Bureaucrats know best, you see:

Posted on April 3, 2014 by KG

‘A medical student who suffers an “extreme” fear of exams has won the right to continue her degree after a tribunal ruled the university discriminated against her because of her mental health disability.
The woman, who has a borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, had failed to sit written exams and avoided some clinical assessments, particularly in paediatrics and surgery, because of ‘‘extreme anxiety in relation to sitting exams [and] performance assessments’’….’

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29 Responses to Bureaucrats know best, you see:

  1. Wombat says:
    April 3, 2014 at 15:15

    I’d like to be a fly on the wall when real life starts giving her an exam. The sad thing is it’ll be some random person who suffers when there’s a femoral artery shooting blood over the ER and she’s cowering in the corner on the phone to her lawyer asking if she can sue the hospital for work related trauma.

  2. mawm says:
    April 3, 2014 at 16:20

    I’ve seen a few like her……….eventually the stress gets too much and then it’s ‘why didn’t anybody tell me…..’. :evil:

  3. MacDoctor says:
    April 3, 2014 at 16:34

    If she can’t take exam stress, she will almost certainly be unable to make a diagnosis without a thousand (unnecessary) confirmatory tests. She will be completely useless in almost all medical fields barring dermatology ( which she will not be able to attain unless she sits exams).
    Sadly, she will either become a poor GP or, worse, she will become a psychiatrist – only to discover than psychiatry is the most stressful discipline of all.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_scratch.gif

    • KG says:
      April 3, 2014 at 17:23

      Yes, but her “rights” will be intact, Macdoc–and that’s the important thing here.
      ;-)

    • Chris says:
      April 4, 2014 at 09:31

      MacDoctor, as one of the few psychiatrists who frequent this part of the blogoverse, I think GP is harder and more stressful. However, we get a fair amount of conflct — which is inevitable when you consider the issues around safety and coercion (which is why we have a Mental Health Act) and the ongoing difficulties in managing the most unwell when the services are barely adequate.

      The funny thing is that the medical students that psych fail are almost always falled by GP — and often my medicine and surgery as well.

      (And for the lay reader, yes, you can fail psychiatry if we think you are not safe and you don’;t turn up and do the work. And the psychiatry specailist exam is just as hard as the surgeons’ or physicians).

      • Chris says:
        April 4, 2014 at 09:32

        delete “my”, and make don’t correct.

        • KG says:
          April 4, 2014 at 10:07

          Ask nicely and make it look less like an order and I just might do that, Chris.
          Oh, and thanks for the comment. :grin:

      • mawm says:
        April 4, 2014 at 13:53

        And the psychiatry specailist exam is just as hard as the surgeons’..
        Yes Chris, but you don’t sit on our Lord’s right – that special spot is saved for our dear surgeons. :roll:

  4. Oswald Bastable says:
    April 3, 2014 at 16:54

    No, she will go on to work for the Ministry of Health, to write policy for real medical professionals :evil:

  5. The Gantt Guy says:
    April 3, 2014 at 17:51

    … except when they don’t

    “A United Nations expert on people smuggling and human trafficking says Canberra’s tough but “questionable” policy on dealing with asylum seekers arriving by boat has successfully destroyed the current migrant smuggling model into Australia.”

    http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8824611/asylum-seekers-stranded-by-abbott-policy

    So much for the caterwauling about how the boats can’t be stopped! http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

    (with apologies to our gracious host for the O/T celebration).

  6. Michael in Nelson says:
    April 3, 2014 at 18:21

    I am contemplating cataract surgery within the next two months. Thank God this whiney bitch won’t be ‘qualified’ before then.

    • KG says:
      April 3, 2014 at 20:33

      Hopefully, your surgeon will be non-pc, non-culturally aware, non part of some “affirmative action” quota, Michael.
      That way you can be sure he knows his job. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_smile.gif

  7. Findalis says:
    April 3, 2014 at 23:06

    If she has a problem with exams how the hell did she ever get into medical school in the first place?

  8. Robertv says:
    April 4, 2014 at 02:45

    If she doesn’t like the stress she should become a climate scientist on the Mann made global warming side. They are always right and no Q & A.

    http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

  10. Contempt says:
    April 4, 2014 at 04:23

    :shock: Gosh, I used to get feelings of stress and panic when I once had to take collitch exams, but for final exams, Black Beauties seemed to help. Think this young lady may need a LLoonngg vacation in a lunatic asylum rehab situation. What’s new? :roll:

  11. andy5759 says:
    April 4, 2014 at 07:35

    Ebola outbreaks wreak havoc, this sort of shit ought to give us the screaming ab-dabs. Just let’s jump ship now.

  12. mawm says:
    April 4, 2014 at 13:58

    Seeing we have an unaccustomed plethora of Dr’s on here – Peter Creswell is banging on about medicine and cartels (again). Leave him a polite reply. :mrgreen:

    http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/this-is-what-cartel-looks-like.html?showComment=1396583131162

    • KG says:
      April 4, 2014 at 14:04

      :shock: Polite? Why?
      Anyway, I think I’m banned from there after supporting my mate Redbaiter when that bunch behaved like hysterical cowards and smeared him.