tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post2491511745358024011..comments2024-03-29T09:34:59.827+03:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Conversion - Bronfman demands accepting allDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-54232354512764249362008-11-23T18:04:00.000+02:002008-11-23T18:04:00.000+02:00And this is a story from the fictional JNet.Wilbur...And this is a story from the fictional JNet.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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!<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>'You don't have to know a damn thing about the human body to be a doctor!'<BR/><BR/>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."<BR/><BR/>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.[...]Mighty Garnel Ironhearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09571194550300367249noreply@blogger.com