Had Hillary won, Michele was expected to be tapped for something on women’s rights.
Why would he be fired?
Another tough article.
The president of the USA is not entitled to withhold – or lie about – medical conditions that may impair his performance in office. This is why medical briefings on a president’s condition are always held. One must expect them to be complete and truthful about all relevant conditions. If he wants medical privacy, to which ordinary private citizens are certainly entitled, he is free to become an ordinary private citizen.
Because he criticized the president.
I am wondering the same thing.
So what? He appears to be employed by George Washington University Hospital. Why would GWU fire him for criticizing the President?
Because people get fired for much less every day.
I don’t get it - why do they advise all those people to self-quarantine for 14 days, but Pence merrily goes to church last night??? Unbelievable.
He appears to me to have a joint appointment at GW and Walter Reed. I rather think that Trump will try to get him fired from his military job.
As a GW assistant professor, he lacks tenure and so could be at theoretical risk there as well.
I would be astounded if GWU/GWUH (where he appears to be a Section Chief and Fellowship Director, as well as an Assistant Professor) fired him for no more than exercising his first amendment rights. The faculty and students would set the campus on fire.
Then he should have said, “HIPPA rules forbid me disclosing this detail” whenever asked about something that the patient doesn’t want disclosed. That is fine. Lying is not.
Totally pedantic, but it’s “HIPAA,” for “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.” But, that said, it’s very commonly misspelled “HIPPA.”
It’s still early in my time zone, but this afternoon I read a post on this board that said “that was Donald Trump” and read it as “the late Donald Trump” !!!
Apparently my bed time needs to be pretty early.
Maybe Trump is circling the drain but he’s in denial? I could see him getting this drug that makes him temporarily better, then deciding he feels so great that the effect will be permanent for him. Because he’s, you know, special. So let’s have a mini-parade…dozens are waiting. The WH gift shop is hard at work already, so that proves it’ll all be ok.
I’m afraid to ask how the 'pubs are going to spin this. As people around him end up dying, how will they explain it away? @monstro posted this about NJ officials contacting people. So not only did Trump not notify them then, his admin is still shirking the responsibility.
And CNN was saying nobody’s briefing Pelosi et al. They’re watching TV, learning the status from that just like Average Joe Citizen.
I would agree that he should not withhold and lie, and especially should not ask others to withhold and lie.
But, in practice, he can do all that. The only recourse is to vote him out, and if he convinces enough people that the ballots are a disaster, even voting him out possibly won’t work.
FTR, an assistant professor can certainly have tenure, and often does (unless the rules in the US are somehow bizarrely different than everywhere else).
As for the doc being dismissed from Walter Reed, I can certainly see the toddler-in-chief stomping his feet and threatening to hold his breath until proper revenge has been wrought upon the doctor.
Also posted in Clusterfuck thread.
That is my understanding, as well (having had several members of my circle of college friends become tenure-track professors). Assistant professors usually don’t have tenure, but the title of associate professor typically denotes having received tenure.
The most common pattern here is that tenure comes when promoted from assistant professor to associate professor.
However, rules vary, especially on the medical side.