Abdul El-Sayed has made his doctor credentials the focal point of his campaign for governor, offering a “Medicare for all” state-run health insurance program last week as the prescription to fix what ails the state”s economy and people.
But El-Sayed is not licensed to practice medicine in Michigan, according to state records, a fact he tends to omit from his resume in campaign literature, in which he uses the professional title of “physician.”
On the campaign trail, in published commentaries and at debates with other candidates vying to be Michigan’s next chief executive, El-Sayed, a progressive Democratic firebrand, routinely talks about being a doctor and has made strong suggestions that he has practiced medicine.
“I’m a doctor,” El-Sayed said during the May 31 bipartisan gubernatorial debate at the Mackinac Policy Conference. “I’m the only person up on this stage who has had to deliver a diagnosis — and then watch as somebody had to worry about how they were going to pay for it, let alone what the treatment was for that ailment. That should never happen in Michigan.”
Abdul and notorious antisemite and sharia promoter Linda Sarsour.
El-Sayed made similar comments about diagnosing ailments in a June 6 speech in front of the Spirit of Detroit statue, where he laid out his vision of a single-payer government-run health insurance system that abolishes premiums, copays and the need for the Blue Cross Blue Shields of the world to exist.
“I’m the only person running for governor who has had to look somebody in the eye, deliver a diagnosis, and then realize that their worst day that week wasn’t the day they got their diagnosis,” El-Sayed told supporters. “It was the day they realized they didn’t have the means for payment for their care.”
Columbia University records show El-Sayed graduated in 2014 with a Medical Doctorate degree from the prestigious Ivy League school. Before med school, El-Sayed earned a doctorate degree in public health from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar.
El-Sayed says he worked as a sub-intern during med school at NewYork-Presbyterian’s Allen Hospital near the Bronx, where he treated patients as part of his study of medicine.
“My job was, in effect, to be the junior doctor who took care of the patient,” El-Sayed said in a June 1 speech in Southfield, where he detailed his “Michicare” single-payer plan.
As part of their education, fourth-year medical school students go on rounds with attendant doctors in hospitals.
“But you don’t do diagnosis — you’re still a student,” said Mohammed Arsiwala, M.D., a Livonia internist and president-elect of the Michigan State Medical Society. “You’re under supervision. You can’t do patient management.”
Arsiwala, a member of the Michigan Board of Medicine, the state’s physician-licensing body, thinks El-Sayed is walking a fine line in publicly presenting his medical credentials as a candidate for governor.
“Once you finish medical school, you can call yourself a doctor,” Arsiwala said. “But if you’re not practicing medicine, I don’t think you should call yourself one. If you don’t have a license, how are you going to call yourself a doctor?”
El-Sayed dismisses questions about his use of the terms doctor and physician.
“I have a degree that’s called a Medical Doctorate, which makes me a medical doctor,” El-Sayed said in an interview with Crain’s. “People are going to try and chip away, they always do. That’s the nature of politics.”
At Allen Hospital, El-Sayed said, he found medical treatment limiting in addressing the underlying causes of poor health — factors like the air they breathe, their socioeconomic upbringing and the lack of responsiveness from their government.
El-Sayed recalls in campaign stump speeches finding one HIV-stricken patient he had spent weeks caring for in the hospital on a subway car one night and making a decision to rescind a hospital residency application and instead pivot to public health scholarship and, eventually, advocacy.
That led El-Sayed back to Detroit in 2015 to become the city’s health department director at age 30 (Because El-Sayed was not actually a licensed physician, the city had to hire Joneigh Khaldun, M.D., to be Detroit’s chief medical officer, city spokesman John Roach said.).
In Detroit, El-Sayed oversaw rebuilding the department after the city emerged from bankruptcy. At times, he found himself at odds with his boss, Mayor Mike Duggan, over the impact of residential water shutoffs on public health and whether housing demolitions stirred up toxic lead in the air that Detroit children breath.
“I think there’s a lot of ways that one serves as a physician. And I think the work that I have done and I continue to do is true to the core and the ethos of medicine,” El-Sayed said in an interview. “And when I took my Hippocratic oath, that is still an oath that I use to guide my work today. I’m a physician because I have an MD, but I’m also a physician because of the work that I’ve dedicated my career to.”
