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.”