Vass v. Compaq Computer Corp.

DAVIS, District Judge.

In an early manifestation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1 ,” plaintiff Marguerite Vass, a legal secretary for a prominent and prolific practitioner, visited a physician and complained of pain in her wrists and tingling in her fingers while engaged in ordinary tasks such as driving her automobile and cooking. She allegedly did not tell him that she was a legal secretary, and he allegedly did not ask what she did for a living. Furthermore, she did not ask him to explain his diagnosis and the reason for the prescribed medication, and he did not tell her that his tentative…