User talk:DoctorEric

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Welcome to Wikipedia, DoctorEric! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 05:31, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
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The Exodus
please don't think that the tone of my remarks in the talk section is intended as hostile - when I read them I'm aware of how they sound, but it's not my intention. Please let's engage in a fruitful discussion. PiCo (talk) 03:54, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Discussion of the article content does belong on the article Talk page, no matter how long the thread might become (we need to allow other users the chance to comment). As for the general tack to take, the general idea is to present scholarly theories/views in proportion to how widely they're held. That's not always easy to judge, of course. But we don't need to argue cases, just present them. And so far as I can tell, the ultra-conservative view that the Exodus happened exactly as described (Hoffmeier's view so far as I can tell, probably Kitchen's too) is pretty marginal; most modern scholars would probably say that the Exodus story represents a "memory" of events back in the 2nd millenium, but that this merely provided the foundation for a literary work created in the Persian period. There are many variations on this, since nobody actually knows, nor probably ever will know.PiCo (talk) 05:13, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Request for Comment on the Berlin page
Hi - since you edited the Berlin page within the last couple months, I'm writing to ask if you'd like to weigh in on a current content dispute that has resulted in a request for comment. The issue, simply, is whether the Berlin article should include an image of the "Buddy Bears" or not. Thanks for your time, Sindinero (talk) 16:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Exodus
I noticed that you had made some earlier edits to the exodus but had them reverted. I recently had the same issue. It would seem that two users are enforcing their own view of what "mainstream scholarly opinion" is on the article. The reason your edits, and mine, were reverted is not that they were wrong or that they didn't represent "mainstream opinion", but that these two users are enforcing a POV on the article. I assure you, your edits and mine were closer to "mainstream scholarly opinion" than the reversions were. If you are willing, we can work together on the article to bring some balance.(talk) 15:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Physician supply
A couple of comments about your Wiki entry on Physician supply. Increasing medical school slots is nice, and does in fact increase the quantity of MD and DO advanced degrees, who could go on to work for health insurance companies or law firms. However, the goal is additional Board Certified Physicians (the ones who see patients). This can only happen if Residency slots are increased, giving the opportunity to pass the boards and become a Board Certified Physician in their specialty. The politicians in my current state, Minnesota, forced the University of Minnesota to increase the medical school by about 34 a few years back (kind of an educated guess from an article I read). The problem was a bunch of new doctors who don't match to fill residency slots and become stuck in limbo. Joke: What do you call the student who finishes dead last in his/her medical school class? A: Doctor!

The other point I wanted to make is about qualified medical school candidates. Not having a diploma or Bachelor's Degree does not eliminate you from entry to medical schools, your mileage will vary though. My wife's medical school class had a guy without a Bachelor's Degree. He was a journeyman plumber just looking for the next stage in life. He did attend college to fill in the necessary coursework required - biology and stuff. Once he passed the MCAT exams with an exceptional score he applied and was admitted. Medical schools are looking for diversity in undergrad education, and don't want everyone with Pre-Med degrees. My wife's undergrad was in the college of agriculture.

Velcroman98 Velcroman98 (talk) 14:42, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Your comments are accurate, but miss the point of my entry (i.e. some of the physician shortage in the U.S. is due to inefficiencies that limit the number of patients physicians can see and treat, not an actual lack of qualified doctors). DoctorEric (talk) 00:20, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

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Overy
email me at berndd11222@gmail.com and I will send you a jpg of the Overy pages. Dresden is a major portion of Overy's bumb down of the German number. regards--Woogie10w (talk) 00:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Overy does not mention the important point that other German sources do not include these refugees fleeing westward. In the 1958 Die deutschen Vertreibungsverluste(German Expulsion Losses), the West Germans footnote 128,000 civilian deaths in the flight from the Russians, mostly during the sieges of Konigsberg and Breslau. There is no mention of air raid deaths. I suspect that they puffed up the figure of the Allied air raid dead for political reasons by including the refugees. --Woogie10w (talk) 01:07, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

August 2019

 * --Jorm (talk) 18:11, 29 August 2019 (UTC)