Johns Hopkins pathology workers told reviewers that they were uncomfortable speaking up regarding “intimidation” or “bullying” behavior by a department leader.
A prominent cancer-detecting doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital is on administrative leave after a misdiagnosis led to a patient’s bladder removal, and as allegations have surfaced that he bullied or intimidated others in his department, according to interviews and an accreditation report obtained by The Washington Post.The internationally regarded pathologist Jonathan I.
Epstein, the hospital’s director of surgical pathology, said in written comments to The Post that he was “profoundly distressed” by the allegations in the report, “as they are the antithesis of everything I stand for and have tried to exhibit in my professional life over these 35 years at Johns Hopkins.” He said that patient privacy considerations prevent him from discussing the bladder removal case but that, in general, medical cases “have many complicating factors.”in recent years.
Recognized by urinary pathologists as among the best in the world, Epstein has written numerous papers on the detection of cancer and other diseases from biopsies and other specimens. In 2003, it was Epstein who released a pathology report as then-Sen. John F. Kerry vied for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying a microscopic examination of tissues near the candidate’s prostate showed that a cancer there had not spread.
A social media post in 2014 shows the couple being married in the mountains of Big Sur, Calif. Another post about the wedding, by a fellow doctor, included what looks like a microscope slide with prostate tissue in the shape of a heart, along with the tags #pathology and #love.
cases “based solely on my objective evaluation of the case.” He said such cases came to him at the request of Hopkins physicians, because patients had come to Hopkins for care.
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