Posted on 06/30/2003 6:03:58 AM PDT by CatoRenasci
Idaho regulators investigating complaints involving 12 patients revoked Dr. Brent E. Woodfield's license after concluding that he didn't understand "the basic principles of the practice of medicine."
For Dr. Anacleto Capua, accused of misdiagnosing fatal conditions in three patients, refresher medical courses were recommended by Florida authorities concerned about his medical skills.
Hitting the books might have helped Dr. Narpat Panwar, who flunked the U.S. medical licensing exam seven times before passing - only to be accused later in New York of botching a childbirth so badly the newborn suffered brain damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctnow.com ...
There are several other articles in this series on the Hartford Courant website. Pretty bold for such a liberal paper.
The new docs graduating are simply not as intelligent as the graduates of 25 years ago, in my experience. It is hard to imagine how bad American graduates of these Mexican and other third world hell-hole medical schools must be.
Isn't Howard a "traditionally black" university?
--Boris
Well, we all know stressed-out and overworking gal docs. BUT, in general, the increase in the number of women physicians has served to limit actual hours worked and patients seen. Women seldom go into the physically demanding specialties (ortho, neuro, gen surg), prefer the tidy office and hospital practices (radiology, internal med, opthal)-- leading to a shortage of the specialties unpreferred.
It is, and that is both its strength and its weakness. In bygone days, Howard's professional schools produced great doctors and lawyers who performed valuable service for an African-American community that was otherwise poorly served. They could do this, because they attracted the "best and brightest" young people from the Black community, who in those days were shut out of most mainstream universities. Times have changed, however. The "best and brightest" young Black college graduates have lots of choices for law school or medical school. Some opt for the Howards of the world because of family tradition, but most do not. That leaves Howard and the other traditionally Black colleges forced to lower admission standards to fill their classrooms.
This, of course, raises the uncomfortable question of what, if any, mission these Black universities have in modern society. At the undergraduate level, these schools probably do serve a purpose. They provide a comfortable and nurturing home for Black students (many times the first family member to go to college) that might feel uncomfortable or out of place on a large multi-cultural campus. At the graduate level, however, these schools are highly suspect, and the time has probably come to question whether they still have a role.
The fact that this article elicited such a snippy response from the medical establishment is the best proof that it was right on point.
I do.
They're for white kids with a lot of cash who don't make the cut.
Sort of Howards and Meharrys in reverse.
The key to evaluating an overseas medical school is, do the medical students FROM THAT COUNTRY go there?
If most of the students are Americans, chances are it's a snakepit.
And what experience would that be that you would take such an all inclusive shot at those of us who have graduated in the last 25 years. I graduated 6 years ago and consider my diagnostic skills and medicine skills superior to my predecessors simply because we know a whale of a lot more about the science of medicine than my family members who graduated 16 years ago. For example, I am proficient at reading echocardiograms intraoperatively -- something anesthesiologists even 10 years ago had never heard of. I wish you would not perpetuate this laymen myth in medicine -- in short, you are lending credence to the anyone can do it argument, and that is not true...
I mean who in their right mind would put up with this cr*p?
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