Physician accused of performing unwanted hysterectomies in an ICE detention center not board

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

certified OB-GYN

Dr. Mahendra Amin, the physician accused of performing unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures at an immigrant detention facility, is not certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG), The Daily Beast reported.

On Monday, several immigration advocacy groups representing a whistleblower filed a complaint to the Office of the Inspector General, alleging "jarring medical neglect" and the occurrence of unwanted and unnecessary hysterectomies at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia.

In the complaint, Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse who was previously employed by the center and is represented by Project South and Government Accountability Project, reported witnessing a large number of hysterectomies performed on immigrant women detained in the facility.

"Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody," Wooten said of one doctor who she described as "the uterus collector." Three lawyers cited by NBC News later identified the physician as Dr. Mahendra Amin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-physician-accused-of-performing-unwanted-hysterectomies-in-an-ice-detention-center-is-not-a-board-certified-ob-gyn/ar-BB19cSyt?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Board certification is something people should always look for.

New America wont have those things, of course.

Nutritional info on packaging? Really important isnt it, gone.

Limitations to air pollution by major manufacturers? gone (but Hillary gave one speech so both candidates are the same)

Social Security? gone
Medicare? gone
Medicaid? gone
Minimum wage laws? gone
Voting rights? gone

Anybody have that list of things you can thank a liberal for? We need to post it, hundreds, GONE...you Hilary bashers need to apologize RIGHT FUCKING NOW

Obviously my comment about Hillary is sarcasm...but there are some reading this now who actually believe Hillary would have been no better and are glad they voted for traitor...

[dchill]

4. +1,000,000

[dalton99a]

7. +1. Board certification is something attempted by almost every resident physician who completed

their specialty training. It is a big deal.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. It is and most folks dont know to look for that. The traitor eye doc in the Senate couldnt

pass this so he created his own...wont use his name, fuck him

[CaptYossarian]

13. Is his crazy father board certified?

[dalton99a]

16. It seems he was at one point but he let it lapse.

He still holds a Texas license

[efhmc]

18. Why are you not saying Rand Paul's name or do I have the wrong GOP piece of trash?

[yellowdogintexas]

19. He was certified for 10 years but did not renew his certification

this (long, sorry) article spells it out https://www.thedailybeast.com/rand-paul-ophthalmology-certification-scandal-why-it-matters

snip
Rand initially did the right thing and became certified; but when his 10 years were up, he decided he’d had enough and chose not to recertify. Rather, he organized his own certifying program for ophthalmology based right there in his hometown of Bowling Green

He is a licensed physican who graduated from Duke University Medical School and served his residency there.

I despise him and do not wish him well, but he has enough bad stuff in his file.

[NCjack]

34. I suspect that Randie fired the shot that cause the Bowling Green Massacre.

[wnylib]

25. These women who were victimized were

In a US concentration camp. I don't think they had an option to check the doc's credentials.

[IronLionZion]

33. The government officials who hire doctors do have the option

and chose to hire the worst people to do the worst things to these women who had no choice in it.

[wnylib]

37. Yes, I know that. That is why I said in

a later post down thread that ICE is as guilty as the doc.

[martouf]

27. Here's to hoping his neighbor beats the crap out of him again

and over and over and over again

[Turbineguy]

8. If we somehow keep trump

there will be millions of deaths. In fact, if he stays and I was a young person I would take up a career in the funeral industry.

[pandr32]

28. Oh, so agreed!

[Thomas Hurt]

2. a regular Mengele...carrying out fascist eugenics.

[AlexSFCA]

3. isn't it criminal offense not simple license removing?

[wnylib]

26. Yes. These hystorectomies were not mistakes.

They were deliberate violations of the women's rights to give or withhold consent.

[Hoyt]

5. Unfortunately, a lot of rural docs aren't Board Certified. There are a lot of

good ones that aren’t certified, BTW.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. One can be licensed without even bothering with

Board Certification.

General practice docs in the country actually may not even have a board. Small town docs do a little bit of everything

Family Practice has a Board of Certification, but one will have served a residency in Family Practice; old school general Practice only requires a year of internship.

There are very few places which offer that internship

[dalton99a]

6. He may have taken and failed the exam.

[3catwoman3]

10. This has been said about board certification:

If I know physician is board certified, I am not impressed. Is is a basic expectation.

If I find out a physician is NOT board certified, I consider it a serious mark against him/her.

[IronLionZion]

11. We're going to need to bring back the Nuremburg trials for these Trump officials

more on this doctor https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/mahendra-amin/

[wnylib]

30. Yes. I have a DVD of the 1961 Spencer Tracy film,

Judgment at Nuremburg and recently watched it again.

It does a fantastic job of laying out individuals' moral and professional obligations and options, even in a fascist dictatorship. The film is not about the trials of top brass criminal Nazi officials. It is about judges who followed carried out the immoral Nazi laws in their rulings and sentences. In the course of the trial, all arguments are weighed, pro and con, and then Spencer Tracy, as chief tribunal judge, gives his ruling and reasons. His final comment after the trial to one of the defendents says it all.

Although I have watched this film before, I found it especially pertinent to issues we face today about personal responsibility, integrity, and courage to live up to professional standards and moral values in all settings.

[lunatica]

12. Lock the god damned asshole up and throw away the key

He’s a fucking eugenics monster.

No! I won’t watch my tongue!

Maybe perform a dick-otomy on him too!

[crickets]

14. Evil. Corrupt and evil. nt

[NCjack]

35. Lock-him-up!

[dlk]

15. A diabolical woman-hater

His license needs to be pulled.

[CarlitosMMT]

17. Boards are a racket but they weed out really bad docs

So I’m in staffing and BC is a really big deal.
The boards are not governmental, but private organizations. I don’t truly believe they improve upon a physicians training, but they do weed out whack jobs and crazy fuckers - and there are a lot in medicine, way more than people realize.

They cost a lot of money and hours to maintain, and test seating is limited for testing There is a monopolistic control by ABMS, but other organizations have tried to set up alternative boards and there’s a mess of lawsuits.
The boards do all kinds of stuff that seem driven by revenue, not care.

There has been no real study on if they actually improve care of physicians that get boarded. We just assume it does. But it does weed out cranks and docs that don’t have their shit together. However, these people still can practice, but they are not getting the best jobs. And there are other ways to weed out crazy fuckers. Meanwhile, some boarded docs are also crazy so it doesn’t weed them all out.

There is a physician shortage and BC requirements make that worse.

This dude prolly ended up working with ICE bc they didn’t require boards bc they prolly could not find a boarded doc bc the pay is less than what they can make.

[dalton99a]

22. +1. For the vast majority of docs out there, it is a routine milestone

that signifies successful completion of a residency or fellowship (as measured by an outside organization)

The board exam is a lot of work to prepare and study for - it's something you have to squeeze in - but it is doable for most

[Lucky Luciano]

21. Did they at least use anesthesia?

[matt819]

23. Among other things

These are human rights violations and call out for a UN investigation.

[Volaris]

24. Yep they're gonna blame the doctor. God I hate being right all the time.

[lpbk2713]

29. If he's not certified he owes the govt a lot of money.

He billed for work he was not qualified to perform.

And his "patients" can sue his ass off.

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. Who hired this criminal?

[wnylib]

32. Don't forget that ICE is equally at fault

in these Mengele type surgeries.

[Paladin]

36. How completely unsurprising.

Still waiting for all the right-wing pro-birthers to start raising hell about this. Anybody heard anything besides crickets, so far?

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. He was also sued, with 8 other doctors, in 2015

for over billing Medicare and Medicaid. They had to pay a fine of over $500K.