He had it coming. He deserved it.” Shocked, she pressed him: “You’re a doctor. How could you say someone deserved to die?” Those words, she says, still echo in her mind.

Instead of letting it pass, Kuenzle reported the incident to supervisors and shared her account online. According to her lawsuit, Jung tried to play it off by offering to buy lunch for staff, but Kuenzle felt no gesture could erase what she had heard. By the next day, she claims, she was suspended without pay and warned she might soon be terminated. The sudden punishment, she argues, wasn’t about policy — it was about silencing her for daring to call out conduct she found unprofessional and alarming.

Her attorney, John Coyle, says the hospital crossed a line. In legal filings, he argues that Englewood Health violated New Jersey’s anti-discrimination laws, retaliated against