A CaroMont Health doctor has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Atrium Health, and its employees alleging he was wrongfully terminated. Dr. Barry Scanlan had worked at Riverwood Medical Associates along Union Road for more than two decades when Atrium Health abruptly terminated him in 2019. Atrium Health, then Carolinas HealthCare System, had acquired the Gastonia practice in 2008. In a lawsuit filed in May 2021, Scanlan accuses his former employer of firing him without cause – supposedly keeping him from notifying his patients of the sudden departure – causing him emotional distress, and failing to properly pay him benefits after his termination. He claims losses in excess of $25,000.