[Rhodes22-list] U.S. medical system leading cause of death - comment to Peter

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Peter,

When making such statements, please post citations and references.  

I would suggest that your citations will come from the media which goes out
of its way to cause controversy to drum up business.

Medical mistakes do occur, but having spent many years in several hospitals;
I would say your statement is not accurate.  Especially when compared to
medical care around the world.  Yes, I have personally inspected health care
in a 3rd world country.

I would rather suggest that you consider that people doing ‘stupid’ things
is the leading cause of death.  That would include reckless driving, no life
preservers while boating, smoking, excessive alcohol, excessive and
recreational drugs, suicide, believing the national media that the world is
ending, believing the national media that all is negative...

Again, like many others, the national media has created a herd sheep
mentality...  Remember, that man was not created to live forever.  That
disease and pestilence are our lot.  Take each hour given you, do your best
and enjoy it.

In the meantime, remember that physicians use available science to fix a
problem and get people going a few hours longer.  They are not ‘God’.  

However, they can be stifled by bureaucratic controlled systems.  They can
be stifled by socialism.  Socialism kills human initiative.  Doctors are
only human, and their initiative and imagination can be debilitated fighting
socialistic controlled systems.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
“Every great advancement in science has issued from a new audacity of
imagination.” John Dewey




petelargo wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your post. You will see plenty scare tactic e-mails and 'BOO'
> blogs on this in the upcoming months. Most will be nonsense.  By what
> measure is the current health care system so great if right now the health
> care system itself in the united states is the leading cause of death?
> Somethings wrong and I mean big time.
> 
> 
> Lynn Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>> I noticed in one of the recent diatribes, a letter from someone who
>> claimed
>> that socialism killed his parents. There's a lot to be said about 
>> that letter, but
>> I think I'll just comment on the claim that there are only three 
>> oncologists in Montreal.
>> Unfortunately, I've come to know a little bit about oncologists and where
>> to
>> find 'em. Here's the medical roster of the oncology department at one 
>> hospital there. (McGill)
>> 
>> Dr Gerald Batist - Chair
>> Penny Chipman, Manager, Clinical Research Program
>> Fran Ezzy-Jorgensen, Administrative Officer, Department of Oncology
>> Dr Eduardo Franco - Cancer Division of Epidemiology
>> Dr Carolyn Freeman - Division of Radiation Oncology
>> Dr. Thomas Jagoe - Cancer Nutrition-Rehabilitation Program
>> Dr Petr Kavan - Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program
>> Dr Carmen Loiselle - Oncology Nursing
>> Dr Richard Margolese - Oncology Department, JGH
>> Dr Catalin Mihalcioiu - Division of Medical Oncology
>> Dr Wilson Miller - Clinical Research Program
>> Dr Lawrence Panasci - Division of Medical Oncology
>> Dr Michael Pollack - Cancer Prevention Program
>> Dr Jaroslav Prchal - Community Oncology Program
>> Dr Zeev Rosberger - Psychosocial Oncology Program
>> Dr Jeremy Sturgeon - Oncology Department, MUHC
>> Dr Simon Tanguay - Prostate Cancer Program
>> Dr Marc Tischkowitz - Cancer Genetics Program
>> Dr Anna Towers - Palliative Care
>> Dr Michel Tremblay - Basic Cancer Research
>> 
>> 
>> So the guy who wrote that is a patent liar. The sad thing is that 
>> many people will read that and remember something about how 
>> 'socialized medicine killed somebody and ain't it a shame?' The good 
>> news is that this crap is the best they got and maybe we'll get 
>> somewhere with health care when people know the facts.
>> 
>> Lynn
>> -- 
>> 
>>       
>>    
>> Lynn Hoffman is the author of bang BANG, a novel about a woman who 
>> uses some unusual weapons to tackle the gun culture in Philadelphia.
>> 
>> He is also the author of  The New Short Course in Wine from PrenticeHall.
>> 
>> More? want to read rave reviews? an excerpt?
>> 
>> http://www.kunati.com
>> 
>> You can read more and order a copy of bang-BANG from:
>> 
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640005
>> 
>> or from your local bookseller.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> finds at http://shortcourseinwine.blogspot.com/
>> 
>> 
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> 
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