Doctor loses job after criticizing a Washington state hospital's virus response

An emergency room doctor who publicly criticized the coronavirus preparations at his hospital in Washington state has lost his job. Dr. Ming Lin, a ER doctor at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham for the past 17 years, told The Associated Press on Friday night he had been fired. He said that 20 minutes before his shift Friday he was told it had been covered and that his direct director told him he had been terminated. However, TeamHealth, the national health care staffing compan