Misleading Testimonies
Here's where the rubber meets the road.
Let's say you are suffering from a brain tumour, cancer or hepatitis B, and your allopathic doctor has told you that there is no cure for your ailment.
In your developing nation's village, there is a doctor who recently healed a friend of yours of constipation through some herbal remedy ... within hours - a small miracle for anyone who has experienced that. He told you about the miraculous doctor and the miracle drink, and you went to the doctor's website and these were the images you saw.
The website referred to her as "Dr." Jessie, and a beautiful charming picture of her in a doctor's smock peers over the page with the words "Thank You! Jessie Chung. Our problems are solved and we live a healthier life". The webpage may also have her standing by a diagnostic machine and a sthethoscope in hand. And the pictures of these three patients shout out at you; "The breast cancer is gone", "I have recovered from hepatitis B", and "Brain tumour is getting smaller". And all the herbal remedy and supplements are also on this webpage - accessible cures!!!!
What do that all add up to you? Dr. Jessie Chung, US-trained no less, can cure me of my brain tumour, cancer or hepatitis B. End of story!!! You may not even know where Birmingham, Alabama is. You may not know that hepatitis B has no known cure, and millions of dollars have been spent in trying to discover a cure. But Dr. Jessie has a cure, and she had administered this herbal medication and I am hepatitis B free now. Because she told me so, and the lady on the website testified so. I can have normal sexual relationship with my partner and even share personal appliances and utensils with my partner. My partner does not need a vaccine, as I am hepatitis B free.
Problem is Dr. Jessie does not know there is no cure for hepatitis B, and likely does not know there is a vaccine for partners of hepatitis B patients. Dr. Jessie does not know, because she is a holder of 12 medical degrees, diplomas and certificates, none of which are accredited. Most were purchased on the Internet, and conferred within days. Her clinical skills were not scrutinized by qualified medical practitioners, and she likely did not even took a course or completed a rotation in communicable diseases. She has done no reasearch in her area of expertise, never undertaken a post-doctoral fellowship, published any peer review papers. Heck, she does not even know what the standardized potency of her herbs are - she just bought what's available. Her internship and academic qualifications were not approved by a board of examiners, she is not required to take an ethics exam, undertook the hippocratic oath and need not carry any professional liability insurance to protect the general public.
All these take too long to acquire. There's got to be a shorter way. Well, "Dr" Jessie Chung found that shorter way. But her patients may be paying for the longer more difficult way.
Quacks are dangerous. Period.
posted by Q-Buster at 11:30 PM
3 Comments:
Very nice blog!!! I always had second thoughts whether her wedding was all for publicity of her company.
I also did a Google search before this and found that her St. Andrew's College in USA is actually a Sixth Form College.
I understand how the feeling is with all these quack doctors and professors around fooling our naive citizens. I am a Ph.D. student myself and I totally understand how and what the process is, from getting the full qualification to getting a full professorship. Her qualifications are totally outrageous!!!
Keep up the good work here and hope that more people will know about this latest Dr. Quack in town.
Thanks for posting, and welcome!!!
It took me 9 years as an Instructor (basically a slightly better paid Teaching Assistant), before I received a permanent tenure stream position as a Lecturer, and 5 more years moving through the ranks from Lecturer to Assistant Professor.
I have been in academia for 17 years now, and I am only an Associate Professor currently. And this is on top of a long lengthy period as a "professional student" like you (it seemed like it would never end, doesn't it?).
At most legitimate universities, one may not attain the rank of a full Professor until one is well into his/her 50's, and most may never do and simply retire with the rank of Associate Professor.
Legitimate universities take the confering of professorships very seriously as we are charged with advancing knowledge, and training the next generation of academics to sustain knowlege. In many modernized countries like Canada and the US, economic growth and societal stability are based on knowledge assets.
With "Dr" Jessie's sloppy (and changing) academic records, her dubious degrees (anyone with a degree from Lafayette University is immediately tagged as a fraud by any legitimate universities), and her lack of publications, I do not really know what university will actually hire her ... unless that university is suspect as well.
Giving a full professorship to such a young person is also suspect as well.
All these smell fishy to me.
ha ha ha I am worse, quackbuster, have been 17 years in academia and now still a senior lecturer (assistant professor equivalent in Malaysia). I dont even apply for promotion until I am sure that my work has deserved one. I am buffled, that some people, fresh from school, became a professor,in a day or two!
some people are born luckier haa?
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