Timeline for Will my cancer ruin my chances of going to graduate school in math?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
8 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2019 at 7:01 | comment | added | mathreadler | It may be illegal to state medical history as a reason for the penalization. But people can be quite creative with coming up with some other more legal reason to state officially while the obvious unofficial reason will still be medical. | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 16:03 | comment | added | J. Chris Compton | +1. However, I would not mention a future reoccurrence (unless you want to). In the US - while I think it is illegal for an employer to ask about recurrence, if you bring it up they can talk about it... because you brought it up. To be clear, I would recommend you mention overcoming cancer as I regard that as a positive in your favor - just, in my opinion, don't bring up it coming back unless that is clearly in your favor and you want to talk about it (and don't mind them asking more questions). | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 19:47 | comment | added | mkennedy | @alephzero Whoa. Let's say you're told that you have a 50% chance of recurrence within 5 years. Would you attempt graduate school or not? Where do you drawn the line? Hawking was told he had 2 years, and originally wanted to quit but kept going. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 16:46 | comment | added | alephzero | It would be irrational (to put it mildly) for the OP to be even considering going to grad school if she believed a medical diagnosis that her life expectancy was too short to complete the course. Obviously there is no "guarantee" than any serious illness will not recur, but there are treatments for cancer after which it is no more likely to recur than in any randomly selected individual, which is as good a "cure" as you can get after any medical condition. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 15:05 | comment | added | Spark | It is illegal for committees to ask for medical records, so much so that voluntarily providing medical data would make HR freak out about how it might look to have it on file. Don’t do this! | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 14:33 | comment | added | Aganju | Of course it is illegal to penalize on that base, but in the US as well as in Germany, there are people in decision boards who negatively weight that in anyway (without telling of course). | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 11:55 | comment | added | user21820 | I do not think it is wise to mention anything the doctor said, unless explicitly asked and not confidential. Not everyone makes use of information in the right way, so don't provide more than is expedient. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 9:50 | history | answered | OBu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |