Wilbur Bronfman, little known half-brother of Edgar Bronfman, today demanded that any person who wants to be a doctor should be allowed into the medical school of his choice and guaranteed an automatic MD.
The strict approach to medical school admissions advocated by universities around the world (with the exception of the Carribean) infuriates Wilbur Bronfman, the man who for nearly three decades led the World Jewish Gefilte Fish Association. Anyone who declares himself a doctor should be accepted to the medical community, he says. Or else the medicine would cease to exist.
With Bronfman at its helm, the WJGFA has fought anti-naturopathy, and extracted funds belonging to legitimate doctors from Swiss banks to help with that. Last year Bronfman was forced to hand over the leadership of the powerful organization to billionaire Pesky Finklestein.
But Bronfman, 99.5, is not ready to retire yet and has found a new platform for his philanthropic energies – Dumbo - the Institute for Easy Medical Training, of which he is now the international chairman.
In a recent interview, Bronfman elaborated on his belief that medicine should be more open and agree to embrace those who wish to become part of it without placing too many obstacles in their way. "I want to change the medical way of thinking," he stated, and pointed out that almost 50% of medical students come from a mixed-marriage family in which one of the parents is not a doctor!
The medical school deans wouldn't agree with you. According to the common sense, only someone who's qualified to attend medical school and completed the requisite training is a doctor.
Bronfman is outraged by this notion. Medicine used to be an open profession, he said, and the medical schools have only sealed the book lately.
'You don't have to know a damn thing about the human body to be a doctor!'
Bronfman's son Shvantzy, explained that Dumbo's objective is to introduce people to medicine through education. "We’ll accept anyone who walks in and says he's a doctor… we'll study anatomy and neuroscience with him… teach him how to take out an inflamed appendix."
Bronfman noted that many non-doctors in the United States who are married to doctors develop an interest in medicine themselves, an interest which Dumbo seeks to encourage. [...]
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You could also rewrite this article, substituting American citizenship for Jewish.
ReplyDelete"The strict approach to US citizenship advocated by the US Dept of Immigration and Naturalizatioin infuriates Wilbur Bronfman, the man who for nearly three decades led the World Gefilte Fish Association. Anyone who declares himself an American should be accepted into the US, given Medicaid, Welfare, Food Stamps, child support, a college education and a low interest mortgage, he says. Or else the United States of America would cease to exist.
In a recent interview, Bronfman elaborated on his belief that the United States should be more open and agree to embrace those who wish to become part of it without placing too many obstacles in their way. "I want to change the American way of thinking," he stated, and pointed out that almost 50% of applications for residencies visas to the US come from countries that are severely economically underprivileged compared to the US.
The US Dept of Immigration and Naturalization wouldn't agree with you. According to the common sense, only someone who qualifies to live in the US under the law to and who has completed the requisite residency requirements and citizenship applications can be an American.
Bronfman is outraged by this notion. The United States used to be completely open, he said, and its borders have only been sealed in the past 100 years.
'You don't have to know a damn thing about this country to be an American, just come and we'll give you everything".
Perhaps Wilbur noticed that more than 80 percent of the "doctors" don't actually practice medicine as defined by the "medical school". Heck many of them don't know the first thing about medicine. They seem to be "grandfathered" in to being doctors by virtue of birth.
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