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Sat Jul 25 17:10:57 BST 2009

Well said, Ken

Norman

Norman McSwain MD
Trauma Director, Charity Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Tulane University
New Orleans LA
504 988 5111
norman.mcswain at tulane.edu <mailto:norman.mcswain at tulane.edu> 

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org on behalf of KMATTOX at aol.com
Sent: Sat 7/25/2009 11:03 AM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Re: BRAVO to the ACS, AMA, and individual voices

In a message dated 7/25/2009 10:46:18 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
drydok at hotmail.com writes:

The  point is that there are not enough physicians on this list or anywhere
else  with enough advertising power to convince the public AGAINST the
media, so it  will either happen or won't regardless of what physicians 
think/want.

Don't bet on it.   Physicians on this list, members of the ACS,  members of
the AMA,,,,,,,,,,etc.   have patients who look up to their  doctor much
more than they look up to their politicians.    AND  all politics,  like all
health care is local.   The funding and  the protection might be centrist, but
the provisions are local.    Therefore what is said in examining rooms,
churches, schools, synagogue,  assembly rooms, masques, golf courses by a
doctor to her/his friends and  patients goes a long way as to what happens in
practice.   

I am aware of several list servers, including almost all of those to which 
AARP members write, have had a tremendous influence on the Democratic Blue
Dogs  in Congress, just the past 10 days. 

I am aware that discussions on trauma, surgical, critical care, and general
 medical discussions have led to some persons (not me) that you do know and
 respect getting a 1:1 audience with important persons at very very high
places  just in the last couple of days.    I do know some of the 
conversation which went on and it was much like what you see here about QUALITY, 
ACCESS, and Costs.    Remember that in the Monday night speech, a  comment was
made about doctors doing tonsillectomies just to make  money.   That reference
was an insult and such was stated by a well  respected physician in this
country directly to the person that made the  statement.  

Do not underestimate the power and influence of even one committed 
tenacious person.     With a long enough lever, a long enough  lever arm,  and the
right position of a fulcrum, a single person could push  the earth off of
its orbit.  

k

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