The doctor who was filmed assaulting and screaming at an Uber driver in a drunken rage has been fired from her position at a Miami hospital.
Anjali Ramkissoon, 30, had called for an Uber cab on a night in January. A Uber car that wasn’t hers arrived, but she demanded that the cab-driver take her home anyway.
A fight broke out between her and the Uber driver, and she went inside the car and threw a pile of documents, a scissor, and an iPhone out the window. The video became a viral sensation, and has racked up more than 7 million views.
“I guess that’s it, good night,” she says in the video, after trashing the Uber driver’s car.
The woman was a fourth-year neurology resident, the Miami Herald reports. She had been placed on leave since the video became public.
Ramkissoon said that she had been stressed out that night, as her father was in the hospital and she had just broken up with her boyfriend of two years.
“In the moment I was just so angry. I wasn’t really thinking and if I could take it back I would,” she told ABC News. “There is absolutely no excuse for my actions. I am ashamed. I am so sorry. I’ve hurt so many people with this.”
She said that she has experienced online bullying as a result of the video.
“I made a huge mistake, the biggest mistake of my life, and that person is not me,” Ramkissoon said.
