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Trauma.org is a site for patient care, I think Fiona 
Wallace's comment does not belong on this site. Totally 
inappropriate.

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>   3. RE: [Med-events] Re: Michigan 3% tax on doctors and 
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> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:24:17 +1100
>From: Fiona Wallace <tielserrath at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Recognition for (Peace) Performance
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> On 14/10/2009, at 6:31 PM, Larry Torrey wrote:
>> , the Lockerbie bomber was released to a hero's welcome,
> 
> Well, as we're wandering ever further from trauma 
>(though this is  
> perhaps relevant, as ERI emergency department, an old 
>stamping ground  
> of mine, was peripherally involved):
> 
> If people had actually followed what was happening 
>instead of blindly  
> believing Faux news, you'd know that the Lockerbie 
>'bomber' was  
> released because there was a very strong likelihood that 
>his next  
> appeal - thanks to a sustained campaign by journalists 
>to expose facts  
> hidden by the UK government - would reveal that the 
>trial was a farce  
> and they imprisoned the wrong man. This would have been 
>more than a  
> little embarrassing to some major political figures.
> 
> The government suppressed evidence of a serious security 
>breach at  
> Heathrow because of the probable economic impact. A 
>secure, padlocked  
> door that gave access to the baggage placed on the PanAm 
>flight had  
> been broken open with bolt cutters, which I believe is 
>not something  
> that commonly happens at a major international airport. 
>The only  
> physical ID was a 'may have been', and we all know how 
>reliable that  
> sort of testimony is - can the surgeons here say that 
>they could  
> identify, on the street, every person they operated on 
>in the last two  
> months? There were so many things wrong with the case it 
>makes  
> breathtaking reading, and shows what a determined 
>government (with  
> pressure from an even more determined government) can do 
>to the  
> justice system.
> 
> Even many relatives of those who died have been 
>campaigning against  
> the case as a miscarriage of justice.
> 
> This case is important to me since several colleagues 
>were in the team  
> that went out as the on-scene trauma response that 
>night. A friend of  
> my mother lost her daughter on the flight. Also, the boy 
>who lost his  
> parents and sister when their house was destroyed by the 
>crash (he was  
> a few streets away mending a friend's bike) committed 
>suicide about  
> four years ago by jumping off Clifton Bridge. His elder 
>brother, who  
> was away at university at the time of the crash, killed 
>himself as well.
> 
> The ripples of Lockerbie are still spreading, and I want 
>to see  
> someone imprisoned for what happened, but it is 
>desperately important  
> to me that they lock up the right person(s).
> 
> The case was a travesty, and it shames me as a Brit that 
>we were in  
> significant part responsible. The Lockerbie bomber(s) 
>are still  
> unpunished two decades on.
> 
>Fiona Wallace.
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:25:46 -0400
>From: James Deppe <depjt48 at msn.com>
> Subject: RE: [Med-events] Re: Michigan 3% tax on doctors 
>and PAs
> To: <med-events at list.pitt.edu>
> Cc: trauma-list at trauma.org, redstart at aol.com
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> LANSING, Mich. - 
> 
> The Democratic-led Michigan House has voted to put a 3 
>percent tax on doctors? gross receipts to raise more 
>federal matching money for state-run health care 
>programs. 
> 
> The House voted 56-52 mostly along party lines Tuesday 
>to send the proposal to the Republican-led Senate. 
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> 
> I believe this same sort of thing was done in Kentucky 
>some years ago, and led to a migration of docs out of the 
>state.
> 
> Tim 
> J.T.Deppe,M.D. 
> Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine 
> Johnson Memorial Hospital 
>Franklin,IN 46131 
> depjt48 at msn.com
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