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Sun Oct 12 17:00:37 BST 2008

Okay, Trauma.org, then everyone on this list server should form a meeting. All of you can get together and discuss it with every single paper ever written. You can even invite people that are from the government and those from outside the United States and you can bring these great minds together and wrangle it out. Imagine the best and the brightest all coming together. Imagine deciding the reasons for transport and saving lives from needless death yet defining the reasons for the use of such transport and then tracking your changes. It can and should be done instead of complaining about others meeting that will either white wash this or do it wrong!

Dr. Mattox, every year you bring together many to a meeting in Las Vegas to educate. I been there three times. I have Dr. Wisner, Knudsen, Rhee, the Dorlacs, Johanigman, Sise, McSwain, Fildes, Tuggle, and many others, true heroes that discuss the latest on trauma, acute care surgery and critical care. You have even expanded your meeting to include a Disaster Preparedness ssection. Why not a day, two or three somewhere to resolve this issue? Of anyone that can organize such a meeting and decide such issues that has the power to organize, it is you. It is a large enough issue for people to have disscussed this for weeks now. If somewhere "they" are doing it "wrong", then do it right. Have that meeting and then bring it out in the literature and take it up the stairs to Washington. Get the ACS COT or NFTC behind you and get the US trauma world to go to their representatives and change it.

This website could be the used as a launch pad to help save lives in an organized fashion but someone needs to lead. Now who is it going to be? I nominate Dr. Mattox and then everyone on this web server to help who has been so bold as to write in and speak up. The squeaky wheel gets the grease! Either that or we sit here and do nothing. We need a leader. Who will that be . . . ?

MRM  

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org on behalf of KMATTOX at aol.com
Sent: Sat 10/11/2008 7:24 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Block that PUNT (and panel)

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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