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Nurse Katie Duke, featured on ABC’s docu-series “NY Med” , was fired at the end of her shift when she posted a picture on Instagram of an empty trauma room after an accident involving a man and a New York subway train. The caption read, “Man Vs 6 Train.”
The photo featured the scene after a patient was treated after the train accident. There were discarded medical materials, syringes, and other medical paraphernalia nurses and doctors used to treat the patient.
After Duke posted the picture to Instagram, the nurse received a call at the end of her shift that she was fired from her nursing job at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
“I got a call at the end of my shift telling me I was being let go after seven years in the ER,” the nurse told ABC News .
The nurse said she was not being fired for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act , otherwise known as HIPAA, which protects the privacy of patients. Instead, she was told that her actions were not becoming of a nurse.
“I was told I was being fired for being insensitive,” Duke said.
She also added that she had not taken the photo herself, but rather reposted it from one of the doctor’s who also w
Nurse Firing Highlights Hazards of Social Media in Hospitals
&#; -- One of the most dramatic scenes so far from the second season of ABC’s New York Med had nothing to do with gunshot wounds or heart transplants. It came when emergency room nurse Katie Duke was fired for posting a photo to Instagram.
The photo captured a messy but empty trauma room that had been used to treat a man hit by a New York City subway train. Duke posted the photo with the caption “#Man vs 6 train.”
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Later that day, she was fired from her job at New York Presbyterian Hospital, she said.
“I got a call at the end of my shift telling me I was being let go after seven years in the ER,” Duke told ABC News.
Duke claims she was told by her supervisor that she had not breached hospital policy or violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a law known as HIPAA that protects patient privacy.
“I was told I was being fired for being insensitive,” she said.
Duke also c
Nurse Fired Over 'Man vs 6 Train' Instagram Post
One of the most dramatic scenes so far from the second season of ABC's New York Med had nothing to do with gunshot wounds or heart transplants. It came when emergency room nurse Katie Duke was fired for posting a photo to Instagram.
The photo captured a messy but empty trauma room that had been used to treat a man hit by a New York City subway train. Duke posted the photo with the caption "#Man vs 6 train."
Join Today's Emergency Medicine Tweet Chat Today at 1 PM, ET
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Later that day, she was fired from her job at New York Presbyterian Hospital, she said.
"I got a call at the end of my shift telling me I was being let go after seven years in the ER," Duke told ABC News.
Duke claims she was told by her supervisor that she had not breached hospital policy or violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a law known as HIPAA that protects patient privacy.
"I was told I was being fired for being insensitive,&
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