Doctors 'Cheating' On Board Certifications

Maximum Prophet writes "After taking board exams, doctors have been routinely getting together to remember and reproduce as much of the exam as they can. These notes are then bound and reproduced. According to the American Board of Dermatology, the exams are protected by copyright laws, and any reproduction not approved by the board is illegal. While I have no doubt that the Board believes this, and pays lawyers to believe it as well, I don't think they understand copyright. Perhaps they should invest in better testing methods."

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How do I reach these keeds?

[PopeRatzo]

"Cheating" on board exams. Great.

Anybody else remember the South Park where Cartman is holding seminars for his fellow classmates on how to best cheat on exams? He puts on the cardigan sweater and combover and glasses of the Edward James Olmos character in that movie with Lou Diamond Phillips (I guess you had to have three names to be in the movie). Stand and Deliver was the name, and the Lou Diamond Philips character, Angel, doesn't think he needs to learn "cal ku loos". I seem to recall several movies of that era where the solution to the education catastrophe in poor minority schools is nothing more than a teacher who trades his personal life for a dreary existence trying to reach out to hoodlums and pregnant 15 year olds while carrying a baseball bat and acting all self-righteous.

That friggin movie was from like the mid-80s and the South Park was from decades later so like none of the young viewers got any bit of the obscure Stand and Deliver reference and that's when I decided that the South Park guys were OK in my book because anyone who would reach for that obscure of a reference for such a small payback just to make the four people in the audience who remembered that stupid movie get a laugh has a dedication that I admire. I like when an artist or in this case, artists, decide that making themselves laugh is just as important as making the audience laugh because, hell, life is too short not to.

Anyway, that's got nothing to do with this story (at least I don't think so because I only read the title. And the whole medical-industrial complex has become a big money hunt, and precious few of the people who go into medicine or publish text books or make drugs give one shit about helping people. Fuck alla them.) My approach to health care is to not get sick. I've had great, expensive insurance for like twenty-five years and never used it so about 15% of my gross earnings over the course of my career have gone into dividend checks for insurance company shareholders and they STILL deny people who are really sick, which is why we need universal health care where nuns are forced to get abortions. The only medical care I ever need is getting my teeth cleaned, which I do often because the dental hygienist has like this really nice rack and she presses those beauties right up against my head. She gives me the nitrous because she wants her clients happy and she smells so nice. Plus, I've got to keep my teeth clean because I play the chromatic harmonica. So anyway, I give a shit if this is off-topic because one of you will remember that old South Park episode and go, "yeah, that was good. Cartman with the "How do I reach these keeds?" and get a little chuckle and there are precious few chuckles in this world so we have to treat each one like gold. So go ahead, mod me down. My Karma is eternal, anyway. Nothing you can do could possibly affect it.

Anybody else want a refill? This kind of self-indulgence is thirsty work.