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Thu Oct 15 18:22:38 BST 2009

Where have you been the last couple of weeks?  

Fiona's message barely cracks the top ten.  Cripes, I've got three in the
first five.  Your scolding is poorly aimed.  

Pret

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On Behalf Of Mohammad Reshad Chumroo
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:18 AM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Re: trauma-list Digest, Vol 76, Issue 19

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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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:24:17 +1100
>From: Fiona Wallace <tielserrath at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Recognition for (Peace) Performance
> To: "Trauma-List [TRAUMA.ORG]" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
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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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