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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:37 PM CDT
Physician Assistant Padgett returns to Neoga



NEOGA — More than two years after his last day on the job in his adopted hometown of Neoga, “Dr. Dave” was welcomed back to work this morning in the form of a surprise parade staged by community members in his honor.

David Padgett, a physician assistant who now works under the supervision of Dr. Hope Knauer at the Marshall Clinic facility in Neoga, was fired from Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center’s Neoga Clinic officially in May 2006, although Padgett stopped seeing patients there in February 2006.

“It seems like it was just yesterday, and it seems like it was a thousand years ago that I was here,” Padgett said Wednesday in front of the Marshall Clinic’s facility across the street from the SBLHC clinic.

Following a civil bench trial a year ago, a judge upheld the provision in Padgett’s contract with SBLHC barring him from practicing in the area for two years from the end of his employment. That moratorium, which Judge Steven Garst modified slightly as part of Padgett’s lawsuit against SBLHC, expired this month.

Hospital officials never gave an explanation for firing Padgett — a move that prompted an outcry from many area residents.

“The support from everybody has been overwhelming,”  Padgett said Wednesday.



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Shadow wrote on May 21, 2008 4:39 PM:

" I hear PA Padgett is suppose to speak out in tomorrows newspaper. I hope it is the truth and nothing but the truth. Imagine him kicking his own pedestal out from underneath him????? "

medic57 wrote on May 22, 2008 5:04 PM:

" Odd, at least 2 posts have been removed. "

 


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