brasspounder <dit_dit_da_@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "James H. Hood" <jhhoodDIESPAMMERDIE@urdirect.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > Abrigon Gusiq <abrigon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > > Also have a real doctor check ya out, and not some military one..
> >
> > Doctors in uniform have to have the same qualifications as civilian
ones,
>
> But can they be sued for malpractice?  Huh?

Given what I've seen of malpractice suits, you shouldn't be so quick to
praise it.

> On paper they're supposed to meet high standards, but when pressed for
> medical personnel the Armed Forces will eagerly take the dregs from
medical
> schools, that is, the dunces who graduate at the bottom of their classes
and
> are essentially handed diplomas just to be rid of them.

Nevertheless, they met the standards and graduated.  Feel free to show us
any proof of accredited US medical schools graduating students "just to get
rid of them".

> After a string of
> malpractice suits and a revoked licence to practice, these "doctors" soon
> turn up in one of two places:
>
> 1)  Inner cities, "treating" the poor in "free clinics"
>
> 2)  The U.S. Armed Forces, where they can maim with impunity.
>
> Yeah, I know, you'll cover for ANYONE in uniform, even if he is a failed
> butcher's apprentice who calls himself a "surgeon."  Take it from someone
> whose family members have suffered at the hands of these quacks.

Nothing so great as vicarious experience, eh putz?  I've been through the
civilian medical system, then the Army one as a dependent, then the Army one
as a soldier, and back to the civilian one now.  I'll take the Army one any
day if available.