NYT: "Doctors" and Patients and the War Zone (Nobuddeh innerviews Sweeg boud da "cloned ehlichial ligands")
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: NYT: "Doctors" and Patients and the War Zone (Nobuddeh
innerviews Sweeg boud da "cloned ehlichial ligands")
Date: Dec 11, 2009 6:02 AM
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Welp, I knew when I saw the title of
this NYT article that it would amuse me.
Lessons from the War Zone.
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
Nobody ever akst Sweeg Fhat the Wuck he was
talking about, ya know, when he thunked
up "cloned ehrlichial ligands" - or a
"vaccine" for Relapsing Fever:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
when he outed himself for not working for
7 years at the NIH in WaPo and CBS news:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/26/eveningnews/main560528.shtml
Meanwhile, we in the Lyme War Zone can't
even get the time-of-day from the likes
of NYT's Science Tuesday. Nobody from the
NYTimes interviewed Richard Blumenthal and
akst him what was the data IDSA refused to
turn over to him re their Chronic Non-Disease.
http://www.actionlyme.org/090430_RICO_CABAL_CAVES.htm
Heroism?
What do you call it when Anthony Fauci finally
says in the NEJM, "Hey, maybe we should take
a look at this-here LYMErix vaccine that we have
here as a failed excuse for an HIV vaccine?"
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/9/888
"Determining the structure of the trimeric form of the envelope
protein is currently a research priority and is expected to yield
additional insights. Efforts to design novel envelope immunogens
include the use of a 'scaffold' protein unrelated to the HIV envelope
to which conformation-dependent conserved regions of the envelope are
added, ensuring their exposure to and recognition by the immune
system."
The head of NIAID!!!
Don't worry, Ton'. We gotchya covered.
And Blumenthal and the NYTimes and WaPo and
CBS News, too. We got the structure:
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
We got it from some Korean Chemists!!
You go ahead, Ton, and take your "Leadership"
award from one of the Lyme cryminals, Mort
Zuckerman:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/02/12/VI2009021203091.html
http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
Zuckerman and the AIG Greenbergs, attend
the ALDF.com/IDSociety.org crooks' party:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/94e9d21309f76177/508d7369ce25f5cc?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=evan+greenberg+mortimer+zuckerman+ALDF+sponsors#508d7369ce25f5cc
"Dinner co-chairs will include Evan G. Greenberg,
President and COO of the American International Group,
Emil W. Henry, Jr., Managing Director of Gleacher & Co.
LLC and Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman of The
Daily News."
Us'n sick people with Lyme brain
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm
will do the science for ya, hon.'
You allin go on ahead and git her
hero/leadership awards. We, the enemy
who does not get treated (unlike the
Iraqi "terrorists" in the article below),
*we'll* do *your* work,... go to jail, lose
our kids, lose everything, and end up homeless,
while you take the pay.
Nevermind us. We're good.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/health/11chen.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hpw
The New York Times
December 11, 2009
Doctor and Patient
Lessons From the War Zone
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
One morning as a medical student on the surgery service, I learned
about a patient who had been hemorrhaging on the operating table the
night before. The intern who had assisted during the operation took
great pains to describe every detail of the failed efforts of several
senior surgeons and the final, ultimately lifesaving, maneuvers of the
department chairman. “He came in and just got control of the
bleeding,” the intern concluded, waving his hands as if the chairman’s
work had involved magic.
“How did he manage that?” one of my classmates asked.
“He’s one of the best,” the intern answered matter-of-factly. “He was
a surgeon in Vietnam.”
From then on, the idea that our chairman had served as a war doctor
loomed large in our collective imaginations. We were in awe of him,
dazzled by his skill. He was someone who could handle even the most
challenging injuries on the fly, and without the luxury of resources
that other doctors staked their reputations upon, and we dreamed one
day of becoming as good as he was.
But unlike him, we had been lucky enough to have come of age at a time
and in a place when no war was being fought. All that our minds could
muster when we tried to imagine what he might have faced were the
technical challenges of caring for wartime injuries. And after any of
his remarkable operative feats, we would repeat to one another: “Of
course. He was a surgeon in Vietnam!”
