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Dr. Ben Carson
Dr. Ben Carson
"Can a Doctor Be President? - Dr.
Ben
Carson" +
1:58 video, May 26, 2014.
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TEXT: Can a Doctor Be President?
Dr. Ben
Carson
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Dr. Ben Carson, M.D.: I find it amusing when
people want to know why is a doctor speaking out on public
policy. Why don't they ask why is a lawyer speaking out on public
policy or why is a businessman speaking out on public policy? Why
does anybody speak up on it? Usually it's because they know
something about it, and one's profession doesn't dictate what one
knows. It dictates what one has to know in order to perform the
duties associated with that profession. You don't have to
restrict yourself. And there were five doctors who signed the
Declaration of Independence; doctors signed the Bill of Rights, doctors
signed our Constitution. And doctors are actually the most
educated people in our society. Nobody has the level of formal
training that a doctor does. More importantly they're trained to
make decisions based on evidence and not on ideology. So I would
encourage more doctors and engineers and scientists to speak out on
public policy. There's absolutely no reason that rational thought
processes can't be used in public policy and in fact I think if they
were public policies would actually be better. You know one of
the reasons that our Founders wanted a representative government is
because they wanted lots of different points of view; they wanted
people to come at things from different angles, including people who
thought about things rationally. We want some of them included
to. It makes a big difference I think in terms of what we do as a
nation. This is not to say that other people can't be rational,
but you have some people who are trained to be rational, and that helps
when you throw them into the mix. [Music]
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