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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He asked 3 questions to a presenter. This issue was presenting one account of anecdotal evidence as scientific fact. You learn in elementary science fair to have more than one example.

Doctors must know how to read scientific journals and trials to parse out fact from ‘placebo’.

If asking 3 valid questions about what is supposed to be a well funded research project gets the wheels spinning to get a student kicked out of school by deans and professors,[u] there is a much greater problem here. [/u]

If this goes against the ‘values’ of a school, was that made clear before starting the school. Was ‘do not question’ a value they stated that could lead to expulsion?

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The professors explained that they were using anecdotes to illustrate not as scientific proof.

He asked his 2nd question and the presenter said it would be his last question. 2 is reasonable in this situation, one and follow up.

After she answered his 2nd question he insisted on another follow up. Another professor stepped in to answer the 3rd question and noted he seemed frustrated and moved on to another person’s question.

So his question(s) were not his issue, his issue was his unprofessionalism.

Also, if you listen to the 2nd audio with the dean he sounds unstable. He tries very hard in both situations to keep his voice calm but his breathing and tone are agitated.

His problem is that he lacks the ability  to control his emotions when somebody disagrees with him.

When offered counseling which can help with this, he refused.[/quote]

The second audio is not just a meeting with the dean, it’s with an entire panel of people and it’s his expulsion hearing. He is one young person in a room of older people that are deciding his future.

It’s not easy for most people to control their emotions when they are being railroaded and their future is at stake, especially in your early 20s when you haven’t had the experience to handle such situations.

I don’t know why everyone here thinks a med student is supposed to be a perfect person, they’re still young, they have no real job experience, they’re lives to that point have been study in high school to get into college, study in college to get into med school.

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His default appears to be one of barely controlled rage. He should have been on his best behavior at an expulsion hearing rather than belligerent. [/quote]

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