Should This Woman Be Spared Prison?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4917846/Oxford-University-student-faces-jail.html

[dannyk13]

No,she wants to become a surgeon and is taking drugs.She deserves a prison sentence.

[ToraToraTora]

I don't care how clever she is, she's a wrong un, down she goes.

[marval]

No she shouldn't, she should take her punishment and then become a doctor.

[ToraToraTora]

she stabbed a bloke in the leg out of her head on charlie, she's entered the priory as a self confessed addict. Do we want surgeons like this?

[ummmm]

She wouldn't be allowed to become a doctor if she goes to prison!

[jackthehat]

I'm in two minds about this....

She certainly deserves to go to prison.....BUT.....a Criminal record will prevent her ever becoming a Surgeon and perhaps it is more beneficial for Society as a whole if she is allowed to persue her chosen career?

[anneasquith]

No.

[Sqad]

All medical students have aspirations......very few achieve them.
She is a woman.
She is slightly built .
She is psycholabile.
The chances of her becoming a surgeon are small..
Her sentence should depend upon common law with her aspirations being of no consequence.

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps she was merely practicing on the night if the incident eh jack? No way I'd put lives inthe hands of a drug addict with a sharp instrument.

[jackthehat]

I wonder what the figures are for alcoholic Surgeons, TGT?

Like I said, based solely on what I have read, I am in two minds about what should happen to her.

[hc4361]

Sqad, psycholabile?

[Sqad]

hc...LOL...LOL...yes i made that up LOL.
You know what I mean though,......mentally fragile.

[gness]

She attacked her boyfriend because he tried to get help for her....

If she truly wanted to become a surgeon when did she think she would have to start behaving in a way that could help her towards her desires?

She should be treated as anyone else would be.......

[Mamyalynne]

hc - best I can do...

Re: psycholabile
The lability is "the character of an unstable and changing mood." Lability is found in hysterical and manic attacks.
[source: Fundamental Dictionary of Psychology, Larousse]

[Sqad]

mamy....wow! so there IS a word.

[hc4361]

Thanks, mamya :)

[Mamyalynne]

Not very commonly used outside certain circles, but yes.

[ummmm]

TTT - I think you're very naive if you think doctors or surgeons never take drugs.

[Sqad]

The routine IS....you become a surgeon first and THEN you take drugs.
She has opted to take drugs BEFORE she has started her training.
Big difference.

[ToraToraTora]

where did I say that?