Whether it matters that the doctor never practiced medicine clinically is up for Democratic voters to decide in the Aug. 7 primary.
But one could argue El-Sayed’s campaign literature showing him wearing a doctor’s white lab coat is akin to graduating from law school and presenting yourself as an attorney — even though you never took or passed the bar exam.
Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic Party establishment’s favorite for the gubernatorial nomination, has had a license to practice law in Michigan since November 1998, according the State Bar of Michigan. But we almost never hear her say, “as an attorney” in talking about issues she champions. Ditto for Attorney General Bill Schuette, the Republican front runner for governor.
Maybe that’s because society views doctors in higher esteem than lawyers — or journalists, for that matter.
On the stump, though, El-Sayed comes across as the most credible top candidate for governor when it comes to health care policy issues because he frequently reminds voters that he’s, well, a doctor.
And that fuels the fight he’s asking voters to let him wage against “CEOs from multibillion-dollar corporations” — words he increasingly uses to refer to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and its CEO, Daniel Loepp — without distinguishing himself from the kind of doctor who sees patients every day and the kind who got a medical degree and studies public health.
“They’ll tell you it’s impossible, you can’t do it,” El-Sayed said in Southfield about his single-payer health care plan. “Well, if you take a paycheck from Blue Cross, you can’t do it. But I’ll tell you, as a doctor, it’s definitely possible.”
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Now you’re just being redundant. Anyone posing with Sarsour should be automatically disqualified from holding public office.
Mike
5 years ago
Per USA Law, those who advocate violating the US Constitution and supplant it with some other legal system are subversives and can be removed from the country.
Therefore, by definition ALL muslims can and should be removed from the country as they Subversives and their Sharia law is Sedition.
If we had a functioning DOJ and functioning legal system designed to protect Americans there would be no muslims remaining in the USA.
Well thank you BRUH for exposing your galactic lack of intellect and civility. Just like the rest of your ilk. Liberals, these are the people you are in bed with.
You are correct about Dr. Bill Warner. I’ve followed his teaching for years. However I missed the ‘satirical intent’ of your writing. An honest mistake.
I do not complain about Muslim / Islam/ Sharia scum bums…I use .308 hi power bug spray…kills Muslim cockroaches dead on arrival…got it …
I am Back…with bells on …fresh from more anti Islam boot camp….ready to lock and load …
Semper-Fi…..
No one kuffar really appreciates the fact muslums are killing/enslaving/raping them for the love of allah. They’re acts of love not hate!
Robin Eublind
5 years ago
You know absolutely nothing about his work and background.
With his education and experience he has found a myriad of other ways to facilitate and improve healthcare in America. We have the most expensive healthcare system in the world with some of the worst coverage & outcomes.
Your article is wholly disingenuous.
Have you ever considered becoming an honest journalist?
You seem to have some talent for it.
The 1st thing I usually hear about U.S. med. care (in my lifetime) is that it is the best in the world.There are plenty of folks w. moolah from all over the world who come to Cleveland, NYC or Mayo clinic for treatment (they could afford anywhere).I’ve addressed the costs elsewhere.Further,cool name.Are u just yankin’ chains?
With single payer, research goes away and care declines. The UK has it. NHS is a failure. It becomes a shoddy one size fits all. It never works out well.
In 2007, I had my spine sliced and diced. The Cleveland Clinic Spine Clinic is open two days a week, at the main campus, and two days a week at Euclid Cleveland Clinic. When pulling into the parking lot … over one third of the license plates were Canada plates. Oh …. I imagine they love the drive and paying out of pocket, when they receive SO much better care in New Sweden (formerly Canada).
Thanks for your concern, felix1999. I’m right as rain as any old fart deserves to be. I have a friend, in New Sweden (formerly Canada), whose wife’s been battling cancer. She’s recovering quite well, although each year, some treatment and/or medication gets “delisted”. It’s quite a struggle. Moreover, this is the real crux of New Sweden’s healthcare. A few years back, he went to the emergency room with chest pains. They told him he needed to set an appointment with his PC … the ER did NOTHING. So, he schedules and appointment, ten days out. He sees her and she schedules some test at some other facility. He has the tests performed and a pathologist review. He’s told he needs three stents. Four months later, the stents are implanted. As you’re aware, in the US … he’d have been tested and rushed to an operating room … they’d not have let him leave … stents that same day. In New Sweden …. How he didn’t die is quite the question …. ER to operation … almost six freaking months. Ain’t that a kick?
