You should look at the case of pulmonary physician Dr. Claudia Cote of the Bay Pines VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, FL (suburb of St. Petersburg). She suffered such discrimination that she sued. I knew her personally. She died last year from stomach cancer.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=claudia+cote+lawsuit&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest