“Rothermel’s letter outlined possible disciplinary action the medical board might take, which could take the form of limiting, revoking, permanently revoking, suspending, refusing to grant or register or renew or reinstate her ‘training license/certificate to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery, or to reprimand you or place you on probation…’”
It is good that Kollab now admits that she lied, but she had to: it was clear she had written the offensive statements, and was not “framed.” And given the virulent hatred of the “Palestinian” jihad, there is no question that her license to practice medicine should be permanently revoked. Remember: Kollab joked about giving her Jewish patients the wrong medicine. How can any patient whose political views differ from Kollab’s be sure of his or her safety at her hands? Back in January I wrote an article calling for Dr. Lara Kollab’s medical license to be revoked, and it’s amazing that this is still being considered, rather than having been done already.
“Dr. Lara Kollab requests hearing before State Medical Board of Ohio on anti-Semitic tweets,” by Jane Kaufman, Cleveland Jewish News, August 22, 2019:
Dr. Lara Kollab, whose anti-Semitic tweets cost her a residency at Cleveland Clinic in 2018, has requested a hearing before the State Medical Board of Ohio through a Columbus lawyer.
Kollab is facing potential discipline before the State Medical Board of Ohio following a June 19 investigatory deposition in which she admitted to having authored a series of anti-Semitic tweets beginning in 2011 and ending in 2013.
The tweets were revealed by Canary Mission, which tracks and publicizes anti-Semitic rhetoric on social media.
“This is a very unfortunate set of circumstances,” said Columbus lawyer James M. McGovern, who confirmed his firm is representing Kollab. “And the doctor is doing everything she can to make things right for the people that she has upset or harmed through her comments.”…
On July 10, Dr. Kim Rothermel, secretary of the medical board, sent a certified letter to Kollab’s home in Westlake and to both McGovern and Cleveland lawyer Ziad Tayeh….
“On or about October 7, 2013, your initial application fee was submitted to Touro Osteopathic Medical School (Touro), which you described in your February 2019 sworn statement as ‘a school deeply rooted in Jewish tradition.’” Rothermel’s letter stated. “At your June 2019 deposition, you admitted that after being accepted Touro, you deleted the anti-Semitic tweets from your Twitter feed. You also acknowledged that if Touro had known of your anti-Semitic tweets they probably would not have admitted you as an osteopathic medical student.”
The letter states that Kollab told Kerns Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., she left her Cleveland Clinic residency because of a death in the family.
“You did not disclose that, in fact, you had resigned in lieu of termination due to your discriminatory social media posting,” Rothermel wrote. “On or about December 27, 2018, you sent the following reply message to @canarymission and @WeAreTouro in which you falsely claimed that Canary Mission used a fake account in an effort to frame you. When questioned about this message at our June 2019 deposition, you admitted that the content of your December 27, 2018 message was false and that you knew it was false at the time you authored and posted/tweeted the message. …”
“Although you asserted at your June 2019 deposition that you now feel ashamed of your discriminatory comments, when asked if your tweets reflect good moral character, you admitted they do not.”
Rothermel’s letter outlined possible disciplinary action the medical board might take, which could take the form of limiting, revoking, permanently revoking, suspending, refusing to grant or register or renew or reinstate her “training license/certificate to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery, or to reprimand you or place you on probation…”
Emilie Green says
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read All About It!
Muslim admits what many in the non-Muslim World know – That Muslims lie as readily as they breathe.
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read All About It!
Martyn Jones says
Well said Emilie, she absolutely banned from going any patients in the western world not just the US, let her go and practice her quackery in Palestine, see if the will issue her a licence. Nothing less than a total and permanent ban will do!
Diane Harvey says
And that Jew-hatred is as deeply-ingrained in Muslims as it is deeply-grained in Islam and Islam’s holy books.
FYI says
She should go live in Abdoolistan.
They are short of Doctors there I hear after Dr Abdool ibn Abdooooool blew himself up…in the dept of islamic psychiatry.
Further inquiries to:
The Abdool university of mehical science
{Zakir Naik wing}
Abdoolabad,
Abdoolistan,
The Dar Al islam.
JM says
Nice one!
mgoldberg says
Indeed, it is and should be grounds for revocation of any and all licenses to practice medicine in the US.
The idea that one could joke and or threaten to poison patients is anathema to any interpretation of the hyppocratic oath. Her incessant posturing and naming all people of a religious group as capable of receiving her acts should end her US medical career. If, for example a jew, who lost their family in the holocaust threatened to poison germans, or anyone; say a neonazi, or someone who might be- that indeed should end their possiblity of being a medical doctor. Period. The same goes here, and yet…. as Robert mentioned, it’s still being ‘debated’. and why? Because there are lot’s of muslims now, and in Chicago, and the ‘politics’ of that mean that even pointing out the obvious, brings a barrel full of heat. As if there should be any such debate. This muslim lady has no business ever treating any person in the US. Let her go to an arab country and get licensure there. But there should be no way for her to treat any US citizen in this nation. This isn’t a debate, nor should it be.
rubiconcrest says
I hope the medical board is well aware that this attitude is the cultural and religious norm for Muslims. What can this woman do to assure the board that she no longer holds these views when to do so is a form of apostasy? If I were on the board I would ask her to renounce these religious teachings publically or have her license permanently revoked.
James Lincoln says
As a physician, fully licensed and board certified in two specialties, I have written about this case extensively in previous posts.
