The amount of emotional, nonfactual comments from those who are opposed to this petition is truly astonishing.

Regarding the anonymous commenter (CommentID: 227414): I hope that the Board sees the absurdity surrounding this person's comment and realizes that this is part of the problem - this is the kind of mindset that residents are up against. If this person is so concerned with the way residency is structured in Virginia, then I call on them to stop anonymously ranting about it in the comments of a petition that has nothing to do with misspelling psych medications and put forth some real effort (just as the petitioner has) to create the change that they want.

This is the problem with some of these commenters - they want to claim that residents are too inexperienced/unprofessional/irresponsible (for which no evidence or factual data has been supplied to corroborate these claims), yet what have they done to change whatever they feel is wrong with the system? If there have been so many problems regarding residents, then why haven't these "protectors of the profession" done anything about it other than commenting on this petition? It seems to me that they must feel like these problems are harmful enough to warrant a comment on this petition, but not harmful enough for them to actually advocate for change. You can't have it both ways - either the problems are harmful or they're not, either you want to protect the profession or you don't.

This petition is about allowing residents to bill clients directly - nothing else. There has been zero evidence showing that allowing residents to bill clients directly will negatively affect the supervision experience, degrade resident professionalism, or reduce resident compliance with ethical and legal codes - nor is there any evidence to suggest that it will cause harm to clients. In fact, there are numerous comments in support of this petition that provide actual evidence to the contrary.

I support this petition and I truly thank the petitioner for taking the time to actually advocate for change the proper way on behalf of residents.