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JayhawkSD

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5. This should have been a clue that not all was well.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2018, 12:59 AM

Oct 2018

"His CV boasted that he’d earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from a top spinal surgery program."

An M.D. is a doctorate degree and is not awarded by a "spinal surgery program." It regards general medicine and is awarded by a college or university School of Medicine. Few to no medical doctors have PhD's, which is the non-medical equivalent of an M.D., and when they do, it too is not awarded by a "spinal surgery program," but by a college or university.

I would take one look at a Curriculum Vitae that contained such a ridiculous statement, pitch it in the garbage and have nothing whatever to do with its subject person.

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