Comments on: The Craigslist Killer is a Boston University medical student

By: PatricParamedic

PatricParamedic — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:47:49 +0000

I, too, resent sloppy reporting, and there is indeed a vast difference between pre-med and someone already accepted into a program.

But for the record, those who take comfort in Markoff’s “non-med-student” status might want to crank down their exasperation just a bit. There is an enormous amount of crime going on among the physician population. Here in California, while the Michael Jackson doctor-circus was going on, 21 other MDs were quietly convicted for crimes ranging from anal rape, major drug-running, kidnapping, to Medicare fraud, wife & girlfriend murders.

That’s one summer, one state.

Let’s think about the volume of bad behavior out there, and just what we might do about it.

By: ABCD

ABCD — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:49:45 +0000

Just to confirm all rumors – he was a med student. He was in my class.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:56:00 +0000

HE WAS PRE-MED!!!!! Stop referring to him as a med student. We all know that when we all enter College about 90% of our friends say they are “pre-med” cause it sounds cool. Pre-med is not a degree it is not a specialty, it is simply a group of classes that one needs to take in order to be considered for medical school. So please stop shaming the rest of us by referring to him as a “med student.”

By: Michael Rack, MD

Michael Rack, MD — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:52:00 +0000

“I’ve known surgeons who hunt: if THAT’S not a contradiction in terms for one supposedly devoting their life to the sacredness of life, then I dunno what is!”

Most doctors devote themselves to the sacredness of human life. I see no contradiction in a surgeon or other doctor hunting animals.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:58:00 +0000

As a medical student I can tell you that the presence of the “clever sociopath” in medical school is likely much more common than people would actually like to believe. For example, although the admission process in medical school is technically stringent, and makes a very rough quantitative estimation of ones intellectual inclination towards the study of medicine, qualitative estimation of one’s future competency and aptitude towards the practice of medicine is a function of less tangible qualities. These include emotional stability, emotional maturity, professional experience, dedication to the art of medicine, and most importantly, one’s dedication towards humanity. Perhaps these sound corny and cliché, and perhaps nobody really cares when you got a 4.0 GPA in undergrad and a 40 MCAT. But the introvert genius looking to feed his/ her professional narcissism by earning an MD degree, simply does not belong in medical school.

By: PatricParamedic

PatricParamedic — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:36:00 +0000

As an author whose non-fiction book, “America’s Dumbest Doctors,” will be released in July, I am always amazed at how society deifies MDs. We’ve somehow spawned countless thousands of true freaks with stethoscopes. The fact is, some of our finest primates wear lab coats, and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. But it is also true that some of the greatest miscreants in society graduated from the very same med schools. There is no professional in the land who evades more punishment than a criminal M.D. Pity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:38:00 +0000

Even scarier, there is pretty much no way to screen these students out without spending a great deal of time, money, and invading their privacy. The Jeremy Noyes case comes to mind.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0819081family1.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:05:00 +0000

I went to BU Med as well (one year ahead of Kevin, actually). I did not find it abusive or hostile. It certainly was a more friendly place than the other universities where I did residency and worked on the faculty.

Of course, as an MS2 I doubt anyone in the pre-clinical faculty knew who I was. There isn’t much interaction with faculty in the second year of med school.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:52:00 +0000

If only he’d been a doctor already, then his estate would have had the benefit of tort reform to preserve it from the results of his actions!

By: momingle

momingle — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:42:00 +0000

He can’t handle the pressure. He cracked.