hard to say... maybe his unit alot ppl ck tats y the MO super
strict...
imagine you're a fresh young doc who've just finished your MD,
you still have to go back and serve your stint in the army, from
which you disrupted, so many years ago, this time, as a captain,
you may be a big fark MO in camp, but remember, outside, you're
still a greenhorn doc still trying to make your way up the
specialization ranks, you'd still have to work your way up the
hierachy of senior specialists, many of whom may be able to put a
crimp on your career ... the medical profession, like law, is a
tight fraternity after all ....
further more your MD is newly minted and you are inexperienced
... unlike the experienced specialists senior docs whose MCs
soldiers would bring to you to endorse .... wouldn't your first
reaction be, hmmm ... why such a diagnosis ? ... does this more
senior specialize know something I don't ? ... it wouldn't be
unlike a fresh B.Eng questioning a P.Eng with many years'
experience, no ? ...
so ... what would your reaction be in such a case ? ... simply
endorsing it would be the easiest way out, no ? ... after all,
you're serving your NS too, just like the chap with the MC, and his
MC is minted by a senior chap who may be high up on the medical
board .....
thus, unless MOs have a good reason, e.g. to suspect
malingering, or the unit feedback a serious rash of convenient
"sickness" .... they won't simply refuse to endorse MCs for the fun
of it ....
go ask any young doc friend .... they'll tell it to you as I've
told you ...