Manhattan, NY – A doctor at Beth Israel hospital fell to his death from his 17th-floor office balcony at the facility in an apparent suicide.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
Douglas Meyer, 44, plunged from a Baird Hall balcony at 350 E. 17th St. He landed on an air conditioning unit between two buildings. His body was found by a security guard.
Meyer, an attending physician at the hospital’s division of digestive diseases, was on duty and he was supposed to perform an endoscopy at the time of his death, said one nurse, who had tried unsuccessfully to call and page him for 20 minutes before the guard told her the grim news.
“We are totally shocked and distraught over this. He is a valuable member of our faulty,” said Dr. David Shulkin, CEO of Beth Israel. “The staff is shocked,” he said.
Shulkin shot down rumors that Meyer had been fired. “It is not true,” he insisted.
Meyer, a graduate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, had been with Beth Israel since 2003. He lived on the Upper West Side, and was unmarried.
R”L! May Hashem Give the family the true nechama!
thank god he didnt take any of his patience along with him.
RW what u talking about talking patients with him? i think u don”t know what suicide means
He should of gotten married maybe he would of had more simchas chaim
3:48 i wasnt born yesterday i do know what suicide means, when people are depressed or an imbalance of the mind that brings on suicide, we should be happy that he chose suicide versus harming others when they are not in the right state of mind.
please show more compassion to the person.just bec. he wasnt married he is still human.
To RW:
When people are depressed or an imbalance of the mind that brings on suicide – it does NOT mean they are going to kill someone else. Please have some sense and think.
How do you know is a Suicide??
He made the choice that having no life was better than the one he had
Hashem Yirachem!
RW: Your comment is incredibly insensitive. In most cases, people commit suicide because their lives are so full of pain that they cannot bear to go on. They have no thought to hurt others. As yidden, our hearts must bleed to think that another Jew felt such pain. May his family be comforted and may his neshama find peace and forgiveness.
“Yoli Says:
He should of gotten married maybe he would of had more simchas chaim
06-30-2008 – 4:07 PM”
Why didn’t you find him a shidduch ?
RW and Yoli are 2 very insensitive idiots. I would like to hear them speak like that if it happened to an immediate member of their own family. How cruel can someone be, when their family is in pain and mourning, some hot shot nut job claims that he should have gotton married. What sick twisted minds there are out there. shame on you.
Permanent solution to a temporary problem. HY
What the heck is wrong with you insensitive people. He was obviously a poor sole. Not getting married? Maybe he was frustrated about that too. How many people are out there who can’t find the right match..
C’mon man..
Those who comment that it is “good” that he didn’t take others with him is sad But True-, sometimes they are depressed to the point of inddescriminately shooting several innocents before turning a gun on themself or they “dare” the cops to shoot them (suicide by cop). We had a severely depressed man in west palm beach unload a 9mm into anyone he could point it at recently (i believe it was a mcdonalds or Wendy’s, and he killed a fireman who just went in there for lunch.
stop this already
murray: THANKS for explaining my point
my point had nothing to do with this guy personally, besides i didnt realize that he was jewish. my condolences to his friends and family.
All bla bla is out of place here, it’s a tragedy, and let’s just pray that his neshoma should rest in gan eden.
He was a good man and helped a lot of frum people, including myself. This is a real tradegy.
…“We are totally shocked and distraught over this. He is a valuable member of our faulty,” said Dr. David Shulkin…”…
Of course: when you are a member of value to a FAULTY you should want to end your life, no? I sure wouldn’t want to be associated with a Faulty…
we should start a campaign for people to be more compassionate in their comments on tragedy stories
Dr. Meyer was not Jewish.