Do Training and Education Matter?
A BS to a DNP without any previous clinical experience. Who is your doctor?
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I just stumbled on this site https://www.midlevel.wtf
Maybe you all know this site, but it’s news to me. Give it a look.
This is absolute lunacy!
Physicians had better get their collective sh{t together and start making tsunamis!
Patients are going to be in grave danger from these “faux physicians”%!
Just wanted to point out the human rights abuses in Cuba, engaged in human trafficking…….of physicians. Sounds far-fetched, but the scheme brings in millions of dollars to the Cuban regime. A US court allowed some of the victims to bring a class-action suit against a subsidiary of the World Health Organization involved in the scheme. Yes, that WHO, the one that did such a wonderful job with COVID.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuba-human-trafficking-trial-brazil-doctors-forced-labor-paho-un-who-lawsuit-immunity-11649614812
https://2017-2021.state.gov/a-call-to-action-first-hand-accounts-of-abuses-in-cubas-overseas-medical-missions/index.html
Cuba’s Human Trafficking on Trial
A U.N. subsidiary that allegedly abets Havana will have to defend itself in court.
By Mary Anastasia O’Grady
April 10, 2022 5:25 pm ET
In a victory for human rights, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last month upheld the right of victims of a human-trafficking network to sue a subsidiary of the United Nations’ World Health Organization in a U.S. court. The decision is a warning to the U.N. to clean up its act.
The four Cuban doctors who filed the class-action suit against the Pan American Health Organization allege they became forced labor under a 2013-18 contract between Cuba and Brazil. The plaintiffs claim that PAHO acted as financial intermediary for the two parties, using its U.S. bank accounts to convert Brazilian reais to dollars and then move the money to the Cuban regime.
“PAHO collected hundreds of millions of dollars every year from Brazil and it remitted 85% to Cuba, paid 10% or less to the doctors, and kept 5% for itself,” the lawsuit alleges.
PAHO argued that the case should be dismissed because the International Organization Immunity Act protects it from lawsuits. But in November 2020 Judge James Boasberg found that PAHO is not entitled to “absolute” immunity when the allegations involve commercial activity in the U.S. The appellate court agreed.
PAHO’s media team told me by email on Friday that the organization “had no role in trafficking or forced labor” and said it plans to “contest the plaintiffs’ false allegations.” It also heaped praise on the “Brazilian public-health program” that allegedly trafficked the doctors, arguing that it “brought medical care to millions of people, many of them impoverished and many of whom had never previously received medical care.”
That sounds like justification for forcing the Cuban doctors into slave-like conditions. It goes a long way in explaining the U.N. ideology that produces a Human Rights Council that welcomes the likes of Russia, Cuba, China, Venezuela and Bolivia. Hooray for booting the Kremlin last week. But what was Vladimir Putin doing there in the first place?
In his 2017 biography, “Lenin,” Victor Sebestyen wrote that the Bolshevik revolutionary sincerely believed he had a plan to make people better off. “It is how he justified the lies, the deceit and terror that followed: everything was acceptable in pursuit of the socialist dream.” The same thinking seems behind PAHO’s embrace of a program built on the exploitation of Cuban doctors.
For decades Cuba has been contracting with foreign governments to supply Cuban workers in exchange for hard currency—in other words, trafficking humans. The police state uses coercion to get the workers it wants to go abroad on assignment. Wages are a fraction of what the host country pays Cuba. A bit more is promised by Havana if, when the contract is up, the expat returns to Cuba rather than trying to escape. The regime keeps most of the money.
A wide variety of Cuban workers are trafficked by Havana. But doctors, nurses and medical technicians have especially high value. Beyond generating revenue, healthcare personnel are expected to spread communist propaganda, falsify data and dispose of unused medication purchased from Cuba. The regime uses the program to brag that it is making an outsize humanitarian contribution to world health. Meantime, thousands of Cubans, living on very low wages, suffer long periods separated from their families in far-flung lands.
In 2019 the State Department recognized that Havana’s export of some 50,000 Cuban healthcare workers, employed in more than 60 countries, was “a major source of income for the regime.” It added that it had found “indicators of human trafficking in Cuba’s overseas medical missions each year” since 2010 and that it was “deeply concerned about these abuses.”
The plaintiffs in the case against PAHO say that once they arrived at their assigned destination in Brazil, they were forbidden to move about socially, have visitors from home, or go out after a strict curfew. Minders were assigned to surveil them around the clock.
One of the doctors, Ramona Matos Rodríguez, told me in a 2020 interview how she narrowly escaped by taking refuge in the Brazilian Congress, where she was protected from President Dilma Rousseff’s order to have her captured and turned over to the Cuban military dictatorship.
The plaintiffs note that a legal agreement to traffic Cuban doctors in Brazil would have required approval of the Brazilian Congress. That wasn’t going to happen. By agreeing to act as the middleman, they allege, PAHO made the operation possible.
“Plaintiffs charge that PAHO provided, or knowingly benefited from others having provided, their forced labor, and they seek damages under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act,” Judge Boasberg wrote in his November 2020 decision allowing the case to go forward. Both sides will now have their day in court.
The real danger is the DNP/MBA combo.
Beware the DNP/JD combo that will surely follow.
Premed science courses greatly exceed nursing school science courses
Average IQ of medical school graduates greatly exceeds IQ of DNP graduates
Two years of medical school non clinical training exceeds the DNP studies.
Most importantly the two years of medical school clinical hours of 5000 plus immensely exceeds the 500 clinical poorly supervised hours of an online DNP degree. And that does not include the 10-35000 hours of clinical training in residency.