A resident physician at a Long Island, N.Y., hospital apologized to faculty members over the weekend for posting a photograph of a former classmate giving two thumbs up next to a cadaver as state health officials said they would be looking into the matter.
In three separate e-mails, Erica Katz, who works in the emergency medicine unit at Stony Brook University Medical Center, told faculty members that posting the photo on her Facebook page was a mistake.
… Dean Richard Fine on Monday met with faculty members, who referred the matter to the committee on academic standards. That panel will make recommendations to Fine on what, if any, disciplinary action will be taken against Katz.
… The photo, which features [the classmate] wearing purple gloves and smiling over a cadaver with both of [the classmate’s] thumbs up, was taken during an anatomy class.
… Dr. Todd R. Olson, professor of anatomy at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and president of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists… [asked:] “Don’t you think … one has every reasonable expectation that you’re not going to show up with somebody holding two thumbs up over Uncle Dick on Facebook?” …