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Mon Mar 5 17:18:31 GMT 2007

Well said.

Ben Reynolds, PA-C
Pittsburgh, PA

--- "Bjorn, Pret" <pbjorn at emh.org> wrote:

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> Subject: Re: R: Walter Reed, Military Medicine, a
> New Commission
> 
> ...
> 
> I would agree it would be good not to have a war,
> not to have car
> wrecks, not to have drugs and not to have family
> social violence.   It
> would be good for people to NOT smoke and to Not
> drink booze, but we as
> clinicians care for the medical needs of a society. 
>  
> 
> So very many special interest groups try to support
> their interest de
> jour.  We are in the midst of the greatest wounding
> frenzy of the past
> 50 yeasr with head injury , amputations and
> devastating injury.   We
> must NO t abandon our patients and their needs at
> any level,  including
> the wounded soldier who goes back home to heartland
> America.  
> 
> K
> ...
> 
> 
> How easy it seems to pick and choose among causes to
> champion; but let's
> not pretend that the trauma care provider's only
> obligation is to the
> victims of injuries already suffered.  
> 
> The "medical needs of our society," in this context
> more than any,
> require that clinicians take action when the lay
> public is seduced into
> senseless and unending slaughter, and then
> methodically inured its
> consequences.
> 
> The 21st-Century's Broad Street Pump is in the
> Middle East -- designed,
> constructed, and financed by American foreign policy
> -- and it's high
> time an ostensibly free civilization exercised its
> obligation to tear
> the handle off, or live proud of our pestilence.
> 
> Pret
> 
> 
> 
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