Over on the mothership, Warren Throckmorren reviews a whistle-blowing book about university health services:
Miriam Grossman, M.D., psychiatrist in the UCLA health services, is the author of Unprotected. However, you will not find her name on the cover of her new book. She wrote the book as “Dr. Anonymous” because she was fearful of professional and employment reprisals for her stunningly candid picture of college health today. But with Dr. Grossman’s permission, Dr. Laura Schlessinger recently revealed her identity on her radio program.
In an interview, Dr. Grossman told me she feels very much at risk with the publication of her book. She explains: I’m discussing a taboo topic here: the dangers of radical social agendas in my profession. My colleagues are well-intentioned, and care deeply about their patients. But campus counseling centers are whitewashing the painful consequences of casual sex, STDs and abortion. They are promoting the notion that men and women are the same. They are not educating young people about future and family. In these issues, so central to campus health and counseling, we are failing our young people.” Time will tell if Dr. Grossman’s candor will make her a pariah at work and in her profession.






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