Clooney comes out in support of suspended medical workersGeorge Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER has come out in support of medical workers at a New Jersey hospital accused of looking at his confidential medical records. The actor, 46, suffered a broken rib and scrapes when he was hurt in a motorcycle accident last month. He was treated at the Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). medical centre in North Bergen, New Jersey North Bergen is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 58,092. North Bergen was incorporated as a township on April 10, 1843, by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature, from Bergen . WCBS-TV in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of reported last night that as many as 40 employees, including doctors, were suspended without pay, accused of accessing Clooney's medical records and possibly leaking the information to the media. The Jersey Journal of Jersey City reported that 27 employees, but no doctors, had been disciplined, and only for looking at the records without authorisation. The investigation was not prompted by a complaint from Clooney, who said he only learned of it yesterday. "While I very much believe in a patient's right to privacy, I would hope that this could be settled without suspending medical workers," he said in statement. A spokeswoman for the union representing some of the workers said they had been suspended without pay for four weeks. "We believe this is a harsh penalty and an overreaction o·ver·re·act intr.v. o·ver·re·act·ed, o·ver·re·act·ing, o·ver·re·acts To react with unnecessary or inappropriate force, emotional display, or violence. ," said Jeanne Oterson, a spokeswoman for the Health Professionals and Allied Employees The Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE) is a health care labor union in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that represents registered nurses and other health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes, blood banks and clinics in the public and private sector. union, adding that a grievance could be filed pending further investigation. Eurice Rojas, the hospital's vice president of external affairs, told The Jersey Journal that hospital officials do not believe any employees leaked Clooney's medical information, but some did improperly access his records. US federal law mandates that only direct caregivers - including doctors, nurses, technicians and support staff involved in a patient's care - see such information. Mr Rojas did not return after-hours messages from The Associated Press seeking comment. Clooney's motorcycle and a car collided on a narrow road in Weehawken, across the Hudson River from New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . His passenger, Sarah Larson, 28, broke her foot. Clooney shot to fame playing Dr Doug Ross on the television drama ER. 
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