Apparently, No Hippos Were Harmed In Their Oath.

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Somebody is looking for a doctor.

Ranit Mishori has the story in a perspective piece in the Washington Post:

Eight chilling words appeared in a medical job posting listed last week in the online career center of JAMA, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. A large firm is seeking a doctor to be “lead physician” of a particular “facility.” But getting hired seems to require passing some sort of loyalty test: According to the original posting, applicants must be “philosophically committed to the objectives of the facility.” (The language of the ad was later revised to delete that line, but it still wants doctors to work “based on the company goals, objectives and philosophy.”)

The facility is the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Basile, La., owned by the Geo Group, a for-profit private contractor....

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...The commitment to unstated “objectives” and “philosophy” is the most troubling part of the ad, though. Which objectives will the physician taking this job be committing to? The highest degree of medical quality and the protection of human rights? Or the implementation of the Trump administration’s inhumane and loathsome policies on immigration and asylum?...


Gosh.

Perhaps the desired commitment is to the so-called philosophy of phrenology:

Nobody really believes that the shape of our heads are a window into our personalities anymore. This idea, known as “phrenology”, was developed by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796 and was hugely popular in the 19th century. Today it is often remembered for its dark history – being misused in its later days to back racist and sexist stereoptypes, and its links with Nazi “eugenics”....

If you get my drift.



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Tip 'O The Toque to Norm Farrell on the Twittmachine.
Subheader reference to the adding machine company heir?....This.


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