shemar wrote:
Mine is a most bizarre request for information and I don't know where to post
it.

To give a brief summary of why and what I am looking for, I filed a
complaint with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (the
governing medical board for doctors practicing in this province) against a
psychiatrist who minimized sibling sexual abuse as a "common occurrence"
without asking any pertinent questions about the abuse (i.e. How old was I .
.. . How old was my brother . . . Etc.). This minimization was the cause for
reinforcing all the negative feelings I had about myself (a common effect of
abuse, whereby the victim blames his/herself).

The College decision favored in the doctor. About a week after receiving
the College's decision, I received a copy of my file as recorded by this
psychiatrist, in which the College based their decision. Within minutes of
receiving this file, I noticed a discrepancy in the content of the file and
had alerted the College right away. When I reviewed it further, I found
multiple differences of what he wrote and what actually occurred. The whole
file had been rewritten from beginning to end, which led me to file another
complaint of fraud. In the course of this investigation, it became known
that the doctor did indeed rewrite my file, not once but twice and he gave
the following explanation:

He had a "pen" computer with Windows 95 and when he bought a new pen
computer with Windows 98, he had no trouble transferring files from one
computer to another. Then in 2002, he bought a "tablet" computer with
Windows XP. He is maintaining that the operating system of Windows 98 was
not compatible to Windows XP and therefore he ran into problems transferring
files forcing him to hand write all his file notes into the new computer.
When I had filed the standard of care complaint against him, he went to print
out the file to send to the College and found that it had a "computer
generated date" on each printout that didn't correspond to the actual date of
the session but rather it reflected the date on which he "rewrote" the file
into the new tablet computer. He felt that I would be upset if I saw this
computer generated date, so he rewrote it again, and sent the College a copy
of the handwritten file to their request for a copy of the "original" file.

The College was willing to believe him to the extent that they ruled in his
favor again.

I am appealing the College's decision and am looking for any holes that I
can possibly find in the doctor's above noted statement. I am hoping to find
that there were *no* issues with transferring files between these two
operating systems, casting doubt on his statement whereby the College is
forced to look seriously at my complaint of fraud. Where would I find any
information about transferring files from Windows 98 "pen" to Windows XP
"tablet" and if there were any compatibility difficulties between them?

This query, as set-forth, is more in-line with a legal matter which no
one in this group would purport to provide absolute expert answer for,
therefor a legal disclaimer would be and is necessary. This type of
information request or requested advise regarding potentials which may
be or are within the scope of legal advise, are best handled by an
actual licensed attorney or otherwise authorized party, and whatever
expert testimony or other as might be obtained through proper legal
methods. The same holds true for administrative activities which this
query apparently contains.

Let me provide a general disclaimer and Notice for the responders to
perhaps provide more opportunity for responses:

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Disclaimer and Notice for *Transferring files from Windows 98 pen
computer to Windows XP tabl*:

The responders to this instance query are in no way or form attempting
to provide expert, free, distinct, or otherwise legal advise in this
matter; nor expert testimony or otherwise to be used outside this
distinct and limited matter wherein this disclaimer has been placed.
The qualifying responses are to be construed in light of honest
attempts to provide opinionated general information regarding operating
systems and/or related matter to the best knowledge of the party, and
therefore not to be found as nor construed in any other form or fashion.

This disclaimer and Notice is not to be construed nor considered as: an
allowance for personal attacks or offensive statements; for matters
outside the scope of this present activity; for matters outside the
scope of this instance; for deliberate attempts to provide false or
mis-leading statements or materials, regardless of the applicability to
the instant matter.

Queries of this type should be addressed towards licensed and/or
otherwise authorized members of the legal profession.

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Referencing the above;

Transferring files between devices and computers may affect the dates
of those files depending upon HOW the transfer was done.

The content of those files may be affected by WHEN AND WHERE those
files were accessed, in addition to transference method employed, as in
draft copies verses finalized documents, change from one format to
another or modification of same, or otherwise.

File dates and times may be accessed and modified by various tools
readily available.

Files may also be affected when opening and/or when changed/converted
between differing versions or sub-versions of an application, such as
Microsoft Office.

Files may also be affected when containing external or additional
materials such as data base, template, footnote, forms, or other like
activities.

9X does have the ability to provide both creation and
access/modification dates and times, however those may be affected by
the above mentioned activities, as well as other factors such as direct
transference to another operating system or filing/storage system. Your
attempt to address this a *re-wrote* issue fails on its face.

Moreover, you specifically note there was a change in the OS [9X to XP]
which may or does affect the files due to the differing access and
filing methods, and compatible applications as well.

The administrative review has apparently taken these potential
activities under consideration. Unless you can prove beyond reasonable
doubt [not in a legal sense but in a reasoning sense] that there was a
distinct and decided REAL attempt to defraud you and the administrative
board/school, your appeals to the board/school will likely fail,
regardless of how you word them here or elsewhere.
One could reasonable question why hand-written verses printed was used,
however, that would require more extensive examination. Potentially, a
review of both the actual saved *as printed* from both the *pen* and OS,
verses presented *hand-written* might be of value, however, that may
already have been taken under consideration, or the materials may no
longer be available in their prior form.

Proceeding and proving otherwise will require you to contact a member
of the legal profession as it will apparently require application of
other methods and proofs. You may wish to contact any available legal or
like help group at the school/university for suggestions or advise.

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MEB
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