I thought about what the hospital/school should do with this soon to be neurologist and at first I was torn. I do not want to see a person who has invested so much into such a noble career have their future destroyed because of an episode caught on video (not related to her profession) but than I saw her in an interview and to me she was so self important and came across as a privileged self absorbed person I lost sympathy. I do feel she should be fired. her training as doctor should not end but that hospital/school can no longer be associated with her.
Good. I wouldn’t want her as my doctor on one of her bad days
But, by firing her… Is she done as a doctor? I thought she was a resident and when you are a resident you have to finish in order to practice. Torn on this, if that is the case.
“Is she done as a doctor?”…I would imagine she can apply to another program or maybe she passed her licensing exam as a doctor she just is not board certified as a neurologist. maybe she can become a general practitioner . that is a good question. in my opinion …either way the hospital/school need her to separate from them. they did not come to the decision easily .it said she can appeal the firing.(maybe on appeal the school will let her stay…they made their point with the firing and will allow her appeal to get reinstated)
I think the punishment was extreme - firing someone in the last year of residency for a temper tantrum?
Now she will have to try to find a fourth year opening elsewhere and pretty much will be unable to get hired. She also won’t be able to take her neurology boards and practice.
This society is becoming too “one strike and you’re out” minded.
“temper tantrum”-- her temper tantrum was actually criminal ! assault, vandalism, destruction of property,trespassing. I think if she was not an attractive female she would have been arrested. the words she used are just words, but her actions were criminal, not simply a tantrum.
Does she have psychoneurological illness? I am thinking about the Colorado movie shooter, another want-to-be neurologist.
“In the moment, I was just so angry. I wasn’t really thinking.” And that right there is the problem, because what’s going to keep that from happening the next time? Whatever you tell yourself about how to behave goes right out the window if anger makes you stop thinking.
She already is an MD. She couldn’t practice neurology since she didn’t finish her residency and couldn’t take her licensing boards, but she could in theory practice as a GP. That said, I think that before she is allowed to practice medicine that any state licensing board should require her to go through some sort of therapy, if for anger management or whatever, having a doctor who basically admitted she lost it like this is not someone you want practicing medicine. From the accounts I read, the only reason she wasn’t arrested was because she was a woman, if a guy did what she did they would have arrested him for assault and battery, that I have no doubts about.
There was a UCLA resident who was fired from her residency for stealing a patient’s IPad. Yes, it is a huge waste of talent and learning but a person’s educational status shouldn’t relieve them of responsibility for their actions.
@TatinG You post made me curious.
How dumb!
It’s not just punishment, it’s also a matter of risk exposure for the hospital. If that doctor goes off on a patient and attacks them like she attacked the cab driver, the hospital would be at fault since it had knowledge of her previous history.
Doctors are held to a higher standard because they’re seeing people when they’re vulnerable. I for sure would not want her as my doctor.
I think firing her is an odd decision. Probation, anger management classes, extended supervision makes more
sense.
From my experience, this describes a lot of pre-med and med students and young docs who have been told how special they are their whole lives.
orgenon101—the school/hospital realize that even if she got out of criminal prosecution because she is an attractive female and paid the driver money to not press charges…they have a problem on their hands. if she was a male she would have been arrested and yes maybe “he” would get the charges reduced or tossed…but…if she stayed working at the hospital and anything happened with a patient or an employee the hospital would be in big big trouble. and i am sure they really thought long and hard and looked at every angle before they fired her. she may have a previous track record we are not aware of but the hospital/university does know about.
momma j —very true…but whoever advised her up to that interview and told her to do the interview …did a lousy job. humble and sorry should have been the name of the game! she should have been coached much better. she failed in that interview. (and the real her came threw and it did not help her cause)
I haven’t seen the video but was she drunk? The hospital could have other evidence that she has a drinking problem and would be a danger to the patients.
I saw the video and was under the impression that alcohol played a big part in what happened.
The Colorado shooter was not trying to be a neurologist; he was in a doctoral program studying neuroscience, if I understand that correctly.
I don’t know if she has a “psychoneurological illness.” Maybe she is just an arrogant jerk with an entitlement problem.
^ Yes, I see the difference between neurology and neuroscience.
In the interview she said she was upset after a breakup.
Yeah, I had read that also. Don’t you know the ex was thinking he’d made the right decision after he saw the video? He’d probably endured some of that kind of behavior before.