Rand Paul would like to share his thoughts on America with you. He'd like to but he can't, Rand doesn't have personal thoughts. Rand has even laid claim to the thoughts of The Southern Avenger and presented them as his own. The bulk of what Paul says comes from Wikipedia. If no one has written an article about it and published it on the Wikipedia then Rand Paul must stand mum on the subject.
In Rand Pauls autobiography "How I Learned to Pick Locks, do straight jacket escapes and became Harry Houdini," Rand details his famous milk bottle escape. In the backwoods of Kentucky Rand is more famous than his brother the turtle man.
The other day Rand Paul got mad and said he didn't need politics or his ethics questioned. Paul said he could go home to Bolling Green and open his doctor's practice again and be completely happy. To take a look at Paul's medical credentials I am printing this terrific article from Crooks and Liars, John Amato's blog. It is old, written when Paul was running in the primary to get the opportunity to run for the Senate. It also reveals that the average tea party thinker is slightly less quick than a wet river rock. I was just being kind
when I said slightly less quick, I meant noticeably slower.
Down With Tyranny, by John Amato approx. June 2010
Well, even apart from the character issue-- I mean who wants another liar in the Senate, let alone operating on your eyes?-- it so happens that Paul, who's been sued for malpractice a couple of times (paying off one ex-patient $50,000 to get him to go away) and that the Kentucky Board of Medical License has never sanctioned him!
This story is just completely insane.
Rand Paul, who touts his career as a Kentucky eye doctor as part of his outsider credentials in his campaign for U.S. Senate, isn't
certified by his profession's leading group.
He tried Monday to bat away questions about it by calling it an attack on his livelihood, saying the scrutiny stems from his challenge of a powerful medical group over a certification policy he thought was unfair.
The libertarian-leaning Republican helped create a rival certification group more than a decade ago. He said the group has since re-certified several hundred ophthalmologists, despite not being recognized the American Board of Medical Specialties – the governing group for two dozen medical specialty boards.
Questions about Paul's certification as an eye surgeon first arose in a story published Sunday in The Courier-Journal of Louisville.
This man is a quack. The ABMS isn't a government agency that he's railing against because they want to control his life and it's not like he had to take a big test every year or so to keep his certification. It's every ten years. Isn't it nice that an organization formed to make sure opthamologist keep current with advancements in their field and know all about any new advancement?
The American Board of Medical Specialties said board certification is important because it enables "patients to determine whether their
physicians were appropriately trained and knowledgeable in their specialties."
Instead he starts his own rival group "National Board of Ophthalmology."
He is listed as the group's president; his wife, Kelley, is listed as vice president; and his father-in-law is listed as secretary. Paul
and his relatives receive no salaries from the organization, his campaign said.
Are you laughing yet? His family are the board members.
He then is completely dishonest. He knows what he's doing with his own practice.
In an interview with The Courier-Journal shortly before the May 18 Republican primary, which he won, Paul said he was certified by both ophthalmology boards.
A spokesman subsequently said that Paul misspoke because the question was unclear and he acknowledged his certification by the American Board had lapsed. There is no indication that Paul isn't qualified to practice ophthalmology, which he has done in Bowling Green since moving to Kentucky in 1993
And there's something weird going on here because he's practicing in a hospital when he's supposed to be a board certified.
Board certification isn't required to practice medicine in Kentucky, but most hospitals either prefer or require that doctors be board-
certified. That includes The Medical Center and Greenview Regional Hospital in Bowling Green, where Paul practices.
Why is he practicing there? Anyway, this is a man that the rules just don't apply to, ever.
As Joseph Gerth writes in his column: Rand Paul creates mistrust by refusing to answer questions about ophthalmology certification.
Then, his campaign, which had been shielding him from answering questions for five days at that point, announced that all questions on the issue would have to be submitted in writing.
Rand Paul misses the point. He is right that the questions about his National Board of Ophthalmology have nothing to do with issues of national policy.
They have nothing to do with the federal debt. They have nothing to do with the decision to go to war in Iraq or Afghanistan. And they have nothing to do with plans to shutter the U.S. Department of Education.
They have to do with trust.
Patients have come to expect that a doctor who holds himself out as a "board certified" specialist, as Paul does, meets rigorous standards created by an independent body?
And, if the American Board of Medical Specialties, the American Medical Association, the Kentucky Board of Medical License and the American Academy of Ophthalmologists don't recognize Paul's National Board of Ophthalmology, exactly what are the standards required for certification by that board? You can find the requirements of the American Board of Ophthalmology at www.abop.org. Paul's group maintains no such website.
Why should people trust him to represent them honestly in Congress when he's a huckster in real life?
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