Milosia2 wrote:
He created his own medical board . At his own medical administration.
Where he sat down and took his test to be a
Doctor .
And guess what ?!??
He passed.
But he’s still a halfwit.
Dr./Senator Rand Paul displays all the best characteristics of being an American. He is one of the very few elected officials within our Federal government who is not a sheeple, but is courageous enough to stand up for this country's constitutional principles, as well as his own.
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Dr. Paul, 52, practiced ophthalmology for 18 years before becoming a senator in 2010. Dr. Paul moved to Bowling Green, Ky., in 1993. There he worked for Downing McPeak Vision Centers and the Gilbert Graves Clinic for about 15 years combined before launching his own ophthalmology practice in town.
Dr. Paul earned his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., in 1988. After that, he completed his general surgery internship at Atlanta-based Georgia Baptist Medical Center, followed by a residency in ophthalmology at Duke University Medical Center, completing his training in 1993. He attended Waco, Texas-based Baylor University majoring in biology and English, leaving a few courses short of a bachelors diploma after being accepted into medical school at Duke.
He earned his board certification in 1993 after the completion of his residency, although Kentucky state law does not require board certification for licensure. In 1997, in protest of certification requirement changes by the American Board of Ophthalmologists, he and 200 other physicians formed the National Ophthalmology Board,
Dr. Paul was involved in expanding access to eye care in his community and abroad. He founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic in 1995 to provide patients and families in need with eye exams and surgeries. In 2002, he was awarded the Twilight Wish Foundation Outstanding Service and Commitment to Seniors award, and he has performed many pro-bono eye surgeries for patients in Kentucky, and as a participant of the Children of the Americas Program, he travels to provide free eye surgeries to children around the world.
Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who specializes in eye care. The credentials include a degree in medicine, followed by additional four to five years of residency training in ophthalmology.
Residency training programs for ophthalmology, following their degree, require a one-year internship with training in internal medicine, pediatrics, or general surgery. Additional specialty training (or fellowship) may be sought in a particular aspect of eye pathology. Ophthalmologists are allowed to prescribe medications to treat eye diseases, implement laser therapy, and perform surgery when needed. Ophthalmologists typically provide specialty eye care - medical and surgical, and they may participate in academic research on eye disorders.
Dr. Paul does not support the Obama Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. His campaign website read, "I was not a member of the U.S. Senate during the 111th Congress, but if I had been I would have v**ed against Obamacare. Were I your president, one of my first acts would be to repeal the a*********n that is Obamacare."
Dr. Paul is in favor of a free-market approach to healthcare. He believes increased government interventions drive up the cost of coverage and decrease competition. As a senator, he has publicly supported making medical expenses tax deductible, allowing businesses to provide coverage, and allowing physicians to negotiate costs with insurance companies and Health Savings Accounts.
He believes in higher Medicare deductibles and moving to a premium support system. In a 2010 interview, Dr. Paul said "You want to have more participation by the person who's receiving the entitlement. By that I mean that they need to be more involved with some sort of economic t***saction every time they use their entitlement, and that means they have to bear more of the burden," according to Bloomberg Business. Dr. Paul supports a premium support system for Medicare, which would give seniors the ability to choose between traditional Medicare and private insurance on an exchange, according to Vox.
Dr. Paul supports v*****es, but believes they should be voluntary. "I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after v*****es," Dr. Paul said, according to CNN. "I'm not arguing v*****es are a bad idea. I think they're a good thing. But I think the parents should have some input." He said he is v******ted, his children are v******ted, he supports v*****es and he does not believe they cause disorders, but that they are "temporally related."
In an interview with CNN, Dr. Paul shared the following comments on Ebola: "The Obama administration has downplayed how t***smissible Ebola is. They say it's the exchange of bodily fluids, which makes people think, 'Oh, it's like AIDS... It's very difficult to catch.'"
"If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them," Dr. Paul continued. "[The administration] should be honest about that."
Dr. Paul believes medical marijuana is a state's rights issue, not a federal one. He teamed up with two Democrats to introduce a bill that would protect medical marijuana buyers and sellers from federal prosecution in states where marijuana is legal for medical and recreational purposes. He also supported lessening the sentence for nonviolent marijuana offenders.