A Michigan neurosurgeon is suing a local hospital that he claims "retaliated" against him for voicing "grave concerns" regarding patient safety after its medical staff "lost track" of a 12-month-old baby who ended up dying, his lawsuit says.

Dr. Sudesh Ebenezer, an independent contractor, has accused the Hurley Medical Center in Flint of wrongly removing him from his position on its Neurosurgery Trauma Panel and call schedule following the 2022 incident.

Ebenezer's agreement with his direct employer, Shah Practice Group at the Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, which contracted him out to HMC — a "governmental entity" — was found to have been breached. As a result, his income was cut "by more than sixteen times" what it was, resulting in "financial loss and reputational

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