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I have had a similar situation. I had a bad virus infection (as I thought) for more than a week. Progressively, it became worst and I went to see my PCP. Paid $20 co-pay by a check. My PCP was on vacation and the covering bit$& (a female) refused to prescribe any antibiotics. She did not even suggest that I do any lab tests! Frustrated, I stormed out, and went to the walk-in clinic affiliated with CVS, and walked out with my meds. Two days later my infection went away. But, I stopped the payment on my check to my PCP's office. They sent me a bill plus $25 for the stopped payment they had to pay. I responded with a copy of my bill from the walk-in clinic and a copy of prescription bottle, with two questions next to the balance due of $45 - for medical mal-practice? Failure to diagnose? Never heard again from my PCP again. I guess there is two sides to the request and denial of antibiotics!

I have a cousin who is a trial attorney in business matters. I spoke to him about your situation. He tells me that the practice never employed you. They did not provide any consideration and you did not provide any services to the practice. You had a contract with a covenant not to compete. The contract was revoked unilaterally by the practice. That means there was no contract - no performance by both parties. They can't have the cake and eat it too. My cousin tells me that most judges disfavor covenants such as this. You have an absolute right to work. Even with a valid covenant they cannot stop you from working. The practice did not disclose any of their trade secrets, patient lists, etc., to you. You have none of their confidential information. Thus, you shouldn't have any problems working within the geographical area. My cousin suggests that you should have a friendly attorney write a letter to the practice indicating that you are actively seeking employment in the same area, and you consider the contract nullified with no future obligations from either side. He bets that the practice will never respond to that letter because they do not want to spend any money on legal fees if they could avoid it (darn stinchy doctors I guess!). If they respond, and you ignore their threat, they have to go to court and get an injunction. My cousin thinks that they have a 1% chance to get it! So do not be afraid, go get your job, preferably across the hall from them!

I had a meeting last week with the new director of nursing program. She was very nice and cordial. But, she informed me that UMET will not offer entrance to bilingual program in August 2015! That means we have to wait until January 2016 to start the program. Previously I spoke with her twice. Only after arriving in Puerto Rico and meeting with her personally she told me this news. My friend and I met with two students from New York area who are half way through their BSN program. Both told us that their programs have been extended at least one year or more, because UMET Bayamon stopped offering nursing classes in English. They also told us that they heard UMET is stopping their bilingual BSN program in Bayamon, and directed us to UMET campus in Florida. We went back to the UMET Registrar's office and picked up all our documents, and simply submitted the same package to U Inter, Metro. We are waiting for their transfer evaluation. It was a waste of time dealing with UMET.

I am in PR right now. I have met with both U Inter and UMET admissions office. I met with U Inter director of nursing. I am trying to schedule one with UMET, Bayamon, director of nursing. I spoke with her last week from Texas. I will write about UMET today, because it is my first choice! For UMET, Bayamon, I have all my required courses completed, except Spanish 101/102 and Social Science. I have a 3 unit Sociology course completed in Texas. The UMET admissions office told me that is "too low." So, that means I have to take at least 3 GE courses at UMET. I also met a UMET graduating student from mid-west area. She told me to transfer all credits in advance, and get their approval before starting your classes! She warned me that the transfer evaluation department is notorious to *screw* students. In her case, the transfer evaluation lady will not accept a College Algebra credit for a basic Math 102! She is about to graduate and she needs another Math class to get her degree. She warned me that all UMET GE classes are in Spanish. So, if you do not have good Spanish reading and writing skills your grades/GPA will suffer. The UMET nursing director was super nice on the phone. But, she told me that they will *not* offer any summer classes from the core nursing curriculum. She said it is because of difficulty in getting English speaking professors. She also said that the school cannot guarantee that there would be at least two core nursing classes (5 units each) during the Fall or Spring semesters. This confirms my earlier suspicion that UMET BSN program cannot be completed in two years after transferring your AS or BS in another health science area. (I have AS in General Health Science). Another graduating BSN student from New York told me that it is very likely that UMET will discontinue their English BSN program. Tomorrow, I will post more more about the U Inter program. I found that their GE requirements are weird, as they require no foundation classes!

I posted a warning about the recent changes at UMET. Please note that it might be a few dollars cheaper at UMET, but, if you have to stay in PR one more year to get an ADN (3 years in total) or two more years (5 years for BSN) then your living expenses for the extra years will be a lot more than the tuition savings! Also, UMET has very few online classes in English for their GE classes, whereas U Inter has almost all GE classes online, that you could complete from your home!

Based on the UMET policy of offering very few nursing classes in English you can add at least one year, perhaps two years, to your nursing program. Now, all of a sudden U Inter is the least expensive option, as you can get a ADN in 15 months because they have no prereqs!

UMET is offering less than two core Nursing courses in English each semester now. That means that you will get an ADN in 3 years or a BSN in five years (if you are lucky!). Both U Inter graduates and UMET graduates are eligible to sit for NCLEX RN. Both are regionally accredited if you are planning an MSN in the future. Now it seems U Inter would be a lot better option that UMET because you could graduate a lot quicker at U Inter.