As someone who knows on the backside how things are in reality....if it was going to be tossed out, I don't blame him for doing what he did.

He was working at a county vaccination site. As the day was ending, they had to open a vial for one patient, so there were nine doses left that would expire in a few hours. "Before the vaccination clinic, Harris County public health officials were instructed by the state health department to do everything possible not to waste doses of the vaccine."

None of the people onsite needed it because they had already received it. He then began texting friends to find out who might be eligible and interested.

From the texts, he vaccinated friends of friends, including "a 93-year-old woman who is bed bound, an 86-year-old woman with dementia, a 40-year-old woman who had multiple underlying health conditions and is the mother of a child who is intubated, and a 22-year-old woman who had multiple underlying health conditions."

Fifteen - thirty minutes before the doses were set to expire, he vaccinated his wife, who also has underlying health conditions.

He has no disciplinary history with the state medical board.

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Doyle said Gokal is preparing to sue Harris County for wrongful termination.

"An apology by Harris County Public Health and the Harris County District Attorney's Office toward Dr. Gokal and his family will not be enough," Doyle said. "The agency disparaged this good public servant's name and took away his employment without cause."

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