Re: Professional or Not (was Database Design)

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 01:14:43 -0800
Message-ID: <1073639601.638665@yasure>

Frank van Bortel wrote:
> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>

>> No doubt there are people that could practice medicine that haven't 
>> graduated from a medical school. Would you want one performing a 
>> triple bypass on you?

>
>
> Triple bypasses are not performed by people that graduated med school.
> They are performed by overpaid surgeons, that graduated so long ago,
> that basic medical standards have changed since.
>
> Where's your regulation?!? It's up to the people themselves to keep
> their knowledge up-to-date; even so when the basic standards change.
> Remember the 'Tune BCHR' thread? Tune BCHR was advertised as true
> back in the V5/6 days. We know better now.

I strongly suspect the people at the other end of this URL would take exception to your statements. http://www.abim.org/

I'll not debate this further as it is off-topic. But your statement that "triple bypasses are not performed by people that graduated med school" strikes me as incredible. Surely you don't believe your own statement.

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Received on Fri Jan 09 2004 - 03:14:43 CST