Re: Professional or Not (was Database Design)

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:35:41 +0100
Message-ID: <btm349$bli$1@news2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>

Daniel Morgan wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes I do - over here, no one with just med school is allowed to perform surgery. That requires a whole lot more - in time, money and professialism. And in the mean time... graduates learn different things than the surgeons did.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Fri Jan 09 2004 - 05:35:41 CST