A physician I work with is retiring at the end of June and loses all access to his email address, and he has no personal email address. He's been out all of June due to a family emergency with no Internet access, so it's looking like there's no way for him to be able to submit the letter. If I can get another physician to submit on this one's behalf, would that be acceptable to adcoms? Is there anything they should do to make it clear that they are submitting on behalf of someone else?
Can I have someone submit an LOR on behalf of someone else?
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Are you saying that someone would simply be submitting the letter that the physician wrote to whatever letter service you’re using? Or that someone would be writing a letter on the attending’s behalf?
Someone would be submitting the letter that's already written. They will have to sign as well, though, since I don't have a copy that's already been signed. The body of the letter has been written, so the submitting physician will not be touching it, except to add a sentence stating the circumstances, if needed.
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The signing, imo, is the issue here. If you could get it signed by the writer, the other physician submitting the letter would be no big deal. But it’d be weird if the author of the letter didn’t sign it.
If the submitting physician is okay with endorsing the letter as their own and fully putting under their name rather than the writer’s, that might be okay, too. But obviously the former is ideal.
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