In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:17:18 -0500, micky
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In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:37:04 -0500,
wrote:

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 04:47:27 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:



"Dean Hoffman" wrote in message
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On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 9:33:17 AM UTC-6, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Dean Hoffman writes:


I read elsewhere that Fauci is making over $400,000 per year.
First, you're making a statement without support. Provide the citation.
Here for one:
https://nypost.com/2021/01/26/fauci-reportedly-the-highest-paid-federal-employee-in-us/
He made over $417,000 back in 2019.

Second, a significant fraction of programmers in the bay area pull down
that
much (counting RSUs, ESPP and options).

The average cardiologist makes $250k to $450k annually.

He isnt a cardiologist.

He has never actually seen a patient as a doctor, only as a
researcher.

That's not true. As a 3rd- and 4th-year med student, intern, and
resident in internal medicine, a total of about 7 years he saw patients.
For the last 5 of those years that's all he did is see patients.

He started in research at NIH right out of medical school.

Where did you get that? After med school "He completed an internship
and residency in internal medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center (now Weill Cornell Medical Center)." Wikip.

They don't treat patients, they only study them.

Of course researchers do not see patients except as part of their
research. That's what some doctors do. Nothing he does now requires
more experience treating patients than he has. There are 10's of
thousands of doctors who treat patients, and the doctors tell the NIH,
CDC, and the NIAID what they learn about those patients.

I'll tell you a story. My brother's first week in medical school, at
dinner, he told my mother and me that the class was told that the
C-students would become the practicing doctors and the A- and B-students
would go into research. And Fauci was first in his class.

Get your facts straight.

Actually his bio is a little hard to follow. His residency was
interrupted by the Viet Nam War.

My brother and he are about the same age, and my brother signed up for
the Berry Plan, which allowed him to enlist in the Army but finish the
two years left on his residency before he was inducted. This way he
could be a radiologist rather than a GP in the army, and this was in the
army's interest too. After induction, he served two years in the army
including one year in Viet Nam, Can Tho but most of the year in Cu Chi.

It was something like M*A*S*H. He lived in a tent, with sandbags piled
around the outside of it. The VC had tunnels under Cu Chi and they blew
up the enlisted men's mess, and the officer's latrine, or the other way
around. But my brother wasn't in either at the time. He got 2 weeks
of R&R in the middle of his tour and went to Thailand.

It seems that Dr. Fauci's residency was split into two pieces with 2
years at the NIH in between. Doctors were assigned to places like the
NIH, and ..what's the federal public health agency called? Oh yeah, the
United States Public Health Service (USPHS). My brother went down to
DC to see where he would be assigned, and my mother thought that because
he did that, they assigned him to Viet Nam and if he hadn't he might
have gotten some place safer. Maybe she was right. But he wasn't
injured in VN afaict, at least not physically. He doesn't like to talk
about it.

Fauci finished his residency at Cornell's chief resident, and soon after
became board certified in "internal medicine, infectious diseases, and
allergy/immunology, with top scores". Very impressive. Most doctors
start off with only one, and most are never certified in more than one
specialty (and many not even one).

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/biography/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994641/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Plan

The Berry Plan offered draftees three choices: entry into the Armed
Forces after completing a medical internship, ****after completing one
year of residency and returning to their residencies after completion of
service****, and after completion of a full residency program.

The asterisks are mine. It's so similar to what Fauci did that Fauci
does seem to have joined the Berry Plan and taken the one surrounded by
asterisks, and my brother took the third choice.

The plan did not promise the branch of service or the length of
deferral, rather the applicant was relegated to partial or full
deferment. The applicant was also told which branch of the military he
or she would be allocated. The applicants were not advised that if they
signed before age 25 that they would be subjected to two years of active
reserve duty after they fulfilled the active military commitment. the
applicants were titled "obligated volunteers". The Berry Plan ended in
1973, with the last four physicians to complete their education and
training entering the armed forces in 1980.

But my brother was over 25 when he enrolled, and I think Fauci too.