Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon
MEDICAL BOARD RECORD—TRN17003
DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS—License Null and Void
Young Doctor Caught on Camera Attacking Uber Driver in Drunken Rage
A drunk woman was caught on camera attacking an Uber driver, trashing his car and smashing his cell phone.
The video was captured by a bystander on Sunday evening in Miami, Florida. He uploaded the video to YouTube and included his account of the incident in the video’s description:
“We were on the phone with this uber driver while he pulled up to our location. Out of nowhere the girl in the video gets in the backseat of his car and won’t get out. We told the driver it was ok, to just cancel our ride, but he did not want to take her anywhere so he kept telling her to get out.
“Eventually the driver gets out and says he’s calling the cops to get her out of the car. After a couple of minutes of the driver pretending to talk to the cops (i’m assuming he was pretending because they never showed up at first), the girl decides to reach into the front seat, grab his keys, and start walking away with his keys in her hands…. That’s where the video starts…”
The woman has been identified as 30-year-old Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon, a fourth-year medical resident neurology resident employed by Jackson Health System.
The bystander wrote on YouTube: “The police finally showed up after this video ends. The girl was in a taxi cab about to leave when the showed up and they had to stand in front of the taxi and tell him to stop. The girl eventually got up from the area the cops had told her to sit and wait, and tried to walk away from the scene.
“Once in handcuffs, she then tried kicking some of the police officers on the scene. It was only when they put her in the police car that she started crying, apologizing, and claiming that she would lose her medical license (she claimed to be a neurologist) if she got arrested.”
In the end, the Uber driver declined to press charges and took a cash settlement instead.
“In his words, ‘…she was crying (and) said (she) was sorry for everything.’ I don’t want to disclose the amount the driver was paid, but can say he could only use the money to pay his cellphone bill and maybeee his cable bill.”
A post from the hospital citing Ramkissoon’s excellent levels of care for epilepsy patients has since been deleted. On review sites like Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, listings for Ramkissoon as a doctor have been flooded with one-star reviews.
Uber has since suspended Ramkissoon’s account and released the following statement to Local 10:
“Uber expects everyone in our community to treat each other with respect and common courtesy … and we have a zero tolerance policy for all forms of harassment and abuse.”
Ramkissoon’s Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram accounts have also all been taken down in response to the backlash.
Her employerJackson Health System has also just released the following statement:
“Anjali Ramkissoon, a fourth-year neurology resident employed by Jackson Health System, has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, and removed from all clinical duties. Jackson has launched an internal investigation. The outcome of the investigation will determine if any disciplinary action will be taken, up to and including termination.” (LINK) — 01/21/2016
Miami Doctor Placed On Leave, Suspended From Uber, After Attacking Driver
MIAMI – A case of bad behavior has ended up as a viral video. A South Florida doctor was caught on camera physically and verbally attacking an Uber driver in the heart of Brickell.
The woman at the center of the viral video is Anjali Ramkissoon, a fourth-year neurology resident employed by Jackson Health System.
According to Jackson Health System’s Director of Communications, Ramkissoon “has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, and removed from all clinical duties.” The statement goes on to say, “Jackson has launched an internal investigation. The outcome of the investigation will determine if any disciplinary action will be taken, up to and including termination.”
The incident took place in the early morning hours of Sunday Jan. 17th and the video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times since it was posted on YouTube two days later.
It was uploaded to YouTube by a poster named Juan Cinco who said he had called for an Uber driver but when the driver arrived, “out of nowhere the girl in the video gets in the backseat of his car and won’t get out. We told the driver it was ok, to just cancel our ride, but he did not want to take her anywhere so he kept telling her to get out.”
Juan Cinco recorded the confrontation.
In the video, Ramkissoon can be seen attempting to hit the driver and knees him in the groin. He pushes her off and she falls to the ground then comes back for more, cursing at him and then taking out her feelings on his belongings. She’s seen in the video throwing out various items from his car, including a master lock which she hurls at him, scissors, and a large amount of Uber fliers, and his iPhone.
At one point, the driver appears to be speaking to someone on the phone, presumably to police.
Miami Police say they responded to a call of a disturbance, but did not arrest her. Juan Cinco wrote online that the driver did not want to press charges, and that Ramkissoon gave him a small amount of money as an apology.
Internet users are demanding much more than that though.
Some are calling for her to be fired from her job as a neurology resident at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Others have photo shopped photos and posted what appear to be fake images of her topless.
No one at her South Florida home would answer the door to comment on the incident.
Her neighbor Ruby Ferro told CBS4’s Natalia Zea the behavior she saw in the video is nothing like the young lady she has known since she was a child.
“I just got surprised because they’re a beautiful family,” said Ferro. “Anjali and her sister, they’re good girls. They’re quiet people. They never have a problem.”
Ferro is urging those who are basing their opinions of her from the one video to have a heart.
“You could be a beautiful person but one day you have a problem, the job or the family or the boyfriend and you change that day. But that doesn’t mean you’re a bad person,” said Ferro.
In addition to being placed on administrative leave at Jackson Health, Uber has suspended her account and released this statement.
“Uber expects everyone associated with the platform – both drivers and riders – to conduct themselves with a shared level of respect and common courtesy, and all forms of harassment and abuse are not tolerated. We have suspended the rider account of this individual as we investigate the incident.” (LINK) — 01/21/2016
Doctor in Uber meltdown video fired by hospital
A Miami neurologist whose profanity-laced rant at an Uber driver became a viral sensation has gotten her walking papers.
Jackson Health System officials released a statement Friday saying that fourth-year resident Anjali Ramkissoon, 30, would be terminated, the Miami Herald reported.
The hospital’s statement said she has a right to appeal her termination.
The video, shot in Miami’s Brickell area and posted to YouTube on Jan. 19, shows the apparently drunk, shorts-clad neurosurgeon trying to commandeer another Uber customer’s ride.
She is seen hitting the Uber driver in the face and screaming profanities and insults at him. After landing on the ground following a tussle in which she tried to knee the driver in the groin, she jumps up and climbs into the front seat of his car, demanding the driver “get the f–k in the car!”
When he instead calls the police, she remains in the front seat, throwing papers, scissors, an iPhone and other objects from the car, all the while shouting that the police will not believe that she had assaulted the driver because of her size.
The diminutive doc, who for all her fury stands just 5 feet tall, then climbs out of the vehicle and walks away.
When she was confronted by police, she pleaded with them, tearfully claiming that she would lose her medical license if she were arrested. The driver declined to press charges.
The brain surgeon was placed on administrative leave and “removed from all clinical duties” soon after the video went public.
The video, which has been viewed more than 6.8 million times, made Ramkissoon a poster child for bratty behavior. It prompted tens of thousands of comments, and even spawned a mocking online site featuring more than a dozen photos of her pulled from social media, and urging viewers to call the hospital and demand that she be fired.
All of her social media accounts have apparently been shut down.
In a round of media interviews a week after the meltdown, Ramkissoon offered a long list of excuses for the now-infamous tantrum.
“Just minutes prior to that altercation with the Uber driver, my boyfriend and I of two years had just broken up,” she told “Good Morning America.” Her father was also hospitalized that morning, she said.
“It was probably one of the worst days of my life, and I was caught at my lowest moment.” (Link)—04/23/2016