Here in Washington state our two research universities are having a fight. The University of Washington, located in Seattle, has what is rated as the number one program for primary-care and rural medicine. To a large extent the high rating results from the fact that the UW offers a degree that can b[...]
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November 16th, 2014 - 9:51 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Who Paid For $unday’s Seattle Times Ad Promoting WSU Medical School?
WSU has a half-page, full-color, advertisement promoting its proposed medical school on page A6 of the Sunday, Nov. 16, 014, edition of the Seattle Times. The ad features a photo of a smiling woman doctor examining a little girl with a stethoscope under the headline, “Washington needs more doc[...]
October 14th, 2014 - 9:45 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Spokane City Council Endorses WSU’s Medical School Scheme
The Spokane City Council has endorsed WSU’s plan to part ways with a UW-run program that trains doctors for 5 states and ask the Legislature for startup money for a new medical school in Spokane, the Pacific Northwest Inlander reported tonight. UW Medical School has proposed adding capacity to[...]
October 5th, 2014 - 12:00 pm § in Schools & Colleges
War of Washington’s Medical School(s): WSU will be divorced from WWAMI .
The University of Washington and Washington State University declare war. After WSU decided two weeks ago to launch its own medical school, UW and WSU have announced that WSU will be divorced from the WWAMI program. This is a disaster for Washington state students who want to attend medical schoo[...]
“The one thing we don’t do yet – we don’t graduate any Cougar doctors” WSU Regent Mike Worthy
Should WASU have its own medical school? WSU Regents have voted to seek accreditation for its own medical school. This is resulting in an embarrassing “food fight” over a trivial sum of $24 million dollars funding from the 2015 legislative session at a time when the state budg[...]
October 18th, 2022 - 11:51 am § in Law and Courts
Another stupid, trigger-happy vigilante
I don’t just frown on vigilantes; I want them arrested and prosecuted. Vigilantism has no place in civilized society. The three white vigilanties who murdered black jogger Ahmaud Arbery got life in prison, and deserve it. Yesterday I posted a video here showing a white man grabbing a disabled [...]
WHY SEATTLE’S EFFORTS TO MAKE SLU A BIOTECH PARK FAILED
How Massachusetts Built A Booming Biotech Ecosystem and Washington Failed Original text appeared as an advertisement on 538 sponsored by WE WORK. The text written by Satta Sarmah-Hightower is abstracted for this post and commented by me in blue. The original premise of South Lake Union was that [...]
February 20th, 2019 - 12:15 am § in Misc.
WWAMI IN TROUBLE
A big part of what has made UW a top medical school is its unusual focus on rural medicine. That focus is centered on a multistate program to train physicians. WWAMI has campuses in Wyoming, easter Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho ..WWAMI. WWAMI’s connection to rural medicine led the UW p[...]
November 7th, 2018 - 4:53 pm § in Science
Science Matters: 9 New Congress Reps Have Science Credentials.
All but one replaced a Republican: Edited from article in Business Insider When the 116th Congress heads to Washington in January, there will be more scientists in the Congress, one senator and eight members of the House. The members of the 115th Congress include one physicist, one microbiologist,[...]
Reuven Carlyle: Massive Expansion of the UW School of Medicine
Reuven Carlyle Thinks Big: Let the University of Washington Buy The Amgen Campus First it was Washington State University proposing to create a new medical school in Spokane for the absurdly low annual cost of 24 million dollars. Now, over at his blog, State Representative Reuven Carlyle h[...]