there would have been a restraining order issued on Alex. Also, he would have been fired immediately or at the minimum put on leave.
Delucca can now sue the idiots that run the hospital for letting the guy who laid a severe beating on him walk the same halls with him as if nothing happened.
Come on writers it's much easier to breath with your heads above your shoulders instead of some other location.
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A restraining order maybe, but the beating happened off hospital grounds. Alex has not been convicted of anything yet and is still a medical doctor.
shareWith an assault charge against him.
Ben was suspended for less. And Alex was pissed that Ross wasn't fired after he butchered a patient's heart. Both were honest mistakes.
Alex's acted deliberately.
But those were things that happened at the hospital and they were punished for poor choices they made at work. Alex thought Delucca was raping Jo and it happened off work property when neither of them were working or on call. They can't punish him until he's actually been convicted of something.
shareThe thing is Ben's actions happened while at work when he was working. This is why he was suspended (I don't agree with Ben being suspended), so really that's not a good comparison, since they are nothing alike.
shareAlex almost killed an intern at the hospital. To force his victim to stay around his assaulter against whom he's filed an assault charge while that is left hanging over their heads is pretty cruel.
If Alex had some sense of honor, he would suspend himself. He knows that he beat an innocent half to death and there was nothing in the actual situation that insinuated rape. He was jealous and lost it. But he will likely not even pay for it thanks to his boohoo childhood.
Suspend himself? lol that's funny!
shareDerek did after he butchered Jen.
Not quite quitting...
He was also being sued. It was a patient, at the hospital, Alex was not on hospital grounds. What I think should happen is they go for the misdemeanor, community service and anger management therapy and then let Delucca try to sue him in civil court
shareBen also isn't a shareholder in the hospital. Cristina left her shares to Alex.
shareDidn't Ben violate a direct order from a superior? He did a couple things wrong, actually, so I think it was a totality of the circumstances for him. I vaguely recall he used a part of a clipboard as a scalpel? And then the pregnant woman right after that.
If you mess up on the job, you get punished at your job. If you mess up elsewhere, but are still perfectly competent at doing your job? Workplace punishment would be discretionary unless otherwise provided for in an employee manual.
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I would guess that it would create a very hostile work environment between an Attending (Alex) and an intern (Delucca) after the Attending nearly killed the intern with his bare hands while thinking there was a previous/current attack on a resident by said intern. A resident who happens to be involved with the Attending.
I'd consider it hard if not impossible to separate work from private matters in such a case as it would most likely have an impact within the workplace.
Btw. Most would lose their jobs if a criminal charge is filed against them. I'm pretty sure any lawyer would advise Delucca in this case to sue the hospital for not keeping Alex out of his way through the proceedings of an assault lawsuit. After all, Alex has a history of blackmailing victims out of pressing charges.
In the real world, we have videotaped evidence of police murdering unarmed men and they are allowed to continue working, "acquitted", left uncharged and suspended with pay which seems far more illogical than what's been written for Grey's. DeLuca would have had to apply for a restraining order which may or may not be granted. I've worked with battered women with ample evidence of abuse whose requests for restraining orders were denied. In this country we have the lil thing where we are considered innocent until proven guilty. Unless the contract Alex or anyone else signed includes clauses requiring suspension or termination for having been charged with a crime it would be legally questionable and actionable (for Alex) if he was terminated before adjudication. But it wouldn't be implausible for hospitals to have clauses with regard to criminal charges. I suppose DeLuca could file a complaint alleging a hostile work environment but he'd have to have evidence that the hospital is responsible. Meredith's comments (which he interpreted wrongly) could be used in such a claim but that's flimsy at best. Bailey denied Alex the ability to do his job and limited his working responsibility to the clinic. The hospital has far more invested in Alex than they do DeLuca, Alex has expressed remorse and made no aggressive moves toward DeLuca so it is in the hospitals best interest to leave it alone. It's already been made clear that should Alex be convicted of a felony his firing will be automatic.
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It's still upsetting but we'll have to wait and see where they take it. I just have a big issue with Grey's starting a huge drama and then usually wrapping it in favor of the guilty or dropping it altogether. Like Jo/Jason. And Alex/DeLuca. The only one that really suffers is usually the doctors victim/s.
Feeling crap after doing harm is no suffering. There is an Oath that Alex swore to DoNoHarm. He should at least have to pay the hospital bills. But then all his friends that own the place will just call it pro-bono. Grey's Anatomy never punishes its doctors.
Btw. I love your quote!
I totally agree!! The liability issues would keep him from being in the hospital. If he had a private practice, it would be a different story.
shareI'm sure being one of the owners of the hospital has about as much clout as he would have in his own practice, and while he didn't get Cristina's board seat, he's close friends with most of the board.
sharePart of watching a television show - even shows like Grey's, that don't fall into the syfy category - requires setting aside real world logic from time to time.
All these doctors have made MAJOR mistakes and are still around. I mean, Izzie was allowed to return, Burke and Cristina didn't get canned when the truth about his hand and her covering for him came out. Derek and Mark had a fist fight over Mark dating Lexie. Meredith tampered with a clinical test, but it's hard to hate her for that, because her heart was in the right place and she just wanted to help Richard and his wife.
I know there are more examples, but it would take all night to list them.
Derek and Sloan got into a fight in the middle of the hospital and Sloan came back next day (Derek came back eventually with no warnings against him for this)
Owen punched Riggs and nothing happened.
Callie threatened Meredith and pushed her up against a locker nothing happened.
George punched Alex and there was little to no repercussions.
Jo beat up her boyfriends (peckwell?) nothing happened.
People on Grey's fight all the time with people also working in the hospital and continue working.
he would at least been suspended.
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