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Enough.  Please.

I enjoy and appreciate the List, and enthusiastically recommend it to
friends, colleagues, and students.  But this volume and degree of nonsense
is an embarrassment not only to the forum, but to each and all of us who
claim to be serious thinkers.  For better than ninety per cent of
Trauma-List subscribers, I'm certain that this is thread is abject spam.
And honestly, for half of the remainder, I suspect that it provides mere
compensation for an inability to engage debates of actual clinical merit.

Dr. Mattox is fond of observing that language is a strategic target for
those who would undermine a culture.  For those who would challenge him, I
give you this very thread: under a relentless barrage of hyperbole and
nit-picking, the air has been sucked out of the bunker, and whatever
quivering thought was sheltered within has suffocated.  Sound and fury,
signifying squat.

Four days later, I'm no longer confident of what a "professional" is; but
I'm hoping that it turns out to be someone who can interpret context, weigh
significance, tolerate distraction, resist recrimination, and appreciate the
importance of other perspectives to his or her field of interest, and to an
enlightened society.

What are the chances we could put this thread away before the New Year?

Pret

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<DIV><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2>Enough.&nbsp; Please.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2>I enjoy and appreciate the List, and 
enthusiastically&nbsp;recommend it to friends, colleagues, and students.&nbsp; 
But&nbsp;this volume and degree of nonsense is an embarrassment not only 
to&nbsp;the forum, but to each and all of us who claim to be serious 
thinkers.&nbsp; </FONT><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2>For better than 
ninety per cent of Trauma-List subscribers, I'm certain that this is thread is 
abject spam.&nbsp; And honestly, for half of the remainder, I suspect 
that&nbsp;it provides mere compensation for an inability to engage debates of 
actual clinical merit.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2>Dr. Mattox is fond of observing that 
language is a strategic target for those who would undermine a culture.&nbsp; 
For those who would challenge him, I give you this very thread: under a 
relentless barrage of hyperbole and nit-picking, the air has been sucked out of 
the bunker, and whatever quivering thought was sheltered within has 
suffocated.&nbsp; Sound and fury, signifying squat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2>Four days later, I'm no longer 
confident of what a "professional" is; but I'm hoping that it turns out to be 
someone who can interpret context, weigh significance, tolerate distraction, 
resist recrimination, and appreciate the importance of other perspectives to his 
or her field of interest, and to an enlightened society.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2>What are the chances we could put 
this thread away before the New Year?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800000 face=Arial size=2>Pret</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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