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From:Matt Sealey
Date:25 Aug 2000 at 19:27:08
Subject:Re: OT GCSE Results

Hello Nick

On 25-Aug-00, you wrote:

>>> 1 If your going to involve a third party at least give them the decency

[snip]

>>
>> What?
>
> Don't tell me you didn't understand what he meant sealey, i know for a fact
> on afb you used to get uppity by just being called sealey, unless you've
> changed. ;)

I'm trying to work out who the hell this 'third party' is first ;)

>>> 4 Name one Doctor who is not qualified.
>>
>> Dr. Paul Youngman, my boss, isn't qualified. At least not for medicine..

[snip]

>> The letters don't mean dick.
>
> So for that matter given that qualifications aren't a necessary thing to say
> 'yeah i'm qualified' etc., letters don't mean 'dick' to you and all that,
> it's what you really know isn't it, that's what counts as far as you are
> concerned.

Uh-huh.

> So for that matter I'm sure you'd be quite happy if such a occurence occured,
> to have heart surgery by a surgeon who had no paper documents to say he's
> qualified but you'd still let them go ahead because 'it's what they know'.
> Likewise i'm sure you wouldn't mind having a organ transplant by someone who
> knows what they're doing, but hasn't got papers to say they can.... ;)

If they could prove to me practically that they can - i.e. show me past
patients - then I'd have no qualms about that. Then again, if they were
'unqualified' they probably wouldn't be working on the NHS and therefore I'd
have to pay. Then again, looking at the news the pas few weeks :)

The point of this is one of trust. Don't judge people on how many peices of
paper they have! If someone has 4 years experience in the field of doing
something, I would trust them to be better at whatever they do than a simple
postgrad only a year out of university: the paper, the letters, they don't mean
a thing. Factual knowledge is one thing, but on-the-job experience is another.

(note how they train medical students on how they do certain tasks rather than
how many diseases they know)

Thanks



Matt Sealey <matt@kittycat.co.uk>
Website http://www.kittycat.co.uk

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