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This story reminds me of the motion picture Catch Me if You Can where Tom Hanks asks Decaprio how he passed the bar exam, the response “I studied for it.” There was actually a time where studying for the exam was all you needed to become a lawyer, law school was just a way to get a head start on your exam and internship.
In our world certification and where you learned often means more than your qualifications. I feel that diploma proliferation especially among those of the higher economic strata with the means to pay for advanced degrees and take the time out of the work force to study are naturally reinforcing their groups economic position. Degree stipulations used especially in the public and education sector to squeeze out applicants perfectly qualified often in favor of making the hiring process appear impartial or to make the weeding out process of the HR department easier.
Make no mistake I spent over ten years in university full and part time amassing several degrees but this was more for my own personal enrichment and mostly not to get a job. I still understand why my sister in law needs a masters degree to sit three days a week with an interesting novel and proctor GED exams, but that was a firm requirement to apply for that junior college position.
I suppose if a person, say an experienced nurse or paramedic, were able self study the curricula for med school, line up labs and an internship, then actually succeed during the supervised internship and residency there is no reason that they should not be licensed even as a physician.
How is this guy unlike most of the population who lies on their resume or CV? It is a catch 22, you wont get hired ahead of other resume liars unless you lie about your experience, then for the rest of your career you have to look over your back. It is unfortunate that this dishonesty has caused him to be discredited as a proven who apparently has such a positive lifesaving impact, mostly just to punish him. Would he ever have been taken seriously or had the meritorious impact had he told the truth. Conflicted I am…
Los Angeles Times:
A judge has ordered Los Angeles not to enforce key sections of its controversial medical marijuana ordinance, issuing a preliminary injunction that once again leaves the city with limited ability to control dispensaries and raises the possibility that new ones could open.
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