Normally I would agree with you, but I'm pretty sure that doctors and other medical professionals are held to a higher standard for reasons to do with medical ethics. If this actually happened on a social media site then they shouldn't have future careers in a clinical setting.

I withhold final judgement, but from what I've read it doesn't sound to me as though there's any real dispute that this happened and it shows a stunning lack of judgement for people who are going into a career where patient care is at its centre. Save the frat boy humour for the MBA school, but of course most MBA schools that are sensitive to their image would do exactly the same thing, if for only slightly different reasons. You're not entitled to a degree simply because you paid your tuition and attended classes with a passing grade. I know when I was in university there were a wide range of rules some of which could have resulted in an expulsion from my programme without any legal recourse and I was a liberal arts undergrad at the time.

This isn't really a trial by media, this is a question of medical ethics and the rules aren't the same as the rules in a court of law. You can be legally innocent and still lose your license because it's critical that the public have trust in the medical profession if it is to serve its role and not just act as a privileged elite.

Besides, somebody who's old enough and educated enough to be studying for a DDS should know better than to do this on social media.

PS: I might well have agreed with you if you were arguing that the facts hadn't been established but you're arguing that the behaviour was "private" and therefore it shouldn't matter.