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Originally posted by Sig2340:
I foresee a bonanza for ambulance chasers.

Find one of these DEI doctors who injured a patient.

Sue the doctor.

Then sue UCLA Medical School for not training the person properly.

Also, sue whatever hospital hired the doctor. And perhaps the insurance company that allowed the doctor to practice under their in-network list. Sue the board for allowing incompetent people to pass the board without demonstrating competency. Sue the hospital that passed his residency.

Sue anybody in the chain that allowed the doctor to practice on you.

Time to lower the standards some more.

The clinical rotations were more of a watch and learn situation, very controlled by the physicians and residents in charge. No real liability for the students; they weren't allowed to do anything independently that could lead to an injury or malpractice, at least when I did the clinicals back in the '80s. The clinicals were more for exposure to what it was to be a doctor in the various fields and also to help one decide what sort of doctor one wanted to be; internist, Orthopedic surgeon, ER doc, Nephrologist, Cardiologist, OB/GYN, etc.

The real work of "becoming a doctor" occurred during residency, after med school graduation, in one's chosen field of endeavor. One learned not only the information/knowledge and the technical skills associated with one's chosen speciality, but also the obligations, duties and responsibilities which that field and being a doctor in general entailed. I forsee those inappropriate UCLA grads having a very difficult time with the residency part of their training, and yes, one can be 'washed out' at this point.
There is no hissy fits response at 3 am when the ICU nurse calls you out of your first brief sleep of the night and tells you Mr. XYZ is crumping, and you are expected to stop it and save him...

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Time to lower the standards some more.

granted this may be some tin-foil hat, thinking too hard...

Maybe there are a few extreme leftist commies behind the curtain that actually understand we cannot simply afford to fund all of their "Visions". Maybe lowering the bar on Dr's not only further indoctrinates the woke agenda, but could also "Cull" part of the herd as to ease the reality of communism (Eventually, you run out of other peoples money).

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I forsee those inappropriate UCLA grads having a very difficult time with the residency part of their training, and yes, one can be 'washed out' at this point.

I was wondering about that and glad to see it.

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'Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?' she raged.

Probably had these affirmative action dr's working on them.

They lowered the standard to allow people in to the medical school, and those same people couldn't meet the standard.

Well, who could have predicted that?

The only saving grace is them being unable to pass Boards for Certification.

Simply be certain you doc is Board Certified!!

I surely want my doctor selected based off quotas and not their ability.

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Simply be certain you doc is Board Certified!!

All the major medical institutions--AMA, AAMC, AAP at least--are now pushing DEI. What makes you think the National Boards groups won't as well? Those don't have to be objective medical questions on the test.

Being board certified means nothing to me. There are much better metrics.

Other than knowing where they went to med school here in the US or perhaps Panama, what would you look for in selecting a new doc?

One of my sports car buddies was shopping for a new doc and his criteria was they had to be schooled and trained in Britain.

Board certification was not totally necessary when I trained. I even knew of a physician in primary care who had one year of internship after med school and nothing else; he never did any residency. As expected his medical knowledge and skills were pretty lacking, but that didn't keep him from being employed.

With more physicians being employed by corporations and hospitals (as opposed to self- employed), I suspect the requirement of board certification for employment by such entities has increased, but technically, at least in the past, it was not essential. With time limited board certification now the rule (usually 10 years), I can see a number of older docs just letting the certification go, rather than put up with all the hoops the various specialty board organizations now make one go through to re-certify every 10 years (and it's not free, either). As mentioned above, it doesn't really tell one much about a doctor's real skill level anyway.

As for how to select a new doc, contacting the state board of medical examiners or quality assurance (whatever they call it in your state), might be a good place to start gathering info on any prospective doctor you might be considering.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Any chance these subpar docs, assuming they pass the bar, will be weeded out during residency? Or will they end up in actual practice?

They will end up in practice, of course, since they will naturally conduct their training and licensing under DIE related auspices. That's pretty much common sense via observation and history don't you think ?

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https://x.com/UltraDane/status/1795900988047716751

DEI Doctor Claudia Martinez Higueros, who operated on wrong organs on different patients in different surgeries and tried to cover it up, is finally fired.

A doctor who performed wrong surgeries on patients and tried to cover it up has been struck off. Dr Claudia Martinez Higueros was erased from the medical register in April after operating on the wrong kidney and lung of two separate patients at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in a span of three months.

The General Medical Council said the Madrid-educated radiologist committed serious misconduct when she then tried to cover up her mistakes by blaming colleagues and altering medical records. A tribunal which reviewed her case in April said the doctor showed a “reckless disregard” for patient safety and had put her own interests above others.

The panel wrote: “[We are] determined that, having found Dr Martinez Higueros to have acted dishonestly, coupled with clinical failings, erasing Dr Martinez Higueros’ name from the medical register was the only appropriate sanction in this case.”

https://www.mylondon.news/news...10-8d5d-3fcf078c5633

She's a radiologist but doing surgery?

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
She's a radiologist but doing surgery?

Interventional radiologists perform invasive procedures. They are considered surgeries. Whether she's one, who knows.

^^^

Was one?

The Provost should be fired for allowing this.
After the various encampments and demonstration debacles several weeks ago, it's no surprise that Ucla is in such a situation. The administration willfuly allowed this to happen, they fostered and encouraged this dysfunctional behavior by allowing senior administrators run amok with their crazed ideas.

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Admitting students on racial criteria has been banned in California since 1996 and outlawed federally since a Supreme Court ruling last year.

But faculty at the school said that Lucero has ignored bans on affirmative action and allegedly told colleagues she wanted a highly qualified white male candidate pushed down the residency rank list because 'we have too many of his kind'.

Business was suspended for the day in 2021 when a Native American applicant was rejected and a furious Lucero made committee members sit through a two-hour lecture on indigenous history delivered by her own sister.

She is accused of stuffing the 25-strong admissions committee with her hand-picked members and terrorizing dissenters into silence by implying they are racist and threatening them with diversity training sessions.

'We were always outnumbered,' an admissions officer told the website.

'Other people would get upset when we brought up GPA.'