London Police Defuse Car Bombs

[AKA_Monet]

OMG, dudes were physicians!!! The krispy kritter worked in the Queen's Hospital as a physician...

[_Opi_]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

OMG, dudes were physicians!!! The krispy kritter worked in the Queen's Hospital as a physician...

Last I heard, they arrested doctors in connection to the bombing. No word on how they were involved, or even if they were involved.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by _Opi_

Last I heard, they arrested doctors in connection to the bombing. No word on how they were involved, or even if they were involved.

The F channel and CNN 360 are calling the mastermind, Dr. Evil, although there is some dispute on the facts.

Here's his picture:



"Quasi Evil, Semi Evil, the Margerine of Evil, the Diet Coke of Evil--just one calorie, not Evil enough..."

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

The F channel and CNN 360 are calling the mastermind, Dr. Evil, although there is some dispute on the facts.

Here's his picture:



"Quasi Evil, Semi Evil, the Margerine of Evil, the Diet Coke of Evil--just one calorie, not Evil enough..."

I was about to ask whether the picture was taken before or after they put out the fire -- but that would have been tacky.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

I was about to ask whether the picture was taken before or after they put out the fire -- but that would have been tacky.

Ha ha...

There are more articles abound. There is an issue though: Most places do not trust foreign doctors--except those places that need them the most...

Like a foreign physician in the US has to pass the 2nd and 3rd USMLE, the fellowship board exam and the TOFEL exam. So most physicians do not get their licenses here in the US because they feel it is too much work. Let's just say, most clinicians because I know nurses, psychologists, dentists and veterinarians that won't do it either.

Then, there is a level of basic round/resident clinic work they MAKE you do for to advance to the next test. And as ugly as it sounds, they give most foreign physicians the WORST kind of rounds with tough charity cases--helps them practice their English.

For dentists, I know it rather easier ~2 years on clinical rotation, while they work toward a "green card" or citizenship. But, to get that license to practice, well, there is a counterfiet industry...

I do not know what it is in the UK. They have a National Health Service and a loss of physicians some would say due to Universal Health Care. I would need to see if they fellows really had bonafide medical degrees from their countries and what they had to do to get them. Did they really do clinical rotations and pass several board exams? The prevailing attitude just taking medically terminology classes and slapping a medical degree does not make a physician...

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

...I do not know what it is in the UK. They have a National Health Service and a loss of physicians some would say due to Universal Health Care. I would need to see if they fellows really had bonafide medical degrees from their countries and what they had to do to get them. Did they really do clinical rotations and pass several board exams? The prevailing attitude just taking medically terminology classes and slapping a medical degree does not make a physician...

I don't know the what is required of foreign trained doctors in the UK, but I did here that there are a lot of foreign trained doctors in the UK right now because there was a sever shortgage of doctors. They allowed something like 20,000 doctors into the country to practice medicine without checking their backgrounds, i.e as long as they had a medical degree and were licensed to practice medicine in their home country, they were in. They didn't actually do a security background check or anything like that.