Lexi Kuenzle, a nurse at Englewood Health, filed a complaint on Friday in Bergen County Superior Court against the hospital, Dr. Matthew Jung, and others. She says she was wrongfully dismissed for posting about the doctor's horrible behavior on her personal Instagram account.The complaint adds, "[Kuenzle] had the nerve to ask how Dr. Jung can follow the Hippocratic Oath and the American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics while celebrating the murder of a non-violent Christian speaker on a college campus."
Kuenzle was with eight other nurses and a patient on a stretcher when they heard that Kirk had died.
"Oh my God! That's awful! "I love him!" Before Jung shot back, Kuenzle remarked.
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"I can't stand Charlie Kirk." He deserved it. The bariatric surgeon is claimed to have stated, "He deserved it."
"You're a doctor." How could you declare that someone should die? Kuenzie remembered answering.
"It blew my mind," said the 33-year-old Hoboken resident to The Post on Saturday. "I was so angry and sad."
Kuenzle claimed she told her boss about what happened on Wednesday right away and then blogged about it on social media when she went home.
Kuenzle has been a nurse for ten years, almost two of which were at Englewood Health. She is a big conservative and has pictures on Instagram of herself in a bikini holding an American flag and a big cardboard cutout of President Trump.
It was not apparent on Saturday if Jung had been punished for what he said.
The doctor did say he would "buy lunch" for the nurses who heard him rage, but the lawsuit says that if Jung "followed through on his mocking offer," it would not have included the plaintiff since she had been suspended without pay.
Scott Presler, a Republican activist, named the nurse one of "Charlie's Angels" and asked on social media if Jung can serve patients who don't agree with his ideas.
“Would he treat them differently? Would he allow his emotions to cloud his judgement, as he did by saying such a statement in front of a patient?” he said.
Englewood Health declined comment, and Jung could not be reached for comment.