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‘New York Med’ nurse fired for ‘insensitive’ Instagram shot

New York-Presbyterian Hospital pulled the plug on a reality-TV nurse after she posted an emergency-room snapshot, the caregiver said Tuesday.

Viewers of ABC’s hospital show “New York Med” were shocked two weeks ago when popular nurse Katie Duke, 33, suddenly got canned.

Duke had posted a picture of an empty trauma room, strewn with used medical supplies, on her Instagram.

A man had just been treated there after being hit by a subway train. Duke captioned the image: “Man vs. 6 train.”

“I got a call at the end of my shift telling me I was being let go after seven years in the ER,” Duke told ABC News.

That “NY Med” episode didn’t go into great detail about circumstances leading to Duke’s sacking. The episode just showed Duke sobbing moments after getting the bad news.

In her ABC News interview aired on Tuesday, Duke said she wasn’t accused of violating the patient’s HIPAA right to privacy.

“I was told I was being fired for being insensitive,” Duke said.

The blunt-spoken nurse is one of “NY Med’s” most recognizable figures, often summing up ER challenges with a terse: “Deal with it.”

Duke even maintains a website, selling T-shirts and water bottles with her “Deal with it” catchphrase.

But Duke’s fans need not worry.

She landed on her feet and is now working the ER at Roosevelt Hospital.

Duke insisted she did nothing wrong, but understands how people outside an ER could believe her humor is morbid.

“If you hung around nurse’s station and heard the way we talk about injuries, life and death, you might get the wrong impression — but it’s just a coping mechanism,” she said.

“Now I check my posts so no one gets offended or thinks I am a cold-hearted person.”

New York-Presbyterian declined to elaborate on Duke’s firing.

Hospital and law-enforcement officials could not immediately find records to determine whether the 6-train victim died.