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Paul's ophthalmological crusade
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jun 15, 2010 10:58am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Ben Smith |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In 1997, the monopolist power prepared a new set of regulations to burden ordinary, hardworking citizens, and one man stood up against them. It was “the kind of hypocritical power play that I despise and have always fought against,” recalled the leader of the dissidents.
And so he led what his enemies saw as a “rump group of malcontents” out of the stodgy old institution, to form his own, rebel organization of … ophthalmologists.
The Death Star, in this parable, was the American Board of Ophthalmology, ABO for short. Luke Skywalker was Bowling Green, Ky. opthamologist Rand Paul, who cut his political teeth working for the Libertarian Party presidential campaign of his father, Ron Paul, and is now the Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky.
The issue was recertification, the requirement – introduced for most medical professions in the last two decades – that physicians take classes and past tests every ten years to retain their medical licenses. Paul’s campaign against the way the ABO board wanted to institute it for ophthalmologists extended beyond his harsh letters: He put his own medical career on the line, allowing his professionally valuable certification to lapse in 2005 in favor of the unrecognized certification of a small new organization he started. |
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