Posted on 04/06/2020 11:22:57 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Birx, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama to serve as United States Global AIDS Coordinator in 2014, graduated from the Pennsylvania State University medical school in 1980. She was issued a medical license in Pennsylvania in 1987.
That license expired on December 31, 2014, and it has not been renewed since then, according to the Pennsylvania Licensing System Verification Service, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of State.
Birx, who is listed as residing in Potomac, Maryland, does not appear in Maryland practitioner records.
Birx is garnering criticism for touting a disputed model for the Coronavirus outbreak prepared by the University of Washington’s IHME, a project of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Birx serves on the board of the Global Fund, which has received more than $2 billion in funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Just a question and it is fine if you don’t know
To keep your license current, does that mean you have to still pay for or obtain mal practice insurance? Could be a really good reason why doctors who are no longer seeing patients let it expire. Everyone knows malpractice insurance isn’t cheap.
“Shes not a doctor but she plays one on tv.”
whether one is licensed to practice or not, earning a medical degree entitles one to use the Dr. in front of one’s name and/or MD after it ...
Someone has got to stop this stupid conversation. I know a PhD who has done research for 25 years for a top cancer research institute and hospital. He leads teams of dozens of other PhDs and researchers into new compounds and tests for cancer treatments (and now is involved in funding and Government approvals). I don’t believe he’s a medical doctor, and I am sure he doesn’t have a “state license.” I dare some idiot to tell him or his employer he’s not qualified to talk about cancer, or medical-system practices. Sheesh.
Even if she did not treat patients, she should still maintain her license because she would have to keep up with her CEUs to keep her license current so she would be aware of new developments in the field.
ok, how does that change what i said
she’s playing a doctor on tv. same with fauxci.
I don’t think she is practicing.
So, her licensing means nothing.
Exactly....she's not practicing medicine....thereby saving the huge costs of malpractice insurance.
She was an Army medic, a colonel with 25 years active duty.
The preponderance of MD/PhDs in the medical research world is overwhelming and none of them do much in the way of practice. I knew one guy who would do a rotation at MassGen every year just to stay in touch but that’s about it.
PS
That doesn’t excuse her gross malfeasance in misinterpreting crap data due to her utter lack of facility in modeling and statistics which is a field that she probably doesn’t know what she doesn’t know.
Us applied math people don’t try to do medicine and she shouldn’t try to do math, especially not in front of the world.
But I think Debbie just found that out.
This is the stupidest thread on FR I have seen in a loooong time. If you dislike Dr. Birx or Fauci, at least try to find something reasonable to throw at them.
Yes, but she dresses well. Barack was not a stickler for documentation for others as well ss himself.
She probably has more credentials than the media.
And “doctor” biden is a doctor of some sort of education pedagogy. LOL
Who gives a crap, she’s not practicing medicine, she’s now a glorified medical data analyst, not a practicing doctor seeing patients.
You’re right
For someone at the national level influencing medical policy that affects hundreds of millions of people, I think it’s a fair point to mention.
And her and Fauxci are playing old scared libtard doctors with grossly incorrect computer models and giving advice they backtrack on, while freaking out, “doctors” #1 and #2
just to stay in touch
that’s my point, you let the license lapse, you are no longer staying current and in touch with the latest info, procedures, breakthroughs, etc
its hard enough to do so being an active licensed doc
I see your “sheesh”, and raise you one, my FRiend.
I do suspect that limiting law suit exposure was a reason for not practicing for many or most of them.
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