posted on July 21, 2004 05:24:05 PM new
Operation Illiteracy
Here's a story to cheer you up the next time you need major surgery:
"Four learning-disabled students sued the organization that administers the medical school admission test, alleging they were denied extra time to take the exam in violation of California's disability laws," the Associated Press reports from Oakland:
The discrimination lawsuit, filed Monday in Alameda County Superior Court, argues that students who have trouble reading can learn to practice medicine if they receive enough time and a distraction-free setting in which to complete the Medical College Admission Test.
The lawyers must be trying to drum up more malpractice business.
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Which reminds us of a joke:
What do you call a medical-school graduate who can't read?
"Doctor."
[WSJ today]
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posted on July 21, 2004 05:58:48 PM new
To satisfy the ADA they will need a distraction free ER as interns. How stoopid is this going to get? As stoopid as the plugandsocket challenged feeble attempts to mimic marriage?
posted on July 22, 2004 12:17:15 AM new
Another attempt by a rabid slathering neocon to spread hate at every opportunity.......
Parklane,""How stoopid is this going to get? As stoopid as the plugandsocket challenged feeble attempts to mimic marriage""
[ edited by crowfarm on Jul 22, 2004 12:30 AM ]
posted on July 22, 2004 10:43:06 AM new
"I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today. You're doing a heck of a job. You cut your teeth here, right? That's where you started practicing? That's good. He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me." —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
Perhaps second graders should be reading "My Pet Goat" to Bush instead of the other way around.
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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posted on July 22, 2004 12:21:42 PM new
Linda posted a valid concern. Do you really want a doctor who for whatever reason is unable to read, working on you? Prescribing medication?
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posted on July 23, 2004 04:56:25 AM new
It's amazing the number of children who are pushed through school that can barely read. A large number of those who can read, cannot comprehend what they've read. It's shameful.
My granddaughter's school has the right idea. Kindergarten is a full day. Prior to going to first grade, they must know how to read, do the simplest of math (addition and subtraction to the tens), they know money, shapes, colors, etc. They take social studies and history as well. If they cannot identify all letters, write all letters and read, they stay behind for another year of kindergarten. When they leave kindergarten, they are better prepared than most third graders are when they enter third grade.
Illiterate doctors. . .what a scarey thought. Some colleges practice what most waitresses strive for - turnover. The more you push out, the more that can come in. It's a revoloving door of tuition payments. Colleges should set the highest of standards for all students. It's unfair to the students and their tuition payers if they don't.
Cheryl
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country. - Benjamin Franklin
