology, about the patient’s prognosis,...
