Patient Claims Pro-Trump Doctor Kicked Her Out Over Disagreement
BROOMALL, Pa. (CBS/AP) — A teacher says she went to her doctor for a physical but instead got booted from the office by her Donald Trump-supporting physician after she disagreed with him.
The doctor, however, had a different take on the incident.
Heidi Kravitz Dunn, an eighth grade teacher at a Philadelphia charter school, tells The Philadelphia Inquirer it happened Friday in Broomall.
She says Dr. Joseph LaBricciosa ranted about the inner city kids she teaches and criticized protests over Trump's election.
Dunn says she told him they had a right to protest. She says he replied if she didn't believe what he believed, his practice wasn't for her and she needed to go. So she left.
"People need to be aware that this should not be tolerated at all," Dunn told the Inquirer. "It's completely unprofessional and unethical."
LaBricciosa says he didn't kick her out.
"The truth is she walked out of the exam room because she did not want to hear my views and how they related to her difficulties and frustrations as an inner-city teacher," he told the Inquirer.
He adds he sent her a letter of apology and won't talk politics with patients anymore.
Dunn says she has a new doctor.
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