discharge notice

Staff members at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a public hospital run by the county, told investigators that Dr. Louis Kwong sometimes looked under the surgical covers of Black males who were under anesthesia and discussed the “genitals of the day,” according to his discharge notice, which was obtained by The Times.

The discharge notice makes no mention of the gun that Kwong, a volunteer deputy sheriff, had allegedly carried in the operating room and other parts of the hospital, according to a lawsuit filed by colleagues in October.

Between 2021 and 2023, the county received seven more complaints about Kwong, according to his discharge notice.

Kwong was also listed as an “affiliate doctor” on Zimmer Biomet’s website, according to the discharge notice.

According to the discharge notice, the county’s internal investigators began examining Kwong’s relationship with Zimmer Biomet after a complaint in 2021.