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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Physicians are human and you will find plenty of doctors who use drugs.  I know someone who climbed out of that hole.  I dare anyone in that industry to contradict me.

It's terribly hypocritical to have denied this talented young woman a chance to have a brilliant career in the medical field.  She had left the drugs behind.  It's unbelievable that she was ostracized for mistakes she made as a teen.  Seriously disappointing.  [/quote]

The problem is she was up against students without prison records.  She had a 7 year prison term.  The medical programs are going to choose the students without the history of using drugs and alcohol even if she had been clean for awhile.
Sadly the other problem was that she went public and spoke publicly about her history of using.  This is clearly a case where she should have kept her personal history of using drugs and alcohol private.

I agree with the other poster.  She could still have parlayed her skills into a pretty decent career.  There is a giant need for prison doctors and always jobs for researchers etc.[/quote]

She choose very competitive (ortho surgeon) then very stressful (ER) which shows she didn’t have a good grasp on how she appeared to others and in competition to other very well qualified doctors without the back story. [/quote]

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