[adakotab]

Methinks this story may be bogus.

Either English is a second language for this MD or else he failed English. Unless he is foreign born, this story must be bogus.

[kezekiel]

Here's Dean Phillip Farrell's page at UW Medical School. Google seach on "Fry Wisconsin Medical" turned up no John Fry.

http://www.med.wisc.edu/About/DeansGreeting.asp

[rdb3]

Methinks this story may be bogus.

Please explain.

[norton]

You want to be a bit more precise?
Like - show us the 'english as second language' part?
Seems that you (and Semper Libertas above) are awfully quick to jump on another issue or to discredit the posting,
and to do so on uncertain assumptions...

For record, I was laid off once for having advocated the 'wrong' group of persons legally mandated for affirmative action.
It does happen.

[Love of Country]

What? Talk is cheap, this is war!

[Love of Country]

For your reading pleasure.

On January 10th, I received a registered letter from John Frey MD Dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. My contract at Wausau Family Practice was not to be renewed. My offense, I asked several questions of radical Islamists during a required lecture the previous week. Lecture topics are always of a medically revelant nature; trauma, podiatry, fracture treatment etc,, However, our program director Kevin O'Connell allowed two islamist interns two and a half hours of required lecture time to preach islam.

One of the muslims actually sang his prayers. He then went on to discribe "the Pillars of Islam". After two plus hours of this several people began get uncomfortable with the lecterers called for jihad and militancy toward the United States. All my questions were theologic in nature. I was hoping to display for the audience the plagerism mohammed practiced in writing the koran by quoting the Holy Bible when relavant. At no time was any member of the audience disrespectful.

At the end of the talk the muslims' true nature showed itself as raw paranoia. He said that soon all muslims would be interred "I've seen the pictures of prisons on the internet" He admitted tithing to Global Benevolence Foundation, sending money to the families of suicide bombers. "I know Mr. Haddad, he's being held prisoner by the United States government"

I was content to dust off my feet and move on. I interviewed and was offered a position at Michigan State. Somehow word of my new position got back to the people at University of Wisconsin. They called up my new employer. I was informed that Michigan State no longer had a position for me. My wife cried for hours.

Another Christian physician was also told his position was closed. His offense like mine was to ask innocuous questions.

I'm prepared to sue.

[ninenot]

I have the same observation that you do--the poster (if not the doc himself) has a SERIOUS problem with standard English. OTOH, I do recall, vaguely, a story similar to this--perhaps it was just the first half, not including the dismissal.

[DallasMike]

Either English is a second language for this MD or else he failed English. Unless he is foreign born, this story must be bogus.

I tend to dismiss the story myself, but only because it sounds a bit outlandish and is one of those "friend of a friend" e-mails. I didn't think the grammar was all that bad for a scientist.