![]() Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Two protesters, Henry Perkins, left, and Fred Pantozzi, cleaned up at Zuccotti Park on Thursday. What that means,” Travis Nogle, a 32-year-old protester and “earthship builder” from San Francisco said as he changed his shoes and prepared to pitch in with the cleanup. “This is a public park privately held - I don’t even understand Some protesters saw the cleanup as tantamount to an eviction notice, and they vowed to stand their ground, even if it meant being arrested. Said they were ready to step in if the company asked for help in removing protesters or enforcing the new rules, while protesters planned to form a human chain around the park and, using Facebook and Twitter, called Use of the park that would end the Occupy Wall Street protest, at leastīut as the day wore on, it seemed that the protesters’ efforts to placate Brookfield might, in the end, not matter, and all sides were girding for a Friday showdown. ![]() Updated, 9:21 p.m.| Young people in knit hats and jeans scurried around Thursday wielding brooms and trash bags, moving mountains of sleeping bags, backpacks and jackets outīy cleaning up Zuccotti Park on their own, they were trying to persuade the park’s owner, Brookfield Properties, to back down from its plan to send in cleanup crews Friday morning and begin to enforce new rules on the More than a quarter of residents in American hospitals currently earn medical degrees from Caribbean medical schools.Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park swept and scrubbed on Thursday afternoon, hoping to stave off even temporary eviction. ![]() Is that really one of the major problems in American health care?Įxperts are predicting a shortage of 90,000 doctors in American in the next ten years. American medical schools argue that Caribbean medical schools “turn out poorly trained students who undercut the quality of training for their New York peers learning alongside them at the same hospitals,” according to the Hartocollis article. The legitimacy of many Caribbean medical schools ultimately derives from the relationships these schools enjoy with American hospitals, mostly those in New York. They have begun an aggressive campaign to persuade the State Board of Regents to make it harder, if not impossible, for foreign schools to use New York hospitals as extensions of their own campuses. ![]() hospitals.īut in a fierce turf battle rooted in the growing pressures on the medical profession and academia, New York state’s 16 medical schools are attacking their foreign competitors. students to their tiny island havens by promising that during their third and fourth years, the students would get crucial training in U.S. According to a New York Times piece by Anemona Hartocollis in the Detroit News:įor a generation, medical schools in the Caribbean have attracted thousands of U.S. For patients and even many hospitals, if people are practicing medicine in the United States, that’s pretty much good enough.Īt least for now. medical schools but less than 19,000 matriculate.įor students who don’t have good grades or standardized test scores (those 23,000 who don’t get in), however, there are schools of osteopathy or, well, Caribbean medical schools.ĭoctors often ridicule the Caribbean medical school but after five or ten years it doesn’t really matter much. Even college students with very high GPAs and standardized test scores find it very hard to get accepted into medical school. It’s very, very hard to get into an American medical school.
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