BeginnerSleuther
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BBM. <modsnip> In fact, residents and doctors are given tremendous leeway with their careers. There are numerous rehab programs that allow them to continue practicing after relatively minor transgressions like those Sneha was accused of. Why? There are too few medical doctors.
Sure, she had done some stupid stuff. Perhaps the worst was having her Cabrini contract non renewed because of tardiness and substance abuse allegations but as we know, she was able to get another contract at St. Vincents'. She also had tremendous incentives and advantages towards completing her internship since her husband was also an intern and her father was a doctor. Even if it didn't work out at St. Vincents' she would have found a place to complete her internship. She would have known all of this. There was nothing on her plate that she could not overcome.
A relatively minor charge that would not have prevented her from a career in medicine, probably even more trivial than her non renewal and her suspension at St Vincent's.
As a physician who is deeply involved in two residency programs and was deeply involved in a residency program in another state, and someone who has intimate knowledge of rehab evaluations for hospitals and medical boards (I've never been sent to one, but have hired people who have), the above is inaccurate.
Someone with this track record would have a VERY tough time getting another internship. She'd have a tough time even staying in any internship. If you look into the stats, there are US-trained MDs who don't even match into residency/internship. To have matched and basically flunked out is a red flag that, in most cases, is too big to overcome.
Also should be noted that physicians involved in those rehab programs have a very steep climb ahead, which is why I no longer send the doctors under my supervision there. I felt they were destroying lives rather than helping. You can Google how these programs operate. I now send them to traditional community based programs. If Sneha was faced with attending one of the ones catering to doctors, I can see how that could have been devastating to her and might have motivated her to run away.