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Sun Apr 24 13:45:40 BST 2005

Dear Sir/Madam:
Kindly remove my name from mailing list.
Regards.

A S Tabani

>From: Lee Reed <creedyrniam at sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list <trauma-list at trauma.org>
>To: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list <trauma-list at trauma.org>
>Subject: Re: Apologies - Remove my name from open letter.  Date: Sun, 24 
>Apr 2005 01:02:43 -0700 (PDT)
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>Mohamed....PLEASE do not compromise yourself this way...Stand tall and true 
>in your beliefs...It is people like you who will make change occur...And I 
>am sure that there are many other opportunities out there for you if your 
>current place of employment will not hear you out...I am the type of person 
>who is known for my big mouth and I  tend to make administrative types very 
>uncomfortable because of my frank honesty...believe me when i say that 
>there IS a place for you out there...you do NOT need to compromise yourself 
>just to keep a 'job'...and I say, F*** 'em anyhow!  if they can't see 
>what's in front of them, then you are better off without them!  maybe this 
>was just God's way of telling you it is time to move on to bigger and 
>better things?  Personally, when someone tells me I can't do something, I 
>have to prove to them that i CAN do it...Maybe it's your calling to help 
>the staff at your facility get with the program...Stay true to yourself and 
>your patients,  and email me
>   offlist
>  if you need to...
>Lee
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>Mohamed al Malik <traumawon at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Dr. Karim: Please remove my name from the open letter to the leadership of 
>the American College of Surgeons regarding my concern that steroids do not 
>have a functional benefit to patients with blunt spinal cord injury. I have 
>been told by my administrator, trauma director, trauma nurse coordinator, 
>and chief of surgery that I have been to visible and I observe, but not 
>take sides, even if I thought it was the right thing to do. I have been 
>informed that for this hospital and for the hospitals in this very large 
>city and this state, it has been determined that methylprednisilone WILL be 
>used in any case of SCI, including many with penetrating wounds. I have 
>been told that if I wish to continue to work in this hospital and in this 
>city, I MUST follow their protocols. So, Dr. Karim, I regret to inform you 
>that I will become a lurker and read more than I write. I was beginning to 
>enjoy the communications. I hope that those who wrote the papers and 
>reached the
>conclusions that they made which seem NOT to be supported by the data 
>recognize what they have done to the professionalism of surgery. I have 
>recently learned that professionalism is one of the core competencies. I 
>guess it is for Europe, but not for California and my hospital. So I 
>apologize for embarrassing my chief of surgery, my trauma chief, my 
>administrator, and my trauma nurse coordinator. I like it here, so I will 
>now use the big doses of steroids in any patient with any spinal cord 
>injury, just like the others in this city.
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>Mohamed
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