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Written by Phillip at 09 May 2002 02:25:32: By the way
As an answer to: Re: BEWARE written by rjk at 08 May 2002 22:47:03:
Your friends at the circlejerk club were not referring to physicians assitance when they referred to PAs. Go back and ask them to explain it to you.
>>>AJ, Paul B. *is* a doctor, how much you deny it.
>>I'm just as sure he is a doctor as I am he is an astronaut or fireman.
>All respectable professions, to be sure. But in fairness to him, Paul B. hasn't himself claimed here to be a doctor (unless I missed it, which of course is possible), although he's had the degree conferred upon him by Jim, Phillip and possibly others.
>By his own admission, however, Paul B. has cleaned out a fair share of raunchy navels ('scuse me, umbilici) and has assisted at surgery, so he seems to have had a fair amount of experience that can be qualified as medical. This would be consistent with his being a p.a. (physician's assistant), a necessary and respected profession even though it does not require the M.D. degree. (And in this status-conscious world a p.a. might not get the same attention that he/she'd get if his audience thought he were a physician.) It may be Paul would like to create and sustain the impression he's a physician by 'aping his betters', which includes affecting the snotty, disdainful mien that is his wont. But whether he is, or is not a doctor seems to be more or less beside the point: what is indisputable is that, like Jim, Phillip and some others who regale us here with their wisdom, Paul B. is an avid, dedicated anti-circer.
>>>And actually, you don't have an experience, or well, only to a very small degree as you had a phimosis which you threw away rather than solving it.
>You showed the good sense to get rid of your phimosis in a timely manner. How you did this was your own affair, no-one else's.
>And you don't know nothing about your own phimosis, having read your older posts. Heh.
>>"Heh" Is that the online equivelant of stomping your feet in a tantrum?