Rand Paul and Board Certification

[Shane for Wax]

http://www.salon.com/2010/06/14/rand_2/

Looks like the cat's out of the bag. Our boy Rand Paul isn't an actual board certified doctor.

Libertarian ideology rejects most of the modern regulatory systems that protect consumers, because everyone should be responsible for determining whether the hamburger contains E. coli on his own. But does that do-it-yourself dogma apply to the regulation of medicine, too? If you’re Dr. Rand Paul, practicing ophthalmologist, the answer is emphatically yes.

According to an amusing story in today’s Louisville Courier-Journal, the Kentucky Republican Senate candidate bills himself as a “board-certified” physician even though he is not actually certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology — the only recognized body that certifies doctors in his specialty.

[JohnE]

So does this mean he could face legal ramifications?

[ironbite]

Possibly.

[Shane for Wax]

He could face legal ramifications for medical malpractice as well as whatever else they can drop on him for lying about this. Impersonation of a board certified doctor doesn't bode well.

[Osama bin Bambi]

Oh my god, I can't wait to tell this to my dad.

[Morgenleoht]

Oh my god, I can't wait to tell this to my dad.

Please. YouTube it.

[Cerim Treascair]

Oh my god, I can't wait to tell this to my dad.

Please. YouTube it.

Seconding this!

[kefkaownsall]

He'll probably have some illuminattii thing

[Damen]

I'll bet a $20 that if he doesn't go on a conspiracy rant he'll end up stocking up on gold because he's afraid that this news will bring down the government/GOP and the socialists/Zionists will take over.

[clockworkgirl21]

This is pretty delicious.

[Osama bin Bambi]

Oh my god, I can't wait to tell this to my dad.

Please. YouTube it.

Seconding this!

I sent the article to him, and my dad wrote back something to the effect that the supposed CIA front Business International got Obama through Columbia University, with the implication that he's just as much of a fraudster as Rand Paul.

[Cerim Treascair]

Oh my god, I can't wait to tell this to my dad.

Please. YouTube it.

Seconding this!

I sent the article to him, and my dad wrote back something to the effect that the supposed CIA front Business International got Obama through Columbia University, with the implication that he's just as much of a fraudster as Rand Paul.

Uh... huh.

[JohnE]

I sent the article to him, and my dad wrote back something to the effect that the supposed CIA front Business International got Obama through Columbia University, with the implication that he's just as much of a fraudster as Rand Paul.

"It's okay that my guy's a fraud because your guy's a fraud too!"

* Ignoring of course that helping someone through college, even by unethical means (see: college football) isn't even close to the same thing as practicing medicine without a license.

** And that's of course even assuming the ridiculous conspiracy theory is true.

[Witchyjoshy]

Republicans, Tea Party Libertarians, and conspiracy theorists tend to all excel at one particular thing: False equivalency.

Then again, those who fear their own shadows are less likely to subscribe to reason and logic, and all three of the groups I mentioned attract these types of people.

[KZN02]

Somehow, I'm getting a deja vu with Al Capone.