Breyer State wants to teach premed courses

The unaccredited Breyer State is seeking people to teach premed courses.

According to John Dovelos, "a member of the Advisory Council of Ansted University, a member of the Faculty of Saint Regis University, and Dean of Faculty of University College of Advanced Studies,"

Ordinarily, courses in these subjects include significant laboratory components. I wonder how Breyer State will address this matter? The BSU home page states "PLEASE NOTE: Breyer State University is not a state specific University and not a State University of Idaho. Breyer State University is a virtual University with headquaters located in Kamiah, Idaho. Not available to Idaho residents."

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Britain's prestigious Warnborough University already has a pre-med program.

http://www.warnborough.edu/premed/premed.htm

Warnborough says that graduates of their pre-med program "have direct entry" into a couple of off-shore Caribbean medical schools: SABA University School of Medicine and the Medical University of the Americas. And I gather that these places are on the WHO list.

It's stuff like this that has started me wondering where physicians at my health plan went to school, and will cause me to request another physician if I have any doubts. I've only had two physicians treat me for routine things since I started paying attention, and they came out of UC Davis and UCLA, so no worries yet.

 

Vigilance pays off.

The first doc I went to after moving here was a Filipino whose med school degree was from a Mexican university--except that the Mexican university had never heard of the guy and the state medical board had defrocked him (not that this has stopped the s.o.b. from operating a clinic to this day).

The second doc was--with a different last name and an office in a different small town--doc #1's wife, who had previously been censured for what I saw as I was leaving my second appt with her, that is, doc #1 seeing patients on the q.t. in her office.

Doc #3 is a Filipina who graduated from a university and med school in the Philippines; the school was quite happy to verify her credentials and she is a spectacular physician. She has no disciplinary actions listed by the state medical board. But it took three tries to get a physician who was neither a fake nor a crook. So do your research on your physician.

Check your state medical board for any disciplinary actions taken. Contact the university or med school to verify credentials; I found both the Mexican and Filipino schools involved to be very cooperative and helpful. This is especially important if you are in a--what's the euphemism for an impoverished rural area or inner city?--underserved community.

Remember, it's your a-- in the grinder.

 

Perhaps I'm a bit xenophobic, but I insist that the physicians that treat me and my family are graduates of US medical schools.

My primary care physician graduated from George Washington University Medical School, my wife's primary care graduated from the University of Vermont Medical School, her OB-GYN graduated from UMass Medical School, and my kids' pediatrician graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.

 

One of the many fine lines in the book "Kill As Few Patients as Possible" by our family doctor, "Oscar London" -- which an early puzzler here identified as the best-selling book ever at Berkeley's largest bookstore:

"Going to an internist who isn't Jewish is like going to a barbecue joint run by someone who isn't African-American. It might work out OK, but why take the chance."

 

Out of interest, would you accept European ones?

I can't imagine Oxbridge or, say, Swiss Med schools being anything other than excellent.

 

verifying where your doc went to school

Here is a site that is invaluable to help you with your research:

http://www.docboard.org/docfinder.html

Personally I prefer doctors who I feel comfortable with,wherever they went to med school but I always check them out also. If someone has had problems with their medical board for drugs or alcohol or mental problems I might run.

dean hughson

 

No sh*t. The first doctor I went to after outgrowing my pediatrician turned out to be an all-Amurrican heroin addict; I was rescued from the sumbitch by a South Efrican doctor (MD U. of Natal, I think) in the same office, who read Teilhard for amusement and said he came to the US not because of apartheid but because he didn't want to be on the same continent with his in-laws.