Intersted Person
Shelby Ohio,#2Consumer Comment
Wed, January 14, 2009
For those of you checking in, crying tears, ready to come to Rita's aid and march on wherever she wants you to march on...you might, perhaps, read just a couple of other reports filed by this person. Note that each one of these, by nature, must have it's own culprit. I'm counting 19, but I think I missed a few. Read the below before making up your mind and check the other posts at least partially listed below. http://med.ohio.gov/formala/35050161.pdf Form your own opinion. 330124 374522 331399 366042 384920 385263 384765 332688 363750 328642 384729 361519 268648 385630 329263 383736 (Mayo Clinic) 378373 (Mayo Clinic) 269735 (Delta Airlines) 358870 (Case Western, Didn't like Grade)
Rita
Mayfield Heights,#3Author of original report
Sun, January 04, 2009
The material that I presented in Dr. Loue's class - aside from disagreeing with her heroin shoot-up movies, Drug Trial books mentioning CWRU hematology faculty in derogatory terms, and gender chapters - was material that I assimilated/worked on for another CWRU faculty member, Dr. Michael Lederman = material on vaginal microbicides and relevant to the AIDS ethics issues/drug trials. This publication material was apparently 'C' work to Dr. Loue, and the controversy continues as to whether 'academic freedom' allows her the leeway she took in this epidemiology ethics class, while the material was published as a review article in Nature Reviews and can be accessed at www.nature.com/nri/journal/v6/n5/abs/nri1848.html. This is kinda unjust and really stupid for one professor to 'C' another professor's research at the same institution = CWRU Medical Graduate School. To Dr. Loue's class I brought high-quality research and information, and she brought all kinds of academic 'junk.' The 'C' grade needs to be (1) explained, and (2) re-assessed in a professional academic way. Dr. Loue shouldn't have been conducting any class on 2 weekends in between plane tickets elsewhere. Dr. Loue was not available in even a VIRTUAL sense for questions, help, comments, or clarifications/suggestions as to what she wanted on any assignment. Further she left no other epidemiology faculty member as a backup for her during her absences, to answer questions, etc. The then Department Chairman's Office had to distribute all her class materials for her - she can't do any paperwork. And now Dr. Loue is the Acting Director of the Department after my situation was swept 'under the academic rug?' This isn't very ETHICAL.
Rita
Mayfield Heights,#4Author of original report
Thu, November 20, 2008
Case Studies in Forensic Epidemiology Loue, Sana 2002, 218 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46792-9 Table of contents 1. Epidemiology in the Courtroom: Dissonant Goals, Divergent Processes. 2. Case Study One: The Silicone Breast Implant Litigation. 3. Case Study Two: The E. Coli Investigation. 4. Epidemiology, Legislation, and Rulemaking. 5. Case Study Three: The FDA and Silicone Breast Implants. 6. Case Study Four: The Regulation of Tobacco. 7. Law, Epidemiology, and Community Organization and Advocacy. 8. Case Study Five: Alcohol and Drunk Driving. 9. Needle Exchange Program. 10. Epidemiology, Law, and Social Context. 11. Case Study Seven: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. 12. Case Study Eight: The Medical use of Marijuana. Index. This was one of the books that caused the problems - the chapter seven in a required text buy. The Ethics course was supposed to cover other kinds of ethics - cancer, medical diseases that have an epidemiological pattern, etc. The silicone breast implant litigation was covered from the point of view of a lawyer - not a physician who had SEEN some of these cases = nothing wrong with silicone implants was her bottomline, just too much ado about nothing. E.Coli is not a major ethics problem, though a food service problem. Tobacco has been pretty well over discussed. Community organization never works for epidemiology - it's ridiculous to waste MD/PhD time on this - we are all at academic centers and need better organization there. Alcohol and drunk driving = not an epidemiological problem, more of a generic problem of life. Needle exchange programs - never work. But the worst: epidemiology & social context, sex, gender, and sexuality - in a graduate course in ethics? This is not a gender, transgender, gay or l*****n forum - and this book should not be a required buy. Both Dr. B------ and I just copied the chapters that we had to - but Dr. Loue took it 'out' on me for not seeing the importance of gay, l*****n, bisexual and q***r studies - not my purpose in being at CWRU for Biostat/Epidemiology ethics studies. The medical use of marijuana is a not an ethics issue except in Hawaii - where it is all over and tried anyways for cancer. The problems were the total frustration with Dr. Loue's focus - gender studies. Ethics is just not a gender studies forum - and pregnant HIV-positive mentally ill Hispanic woman are just not the major problem at medical centers in Ohio. Yes, we all need to respect each other's privacy and interests, but Dr. Loue in overstating her case denied every person in the class year of 2005 any general ethics learning for drug trial and other purposes. One of the other books, The Drug Trial, Dr. Loue made fun of the woman physician when she dated (briefly) a journalist covering the media firestorm that errupt with the drug trial. Gee's the woman MD needed a little joy in her life without it being a conflict-of-interest everytime someone wrote about her. Make your own judgements on what goes on at CWRU Dept of Epidemiology. This isn't a course to take unless you like gender studies.
Rita
Mayfield Heights,#5Author of original report
Wed, August 20, 2008
Look it's not fair to inflict on graduate students, with medical backgrounds, that they constantly discuss gender issues and issues from the point of view of someone who can write chapters on l*****n ethics - that's not general epidemiology. And Dr. Loue, because of who she is, can't interact normally with a woman student who questions, disagrees, etc with her. It doesn't come out in the basic epidemiology ethics lecture that she does, but it does if you spend a class or two with her. A woman physician dating a male journalist in one paragraph of a book is an ethics issue for her. She's not normal in her interactions with other woman who raise issues for her; if you question her statements, if you question question her everything goes even with marijuana for cancer pain or controversial-at-best needle exchange programs. And this should be discussed before she gives a student a 'C' or has them suspended from classes after sending a secretary in to check on that woman student in the CWRU bathrooms. A secretarial assistant from her office followed me to the bathroom, where I thought I could sit a moment and collect myself as my mother was in the hospital -but she thought she could use this 'upset' to say that it was about Dr. Loue. At the end at CWRU, I ws being tailed and evaluated in the women's bathroom on the ground floor of the medical school - and my upset in the bathroom was told to the Dean as a reason that I needed an evaluation for objecting to Dr. Loue's grade. Dr. Loue is not a normal woman, and not just because she writes volumes of books on issues that are non-issues for most physicians and women. Putting that kind of person in the Directorship of a Department, so that she can tail all women grad students that disagree with her to the bathroom, is inappropriate, cruel, bizarre, and bad judgment.