An "under-performing" military man with "bad job evaluations"..

[SoCalDem]

The man was a psychiatrist, for pete's sake. His "product" was the outpouring of misery from his patients, mulled over in his brain, and then "performed" as words of wisdom and ideas for how the patient can learn to cope with their troubles.

He had to write reports, no doubt, but patient confidentiality probably rendered them pretty dull and basic stuff..something a psychiatrist could probably do in their sleep.

So what made him an "under-performer" deserving of "bad evaluations"?

did he continually park in the wrong parking place?
take too long at lunch?
call in sick too much?
fudge the numbers on expense accounts?
miss staff meetings?

OR did he get so many complaints from patients, that they KNEW a LONG TIME ago that the money invested in his education was a waste, and that he should have been 86'ed.

Maybe his bad evaluations were his way of pushing them to relieve him of his obligation. Like Klinger on Mash, who wore women's clothes to try to get sent home, or Yossarian in Catch -22, who tried and tried to "bend his mind" around the perfect path between sane and insane, Hasan was sending signals all over the place, and no one was receiving them..or was receiving them, and was too stubborn to act on them.

The man was a shrink...he understood passive aggressive techniques, and he surely knew he was conflicted. Perhaps , after all the other attempts had failed, this was his last way out.. the coward's way out.

[TwilightGardener]

1. He probably had some poor interpersonal skills. I've read an account

that described him as polite, but cold and not friendly.

[vadawg]

3. i heard also that he was having issues with patients at walter reed

it was on a local radio station this morning, they actually had people who knew the guy calling in, seems there were a lot of issues with him during his time at reed..

[SoCalDem]

5. and they passed the buck..so he ended up where he did

and innocents paid for the lack of attention to his shortcomings.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Yep--Walter Reed colleagues probably hoped they'd heard the last of him

when he transferred--another unit's problem now.

[sharesunited]

2. I thought he was proselytizing Islam to his patients as the cure for what ailed them.

If so, that was highly unprofessional.

[vadawg]

4. yup that is what one local radio host was saying he heard from sources

[valerief]

8. Oy vey! nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

7. Reports that he tried to convert patients may have had something to do with it.

[niyad]

9. I am wondering how the col. who was spouting all this got hold of his evals?

he very subtly framed it as supposition, but made it sound like fact.

and, pretty much all we are hearing is supposition. I do not consider people calling in to radio programs to be a reliable source of information, generally.

[vadawg]

10. the retired colonel could have been the one doing the evals

he was a colonel after all, even if he wasnt if he worked with him and had heard him trying to convert or as he says some of the crazy shit that the gunman was saying to collegues then he is a good source of info...