A judge ordered Brigham to stop its security efforts toward couple
The incident comes less than a year after a horrible murder-suicide at the hospital.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge slapped down increased security efforts Brigham & Women’s Hospital directed at a cancer patient and her husband, The Boston Globe reports.
The hospital had assigned security guards to shadow Dr. Hooman Noorchashm before his wife, Dr. Amy Reed, had lung surgery at Brigham on Monday. The security personnel were also directed to search the couple’s bags, according to the Globe.
Judge Elizabeth Fahey ordered the hospital to end those efforts on Tuesday, and granted the couple a temporary restraining order against the hospital, the Globe reports.
The hospital argued that Noorchashm had been sending strongly worded emails that they said constituted a “credible threat to the safety’’ of staff. The emails centered on Noorchashm’s opposition to a 2013 medical procedure performed on his wife that he said increased the likelihood of her cancer spreading.
“Do not underestimate the gravity of your wrong-doing. Or the magnitude of my commitment to this holding you accountable,’’ Noorchashm wrote to a doctor in one email.
The security efforts directed at Noorchashm come less than a year after a 55-year-old man shot and killed Dr. Michael Davidson, a well-regarded and beloved surgeon at Brigham. Stephen Pasceri was angry about his mother’s death from heart failure and blamed Davidson. So Pasceri entered the hospital with a gun, shot Davidson, and then turned the gun on himself.
The hospital referred to that violence in the court hearing, though not in its filings, a spokeswoman told the Globe.
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