Through social circumstance I know a lot of physicians, Plenty of doctors aren’t involved directly in patient care and so have no need of a license the lack of which certainly doesn’t mean they’re not up to date, are any way inferior, or don’t know what’s going on in healthcare. Comparing medical education to law is spurious–laughable, actually. More worrisome is that, by the look of things, he seems to have fundamentalist traits at odds with integration..
Actually doctors are very involved. It is the nurses that carry out most of the work. I meet directly with my doctor and we cover options etc.. If the doctor is not directly involved then I question that…..The final decision is between the patient and the doctor.
A different subject. Lots of docs don’t need a license (a bit of a expensive racket like a lot of the fees doctors in direct contact with the public must yearly pay.) For example, many head up research projects or take positions in a bureaucracy. It’s a valuable degree leading to lots of options.
No, I don’t want to change the subject.
For a PHYSICIAN to practice medical care in the U.S. a license is REQUIRED, otherwise you will be sued. Criminal and civil penalties will apply WITHOUT EXCEPTION for a physician!.
To head up research you don’t need a medical license. You do need to go through other hoops. Bureaucrats don’t need a medical license.
Merely pointed out you changed the topic. But license not required for many positions outside patient treatment. The subject of the article is an example.
There have already been documented cases of medical jihad in the US, what better way to kill the kafir al najjis?
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago
I’m the only person up on this stage who has had to deliver a diagnosis — and then watch as somebody had to worry about how they (sic) were going to pay for it,
Apparently Seyed thinks everybody should worry about how to pay for “somebody’s” treatment.
Halal Bacon
5 years ago
“Fake it till you make it” was invented by moHAMhead
lilyred
5 years ago
A ‘junior doctor’.
mackykam
5 years ago
He’d make a great veterinarian, given his muslim experience inseminating sheep…..
felix1999
5 years ago
What a load of crap!
WHY would anyone be interested in another form of imaginary healthcare? It didn’t work with Obamacare.
“I’m the only person up on this stage who has had to deliver a diagnosis — and then watch as somebody had to worry about how they were going to pay for it, let alone what the treatment was for that ailment. That should never happen in Michigan.”
Really!
“But you don’t do diagnosis — you’re still a student,” said Mohammed Arsiwala, M.D., a Livonia internist and president-elect of the Michigan State Medical Society. “You’re under supervision. You can’t do patient management.”
If he can’t diagnose, then how can he state he’s seen people struggle to pay medical bills? There is no such thing as a “junior doctor”. There is something called an intern.
Then this:
“El-Sayed recalls in campaign stump speeches finding one HIV-stricken patient he had spent weeks caring for in the hospital on a subway car one night and making a decision to rescind a hospital residency application and instead pivot to public health scholarship and, eventually, advocacy.”
So he NEVER finished his RESIDENCY? He is not a doctor!
At best he is a public advocate for SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE that we just witnessed doesn’t work! Are the people out there is DUMB to be fooled again? This one has a slippery tongue.
Al Yehzan
5 years ago
In a perfect ‘Muslim world’, can Linda stay this close to Abdul? Not if they are in Middle East or in Asia! Lucky they are in US soil!!
People say, “It can’t happen here”. Well, it’s happening in Michigan and in Minnesota with Keith Ellison out to bring the shari’a whether we want it or not. THEY MUST BE STOPPED.
That’s why he’s running. theunitedwest.org is running a webinar later this month on how to educate people to oppose him. Given the general level of ignorance about the danger of Islam they are going to need all the education they can get.
Good analogy!
Sure go practice law – they can’t disbar you!
He is taking advantage of ignorance.
Commieobamie
5 years ago
Sure he does. he has a PHD in severed head knife cutting. A doctorate in anal goat humping. A physiology degree in 50 ways to rape an infidel and feel good about it.
felix1999
5 years ago
This guy is full of crap. He is NOT a doctor.
To be a U.S. DOCTOR you must do THIS and be licensed by the U.S.
At best he is a wanna be doctor that went into advocacy without a license.
