A federal appeals court has reinstated a retaliation charged filed by a physician who hired an attorney after her vacation was denied and was put on probation a month later. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld the dismissal of other charges filed by Dr. Chinwe Offor, a neonatologist who is an African-American of Nigerian descent, against Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, New York, including race and national origin discrimination, according to last week’s ruling in Dr. Chinwe Offor v.