Ohio's 2nd biggest employer won't hire smokers

Clinic will not hire any smokers

http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/business-2/118301973581420.xml&coll=2

Testing begins July 1, no-hire policy Sept. 1

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Mary Vanac
Plain Dealer Reporter

Smokers and chewers need not apply for work at the Cleveland Clinic.

Beginning Sept. 1, Ohio's second-biggest employer will no longer hire anyone who uses tobacco.

The move ensures the Clinic will "walk the walk" of a health-care institution that stands for wellness, Chief Executive Dr. Toby Cosgrove said Wednesday.

The policy, to be announced today, puts the Clinic among a handful of companies willing to tell even skilled applicants to look elsewhere if they use tobacco...



but will hire brain surgeons who try to smash their fiance's brains in

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/06/clinic_therapist_quits_in_fear.html

Clinic therapist quits in fear of ex-boyfriend

Posted by Harlan Spector and Dan X. McGraw June 28, 2007 20:19PM
Categories: Breaking News, Crime

A physical therapist at the Cleveland Clinic resigned Thursday after learning her ex-fiance, a brain surgery resident, can return to work after serving jail time for beating her on the head at the hospital.

Dr. Kenechukwu Ugokwe, 29, was sentenced this week to five days in jail and ordered to domestic violence counseling. Ugokwe's ex-fiancee, Lisa Lewis, told police Dec. 1 that her 200-pound boyfriend lifted her by the neck, banged her head four or five times against a wall and threw her to the floor of a hospital restroom.

He hit her so hard it knocked out an earring, she said.

Ugokwe, a fifth-year neurosurgery resident from Nigeria, was angry because he thought she took underwear out of his duffel bag, Lewis told police...

Make it large enough and he can never be there while she is.