1. Earn a Bachelor’s Degree (often pre med) 4years
2. Take the MCAT (Medial College Admission Test)
3. Enroll in medial school 4 year
A Doctor of Medicine (MD) program is four years in length, and combines academic coursework with clinical training. The first two years of the program will teach you about several topics, including medical laws and ethics, microbiology, anatomy and physiology. The final two years require you to practice in clinical rotations. These rotations, completed under the supervision of doctors, will expose students to areas involving surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, gynecology and obstetrics.
Medical students will be expected to choose internships that focus on a specific specialty. This will help them get into a residency program. The internship is often completed during the summer between the third and fourth years.
4. Step 4: Complete a Medical Residency
After graduating from medical school, aspiring doctors must enter residency programs. In a residency, doctors will receive paid, on-the-job training. These can last anywhere from 3-7 years, depending on the specialty. They take place in a hospital and offer an opportunity for medical school graduates to begin treating patients under the supervision of an experienced doctor.
5. Step 5: Obtain Licensure
Doctors must obtain medical licensure to practice in hospitals and other types of medical facilities. In order to earn licensure, doctors must pass the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE). This three-part exam covers topics involving scientific and medical concepts, patient care and management in ambulatory settings.
You may also consider obtaining specialty certification. You have the option to earn certification in the specialty of your interest from an accredited organization. Earning certification will demonstrate a candidate’s knowledge and skills in a specific medical specialty, such as immunology, dermatology, neurological surgery or ophthalmology. The prerequisites for certification typically include a certain number of years of experience working in the specialty, including the residency period, and passing an exam.
He served as a “sub-intern”, no mention of any internship, let alone serve any medical residency (Graduated Columbia in 2014, possibly under one of the special foreigner going home degree programs like our former President, and got enough political kudos and attaboys to go to work for city of Detroit in 2015 pretty much making a 3-7 year residency impossible). Wouldn’t the -no residency- preclude even taking the USMLE?
Sing On
5 years ago
I see Michigan is facing the exact same problem as the Islamic Republic of Canadastan, ruled by the Prime Mistake Jihad Trudope. Hardworking and honest muslims who wish to integrate into western society are being stepped on by their jihadist enemies. Let this idiot run for governor. The more he opens his big mouth, the more other muslims will want to shut it.
Keith Ellison: I’m not a moderate, but I play one in Minnesota!
Superb54
5 years ago
Did you notice his wife’s hand signal???? Hello? This is deeper than you think!
Raymond Hietapakka
5 years ago
..she’s pointing her stinky left hand at him…isn’t that harraam?
Superb54
5 years ago
Oh, its Sarsour that has the satanic hand gesture! ????????
rascallyrabbit
5 years ago
This is where Marxism and Sharia merge. What MUST understood is that the communists and the Islamists have the SAME goal, for now, and that is to make ‘the people’ subservient to the will of the government, ‘for their own good’ of course.
They want to take the U.S. down and they are united on that. That includes erasing Christianity and Judaism. If they are successful with that then who ever is more brutal wins. Remember Communism has NO TIME for any religion. Communism requires your complete devotion and their leader is your new god.
Spaghetti Webz
5 years ago
Boy, he’s really leaning only 2 things. He’s a Muslim and a half assed, non practicing graduate from medical school. NOT a doctor
ConnectingDots
5 years ago
The Koran commands Muslims to lie to non-Muslims, so this is no surprise.
acewheeler
5 years ago
Michigan sounds like it is pretty far gone in the Islam direction. Muslims in positions of authority on medical boards. Now this a$$hole comes along and wants to be Governor. He’s a Muslim and as such, should not be allowed to run for public office any where in the USA! This infiltration is part of the Four Stages of Islamic Conquest!
Michigan is falling far into the Muslim camp by allowing this maggot to run for any thing, much less Governor. They should all be run out of the country! I see a photo of the Hamas cheerleader and all around female maggot, Linda Sarsour, promoting this clown. Reason enough for Michigan residents to NOT vote for this quack. Here are the Four Stages of Islamic Conquest. Getting elected to positions of authority is definitely part of conquest!
I hope the people of Michigan are smart enough to not elect this guy. . This would be a disaster for them.
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
He is a Moslem. Moslems can LIE to infidels. This is part of their CURSE of being a WILD MAN whose hand shall be against every other men’s hand and every other men’s hand against his.
