ummm, if this was really his humane intention,
why did he not have a one-on-one meeting with her, and lay out exactly what he thought the best way to deal with it was, and maybe explain what he thought the best course of action was?
instead of her receiving a handwritten note saying she’s fired?
the guy is an idiot. getting a cancer diagnosis is incredibly stressful event, especially depending on what kind of cancer it is and what stage you’re considered. LOSING a job is a huge stressful event for anyone, especially when you have no idea it’s coming.
they rank stressful events in terms of how they can damage health. losing a job ranks as one of the top ones, below losing a spouse, child, parent, terrible medical news.
for the doc to knowingly do this is beyond stupid. the argument it’s humane is as humane as if he’d have decided the humane thing was to walk over to her and put a bullet in her head.
Every business owner I have ever met has had one thing in mind when it comes to their business. Which is the bottom line. If the woman can no longer do the job, the employer should not have to pay for the employee to under perform while his patients and other employees watch her slowly die.
There’s more to this story than what we know. I guarantee it.
Stage 4 terminal cancer, or a high frequency chemotherapy treatment combined with a cabinet full of schedule 2 medications. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want anyone going through that to be poking around in my mouth.
In my view, hedid it that way to remove the risk of being misunderstood. He needed to cover himself legally, and as harsh as it sounds, it seems to me that he covered her, too.