Interns: Don't Make Up Fake, Racist Names

An intern at the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed the names of the four pilots that crashed at San Francisco International Airport.  He made up four Asian names, Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow.  I don't think that this is right at all, the intern should have been fired for making up such ridiculous names, not only he made it up, it made it to the news with him announcing it.  The NTSB should have known after hearing the names that they are not real names, they should have stop the intern on speaking on public television station.  So they are also responsible for not catching it.

It's very important for companies to take appropriate actions when one employee embarrasses its company because what the employees do reflects on the company.  The company can lose their credibility and might lose business.  Other companies won't want to do business with them.  If they don't take any actions, people won't take them seriously, people wont trust them, won't believe anything they say or sell.

Every company must take actions and are held responsible for anything their employees decide to do.  According to Stanford University Medical Center, As an organization, "we are committed to honest and ethical behavior, and to conducting our business with integrity.  The practice of behaving honestly, ethically and with integrity is an individual responsibility.  We make decisions about how to conduct ourselves every day as we go about our work.  Each of us is accountable for the actions that we decide to take".

Going into Medical Assistant, we are responsible for all the information we collect about the patient's medical condition, history, medication, and family history.  We cannot disclose any information pertaining to the patient such as their insurance or their test results.  We cannot access the patients information without their permission.  Even if I wasn't working in the same place, I still cannot disclose any information.  Violating privacy policies can lead to disciplinary actions or even maybe termination.




Stanford University Medical Center. (n.d.). Code of Conduct. Retrieved from http://stanfordhospital.org/overview/assets/SOM-Code-of-Conduct%2026July11.pdf