You cannot get along with a LIAR. Impossible! You can never trust what they say if you are an infidel. Which you are, if you are NOT a Moslem.
But the problem is not being an infidel. The problem is being a Moslem!!
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Wherever there is “single payer” in any legal document, the “payer” is EVERYBODY. In other words, it is hypocritical even in its title.
VoiceInDesert
5 years ago
Should anyone trust a candidate whose god is THE father of lies?
Sgtsnuffy
5 years ago
FOLKS , HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I’VE GOT TO SAY THIS, “NEVER EVER TRUST A MOSLEM” . LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF ISLAM , EVERY WHERE THEY GO THEY BRING DESTRUCTION , DECEIT AND LIES . IT’S HOW THEY SPREAD. IT’S LIKE THE OLD SAYING “BEWARE OF GREEKS BARING GIFTS” . THEY CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED TO TELLING THE TRUTH TO THE INFIDEL. HM, KIND OF LIKE DEMOCRATS . OF COURSE HE’S BOTH A DEMOCRAT AND MOSLEM .
notme123
5 years ago
Proof!, and how was all this education paid for? And how is he earning a living now?
He did earn a medical degree, but he never applied to practice medicine. That said, how the education was paid isn’t public information.
Defence Man
5 years ago
Under no circumstance can this Islamist be trusted. Appearing along side of the Islamist activist Linda Sarsour assures us of his Islamism, and their combined goal of Islamism eventually ruling the North American continent. They have time on their side.
Brenda Sinclair
5 years ago
sure glad i do not live in michigan and have MOOSLIM GOV
The disease called islam is spreading across the USA.
Brenda Sinclair
5 years ago
WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES TO VOTE OUT COME NOV 2018,THE ENTIRE LYING CORRUPT, TREASONOUS, DEMOCRAT PARTY, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT END THE WASHINGTON PEDOPHILE CARTELS
Joseph111
5 years ago
You mean a muslim would lie in order to deceive kafars?? unbelievable! (sarcasm intended!)
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
This is something to file away for if El Sayed wins the Democratic nomination…ask him where he practiced and where he had admitting privileges.
Stephen Honig
5 years ago
According to deBlasioshit I can now anoint myself a doctor or anything else since there is no longer testing or standards.
Kat Mandu
5 years ago
So what? If he has a medical degree he is a doctor even if he does not practice.
Seaside
5 years ago
NO infiltration of muslims into American politics. Muslims follow islam’s cruel, oppressive, violent political/legal system. Sharia Law is the antithesis of the USA’s constitution. Democratsocialists walk hand in hand with islam…no freedom. Muslims cannot assimilate into western countries because the islamic political/legal system does not allow it. I pray that Michigan’s citizens are smart enough not to elect a muslim as their governor.
Geppetto
5 years ago
The Democrats know that “free” stuff appeals to their base, those who don’t have a clue that nothing of value is free. Somebody, Corporate America and the American worker, will be stuck with a bill for services rendered to what used to be derogatively called freeloaders but are now referred to as victims of white privilege.
Muslim Jihadists are keenly aware of this major defect in human nature and are expert at using it to their advantage as per the Muslim Brotherhood creed, “sabotaging their house with their hands….” That this Muslim infiltration into the American political landscape goes largely unnoticed and every alert is routinely and loudly portrayed as evidence of the much dreaded, non existent psychosis of Islamophobia, should alarm everyone. But it won’t until there’s a major shift in reportage from hyperbolic propaganda to a full throated, fact based portrayal of the 1400 year history of the most violent, hateful “religion” in human history.
Here’s a link to one such article that should be of interest to every American.
It is the conflict of our age, yet no one dares talk about it. The true story of the Islamic Supremacist war on free speech as told by those on the front lines fighting for our First Amendment rights,
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Pamela Geller tells her own story of how she became one of the world's foremost activists for the freedom of speech,
individual rights, and equality of rights for all. "It's my story, it's what happens when someone fights for freedom in America today,"
Geller explained.
Today Islamic supremacists are demanding more accommodation of Islamic principles
and practices than ever, and daily growing more aggressive in eroding our freedoms – with politically
correct public officials only too happy..
Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author
Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our
hard-won...
The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks is a groundbreaking documentary on the controversy
over the planned Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.
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