I am a physician who often needs to do physical examinations for medical reasons that are only very slightly more intimate than what the TSA has done to me and to others.

If a patient has an earache, I examine the head and neck; I do not do a pelvic exam on the woman nor palpate the man's testicles that day for that complaint. I do not examine the breasts or genitalia of every patient, no matter what their concern that day. Doctors rightfully lose their licenses for that sort of sexual offense.

I will not violate my Hippocratic oath to do the best for my patients, nor the oath of federal offense I took to protect and defend the Constitution. Therefore I am not eligible to work for TSA, as I would refuse to view naked, or intimately feel up, every passenger every day.

The pay cut might not be much, as I understand there are more than 5,000 TSA employees who earn over $100,000 per day, and anyway, I often work for free when I do humanitarian aid work, so money is not everything.

But there are some things I won't do for any money, or for no money - and one of them is to work for TSA. There will be no "changes from within" as long as people like John Pistole are in charge.