tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post1590590319183003057..comments2024-03-01T04:58:03.785-05:00Comments on Doctor Anonymous: Doogie Surgeon, MDDr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05207266669522973903noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post-40291026778033214532007-06-23T13:28:00.000-04:002007-06-23T13:28:00.000-04:00I'm ashamed. My wife and I are both doctors and we...I'm ashamed. My wife and I are both doctors and we have a 7-year-old daughter who is in second grade. How pathetic! I'm going to take my daughter out of school and am going to home school her in radiology. You wait and watch, I'll have her reading x-rays and CT scans by the time she's 8. I'll make her the top radiologist in Salem by the time she turns 15. <BR/><BR/>Jokes apart, I'm truly appalled :(<BR/>That this should have happened in Tamil Nadu, my home state is even more distressing. <BR/><BR/>If you've kept up with the news feeds, the cover-up process seems to have begun. Read <A HREF="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070016262&ch=6/21/2007%208:32:00%20PM" REL="nofollow">this</A>.<BR/>I can guess where this is going to go. The father is going to allege professional jealousy as the motive behind the charges as he has already hinted. Then he may try to get support from some political party or a caste/community outfit. As Dr.A says, let us wait and see how this plays out.Vijayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06710965375559259238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post-15348383368369176222007-06-22T03:29:00.000-04:002007-06-22T03:29:00.000-04:00Anonymous, yea you go right ahead and think whatev...Anonymous, yea you go right ahead and think whatever you want. <BR/><BR/>By 'small region', I meant small village of about 200 people in the middle of nowhere India. Oh but of course, we're all the same despite a first world country having better access to school and such. But yea, kids in a 200 population town in Dustbowl Saskatchewan 400 miles from anything, are exactly like those in that small village even though the Canucks have access to a school. <BR/><BR/>Yea. Great argument there. :/SuperStenoGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08996143574396960581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post-65385759179358283602007-06-21T22:02:00.000-04:002007-06-21T22:02:00.000-04:00SuperStenoGirl said..."They said he had the potent...SuperStenoGirl said..."They said he had the potential of being a very skilled physician but that in a first world country, his intelligence and skill was better than many people's, but not ultra extraordinary and that in India, in his small region of it, there'd be a bigger concentration of people who were not as intelligent or skilled and so he'd be way better than the norm."<BR/><BR/>i don't know why you or the tv station that presented that story would assume that people in a small region of a first world country would be more intelligent than people in a small region of a third world country, but India has systems of technology and science education that would certainly prove you (or the nebulous "they")wrong. <BR/><BR/>but yeah, the c-section story is incredibly disturbing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post-79012280802406184732007-06-21T20:13:00.000-04:002007-06-21T20:13:00.000-04:00Hi Dr A! I heard this on BBC International. There ...Hi Dr A! I heard this on BBC International. There is an obsession in this part of the world about getting into the Guinness World Record. <BR/><BR/>What were the parents thinking? Both doctors? Intelligent yet foolish! Have they gone mad? Sad indeed what parents do to live out what they had hoped to be ay? <BR/><BR/>Doctors are badly needed for the huge population. Will they both lose their licence? <BR/><BR/>It'll be interesting to hear Vijay's view on this?twilitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13673755529491874038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955732.post-9006429609000457372007-06-21T12:43:00.000-04:002007-06-21T12:43:00.000-04:00You know, this almost sounded like the case of a l...You know, this almost sounded like the case of a little Indian boy I saw on TV a few months ago. The kid is like just over 10, maybe older I can't really remember, and he's got one of the highest IQs in the world and he's been studying medicine since he was like 3. He performed surgery to fix the broken finger of another kids hand when he was, I think, around 8 or so. The parents had pictures. <BR/><BR/>He was taken to England because his claims that, given the right kind of lab and assistants, he could cure AIDS and cancer in 5 years. These English doctors brought him into Britain and showed him around, let him sit in on some lectures and talked about how he felt he could cure both cancer and AIDS. He said something, darned if I remember it now, that floored one doctor. <BR/><BR/>They said he had the potential of being a very skilled physician but that in a first world country, his intelligence and skill was better than many people's, but not ultra extraordinary and that in India, in his small region of it, there'd be a bigger concentration of people who were not as intelligent or skilled and so he'd be way better than the norm. They also worried about the potential damage the 'celebrity' status would bring to him if he continued on as he had in India with people constantly harassing him for medical advice.<BR/><BR/>I think now he's going to a top university in India and I don't think he's even 13 yet. <BR/><BR/>But yea, performing surgery, as a teenager is not a good thing. A father should have known that but I suppose parental joy and pride gets in the way. I'm not sure if he should lose his medical license or not, definitely he was irresponsible but if he videotaped it then he was in the room and could have jumped in should there have been a problem, no? <BR/><BR/>Definitely interesting.SuperStenoGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08996143574396960581noreply@blogger.com