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In reversing a Bronx trial court, a state appeals court has ruled that Jacobi Medical Center was within its rights to rescind a medical resident’s appointment to its program, rejecting the physician’s claim that eating seeded breads had led to him testing positive for opiates.
New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corp., which operates the Bronx-based Jacobi Medical Center and is a defendant in the case, “acted rationally in rescinding petitioner’s [Athanasios Papadas’] appointment to the residency program at Jacobi after his initial drug screening was positive for opiates,” wrote the Appellate Division First Department while citing Matter of O’Neill v City of New York.
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