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The Evil Overlord does Social Security disability evaluations for people claiming a psychological disorder. He does this under his boss' license since EO is still an intern, so on the paperwork the final authority for any diagnosis is EO's Doc Boss.
EO says a guy came in a while back who was so blatantly faking his disorder that EO had trouble not laughing at him during the interview. As always, the Boss went in to meet the applicant in person: Boss Doc won't sign off on a diagnosis unless he's personally had at least ten minutes with the them. The report to SS clearly documented the numerous signs that the guy did not have psychological disorder, as well as the evidence that the guy was malingering (faking for the purposes of some gain). The applicant was of Korean descent. As we all know, a client's race doesn't usually matter. . . unless the client *makes* it matter.
Applicant gets denied SS disability. No surprise. Applicant decides he's been wronged, and goes through the trouble of getting SS to turn over the records they based their decision on. SS is *not* supposed to turn over the diagnoses that SS pays for (like the one EO and his Boss Doc dis) unless the whole thing actually goes to court. Someone in SS screwed up and sent the psych eval to the guy as part of his records. Surprise, he took offense to being caught in his trickery. So he decides to try to sue Boss Doc.
Amongst the various charges against Boss Doc's professional judgment is the dreaded Race Card. Applicant claims that the Boss Doc *intentionally* misdiagnosed the applicant because Boss Doc is White and the applicant is Asian.
Boss Doc showed up to the hearing with a young Korean man by his side. When the Applicant's lawyer asked who the young man is, Boss Doc informed him that the young man is his son. Adopted from South Korea when the boy was 6 months old.
From what I'm told, Asian Applicant turned some rather pretty colors before his attorney convinced him to drop the racial discrimination charge, which pretty much undermined the rest of the charges.
Race Card played. Trumped by a multicultural family. Buh-bye!
EO says a guy came in a while back who was so blatantly faking his disorder that EO had trouble not laughing at him during the interview. As always, the Boss went in to meet the applicant in person: Boss Doc won't sign off on a diagnosis unless he's personally had at least ten minutes with the them. The report to SS clearly documented the numerous signs that the guy did not have psychological disorder, as well as the evidence that the guy was malingering (faking for the purposes of some gain). The applicant was of Korean descent. As we all know, a client's race doesn't usually matter. . . unless the client *makes* it matter.
Applicant gets denied SS disability. No surprise. Applicant decides he's been wronged, and goes through the trouble of getting SS to turn over the records they based their decision on. SS is *not* supposed to turn over the diagnoses that SS pays for (like the one EO and his Boss Doc dis) unless the whole thing actually goes to court. Someone in SS screwed up and sent the psych eval to the guy as part of his records. Surprise, he took offense to being caught in his trickery. So he decides to try to sue Boss Doc.
Amongst the various charges against Boss Doc's professional judgment is the dreaded Race Card. Applicant claims that the Boss Doc *intentionally* misdiagnosed the applicant because Boss Doc is White and the applicant is Asian.
Boss Doc showed up to the hearing with a young Korean man by his side. When the Applicant's lawyer asked who the young man is, Boss Doc informed him that the young man is his son. Adopted from South Korea when the boy was 6 months old.
From what I'm told, Asian Applicant turned some rather pretty colors before his attorney convinced him to drop the racial discrimination charge, which pretty much undermined the rest of the charges.
Race Card played. Trumped by a multicultural family. Buh-bye!
That's awesome! Kudos to Boss Doc!
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