I would think that Canada can use another doctor. However, he’s working in a warehouse, awaiting certification. Nice use of resources.
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Every country, indeed every province within any country, and every state in the USA has its own rules for licensure.
This is an old story-told a thousand times by a thousand different doctors-most of whom were very good.
Canada has strict rules for licensure. Its a little easier in the USA-not much.
This is a good doctor who will eventually get into Canada’s system and practice.
I’m sure he will make an excellent contribution to patient care.
On the other hand-making a statement that implies one can “Buy” a medical degree in ’some country’ only serves to add food to the American public’s feeding frenzy based upon popular opinion that many doctors are quacks and charlatans.
Try running a ‘bought on the street’ medical degree past a hospital credentialling committee.
Good luck!
Lets keep it real-all you pro and con malpractice advocates.
Doctors are not Gods, imbued with perfect manual and reasoning skills designed to meet the public expectation of complete cure at every encounter.
Most of us are pretty good at what we do-and most of us strive to continually improve our skills.
Most of us feel badly when our patients don’t do well. Most of us suffer in silence when we can’t help people. Most of us are used to working in a critical environment.Most of us do criticize our peers in an attempt to improve overall care.
There isn’t a whole lot more-past those things-that we can do.
I hope the doctor in Canada gets to practice his art and skills. Canada does need him-and the USA does need us.
“Most of us do criticize our peers in an attempt to improve overall care.”
Well, there are ways and then there are ways. If one our my peers are doing mistakes, errors, behaving in a counter-productive way, etc., I prefer to invite into my office for a friendly one-to-one chat; then I try to give him close follow-up because he is not erring out of malice, but out of ignorance .
If the criticism goes public on the other hand, (as in going to the newspapers, reporting to the medical council and so on) you have given way to “shame, name and blame” and then you have morally put yourself at the same level as a lawyer, or perhaps even below that (lawyers are like animals, they can’t really be morally judged the way a real human being can).
Yes, but nobody even took the time to talk with him about his personality – all were dazzled by his psychopathic charm and (I suspect) his father. He wasn’t criticized neither in public nor in private; neither og which would do any good as the psychpath is immune to criticism, but at least a private conversation would have allowed his superior a chance to assess him.
But why did they let such an erratic personality even pass through medical school; why wasn’t he stopped right then and there? There are after all psychological tests available that in a reproducable and valid manner disclose the psychopath.
Had he been stopped earlier, he would have done less harm. But public criticism of him; what good would that have done? Clearly he was quite impervious to that, as are most people of his caliber.
Public critcism of this psychopath most likely would not have affected his behavior in and of itself. What it might have done is alerted the staff and management to the ticking timebomb in their midst. There is nothing like the threat of a lawsuit secondary to allowing a monster such as Arndt loose in the OR to have quickly resulted in a restraining of his behavior. Arndt’s erratic behavior predated the surgery incident. If we had a functioning disciplinary apparatus in place, a person such as Arndt would have had his/her license either limited or stripped long before the culminatory event in question.
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