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The Board of Regents accepted Monday a report recommending an expansion of the Medical College of Georgia to Athens as a guide for future planning.
In Monday's special called meeting, the regents adopted a plan by Pittsburgh-based consulting firm Tripp Umbach, which calls a partnership between MCG and the University a "key component" in avoiding a shortage of physicians in the state over the next several decades....
Originally posted byWinfield J. Abbe
How many of the current graduates of MCG in Augusta remain to practice in Georgia? Silence on this question. There is no guarantee a single medical doctor produced at any proposed new campus will remain in Georgia. This is a fairy tale.
There are many arguments why UGA must not be provided the Navy School Property to create a local medical school. The most important one is that his organization has been engaged in unethical, improper and possibly illegal activities in the past, seeking to fool it students, faculty and the public at large about unethical improper and possibly illegal activities of the American Cancer Society over a long period of time on the subject of cancer, which touches the lives of virtually all Americans. About one person dies every minute from cancer, "treatment" or both. Just today, a young lady, only 44, a former UGA graduate in Criminal Justice, was another failure of the war on cancer. Here is a link providing the many arguments.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/athens-ga/TD36R1BSA13HC6H0M
The campus at Athens is already too bloated anyway. It doesn't have enough money for basic utilities and maintenance.
If satellite medical school campuses are created, they must be created in other areas of Georgia, which are much more in need of economic development than Athens anyway. Athens should demonstrate some leadership for a change and seek economic development outside of the government trough. But, like UGA, the Board of Regents operate virtually in secret and disregard facts and information which does not agree with its preconceived political ambitions. The citizen is totally shut out of the process as they were in Athens with the stacked LRA committee, appointed friends and cronies of the Mayor.
Originally posted byWinfield J. Abbe
How many of the current graduates of MCG in Augusta remain to practice in Georgia? Silence on this question. There is no guarantee a single medical doctor produced at any proposed new campus will remain in Georgia. This is a fairy tale.
There are many arguments why UGA must not be provided the Navy School Property to create a local medical school. The most important one is that his organization has been engaged in unethical, improper and possibly illegal activities in the past, seeking to fool it students, faculty and the public at large about unethical improper and possibly illegal activities of the American Cancer Society over a long period of time on the subject of cancer, which touches the lives of virtually all Americans. About one person dies every minute from cancer, "treatment" or both. Just today, a young lady, only 44, a former UGA graduate in Criminal Justice, was another failure of the war on cancer. Here is a link providing the many arguments.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/athens-ga/TD36R1BSA13HC6H0M
The campus at Athens is already too bloated anyway. It doesn't have enough money for basic utilities and maintenance.
If satellite medical school campuses are created, they must be created in other areas of Georgia, which are much more in need of economic development than Athens anyway. Athens should demonstrate some leadership for a change and seek economic development outside of the government trough. But, like UGA, the Board of Regents operate virtually in secret and disregard facts and information which does not agree with its preconceived political ambitions. The citizen is totally shut out of the process as they were in Athens with the stacked LRA committee, appointed friends and cronies of the Mayor.
Winfield J. Abbe
posted 1/22/08 @ 5:28 PM EST
There are many arguments why UGA must not be provided the Navy School Property to create a local medical school. The most important one is that his organization has been engaged in unethical, improper and possibly illegal activities in the past, seeking to fool it students, faculty and the public at large about unethical improper and possibly illegal activities of the American Cancer Society over a long period of time on the subject of cancer, which touches the lives of virtually all Americans. About one person dies every minute from cancer, "treatment" or both. Just today, a young lady, only 44, a former UGA graduate in Criminal Justice, was another failure of the war on cancer. Here is a link providing the many arguments.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/athens-ga/TD36R1BSA13HC6H0M
The campus at Athens is already too bloated anyway. It doesn't have enough money for basic utilities and maintenance.
If satellite medical school campuses are created, they must be created in other areas of Georgia, which are much more in need of economic development than Athens anyway. Athens should demonstrate some leadership for a change and seek economic development outside of the government trough. But, like UGA, the Board of Regents operate virtually in secret and disregard facts and information which does not agree with its preconceived political ambitions. The citizen is totally shut out of the process as they were in Athens with the stacked LRA committee, appointed friends and cronies of the Mayor.