i made the statement this guy was not a doctor.
i should have said not a medical doctor but a medical ADMINISTRATOR with a phd..
well,, he has a phd, in philosophy, so they do call him a doctor.
then i saw another post stating he IS a doctor,,,
so i went to see his academic credentials.
this is what i found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Frieden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Mailman_School_of_Public_Health
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-Presbyterian_Medical_Center
notice his first accreditation is from a LIBERAL ARTS college.
and looking at the other schools he attended,, it still looks to me like he was a med ADMIN student,,, a bean counter,, a clerk, a bureaucrat.
and even though one of his schools has a surgeon program,
that does not mean he did not study ADMIN
or that he did study medicine or surgery per say.
so until it can be shown exactly what courses of study he took..
( epidemiology , look up the definition on that btw, its not necessarily biology but can also be the study of MANAGEMENT of diseases , iow bean counting bureaucracy)
i still think he is not a 'doctor' in the sense he actually knows
anything about biology.
if anyone can find the actual courses the man took please post,, i cant seen to find specifics on whether
he is a doctor in the sense that he has ever studied biology or surgery ,
or if he has ever worked as a physician or surgeon in the private sector
or if he is just one with a PHD that makes him an ACADEMIC doctor.
either way,, hes incompetent
of logical thought or critical thinking.