Memo on a Medical Case - Essay Example

At LCLC, Evan Meanie, the professor who teaches Torts inadvertently, found out from the Academic Support office about her illness and since then kept on taunting her and publicly disgracing her in a class comprising approximately seventy (70) students. Meanie referred t her as “…a moron and the most brainless, dim-witted person I’ve ever met. By the end of the fifth(5th) week Ms. Jones could take it no more and had no other option but to quit school.

Unfortunately, she had to leave her studies and let go of the long-cherished, childhood dream of becoming a lawyer because in the words of professor Meanie threatened to flunk her. To give full attention to her studies, she left a reasonably well-paying job as a paralegal.

After leaving her studies she again sought the old job but the position was filled up, so she had to work under another attorney Ms. Bea Aach, a hard taskmaster, and as inconsiderate if not more than her professor. These factors lead to further deterioration in her mental and physical health, so much so that she was hospitalized. Consequently, Ms. Jones resigned from this job.

As of present Ms. Jones, earns her meager income by writing abstracts. Because of her ill-treatment first at the hands of the Professor at LCLC and then while working under Ms. Bea Aach, her mental health has been badly affected. And a perfectly able young woman with a lot of potential because of the ignorance and mal-treatment of her professor and later the inconsiderate attitude of her employer is suffering as her malady has increased manifold. Initially, when she gave up her studies and later had to give up her job as well, she had recurring nightmares and had sleeping problems. Now he does not suffer from nightmares but she has a sleep disorder. And because of her bad experiences in the past, she is reluctant to get treatment.

Previously she had a normal social life but now owing partly to her economic problems and the inconsiderate behavior of the people around her she is reduced to a wretch and a recluse. She avoids people because of the fear that someday someone might find out that she is a failure.