Not long ago I saw my former chairman again for the first time in
nearly 20 years. He was older and slightly grayer, and still possessed
of the stunning carriage that made him stand out in a room. But as I
stood before him, what I remembered was not his having served in
Vietnam nor even his remarkable skill, but his profound respect for
the humanity of those he cared for, whoever they might have been.
For what he had taught me, first as a doctor-in-training and later as
a fully trained surgeon and teacher, and what I recalled were the
moments he urged us not to be tardy with our patients, to change out
of our surgical scrubs into neat street clothes when leaving the
operating rooms to see patients, and to be mindful, always, of even
the smallest details of our patients’ experiences.
War, we are now learning, can have wide-ranging, complex and not
always positive effects on doctors who serve. But one thing is
certain: seeing the casualties of combat does more than produce war
doctors capable of caring for any injury. It has the paradoxical power
to create doctors with an extraordinary appreciation for all humanity.
Dr. Chris Coppola illustrates this power in his memoir, “A Pediatric
Surgeon in Iraq” (NTI Upstream, 2009). Now practicing surgery at
Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., Dr. Coppola served two
medical tours of duty in Iraq as a lieutenant colonel in the Air
Force. His memoir chronicles his 10 months as one of two dozen
surgeons among 300 military medical personnel stationed in Balad,
Iraq.
Dr. Coppola pulls few punches in describing the war he saw. While a
defter editing hand might have resulted in a more polished and
cohesive book, it is the unflinching honesty — and poignancy — of Dr.
Coppola’s voice that ultimately makes this a powerfully thought-
provoking and occasionally disturbing read.
He writes, for example, about a soldier so badly injured that even
gender is mistaken. “The soldier is encased in a thick vinyl body bag.
At the head of the stretcher, his puffy charred face juts out of the
opening of a silver survival blanket.”
But the soldier turns out to be a woman. “I feel no pulse in her
carotid artery, and above the neck, her head is a swollen, burned,
androgynous mess. I feel the wind sucked out of me, and a pressure in
my chest.”
Iraqis from both sides of the conflict are also among Dr. Coppola’s
patients, some of them injured during the daily late afternoon ambush
or I.E.D. detonation. One victim is an insurgent who panicked and
prematurely detonated his explosive when he saw American soldiers
coming.
“I look for signs in his swollen face of malice,” Dr. Coppola writes,
“but all I see is a dying man who needs our treatment.”
The patient soon bleeds to death, but the event leaves Dr. Coppola
“cold.” The insurgent “was on a mission to kill my countrymen and may
have succeeded if he were still alive. How am I supposed to comprehend
his death when my duty as a doctor to heal contradicts my duty as an
officer to defend?”
Dr. Coppola never offers pat answers. Over and over again he simply
shows what he and his fellow soldiers have chosen to do in
unimaginably trying circumstances. Dr. Coppola goes out of his way to
use his specialized training to treat Iraqi children who would
otherwise die in understaffed and underequipped Iraqi hospitals. On
the military base where blood reserves are severely limited, soldiers
line up repeatedly to donate their own blood, for fellow servicemen
and for Iraqis from both sides of the conflict.
Even amid the horrors of war, these soldiers and doctors hold fast to
a concern for others that transcends not only politics but also their
own mortality.
“What I learned just seeing war firsthand,” Dr. Coppola told me
recently, “was that people die and it makes no sense whatsoever. I’m a
doctor because of the reward of helping people; and that was there
every day in Balad. But civilians might just be going to the market or
to a wedding and be wiped out. Or I’d see the troops, these 20-year-
old kids, who would be laughing, sending home e-mail and opening
packages one day, and the next day we would be calling family and
doing everything we could to keep them alive so their families could
see them in Germany.”
It has been two years since Dr. Coppola’s last tour of duty. I asked
him how he and his practice have changed. “I’m older and grayer,” he
said, “and what I see now doesn’t shock or bother me.”
He continued: “Any time you interact with patients, there are two
agendas. There is something you as the physician want to achieve
medically, and there is something that is important for the patient.
Since coming back, I’ve made it a more important part of my practice
to understand my patient’s agenda.”
“I don’t think it takes going to war to realize how important it is to
appreciate our patients as people, not as lines on a to-do list.”
What it takes is a book or a teacher, or for those of us who are
fortunate enough, both.
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