You’re slow. I get that. Flatlined got the point, but you didn’t, so I will spell it out for you.
The horrible actions of the doctor in the story probably never happened. To be outraged at the doctor and to name that doctor for things she probably never did is not a good thing. To say, “It might be true” is weaselly, and opens a door for slander.
Doesn’t seem to fit to me - flatlined hasn’t jumped to any conclusions, and there is apparently some evidence in the story in the OP, such as the patients own doctor? And really, there must be some evidence if an attorney was willing to file a suit, right? Right?
To put it another way, I was trying to caution Flatlined that baseless accusations can do damage just by acknowledging that they are in the least bit conceivable. “They might be true” is bullshit. Anything might be true. Glen Beck made a short lived career out of that shit. That’s where my “these questions need to be asked” thing came from. She had two choices: Skepticism or “outrage for 300”.
I’ve got nothing against flatlined, but I had to call her on it.
Courthouse News Service’s publishing of the alleged victim’s lawyer’s press release is still the only source for this story, and most of those sites that are reprinting it haven’t even bothered to correct the name of the doctor.
IIRC, World health organization still considered homosexuality to be a mental disease until the 1990s. But not because they have determined that there is not a mental component to it, but because they don’t consider it a disease, i.e. they consider it a normal part of human sexuality.
In what way do pharmacists “get away with” stealing someone’s prescription? In what jurisdiction is this legal?
Its illegal.
So wait, these are merely allegations by someone who is menatlly ill?
I’m not going to bother ordering the complaint, but as far as those saying that Courthouse News Service is the only source of the story, I can tell you that the case absolutely exists. It’s New Jersey Union County Superior Court Case #UNN L 001868 12, filed May 23rd. Simoes v. Trinitas Regional Medical Center, et al. He paid the $200 filing fee, so I assume he’s serious even if the allegations within haven’t been proven yet.