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Sun Oct 12 03:24:36 BST 2008

My wife is from Oklahoma.    I and many of my friends are  from Texas.   I 
thoroughly enjoyed watching the Oklahoma/Texas game  today.     I really did not 
have a dog in the  hunt.    But the game with its swings back and forth was a 
GREAT  game.    I heard the stands yell, "BLOCK THAT PUNT" even   when the 
team came to the line to try for two points and NOT  PUNT.     

It is with GREAT sadness and frustration, that I have learned and inform  
anyone who wishes to know, tremendous, TREMENDOUS forces have formed to BLOCK  
that Panel which is being proposed to be formed to look at safety standards  ,  
flight criteria,  weather conditions,  charges, and quality  review by the 
regions trauma system.     It is really SAD  that forces in industry, in 
hospitals, and some individuals have put  considerable pressure on local agencies, 
state agencies, federal agencies, and  even individuals to state that a "panel" 
is not needed, that the indirect data  is sufficient, and that deaths have 
occurred in ground ambulance  crashes.      A huge diversionary tactic is being  
orchestrated with as great a focus as either the democratic or republican  
presidential and congressional campaign of 2008.     

If this campaign to BLOCK the PANEL is successful or even achieves a DELAY,  
then the next deaths from a preventable helicopter crash, carrying a patient  
that did not need such a transport or even a higher level of care, must be  
attributable to societal lethargy and business strong armed  tactics.     

k

In a message dated 10/11/2008 3:17:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
bbledsoe at earthlink.net writes:

Perhaps
"the panel" will be that  introspection.

Bryan

Bryan Bledsoe, DO,  FACEP

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