Jackson Memorial Employees Deny Anti-Gay Bias
Three Jackson employees gave their side of a case that spawned anti-gay discrimination accusations. In a case that for two years has reverberated nationwide with accusations of anti-gay bias at Jackson Memorial, nurse Natalee Wrisk retains a vivid memory: examining the chart at the bedside of Lisa Marie Pond, a 39-year-old woman who was close to death, unconscious and on a ventilator. The chart showed that Pond’s partner, Janice Langbehn, had power of attorney to make medical decisions on her behalf. The nurse had been in a same-sex relationship for nine years at that point, she said, and when she saw the chart she realized she didn’t have such a document drawn up for herself — and she should have.
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