ROCHESTER, Minn. – A globally prominent Mayo Clinic doctor has sued the clinic, which he alleges disciplined him for things he said in news interviews. Michael Joyner, an anesthesiology researcher at Mayo for 26 years, said he was suspended unpaid for one week, denied a salary increase, and threatened with termination. Joyner claims that Mayo was retaliating for whistle-blowing. He had asserted in news interviews that:
> Mayo stretched the struth to qualify itself as an educational institution in order to gain a tax advantage
> The clinic was complicit with affiliates to get into protected patient data illegally for extraneous purposes.
> The National Institutes of Health’s approval process was “bureaucratic rope a dope” that discourages doctors from using convalescent plasma to treat CoVid.
These were things that Joyner said in interviews with the New York Times, CNN and other news media. He sometimes uses colorful in his metaphors, He called testosterone “the 800-pound gorilla” while discussing sex differences and sports performance. In his lawsuit Joyner said that Mayo’s disciplinary actions violated the clinic’s own stated creed to value free expression and academic freedom.
Joyner. Widely recognized as an expert on how humans respond to physical and mental stress during exercise, hypoxia and blood loss. Coordinates a federal program on convalescent plasma for CoVid patient treatment.