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Perfect Synergy at the University of Chicago: Professorships in Medicine Named for a Family of Alleged Medicare Crooks.

Nir Uriel has been named the Rabbi Esformes Professor in Medicine, the University of Chicago announced last week.

The announcement coincided with another one, from the Department of Justice, about Esformes’ son, who has been arrested for the largest health care fraud case in American history.

The father gets double billing with the son in many press accounts, since Rabbi Esformes established the family nursing home business (rumored to be filthy for every one of the years Esformes has denominated the University of Chicago’s most distinguished medical school faculty) which his son merely expanded to its current scope.

I can understand the respect and esteem of one of America’s most corrupt political bodies.

But is UD‘s old school so hard up that it needs to slap these names on its faculty?

Margaret Soltan, July 24, 2016 9:37AM
Posted in: just plain gross

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7 Responses to “Perfect Synergy at the University of Chicago: Professorships in Medicine Named for a Family of Alleged Medicare Crooks.”

  1. dmf Says:

    ah ya know in these dire times for education funding even the unthinkable is getting a passing moment in the public eye:
    http://www.press-citizen.com/story/sports/2016/07/22/should-ui-athletics-share-wealth-rest-school/87298794/

  2. JackOH Says:

    Inside the Hippocratic Oath there’s an obvious cautionary tale. America’s exceptionalist response to that is to heave more bazillions at the medical establishment. Unfortunately, this indictment seems another one of those closing the barn door after . . . deals.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    JackOH: What I find fascinating about the Chicago case is the fact that the school must have known for years and years about this family. They took the money anyway and continue to take it.

  4. dmf Says:

    UD, when you have been at the teat of DARPA, Dow/Monsanto, and co. for so long it’s sown into the DNA.

  5. JackOH Says:

    UD: the chair, Mr. Big, of our Podunk Tech’s affiliated foundation has been indicted once for bribery of public officials (charges dropped). He’s been publicly named numerous times in FBI transcripts related to civic corruption.

    The public officials who’d been bribed by Mr. Big and pleaded out include the mayor of the city in which our Podunk Tech is located. I personally know the lead county investigator whose investigation into Mr. Big’s activities was “captured”/forestalled by the Cleveland (OH) FBI.

    Mr. Big’s Dad was important enough to rate a NYT obit in which his (Dad’s) estate was estimated at $900 million.

    Long story short: at some point you wanna throw up your hands. Why bother?

  6. Margaret Soltan Says:

    JackOH: I’m writing a long post about Trump and nihilism, so the question why bother is very much on my mind today.

  7. JackOH Says:

    The pro-Trump people I know personally can’t articulate a single reason why they support Trump. I suspect the Trump support is shallow and weak.

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