Comments on: The inability to take no for an answer http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:50:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-68029 Anonymous Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-68029 TAPayne:<br/><br/>Can you just directly answer this one question? In talking about admitting poorly qualified students over 4.0 students in the name of social engineering, are you in fact referring to affirmative action? Because it sure sounds like it. If you are trying to positively correlate an increase in the number of black and Hispanic doctors in this country to malpractice, I think you're way off the mark. Beyond that, though, I really have no idea what else you could be referring to. TAPayne:

Can you just directly answer this one question? In talking about admitting poorly qualified students over 4.0 students in the name of social engineering, are you in fact referring to affirmative action? Because it sure sounds like it. If you are trying to positively correlate an increase in the number of black and Hispanic doctors in this country to malpractice, I think you’re way off the mark. Beyond that, though, I really have no idea what else you could be referring to.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-68017 Anonymous Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-68017 TAP has not shown one shred of evidence to support his statements. He has his head so far up his ass he could do a colonoscopy on himself. Please support your statements TAPPY or shut up. TAP has not shown one shred of evidence to support his statements. He has his head so far up his ass he could do a colonoscopy on himself. Please support your statements TAPPY or shut up.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-68010 Anonymous Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-68010 I'd love to see you name just one out of the over one hundred med schools in this country that accepted students with 2.0 UGPAs this past year. You're completely full of shit. I’d love to see you name just one out of the over one hundred med schools in this country that accepted students with 2.0 UGPAs this past year. You’re completely full of shit.

]]> By: Okulus http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-68000 Okulus Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-68000 TAPayne, I don't believe you. Exactly where have you seen applicants to a U.S. medical school turned away with 4.0 GPAs where applicants with 2.0 GPAs have been accepted. And please also tell how you would even be privileged to have that information. If you can't give specifics, then I call you not credible.<br/><br/>I don't see where anyone has to be blindered or beholden to anything to question your rambling and over-the-top claims. They are so outrageous as to demand proof. Have you got any? TAPayne, I don’t believe you. Exactly where have you seen applicants to a U.S. medical school turned away with 4.0 GPAs where applicants with 2.0 GPAs have been accepted. And please also tell how you would even be privileged to have that information. If you can’t give specifics, then I call you not credible.

I don’t see where anyone has to be blindered or beholden to anything to question your rambling and over-the-top claims. They are so outrageous as to demand proof. Have you got any?

]]> By: TAPayne http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-67999 TAPayne Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:46:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-67999 rally round the ivory tower?as you like ,it is of no consequence to me. i personally have seen 4.0 students passed over in favor of 2.0 students for admission, believe me or dont, im sure the blinders will serve you well,unfortunately it wont serve the public in the least.find out what standard deviation is and correlate the data yourself rally round the ivory tower?as you like ,it is of no consequence to me. i personally have seen 4.0 students passed over in favor of 2.0 students for admission, believe me or dont, im sure the blinders will serve you well,unfortunately it wont serve the public in the least.find out what standard deviation is and correlate the data yourself

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-67991 Anonymous Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-67991 TAPayne- Please, for the love of God learn how to use a period at the end of sentences. I'm sure you have something to say, I just keep having to reread so much of your posts that I finally gave up. Your entire 50 zillion line post was one long sentence with 400 commas and a semicolon or two throuwn in for good measure. TAPayne- Please, for the love of God learn how to use a period at the end of sentences. I’m sure you have something to say, I just keep having to reread so much of your posts that I finally gave up. Your entire 50 zillion line post was one long sentence with 400 commas and a semicolon or two throuwn in for good measure.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-67989 Anonymous Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-67989 By the way- the idea that C-level undergraduates are being admitted to U.S. med schools left and right is downright laughable. These days (actually for awhile now) you need a mininum 3.2 or so (B+) to have any decent chance. If you're sub-3.0, better start looking Carribean. A "C" GPA in the 2.0 neighborhood wouldn't get through the inital automated screening process at even the lowliest of schools here. By the way- the idea that C-level undergraduates are being admitted to U.S. med schools left and right is downright laughable. These days (actually for awhile now) you need a mininum 3.2 or so (B+) to have any decent chance. If you’re sub-3.0, better start looking Carribean. A “C” GPA in the 2.0 neighborhood wouldn’t get through the inital automated screening process at even the lowliest of schools here.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-67988 Anonymous Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:54:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-67988 Sounds to me like he/she is alluding to affirmative action.<br/><br/>Its amusing to contrast the accusations that, on the one hand, too many unqualified doctors are being pushed through the credentialing system hence causing life-ending mistakes and jacking up malpractice rates and yet, on the other, there is a choking supply-side restriction in the production of new physicians causing a crippling decline in physician quality (attributable to decreased competition).<br/><br/>TAPayne and Crim should go find their own corner and hash this out... Sounds to me like he/she is alluding to affirmative action.

Its amusing to contrast the accusations that, on the one hand, too many unqualified doctors are being pushed through the credentialing system hence causing life-ending mistakes and jacking up malpractice rates and yet, on the other, there is a choking supply-side restriction in the production of new physicians causing a crippling decline in physician quality (attributable to decreased competition).

TAPayne and Crim should go find their own corner and hash this out…

]]> By: Okulus http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-67987 Okulus Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:54:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-67987 TAPayne, you do more than "digress." What exactly is your point? How does that relate to the post? And what do the grades some un-named physician allegedly earned (your story makes no logical sense in that regard) have to do with patient's wanting or not wanting treatment despite there being marginal or no benefit to that treatment? TAPayne, you do more than “digress.” What exactly is your point? How does that relate to the post? And what do the grades some un-named physician allegedly earned (your story makes no logical sense in that regard) have to do with patient’s wanting or not wanting treatment despite there being marginal or no benefit to that treatment?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/10/inability-to-take-no-for-answer.html/comment-page-1#comment-67982 Anonymous Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/10/the-inability-to-take-no-for-an-answer.html#comment-67982 I know, it's Soooo easy to get geriatric patients off of ventilators, if I'm 95 please intubate me because I know in 1-2 days I'll just come off the vent, no problem. I know, it’s Soooo easy to get geriatric patients off of ventilators, if I’m 95 please intubate me because I know in 1-2 days I’ll just come off the vent, no problem.

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