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Texas Tech Offers Quick MD Program (to address doc shortage)
Lubbock Avalanche Journal ^ | March 24, 2010 | Sarah Nightingale

Posted on 03/25/2010 8:33:45 AM PDT by RaiderRose

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To: RaiderRose

Robert McNamara would be so proud of little Obummer!


21 posted on 03/25/2010 8:43:46 AM PDT by ikka
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To: RaiderRose

Why not, how much training does it require to prescribe two aspirin.


22 posted on 03/25/2010 8:46:13 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
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To: johniegrad
Just leave out the part about brain injuries. Texans ain't got no brains nohow.

Keep the chapter on craws. When I was there they was always gettin' sumpin' stuck in their craw.

23 posted on 03/25/2010 8:46:18 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: RaiderRose
Why don't they just go all the way and start a Drive Through diploma mill?

Would you like an M.D. license and fries with this order?

24 posted on 03/25/2010 8:47:29 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: RaiderRose

Warning.. Look at your doctors diploma and leave if he is a drive through doc..


25 posted on 03/25/2010 8:47:29 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Revolting cat!

Big fat internet pipelines to India, then:

“Doctor Ravi will see you shortly, please step closely and look into the telemedicine camera. Thankyouveddymuch.”


26 posted on 03/25/2010 8:48:05 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: capt. norm

Great minds..I just wrote about this ...LOL


27 posted on 03/25/2010 8:48:10 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RaiderRose
"Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine and Dr. Howard."


28 posted on 03/25/2010 8:49:32 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: RaiderRose

Must be where all the ACORN nimwits will end up.

People used to be prosecuted for stuff like this.

But now, it doesn’t take much to hand out a red or blue pill.


30 posted on 03/25/2010 8:52:19 AM PDT by dforest
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To: MsLady

I’ve heard that India trains doctors much faster than we do, and many of them end up here in medical practice. How fast do they train doctors?


31 posted on 03/25/2010 8:53:35 AM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: johniegrad

Just get rid of all those clinical rotations and get ‘em out on the field! Whoever wanted “cheap” is going to GET “cheap”!/sarcasm


32 posted on 03/25/2010 8:54:52 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: capt. norm; a fool in paradise

"What you need, what you need, is a change of habit!"

33 posted on 03/25/2010 8:55:36 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: RaiderRose

I read somewhere that Obamacare is modeled after the Soviet system. Apparently under the soviet system most healthcare workers/doctors were the equivalent of our school nurses.

Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Russia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996.
“In 1986 the Soviet Union had about 1.2 million doctors and about 3.2 million paramedical and nursing personnel. Medical training emphasized practical work over basic research and pure science; only nine medical institutes were attached to universities. In the late 1980s, the average doctor’s salary was roughly comparable to that of the average industrial worker. In 1996 the average Moscow specialist made about US$75 per month, and senior doctors made about US$150 per month. Paramedics and nurses needed only two years of training and no scientific background; however, in rural areas, which suffered a shortage of doctors, such individuals often were the only medical personnel available.

Despite the nominally equitable nature of Soviet socialized medicine, the actual system was highly stratified according to location, with far inferior care and facilities available in rural areas, and especially according to political status. The Ministry of Health maintained a completely separate, vastly superior system of clinics, hospitals, and sanatoriums for top party and government officials and other elite groups such as writers, actors, musicians, and artists.”
http://countrystudies.us/russia/53.htm


34 posted on 03/25/2010 8:55:48 AM PDT by Varda
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This is really innovative, and to see we're the first ones doing it makes me really proud."

LOL! My 37 year old nephew just finished his last stint of medical traing in Dec. of 2008 in Harvard's thorasic surgery program at Mass. General. He started his first permanent job last September with the local Beaumont hospital system in Royal Oak.......

He's almost old enough to retire....(well not really but you know what I mean)

The fast track to medical degrees makes about as much sense as hiring a mechanic whose only experience is high school auto mechanics class.

And you know, I hear more complaints about doctors office charges than I do about the local plumber who charges $70 per hour or the rates at the local car dealership service department.

35 posted on 03/25/2010 8:56:23 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: RaiderRose

Save some time ... just upgrade the licenses of the people who man the Quick Response Units across the once-fruited plain.


36 posted on 03/25/2010 8:57:47 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Beat me to it!


37 posted on 03/25/2010 8:58:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: RaiderRose
we're the first ones doing it makes me really proud

Castro has been turning them out with 2 years of "medical school". And he only pays them $22 per month. What a deal!

38 posted on 03/25/2010 8:59:01 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: RaiderRose

EEOC docs.

College quotas.

No thanks, I’ll follow Rush, and others who are already looking into health vacations.

Good ground floor investments.


39 posted on 03/25/2010 8:59:35 AM PDT by devistate one four (If you can't feed it, don't breed it! Kimber CDP II .45 OOHRAH! TET68)
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To: TV Dinners

This wasn’t “healthcare reform”, it was a total healthcare restructuring.


40 posted on 03/25/2010 8:59:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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