AndrewV69 wrote:Dick Strawkins wrote:
So he went back to his email and found another TAM rape accusation that he'd forgotten to read? And this meant he'd need to cause two weeks of pointless security screening from an employer who had zero potential in hearing about the allegations unless he chose to bring it to their attention. Does anyone think the accusations mentioned his real name?
There's more plot holes in his story than in Prometheus.
He had better be making it up about reporting the allegation if you ask me.
Because if he really did, at a minimum he has impacted his credibility with whoever was involved in the subsequent investigation and subsequently reads the report.
If there are any issues later on down the line in his career that raise questions about his competence, is there now an official report that documents his excitable nature and poor judgment? Is there now a recorded precedent where he has made a poor decision based on a dubious premise?
This has the potential for some negative outcomes both now and in the future.
I think at this point I would like to solicit some input from someone actually in the medical profession to address my suppositions. Skep tickle for example? Can you set me strait on this?
I can't speak for the ramifications for a medical student from the UK who impacts his credibility with administrators/etc during an extended tour of duty in India. I'll answer as if he were in the US.
I really doubt it would affect him in an existing job or training position, the important part being that it doesn't have anything to do with patients under his care, nor is it allegations of abuse against a child or vulnerable adult (meaning, an inherently vulnerable adult - elderly with disability or dementia, for example). The parts I put in color might make people who knew about it scratch their heads but, hey, that's what he does outside of work. Judgments about his professionalism (a hot topic & term now) would be based on observations of him in his work.
On the other hand, if he were to apply for a job or training position and needed letters of recommendation, those who'd worked with or supervised him and knew something unusual and not-reassuring had gone on might mention it as a note of caution. (And a physician
convicted of an assault would be in major hot water & at risk of losing ability to practice, e.g. state's medical licensing agency & local hospital's credentialing group would be very concerned.)
But, on a slightly different note, I think I saw a quote from Avicenna's blog, somewhere in one of the early posts here during this epoch-of-Avicenna, of him saying that some people he works with follow his blog.
Seems like a boundary better not crossed, but maybe that wasn't apparent to him at first. But, if true,
that might explain how it came up at work - a coworker reading his hypothetical allegations against himself & getting all worked up about it, without realizing they were hypothetical...?
