Idaho OBGYN suspended after video of ‘inappropriate’ comments about patients – East Idaho News

NAMPA (Idaho Statesman) — An Idaho gynecologist was suspended by her Treasure Valley employer Friday after a video that circulated on-line confirmed her at a bar insulting her sufferers in a profanity-laced tirade.

OGA, a girls’s well being heart with a number of areas, mentioned it has suspended obstetrics and gynecology specialist Dr. Rachel Okay. Oliver whereas it conducts an investigation.

“We’re conscious of the video circulating of Dr. Oliver behaving in a way that doesn’t align with, or mirror, our values,” the OGA web site reads. “… We don’t condone, or agree with, any of those hurtful and inappropriate statements and apologize to our sufferers and neighborhood for any struggling this has triggered.”

In movies posted on TikTok and Fb, Oliver is seen insulting her sufferers and threatening to punch the girl subsequent to her.

“They’re (expletive) silly and fats, and I deal with them,” she says within the video.

In accordance with her biography on the OGA web site, Oliver works primarily on the Nampa location.

Oliver was raised by missionary dad and mom and spent elements of her childhood in Mexico, her bio says. She is a fluent Spanish speaker and went to medical faculty on the Autonomous College of Guadalajara in Mexico, in keeping with her LinkedIn web page.

Nicole Bradshaw, government director at OGA, instructed the Statesman in a cellphone interview that Oliver is one in all three medical doctors on the observe who speaks Spanish. Bradshaw mentioned the Nampa location receives a considerable amount of Spanish-speaking sufferers and different non-English-speaking sufferers.

“She’s very conscious and a proponent of Hispanic tradition,” Bradshaw mentioned. “She’s a superb particular person. You realize, it’s only a dangerous factor that’s occurred. It’s not consultant of OGA, and we’ve taken it significantly and have taken motion towards it to maneuver ahead.”

Many individuals on social media referred to as out Oliver’s feedback. Knowledge from the Idaho Fee of Hispanic Affairs confirmed that in 2019, Canyon County had essentially the most Hispanic residents within the state. In accordance with the U.S. Census, roughly 25% of Nampa residents establish as Hispanic or Latino.

“I’m shocked,” one girl commented on Fb. “That is my ob and he or she’s at all times been so caring. Makes me surprise how she actually felt about me.”

Oliver can be listed as a non-public companion beneath the St. Luke’s Well being System and has delivered infants at St. Luke’s Meridian and St. Luke’s Nampa, in keeping with the hospital’s web site. St. Luke’s spokesperson Christine Myron instructed the Idaho Statesman in an electronic mail that Oliver will not be a St. Luke’s-employed doctor and isn’t practising in any of the hospitals’ amenities presently.