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Treating doctors like we treat teachers

Submitted by bwheeler on 02/13/2012 - 12:05
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Shaun Johnson, an assistant professor of elementary education at Towson University, offers an interesting contrast between the standards we hold teachers to and the ones we hold doctors to. What if we held all physicians accountable, regardless of specialization, to certain quantifiable measures of health, namely cholesterol levels, blood pressure, weight, and BMI? Hmm. Read it here.

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Hm, Doctors and teachers; a

Tue, 02/14/2012 - 20:13 — rjohns

Hm, Doctors and teachers; a comparrison of accountibility.  The article suggest that ones doctor should be held accountable for ones excessive weight, high cholesteral, and other human maladies.  A parent should be responsible for their child' s obligation to study and do his/her homework, this is no the responsibility of a teacher whom some believe have the added responsibility of raising children of some neglectful parents.

Humans are responsible themselves for their bad eating habbits and lack of excercise a major component for bad health, diabities, cardio vascular disease, heart disease, and other medical maladies from smoking cigarettes.

As always it is ones responsibility to ones self and a parents responsibility to their children; not the other way around.

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Burgetta Eplin Wheeler is the letters editor and page designer. She occasionally writes editorials. She can be reached at bwheeler@newsobserver.com or 829-4825.

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