A response to Hopkins, Lowry, Weiss: Why a Fort Worth M.D. school makes sense

The following satire by Phil Goodman, MD to the editorial on Star-Telegram

Maybe Ransom is doing that on purpose to confuse people and gain more support....

He is trying to send out propaganda that the State is getting a medical school at no cost for the first 5 years. There will be a $1.5 billion boost to the local economy. Solves the doctor shortage in Tarrant County and the State of Texas will benefit, too. UNT System potentially improves to Tier-One status. All that and it's completely free to everyone. I mean, it's a win-win. No downside (his propaganda).

According to him, he can do it cheaper than anyone else because the infrastructure's already there (never mind about the $90 million Legislative Appropriation Request because those improvements are needed regardless...blink...blink).

Also, according to him, he's got all the money he needs from private donors so all the State has to do is sit back and reap the benefits. It will not affect the state budget.

A Cost Analysis of the Proposed MD Program at UNTHSC

Spending More Texas $$$ and Getting Less


The University of North Texas (UNT) is attempting to place a second medical school (UNTMD) on the same campus as their already established nationally recognized medical school, the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM). The existing medical school has produced more than 3,000 physicians, most of whom practice primary care in Texas. If the Texas Legislature allows this UNT power grab, it will waste state money and harm TCOM’s cost effective production of highest quality physicians.

FACT: The cost to educate an M.D. medical student is much higher than the cost to educate a D.O. medical student.

Open letter to TCOM alumni from TCOM alumni association president

the following letter by John Wright, DO

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.   (Ronald Reagan)

Dear TCOM alumni:

As members of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) Alumni Board, we feel it is very important that you receive further information about the proposed plan of the University of North Texas (UNT) Board of Regents to create an MD school through UNT, to be placed on the campus of the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) in Ft. Worth. If approved, this new MD school would share (state provided) resources with TCOM. 

Your Alumni Board has voted against organizing this plan.  We have also had a vote of "no confidence" for Scott Ransom, D.O., the president of the UNTHSC for leading the push towards achieving this goal.
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) has stopped funding administrative revenues for the Osteopathic Research Center (ORC), and the AOA House of Delegates and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) Congress of Delegates have passed resolutions against the proposal. Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA) House of Delegates have also passed  a resolution against this proposal.

Vodka Eyeballing

What is vodka eyeballing? It is a new fad of alcohol drinking has been taking place among young people. It supposedly started in Britain and is now gaining popularity in the US. The “eyeballers” pour vodka directly onto their eyes in the hope of obtaining quick high from the alcohol. They claim that “vodka eyeballing” induces drunkenness faster than drinking the vodka. The urban myth is that the alcohol passes easily through the mucous membrane and enters the bloodstream directly through veins at the back of the eye. This could not be more wrong. The volume of vodka absorbed by the conjunctiva and cornea is too small to have that effect.