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Originally Posted by NorthernLight
In other words - it was all out of my control, I didn't do anything wrong really.
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I think that's the important point - although we don't know all the details his story is very much that he has been the victim of a great injustice. I certainly don't think a prior conviction should necessarily bar someone from medicine (depending on its severity), but it's one thing to admit you did something wrong, have learned your lesson and changed and quite another to claim that you had no choice (regardless of peer pressure, etc. there is always a choice, if not always a very easy one).
He does seem has done a lot since then to make up for it, although the majority of people applying for medicine could claim many of the same things. However, it does come across as him claiming to absolve him from a crime he doesn't seem to accept resonsibility for. Whilst we don't know the exact reasons why Imperial withdrew the offer I would hope it would be because of not accepting responsibility for his own actions (I don't think I'd want to be treated by a doctor who doesn't realise that their actions have consequences) as opposed to simply a blanket ban on anyone who has done something wrong in the past (who hasn't - even if they weren't comparably criminal!)
But he's still young, and I think if medicine is his dream he should reflect on what has happened and use that in his next set of applications. I just can't help but think that this media melodrama will be another obstacle in his path though.
My own tuppence - based on a very limited knowledge of what really went on (standard disclaimer!)
Stephen