Doctor Sues Mayo Clinic Over Alleged Discipline for Interviews

Published on November 15, 2023

A professor at Mayo Clinic medical school is suing his employer, alleging that a department head threatened to fire him over media interviews in which he criticized the federal government for being slow to allow the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 and said that testosterone gives men an athletic advantage over women. Dr. Michael Joyner, an anesthesiology professor, filed the lawsuit Monday in a Minnesota state court against the Mayo Clinic and Mayo’s College of Medicine and Science. Also listed as defendants are Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Mayo Clinic’s president and chief executive officer, and Dr. Carlos Mantilla, the chair of the anesthesiology and perioperative medicine department who took issue with Dr. Joyner’s use of “idiomatic language” during media interactions and threatened the professor’s job....

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