(Dr.) Sophie Currier
Posted on 10/05/2007 11:12:35 AM PDT by SmithL
BOSTON, (AP) -- An appeals court cleared the way Friday for a Harvard student to receive extra break time during a lengthy medical licensing exam so she can pump breast milk for her infant daughter.
The state Appeals Court refused to overturn a decision issued by a single justice of the court last week allowing Sophie Currier, 33, the extra time. The decision clears the way for the woman to take the exam next week.
The state Supreme Judicial Court already has declined to hear the case.
Currier sued after the National Board of Medical Examiners said she could have only the standard 45 minutes of break time during the nine-hour exam.
Last week, Judge Gary Katzmann of the Appeals Court ruled in favor of Currier, saying she needs the extra break time to pump breast milk to feed her 5-month-old baby. Katzmann said if she didn't get the extra time, she would not be on "equal footing" with men and non-lactating women who take the test.
Ignoring the need to pump could cause her significant pain, Katzmann said.
The licensing board appealed Katzmann's ruling to the full, three-judge panel of the appeals court. On Friday, the full court refused to overturn Katzmann's decision.
The court said it based its decision on whether Katzmann abused his discretion or made a clear error of law. The court said it found neither. It did not rule on the merits of the case.
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I’ve noticed that in all newspaper accounts of this story there is no mention of a father for either of her children.
What a pathetic creature she is.
Does she know what she has become?
I’m pretty sure he couldn’t pump for her anyway.
This is bleepin’ pathetic,,,,woman up lady and handle things instead of asking for special favors....damn, I HATE these people that think the world revolves around them....DON’T get me started!
Maybe an even longer wait if she happens to be ovulating. She'll have to run home and copulate madly with her pathetic sperm donor.
What relvancy would the "father" have to the facts of the case or the story?
She doesn't care. She has an agenda, and it's not her children.
Geez, this woman already got special ‘dispensation’ to spread the test out over 2 days. I hope she flunks again.
She is strong. She is invincible. She is woman. And just as good as a man.
Except when she wants the rules to be different for her.
-this ditz is making ALL women look bad. I am ashamed of her and would NEVER want her to treat me.
Okay guys, get all indignant. My wife breastfed all three of our wonderful children, and not being able to feed the baby on time, or express milk, was very painful.
A brief break for her to pump milk is on par with letting a student with impaired vision have a lighted magnifying glass, or providing some way for a student whose dominant hand is in a cast sit for the exam without having to write the answers, and far less disruptive of the examination process than either. Harvard Med was just doing what med schools everywhere do, trying to constrict artificially the supply of physicians to keep physician fees (and medical costs) up.
(Dr.) Sophie Currier
Why is this now the school’s problem? What a selfish idiot.
1)While her peers take the 9+ hour test in one day, this whiner takes it in two (ADHD/dyslexia)
2)The Board offered her a private room where she could pump while taking the 4 1/2 test (Over two days mind you)
3)The whiner already has failed this test with the two day advantage
4)The whiner cannot go 1 hour past her “scheduled” feeding (The whiner says she needs to pump every 3 1/2 hrs and takes 1 hour to do it)?
5)Women who have breastfed and taken this test (In one day mind you) have testified that the Board gave them plenty of time to pump while on normal break
I can go on but if you still think this whiner is not trying to game the system then all hope is lost on you.
Te board was more than accommodating with the options she was offered.
when will those who scream anti-woman, anti-breastfeeding, anti-family, to those who oppose this scam, appear?
How do you know she wasn’t putting crib notes on her boob?
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