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Doctor Who Threatened To Poison Jews with Wrong Meds Loses Yet Another Job: Report

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Publicly declaring a willingness to poison patients isn’t generally a way to get ahead in the medical field in the United States.

Dr. Lara Kollab found this out firsthand when she was booted from a second hospital position in seven months over disturbingly racist social media posts.

As Cleveland 19 in Ohio reported in December of last year, Kollab was fired from the Cleveland Clinic after her anti-Semitic posts were dredged up.

The group that found and saved the posts, Canary Mission, explains its mission as documenting “individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.”

And Kollab’s posts did that, as a list of her tweets published by Canary Mission showed. Besides denigrating Jews, they praised the terrorist group Hamas as well as individual terrorists.

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One Kollab tweet in particular was a bombshell, especially coming from anyone who planned a career in medicine.

Originally posted in 2012, it stated Kollab would “purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds.” “Yahood” is the Arabic word for Jew.

Understandably not wanting a medical professional doling out poison to patients based on their race, the Cleveland Clinic canned Kollab in September of 2018 after learning about the posts.

“When we learned of the social media post, we took immediate action, conducted an internal review and placed her on administrative leave,” the clinic said in a statement. “Her departure was related to those posts and she has not worked at Cleveland Clinic since September.”

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Kollab’s firing quickly made national news, ensuring that her application will be sent directly to the trash can by any human resources worker who saw the segments.



While Kollab at first denied creating the post, she eventually admitted she did so in an apology posted on her personal blog.

“I visited Israel and the Palestinian Territories every summer throughout my adolescent years. I became incensed at the suffering of the Palestinians under the Israeli occupation. The injustice and brutality of the occupation continues to concern me, and I believe every champion of human rights owes it to humanity to work towards a just and peaceful resolution of this crisis,” she wrote.

However, she wrote that she’s changed since she was young.

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“These posts were made years before I was accepted into medical school, when I was a naïve, and impressionable girl barely out of high school. I matured into a young adult during the years I attended college and medical school, and adopted strong values of inclusion, tolerance, and humanity. I take my profession and the Hippocratic Oath seriously and would never intentionally cause harm to any patient seeking medical care.  As a physician, I will always strive to give the best medical treatment to all people, regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, or culture.

“I have learned from this experience and am sorry for the pain I have caused. I pray that the Jewish community will understand and forgive me. I hope to make amends so that we can move forward and work together towards a better future for us all.”

Kollab was reportedly offered a position at another medical institution shortly after she was forced out of the Cleveland Clinic.

As the Lakewood Scoop, in Lakewood, New Jersey reported, California’s Kern Medical offered Kollab a job in its internal medicine residency program. But then the teaching hospital also caught wind of Kollab’s numerous social media posts.

The offer was quickly withdrawn.

“Kern Medical notified Dr. Lara Kollab on March 15th, 2019 that her position as a Post-Graduate-Year 1 resident in the Internal Medicine Residency Program has been withdrawn effective immediately,” the center said in a release.

For Jews seeking treatment at Kern Medical, this could be great news.

For Kollab, this is just another blow to what may turn out to be a rocky career in medicine. With two medical centers giving her the boot and mountains of rightly negative publicity just a Google search away, Kollab probably won’t be seeing patients without some major job interview skills.

With the total cost of college and subsequent medical school running into the hundreds of thousands, Kollab would be well advised to pick up a second job to pay off any crushing student debt she may have taken on.

It’s unlikely she’ll be receiving a position as a practicing doctor — and the comfortable salary that comes with it — anytime soon.

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Jared has written more than 200 articles and assigned hundreds more since he joined The Western Journal in February 2017. He was an infantryman in the Arkansas and Georgia National Guard and is a husband, dad and aspiring farmer.
Jared has written more than 200 articles and assigned hundreds more since he joined The Western Journal in February 2017. He is a husband, dad, and aspiring farmer. He was an infantryman in the Arkansas and Georgia National Guard. If he's not with his wife and son, then he's either shooting guns or working on his motorcycle.
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