Again, I see no way forward for Dr. Kollab. Her anti-Semitism should have been vetted out – even prior to admission to medical school.
I would recommend the following:
Permanent revocation of her “physician in training” state medical license in Ohio.
Report of this revocation to the National Practitioners Data Bank to prevent licensure in another US state -permanently.
An appropriate monetary fine for lying on her application for her “physician in training” state medical license.
Had the admissions office at Touro medical school had known of her anti-Semitism, she would not have been accepted as a medical student. She took a slot away from someone else who could have completed the program at medical school and would be starting on their residency. In other words, the United States lost a physician.
She should not be involved in direct patient care at any level. That being said, perhaps she could find employment that could utilize her medical training in a complete nonclinical environment.
The ability to treat patients is a privilege granted by state medical licensing bodies, not a right.
Kerry Wade says
Well said Lincoln, seems to me to amount to good common sense amid all the flap doodle!
Peter B says
Exactly right.
Also, the context of her “joke” about poisoning Jews (which, as noted, she posted before her admission to Touro) seems to have been talking about “why I want to be a doctor.”
Giacomo Latta says
The bad news is she still has 49 other employment options. The good news is there are not likely to be any solid, competent Jewish lawyers ready to defend her pro bono.
Angemon says
If she practices and she misdiagnoses a Jew, or a Jew dies under her care, these tweets will come back to bite her in the ass…
gravenimage says
I don’t want her to ever get the chance to do this.
Herb says
What about what the Muslims think of the Kuffir and Infidels? Are we not of those to be killed also? Read the Quran and it tells the whole story that ALL non Muslims must be subdued and humiliated or have their heads chopped off? They claim they are superior above ALL others.
gravenimage says
True, Herb–“first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”. We are all at risk.
Westman says
Problem solved(with some sarc):
Suppose she went to France or Germany? They would simply send her to some sensitivity/conversion training along with the returning jihadis and then she could go to work. With the “Welcome Mat” for Jews largely withdrawn in these countries, she would likely never have a Jewish patient.
TKF says
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly……Muslims gotta hate Jews.
gravenimage says
Ohio: Muslim doctor who said she’d give Jews wrong medication admits she lied when she claimed she didn’t say that
………………
Hating Jews and broadcasting her intention to harm them–then lying about it.
She should lose her license, and never be able to practice in the United States.
Gork says
The other side of the Hippocratic Oath is that you do no harm. This doctor violated her oath. She cannot be trusted by anyone. This should be cause to remove her license. It doesn’t matter if they’re saving the life of Charles Manson. They have taken an oath not to harm.
And this stupid woman broke that oath in public in a thousand ways. She has no right to serve.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
+1
CRUSADER says
Cool.
Lt Mason says
There goes the Hippocratic Oath [see below], out of the window. With Apollo and all the gods and goddesses mentioned in the oath, the OIC ( Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, https://www.oic-oci.org/) would once again push for the Islamic version of the Oath like they did in Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam.
Hippocratic Oath
I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.
To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the physician’s oath, but to nobody else.
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
infidel says
There is a saying in India. If U wet ur forearms with oil and dip it in a jar of till and then pull out ur arms and count how many till are sticking to ur hand, the number of tills will still be less than the number of lies a Muslim tells U.
Laura says
Had a Jewish, or Christian doctor said she would give a muslim the ‘wrong meds’ she would have been fired on the spot, and the media would have made a banquet of it,
Rhonda says
Jews first then Christians. Revoke her privileges no license and no practice on American soil ot territories .She’s a menace.
patriotliz says
I’m pretty confident that even if she should get her “training license” cleared by the Medical Board of the State of Ohio it’s highly unlikely that any residency program will take her in Ohio or, any other State if the facts are known (or if they bother to Google her name) thus I doubt that she will ever get a full bona fide medical license to practice medicine as a medical doctor, at least in the U.S. She might try Saudi Arabia to finish her training and get licensed there.
Older Canadian says
Is she an american citizen by birth? If not is this not reason enough to deport? Giving wrong medicine that could kill is nothing to joke about or to be taken lightly. How could you trust her in any job not to or want to do serious harm.
AKH says
Sent the following to Board of Medicine of Ohio:
To members of the State Medical Board of Ohio:
As a retired physician who practiced in the US Army and in Detroit for 35 years, I urge you to permanently revoke the license of Dr Lara Kollab. Aside from lying to you on several occasions, she is clearly a vicious antisemite. Despite her claims of now feeling ashamed of her tweets, bigots such as herself do not change their stripes so easily. I would never allow myself to be treated by her, nor would I ever refer any patients to her, nor could I respect any institution that would have her as a member of its staff. I would encourage patients to go to someone or somewhere else. Attitudes such as hers should preclude her practicing medicine anywhere in the United States, or frankly anywhere on earth. I would fear for any Jewish patient who had the bad luck of finding themselves under her care. Someone with her deep-seated hatred of Jewish people, and the potential harm it could cause to her patients, is plenty reason she should not be given a “second chance.” Undoubtedly while there are probably other physicians who harbor bigoted views of certain groups of people, the sheer audacity of her believing she could express such views openly without consequence belies a complete lack of compassion and judgment and is unacceptable for a member of our profession. Dr Kollab has violated provisions of the various codes of medical ethics, including but not limited to this one from the Declaration of Geneva:
“I WILL NOT PERMIT considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient.”
I strongly beseech you to do the right thing and permanently revoke Dr. Kollab’s license to practice medicine.