BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:

CNN brought on a DEI consultant and promoted her as a medical doctor in a >segment to raise concern about Trump's health. They got busted.

https://youtu.be/6VgaTQy8TFA?t=185

At this point I wouldn't trust CNN if they told me water is wet.

Wow. That's the ultimate fake news.

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CNN brought on a DEI consultant and promoted her as a medical doctor in a segment to raise concern about Trump's health. They got busted.

https://youtu.be/6VgaTQy8TFA?t=185

At this point I wouldn't trust CNN if they told me water is wet.

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Melissa Hollingsworth <[email protected]> wrote:

Verily, in article <106eqvj$3ilp8$[email protected]>, did [email protected] deliver unto us this message:

CNN brought on a DEI consultant and promoted her as a medical doctor in a
segment to raise concern about Trump's health. They got busted.

https://youtu.be/6VgaTQy8TFA?t=185

At this point I wouldn't trust CNN if they told me water is wet.

Maybe she identified as a doctor. :D

Lol

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 04:21:07 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
wrote:

CNN brought on a DEI consultant and promoted her as a medical doctor in a >segment to raise concern about Trump's health. They got busted.

https://youtu.be/6VgaTQy8TFA?t=185

At this point I wouldn't trust CNN if they told me water is wet.

Unfortunately you're right which is a tremendous comedown from those
glory days of 1991 when CNN covered the first Gulf War, the Soviet
coup and the remaking of Russia. I will never forget their clip of the
hammer and sickle being taken down at the Kremlin and the raising of
the tricolor - it REALLY drove home to me that the world I knew was
changing and that whatever 1992 would be it wouldn't be a rehash of
anything I knew.

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On 2025-07-31 12:21 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

CNN brought on a DEI consultant and promoted her as a medical doctor in a segment to raise concern about Trump's health. They got busted.

https://youtu.be/6VgaTQy8TFA?t=185

At this point I wouldn't trust CNN if they told me water is wet.

I'm gonna nitpick a bit on this one. As I heard the segment, the woman
who was pontificating about Trump's health *did* do a residency for
medicine but had been a DEI consultant for many years. She's obviously
NOT a practising doctor today - despite CNN's efforts to paint her as
one - but I suppose it's not completely ridiculous to call her a doctor
in the sense that she had the training at some point. She must surely
retain *some* knowledge of the human body and illnesses.

Mind you, I don't remember Michael Crichton ever passing himself off as
a doctor, even though he graduated as one from Harvard Medical School.
The pilot episode for ER is about his residency at Harvard but he never actually practised medicine after graduating. (He once joked that it was probably a good thing for patients that he'd never practised.)

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On Jul 31, 2025 at 11:17:04 AM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]>
wrote:

[snip]

Gee, just like the new head of the CDC isn't a DO, or even an MD.

Guess what: She's pretty qualified. Just like the person
CNN interviewed

LOL! According to the AMA, there are 1,044,734 licensed MDs in the United States but the only one CNN could find was some woman who went to med school but hasn't practiced in decades and now makes her living pushing DEI
programs.

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 04:21:07 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
wrote:

CNN brought on a DEI consultant and promoted her as a medical doctor in a >segment to raise concern about Trump's health. They got busted.

https://youtu.be/6VgaTQy8TFA?t=185

At this point I wouldn't trust CNN if they told me water is wet.

Amazing that they're still around.

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On Jul 31, 2025 at 1:18:06 PM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]> wrote:

In <106gf85$3vhok$[email protected]> BTR1701 <[email protected]> writes:

On Jul 31, 2025 at 11:17:04 AM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]>
wrote:

[snip]

Gee, just like the new head of the CDC isn't a DO, or even an MD.

Guess what: She's pretty qualified. Just like the person
CNN interviewed

LOL! According to the AMA, there are 1,044,734 licensed MDs in the United
States but the only one CNN could find was some woman who went to med school >> but hasn't practiced in decades and now makes her living pushing DEI
programs.

LOL, according to the AMA, there are 1,044,734 licensed MDs in the United States, but the only figurehead the Administration could find to head
the CDC wasn't one.

Why would you want a doctor to head the CDC? You need an administrator,
someone experienced running bureaucracies, for that. The director of the CDC doesn't practice medicine. He/she practices government.

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On Jul 31, 2025 at 1:41:52 PM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]> wrote:

In <106gk3r$phn$[email protected]> BTR1701 <[email protected]> writes:
[snip]

LOL, according to the AMA, there are 1,044,734 licensed MDs in the United >>> States, but the only figurehead the Administration could find to head
the CDC wasn't one.

Why would you want a doctor to head the CDC? You need an administrator,
someone experienced running bureaucracies, for that. The director of the CDC >> doesn't practice medicine. He/she practices government.

why would you want a person with Law Enforcement or CT experience
heading the Secret Service?

You don't. That's been part of the problem with the USSS over the years.

The FBI does it right and (for the most part) has non-agents run the agency.

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Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:

2025-07-31 12:21 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

CNN brought on a DEI consultant and promoted her as a medical doctor in a >>segment to raise concern about Trump's health. They got busted.

https://youtu.be/6VgaTQy8TFA?t=185

At this point I wouldn't trust CNN if they told me water is wet.

I'm gonna nitpick a bit on this one. As I heard the segment, the woman
who was pontificating about Trump's health *did* do a residency for
medicine but had been a DEI consultant for many years. She's obviously
NOT a practising doctor today - despite CNN's efforts to paint her as
one - but I suppose it's not completely ridiculous to call her a doctor
in the sense that she had the training at some point. She must surely
retain *some* knowledge of the human body and illnesses.

If CNN is going to promote an expert calling herself "doctor", then it
behooves them to explain her expertise. There are professors and
researchers, those with clinical practices, and surgeons. To prescribe medicine, a state license is required.

Since she wasn't in the field of medicine, allowing her to call herself
a doctor was disingenuous and the critics were right for slamming CNN.

All that being said, vascular insufficiency sucks. My mother has it.

Mind you, I don't remember Michael Crichton ever passing himself off as
a doctor, even though he graduated as one from Harvard Medical School.
The pilot episode for ER is about his residency at Harvard but he never >actually practised medicine after graduating. (He once joked that it was >probably a good thing for patients that he'd never practised.)

Because he graduated, he obtained an M.D. He never sat for his medical
boards so he never obtained a state license to practice medicine.

He did his emergency department rotation at Mass Gen. He wrote an
interesting nonfiction work about his experience, Five Patients.

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:08:26 -0400, Rhino
<[email protected]> wrote:

I'm gonna nitpick a bit on this one. As I heard the segment, the woman
who was pontificating about Trump's health *did* do a residency for
medicine but had been a DEI consultant for many years. She's obviously
NOT a practising doctor today - despite CNN's efforts to paint her as
one - but I suppose it's not completely ridiculous to call her a doctor
in the sense that she had the training at some point. She must surely
retain *some* knowledge of the human body and illnesses.

Mind you, I don't remember Michael Crichton ever passing himself off as
a doctor, even though he graduated as one from Harvard Medical School.
The pilot episode for ER is about his residency at Harvard but he never >actually practised medicine after graduating. (He once joked that it was >probably a good thing for patients that he'd never practised.)

Just because one has the degree doesn't make them one.

My daughter is a law school graduate who for whatever reason couldn't
get an articling job locally and didn't want to spend two years 300
miles away (which is what her mother and I urged her to do).

15 years later...

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