Reminds me of an old joke (probably that I heard on the forums).
Bob: Have you ever been to Australia
Jim: No, they are all whores or rugby league players
Bob: My wife's from Australia
Jim (answering quickly): Oh yeah, what position does she play?
and in medicine mythology, that was St Marys Hospital.
All tosh of course, just like CL believing you had to sing the Red Flag to get admission!
Simon Blease
Monmouth
I'm worried we might be sweeping CL's concerns under the carpet here.
CL, at what point you do feel your career as a medical doctor was thwarted by the liberal elite? Perhaps you should be lying on a chaise longue before starting to answer this one.
Thinking about my friends who qualified as doctors when we were all at university ( several of whom are now consultants in their chosen fields) and the medical students I encounter regularly as part of my own employment, one of the key qualifications for the profession is demonstrating that you have a well developed sense of compassion for your fellow humans. Added to this is perhaps also having a genuine drive to serve the common good regardless of who your patients are (colour, gender sexuality, etc.), Harold Shipman excepted!!!
Personal allegiance to any specific political mainstream views is completely irrelevant. Consider how many distinquished medics are also members of the conservative party - Sarah Wollaston, for example.
Perhaps another important personal quality is holding a genuinely positive, can-do, outlook rather than fostering sneering contempt and an irrational sense of personal persecution.
Am Yisrael Chai
Some of you lefties are sneering at facts that are obvious, even to a goat. Mossdog allowed Noel's sarcasm to cloud his/her judgement in regard to me in the last paragraph of post 129, implying I have some personal vendetta against Doctors because I was rejected or denied access to medical school. Jumping on Noel's mistaken bandwagon.
But in a way Mossdog and Mike-T have already implied the points I was making. The term the 'common good' - maybe Mossdog's interpretation of compassion etc - is a term synonymous with socialists I.e. lefties. In other words if you don't subscribe to that view - socialised medicine - you'll never get a place at university medical school.
Mike-T has told you he wasn't interviewed for medical school but others with equal exam results were interviewed. Why were they and he not? I'll tell you forumites: it's because universities do discriminate on the basis of upbringing,the school you went to, political beliefs and others not related to ability.
Medicine is just one of them. An example I chose
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