Re: How can a physician be so stupid??
From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@gmail.com)
Mon Oct 29 20:51:14 2007
When I was in Ann Arbor & on the Gyn Onc rotation at the UofM, we
flunked a kid on the obgyn rotation - he really needed psyche help - and
the school was throwing a fit - seems he got in almost only because his
dad was an alum. We stuck to our guns and the med school had to deal
with it then.
At the program I was in at St Joe's in Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti about 2
years later - we flunked a woman who returned to UofM for a year of Ob
training. She was an FP who wanted to do more OB. Boy was she unfit
for it - and we flunked her and the UofM was again aghast that we (the
community program at that!) would dare to flunk someone they had brought
back in for additional training.
I do not know what the UofM did with each candidate. I suspect some
"remedial" training ... after all "there is already so much invested"
the student / resident must be trainable. (Sarcasm intended)
JB
At Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Gordon Goldman wrote:
>
>Or better yet, how does such a sick person ever get into/graduate
>from med school n the first place and post graduate training?
>
>--
>Gordon M. Goldman, M.D., FACOG
>Private Practice, St. Louis, Mo.
>
>On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Gerald P.Rodriguez wrote:
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>> Your question about being "stupid" is not the appropriate
>> question. Rather the question should be: "How can a physician be
>> so sick?"
>>
>> Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG
>> Santa Fe
>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: GIN11153@aol.com
>> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:04 PM
>> Subject: How can a physician be so stupid??
>>
>> October 27, 2007
>>
>> Medical Board of California accusation leads
>> to surrender of San Diego physician’s medical license
>>
>> SACRAMENTO — Facing charges of unprofessional conduct before the
>> Medical Board of California, San Diego physician Stephen Gene
>> Kolkow has surrendered his license to practice medicine. The
>> stipulated surrender of his medical license was adopted on October
>> 17, 2007 and became effective on October 24, 2007.
>>
>> In this case, Kolkow had been charged with general unprofessional
>> conduct under Business and Professions Code section 2234 as a
>> result of his admitted sexual abuse of a minor female family
>
>> Code section 2236 with having been convicted of crimes
>> substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties
>> of a physician and surgeon, and with being subject to mandatory
>> revocation of his medical license under Business and Professions
>> Code section 2232 as a result of his criminal conviction sentence
>> requiring him to register as a sex offender (Penal Code section 290).
>>
>> On August 24, 2005, a total of thirty-six (36) felony criminal
>> charges were filed against Kolkow in San Diego County Superior
>> Court. On August 8, 2006, Kolkow pled guilty to thirteen (13)
>> felony counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years of age (Penal
>> Code section 288(a)), and one (1) felony count of oral copulation
>> of a person under the age of 14 (Penal Code section 288(a)(c)(1)).
>> On January 29, 2007, Kolkow was sentenced to ten (10) years in
>> state prison, imposition of which was stayed by the court, placed
>> on five (5) years formal probation, ordered to serve 365 days in
>
>> Penal Code section 290.
>>
>> 2005, as the result of a Petition for Interim Order of Suspension
>
>> the Executive Director of the Medical Board.
>>
--
Joanne Bulley, MD, FACOG
Solo gyn
Keene, NH USA
