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Thursday, January 15, 2004I want to know more about Howard Dean the doctor but I can't find much information even though the web has thousands of sites about Howard Dean the politician. How did he perform in medical school and residency and later in his practice as judged by the physician and nursing staff with whom he worked? What did his peers think of his competence for the practice of medicine? What was the opinion of him as a doctor by his patients? And how long did he actually practice medicine? It seems he was elected to state government the second year after he entered practice in Vermont. If he was as impulsive and short tempered in medical practice as he seems to be as a politician, how did that affect his ability to perform as doctor? Answers to these questions might shed light on how he would perform a President of the United States, a position of responsibility and leadership many times more demanding than being a governor. I think it's safe to say that Governor Dean enjoys politics more than he enjoys medicine. Otherwise, he'd be in Shelbourne with his wife. Regarding his anger and impulsivity, the New Yorker ran this quote from one of his residency evaluations: Likewise, during Dean’s residency, one of his supervisors wrote in an evaluation, “Howard is a very solid resident, a good teacher, intellectual in his approach. His major problem continues to be one of impulsive syntheses when problems are approached. He should take care to be more deliberate in making assessments and deciding upon plans. Because of this trait, he is not quite the superior physician that he is in other respects.” (The New Yorker profile persists in the same mistake that the rest of the media continues to make. Dean's practice was in internal medicine, not family medicine. I suppose it's an honest mistake for a Manhattan reporter to make. Sometimes it seems as if there's nothing but specialists on that island. His wife is also an internist, not a family physician. She subspecializes in hematology, in addition to practicing internal medicine.) posted by Sydney on 1/15/2004 10:11:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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