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Miami doctor who berated Uber driver in viral video is fired
A pint-size Miami medical professional who infamously lost it on an Uber driver has now lost her job.
Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon has been terminated by Jackson Health System, where she served as a resident doctor, a spokeswoman said in a statement Friday.
“She is entitled to an appeal process,” the two-sentence statement reads.
Ramkissoon was publicly shamed after video of her drunkenly berating an Uber driver went viral in January. The fourth-year neurology resident had hopped in the ride that had been hailed by someone else.
“You don’t know who the f--k you’re messing with right now,” Ramkissoon yelled at the driver, later identified as Igor Belic.
The string of verbal, and physical, abuse continued, with Ramkissoon tossing things out of the car, kneeing Belic in the groin and yelling at him to drive her home.
“Get in the f-----g car! Get the f--k in this car you f-----g piece of s--t!” she screamed in the five-minute clip.
“I have lost my mind!” she yelled at gawking passersby.
The infamous incident racked up nearly 7 million views on YouTube — and sidelined Ramkissoon from her job.
The administrative leave lasted until Friday, when she was fired. It’s unclear if she plans to appeal.
In the interim, Ramkissoon went on a goodwill tour that included a stop on “Good Morning America.”
“There’s absolutely no excuse for my actions,” she said in a teary interview. “I’m ashamed. I’m so sorry. I’ve hurt so many people.”
The doctor claimed she’d been dumped and her father had been hospitalized in the hours before the embarrassing drunken scene.
“In the moment I was just so angry, I wasn’t really thinking. If I could take it back I would,” Ramkissoon told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
alcoholism and anger management issues aside, would you tap that?