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February 10, 2003:
Malpractice:
The President wants to limit the amount of damages for medical
malpractice to $250,000. We may as well give them a licence to
kill. They can get that much for a single surgery. The answer
is not to limit lawsuits but to get these few butchers out of
the practice of medicine.
According to one doctor being interviewed on a TV show, 50 percent
of the medical malpractice suites are filed against only 5 percent
of the doctors.
We don't know if this is accurate or not, but we suspect it is.
Most medical review boards are staffed by doctors.
I have two cases of personal experience with medical malpractice.
Medical review boards do cover for butchers. So do the HMOs.
They do not protect the public at all.
Some of the doctors who regularly commit malpractice have as
many as ten suits filed against them. They still get paid by
the HMOs.
The AMA covers for butchers. They will protect these bunglers
forever. We need some new laws and some new medical review boards
not staffed by doctors.
There is no law requiring hospitals to report cases of incompetence,
negligence, or gross errors.
We need to change that.
We don't need to limit lawsuits. We need to make the AMA, hospitals,
and the HMOs stop covering for butchers.
Gaffer:
How Are We Focused:
Most of us are ego center focused Very few people are really
cause focused. These cause focused people will seem strange indeed
to the ego center focused folks. Let us understand what I mean
by cause focused. There are a great number of people who pretend
to be cause focused. Most of these are ego center focused, but
they borrow a cause to draw attention to themselves. The most
obvious of these in our time are some of the people working in
the large fund raising causes. Everything ego center focused
people do is about themselves, though they often do a great deal
of good in the process. Cause focused people, once they get into
their cause, do not think of themselves at all. They think about
the cause and how they can bring it off. King and Gandhi come
to mind.
Evie:
Willie the Whale:
Some people found a whale that had been abandon by his pod. They
kept him and raised him. He liked the people and the people liked
him. I think they even used him in a movie. Even so, they took
this poor whale out to sea and abandoned him. It cost 20 million
bucks to dump him. For some unknown reason, they expected the
whale to be happy. The expected him to begin associating with
other whales. He did not. He came back to land and hung around
whatever people he could find. One of the idiots who dumped him
said, "Sooner or later, we expect him to choose whales."
That is beyond stupid. Here is an orphan who has never know any
other association except human. All of a sudden, he is supposed
to forget a lifetime of conditioning and become a wild animal.
I assure you he won't, any more than Tiger would choose cats.
My wife has a cat named Tiger. He is pretty stupid, but he
knows who his family is. It ain't other cats. It's us! That whale
knows who his family is. It ain't other whales. It's the people
who raised him. Dumping that whale would be the same as my wife
taking Tiger out into the woods and dumping him. She would say,
"Okay, you're a wild cat now. Go and be happy." That
would be stupid. Decent human beings do not abandon their pets.
These stupid do-gooders have minds sets that tell them how things
ought to be. This makes them completely blind to reality, even
when it hits them over the head.
Markus Thyme:
Super Bowl:
The 2003 Super Bowl game was played yesterday, February 27. The
Oakland Raiders lost. This morning it was reported by the news
media that the Raider fans in Oakland rioted last night. If I
were a sports fan, I would deeply resent the media identifying
those thugs as sports fans. Here is the truth of it. America
is overrun with a huge mass of scumbag rabble. These lowlifes
will constantly be alert for any excuse to behave like the scum
they are. This has nothing to do with sports or even with Oakland.
It is nothing more than scumbag rabble running amok.
Gaffer:
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