Termination from Residency

[Apollyon]

I’m licensed in TX, WY, CO, PA, and VA. I have also been licensed in TN and AL but I’ve allowed those to lapse.

And, yet, I don't know who you are! I let SC and HI lapse, myself.

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[ThoracicGuy]

Well the license clenches it. You've just revealed yourself to the world!

 

[LucidSplash]

Well the AZ license clenches it. You've just revealed yourself to the world!

Oh noooooooos. <Said in the quietest tone>

The beauty of being yourself, and never doing or saying anything you can be ashamed or embarrassed of, even when anonymous, is that you don’t care.

I support posters who want to remain anonymous. And I understand the fear that students and residents have if doxxed, because they are in positions where others have significant amount of power over them and their futures. I’ve been in that position.

Even for those of us past training, the wrong hospital system can cause trouble if you share unfavorable things.

But thinking that someone knowing a given state or set of states where you are licensed is going to give you away, given the millions of licenses issued in this country, is just silly.

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

I've been licensed in SC, HI, and PA. Did I just doxx myself?

I have had people message me directly with my name on it, so yes, the more information I give, the easier it would be for others to track me. You can mock me if you'd like, but you're not important to me at all

 

[Apollyon]

I have had people message me directly with my name on it, so yes, the more information I give, the easier it would be for others to track me. You can mock me if you'd like, but you're not important to me at all

You wound me. Oh my. Ouch!

But, seriously, if that is your take, that is wholly and completely on you. Best of luck!

 

[michaelrack]

I'm licensed in TN, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama. My West Virginia license lapsed long ago. I'm easy to track down.

 

[LucidSplash]

I inadvertently violated TOS by posting an unsolicited PM I received, wherein the sender’s identity was visible. I did not realize this was a TOS violation. So the post was removed by a mod after the post was reported.

My apologies to the sender.

However I think this is an important issue so:

To the person who PM’d me that they were “moderately confident” that the 2nd letter of my first name is “R”, I’ve already told them they are incorrect.

To the separate person who PM’d me that they were able to easily find that I attended UHUHS, I’ve already told them that is incorrect.

But thank you to both of you for proving my point.

I have likely posted enough nuggets of info over the years that I’ve doxxed myself on some level or someone could review the thousands of posts, or find some way to dump it into AI, and figure out, with all that data, who I am. I’m not too worried about this, as I have the same online code that I have in real life, so I’m not ashamed or embarrassed of anything I’ve posted.

But posting a state license or a list of state licenses in isolation of other information isn’t going to get anyone doxxed.

 

[Apollyon]

I'm licensed in TN, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama. My West Virginia license lapsed long ago. I'm easy to track down.

Goodness, I wonder how????