Last week a federal jury decided that UT Southwestern Medical Center owed $3.6 million to one of their former doctors for discrimination based on race and religion and for retaliating against him when he refused to commit billing fraud.
AIDS clinician Naiel Nassar, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was awarded $438,000 for back pay and $3.2 million in other damages. Nassar told the Dallas Morning News that he was surprised that a Dallas jury supported him as a Muslim. Read more here.
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