There’s an old nurses’ joke that goes like this:
- Q: What do you call the medical student who finishes dead last in every one of his classes all through med school?
- A: “Doctor”
But what happens when these docs are eventually let loose upon the unsuspecting public as professionals with the letters MD after their names? Who keeps an eye on substandard doctors?
The alarming results of a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveal that, although most physicians believe that their medical colleagues who are “significantly impaired or incompetent to practice medicine” should be reported, the reality is that a disturbing number actually chose instead to sit by and do nothing even when they admitted they had “direct personal knowledge” of such incompetence. Continue reading
This has bizarre backwoods good ol’ boy written all over it, no offense to good ol’ boys: two American nurses, 