Today’s disgusting MSU/Nassar news
Actively destroying records so nothing could be substantiated is just beyond low level shit. Wow.
Spartans will.
Seems like every day it gets worse
you're my spirit animal
Renowned medical professional? He was a DO at MSU's med school who has a total of 6 publications listed on pubmed, on almost none of which is he the corresponding author. How is he renowned?
Medical records were never kept for many of Nassar’s “treatments,” they found. MSU did not have an adequate informed consent policy in place for much of the time he worked there, which Nassar “methodically exploited,” lawmakers said, and university policies did not require a chaperone to be in the room “during sensitive examinations of minors.”HIPPA (big time not fooling around federal law) will have a word with MSUCOM for that one. Textbook violations.
You all are right. Bad med student.
I suspect/hope they get righfully roasted for their horrendous practices, but I don't think it'll be HIPAA related (at least in the pasted section of your post). HIPAA is focused on patient privacy in regards to their medical records, not an obligation to take notes nor require a chaperone. Now if he was copying patient files and backing them up on his home computer for his own "personal use", discussing his patients in an elevator or talking about them on Facebook, that's a HIPAA problem.
that will happen with Engler in charge at MSU right now. The House and Senate will put on a dog and pony show all summer, after all there are votes to be won for next Fall's elections.
The old "too big to fail" bit.
Flint <cough> <cough> Flint!!!
Michigan House and Senate hardly the kind of people who should be speaking out about MSU's problem with documentation and following procedures.
whatsoever.
Cheat, Lie and fight team fight, Cover up for MSU...
They are both huge disgraces to the Big 10. Neither deserve the profit sharing a major conference affords.
I still want PSU out of the conference and you can throw MSU on the shitheap with them.
...but at this point, I think MSU is leagues *worse* than Penn State in terms of institutional bad behaviour.
Michigan State still exists.
Not to copy too much from the story, but:
“Nassar seems to have spent decades developing his ability to abuse patients without detection by identifying and exploiting loopholes in the policies that governed his professional conduct and patient relationships,” wrote lawmakers, describing their review of MSU documents and question responses. Medical records were never kept for many of Nassar’s “treatments,” they found. MSU did not have an adequate informed consent policy in place for much of the time he worked there, which Nassar “methodically exploited,” lawmakers said, and university policies did not require a chaperone to be in the room “during sensitive examinations of minors.” In some cases, MSU “had destroyed” patients’ medical records by the time they reported Nassar to university police, lawmakers said. While the destruction did not violate state law or university policy, “such records may have proven useful to at least one of the survivors seeking justice against Nassar.”
I am no lawyer, but there has to be some way for this to become federal, right?
Fortunately, for Michigan taxpayers, Nassar will grow old and die in a federal prison and at the expense of the federal government, for his federal crimes.
And Title IX, plus the Cleary Act and a bunch of other relevant federal statutes are all at stake in ongoing federal investigations.
It is a state law that requires medical professionals to keep records. It looks to me, from afar, like that law was clearly broken by Nassar, and probably in a way that creates civil liability and perhaps criminal culpability at MSU.
Unlike most everyone else on this board, I need to know a whole lot more about any claim of destruction of records. Right now, today, medical records are being legally destroyed all over the state of Michigan. Some are old records that are obsolete and out of date. Some are paper records that are otherwise being stored digitally. Et cetera, et cetera.
I have seen a great many occasions where legislators and staff legislative attorneys draft reports as if they were plaintiff lawyers. This might not be one of those cases, but it might be.
In some cases, MSU “had destroyed” patients’ medical records by the time they reported Nassar to university police, lawmakers said. While the destruction did not violate state law or university policy, “such records may have proven useful to at least one of the survivors seeking justice against Nassar.”
This is normal behavior for an institution that repeatedly states that it is not as bad as it looks and that, in many cases, there may be nothing to see here, right? Yikes.
If you destroy all the records, then there is nothing to see.
always get rid of the gun. No smoking gun? Hard to prosecute.
Wish this community would stop obsessing with this story. Am I the only one who feels this way? It does seem like an obsession - every day there's a new forum topic dedicated to MSU/Nassar. This has been going on for months.
who sexually assaulted young girls/women.
"Am I the only one who feels this way? "
I do not agree with you. This needs to be kept visible. Just my opinion.
Yes, of course Nassar is a monster and MSU should be ashamed and sanctioned for what they did. I never claimed otherwise. And I agree the story should be kept visible. Never said otherwise. What I said is that mgoblog users seem to have an unhealthy obsession with this story. How many of these forum topics are intended to keep the story visible, and how many are now simply mob-like gravedancing? If its the former (don't think it is anymore), then that's ok. If it's the latter (think it's become that), then is beyond schadenfreude because it's using systematic sexual predation to justify selfish feelings toward a sports rival, and that's disgusting.
That's exactly what MSU is hoping for.
MSU is hoping that mgoblog readers stop obsessing with the story? Well, at least that's an implicit admission that mgoblog readers are obsessing with the story. I guess I'm not the only one. Thanks Yossarian!