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Wafik S. El-Deiry: Great deal of dissatisfaction in how medicine is practiced in 2024

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Jun 7, 2024, 02:00

Wafik S. El-Deiry: Great deal of dissatisfaction in how medicine is practiced in 2024

Wafik S. El-Deiry shared a post on X:

“There is a great deal of dissatisfaction in how medicine is practiced in 2024 in the US and how it is so over regulated. I really don’t understand why I need eight hours of mandatory training to renew my DEA license after 30 years of practice continuously. This is eight hours less to be spent with family or doing many other professional activities that have high priority. This is in addition to mandated opiate abuse training for physicians to renew a medical license in states such as Pennsylvania, which has been the case for many years.

There are many other mandated trainings within academia such that at any point in time in a given month, there is some training that is due or overdue, and someone is unhappy about it, not to mention the person who has to do the training, establishing or looking up passwords to log into websites for mandated trainings.”

Wafik S. El-Deiry

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Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, FRSM, is the Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Director of the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University and Director of the Joint Program in Cancer Biology at Brown University and affiliated hospitals.Dr. El-Deiry discovered p21(WAF1) as a p53 target gene, cell cycle inhibitor, and tumor suppressor that explained the mammalian cell stress response. Dr. El-Deiry made important contributions in cell death signaling and our understanding of the sensitivity of tumors to chemotherapy. El-Deiry has more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and 5 edited books.