Pileup because the scandal looks likely to take down the president of the University of Southern California, plus other high-ranking do-nothings.
“The mood on campus is one of stunned depression,” a USC physician said in an email to me, asking me not to use his name. “Students are upset that this was allowed to happen at their medical school, while the faculty are flabbergasted as well as embarrassed.” The physician said that in his opinion, Puliafito should have been immediately suspended in March 2016 [the meth incident] and an investigation launched.
“By allowing him to continue to practice,” he said, “patients’ health was put at risk.”