Barna interned at a hedge fund and worked as an associate consultant at Bain and Company.

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"I have all kinds of credits all over God's green earth, but I'm using this to finish it all off, " said the 41-year-old computer consultant, who has an associate degree in information technology but never finished his bachelor's in psychology.

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Mr Subhash Halder, an associate specialist in Halifax, said he has had to refuse to operate on patients because he cannot become a consultant.

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