Re: HP as a career & qualifications

[mark sasser <duke99301@yahoo.com>]

do your best and you will do will.



---"Ron L. Kathren" <rkathren@tricity.WSU.edu> wrote:
>
> RE:  Barb Hamricks observation.
> >
> >I don't mean to disparage those who are certified in any way, but
in the same
> >way that certification, state boards and bar exams don't
necessarily weed out
> >the bad, they often leave behind the good.
> 
> 
> There is much truth in what you say, but should we simply allow
anyone to
> put up a shingle and practice law, medicine, chiropractic,
engineering, or
> even health physics?  After all, sooner or later (perhaps when they
have
> killed a number of folks) we'll be able to weed out the bad. 
Licensure and
> certification are, as are all human endeavors, imperfect processes. 
(So, I
> might add are civil service tests and qualifications!)  However,
they are
> designed to protect the public and by and large they do so.  Perhaps
we
> should license or cerify politicians -- we just might get better
> representation.  BTW, in many states, sheriffs have to be qualified
law
> enforcement officers, judges have to be lawyers, health officers
have to be
> physicians etc.
> 
> NONE OF THE FOREGOING IS MEANT TO IMPLY IN ANY WAY THAT A PERSON WHO
IS NOT
> ABHP CERTIFIED MAY NOT BE A COMPETENT HP.
> 
> Ron Kathren
> 
> PS  Barb -- Good luck on your Bar exam.  On the other hand, if you
leave our
> profession, our ranks will have one less well qualified and
competent HP.
> 
> RK 
> 
> 
>
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