[Magdalen] Prayer request: job security

[Ginga Wilder]

Praying for you, Scott.
Ginga

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 7/7/2016 11:37:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
>
> Friends,  I'd like to ask for prayers for my job security especially
> through next  Monday >>>>>>>>>
>
>
> And you have them.
>
> You wouldn't think there would be job insecurity in the medical
> profession,
> but there can be.  I know because I went through a period of this  in
> Wisconsin when I was discharged without explanation from the clinic
> where I had worked for 20 years.  During much of that time I was  the
> "highest producer" (had the biggest practice) of a 60 physician  group,
> and had utterly no history of any problems.  My contract specified  that
> the clinic authorities were not under obligation to tell me what
> precipitated
> their action.
>
> Secondary to friends who were privy to the inner clinic management,
> I found out the reason which I had suspected:  They discovered I  was
> gay.
>
> Wisconsin had in place an antidiscrimination law on the basis of  sexual
> orientation at that time.  However taking the clinic to court was  going to
> be a very difficult business, and I had no taste for it.  Instead I  went
> to
> work with an organization with a written policy of  antidiscrimination on
> the
> basis of sexual orientation:  The USVA.  That was why I ended up  in
> Pennsylvania, and now 30 years+ later, it's all history.
>
>
>
> David S.
>