Let me start by saying I am truly concerned by the notion that many of the previous posters might someday become doctors, let me quote a few pearls:
"uuuuhhh....go away dude"
"lot's of important stuff going on SDN...we don't have the time for your silly little "class action suit," okay"
"I wonder how many frivilous malpractice suits this lawfirm has made against physicians, now they seek our help so they can another slice of the medical pie..."
Aside from the obvious lack of power with the English language the other very apparent condition is an extreme over-inflated opinion of self, leading to a over indulgent sense of self importance.
Basically, you don't know what you don't know. The people behind this lawsuit are not attorneys or some law firm seeking to get some easy money. They are people, such as myself who have had the course of our lives altered due to a decision to choose COMP over other schools and came to regret that decision. I was once a student at COMP and found the environment to be the most adversarial, Orwellian climate I have ever encountered. I was fresh out of grad school, yes, that's right, I entered COMP with a graduate degree in the sciences (with publications and poster presentations at national level conventions) and a mid 30's MCAT score. I was accepted at several schools and chose COMP because it was the closest to my wife and I's families and we beleived the marketing BS that it was a good school. Good motivation, bad decision.
I voluntarily left after one semester with I might add, a letter from the dean stating that I was leaving the school under good terms and they asked me to reconsider. I left because I no longer wanted to be a part of an institution that actively persecutes some students while favoring others and all the while delivering a sub-standard education. Just look at the board scores and how many students at COMP fail them, here's a hint, its in the double digit percentages.
This year the dean of the medical school was fired. This lead to a cascade of people quiting, such as the student liason in the dean's office and others in the administration directly below the dean. Later, the head of the accademic committee was stripped of his position by the faculty and the faculty is also working to have his tenure removed. This same faculty member was fired from his job at Univ of Tenn but COMP thought he might be a good addition to their faculty. He also had this strange habit of sexual descrimination, now where I live thats against the law.
Now does that sound like a healthy institution of higher learning? Does that sound like there may have been some problems there? Unfortunately in our country today, most of the time, changes do not occur at an institution such as COMP unless legal proceedings are brought against them. And that is exactly what we intend to do.
And we are looking for others who may have legitimate issues with dean Lenz et. al. and COMP. If this is not you, move on the next thread and don't waste space here with your stupid, ignorrant editorial opinions about things you know nothing about.