Did you all hear the bit he said that was replayed on the Leno show? The part about OB/Gyns? If not, I'll try to find a link. In the context of discussing how doctors are getting sued too often, and how good docs can't afford to practice, he said, "OB/GYNs are being preventing from practicing their LOVE on women all over the country..." I can't believe he said that.
ELISABETH DUBIN Hillier ARCHITECTURE One South Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107-3502 | T 215 636-9999 | F 215 636-9989 | hillier.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elliot M. Stern Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:58 PM To: University City List Subject: Re: [UC] Debates Ahead Dr. Pierce teeters on the edge of making a diagnosis, but his remarks "Bush should immediately be given the advantage of a considered professional diagnosis,..." suggest that he means to offer a professional opinion, rather than a diagnosis. Elliot On 08 Sep 2004, at 12:53, John Ellingsworth wrote: > It seems terribly unprofessional for a doctor to make a diagnosis > through a letter to the editor, even with the disclaimer of > accountability. > > A more plausible theory is that Carl Rove said "George, THINK BEFORE > YOU SPEAK!" > > [ > http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF > -8&tab=wn&scoring=d&q=%22carl+rove%22&btnG=Search+News > ] > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Suzanne Minnis wrote: > >>> These letters were in the current (October) issue of the Atlantic. >>> sue >>> >>> When George Meets John >>> >>> ames Fallows's description of John Kerry's debating skills ("When >>> George Meets John," July/August Atlantic) was interesting, but what >>> was most remarkable was Fallows's documentation of President Bush's >>> mostly overlooked changes over the past decade-specifically, "the >>> striking decline in his sentence-by-sentence speaking skills." >>> Fallows points to "speculations that there must be some organic >>> basis for the President's peculiar mode of speech-a learning >>> disability, a reading problem, dyslexia or some other disorder," but >>> correctly concludes, "The main problem with these theories is that >>> through his forties Bush was perfectly articulate." >>> >>> I, too, felt that something organic was wrong with President Bush, >>> most probably dyslexia. But I was unaware of what Fallows pointed >>> out so clearly: that Bush's problems have been developing slowly, >>> and that just a decade ago he was an articulate debater, "artful >>> indeed in steering questions and challenges to his desired >>> subjects," who "did not pause before forcing out big words, as he so >>> often does now, or invent mangled new ones." Consider, in contrast, >>> the present: "the informal Q&As he has tried to avoid," "Bush's >>> recent faltering performances," "his unfortunate puzzled-chimp >>> expression when trying to answer questions," "his stalling, >>> defensive pose when put on the spot," "speaking more slowly and less >>> gracefully." >>> >>> Not being a professional medical researcher and clinician, Fallows >>> cannot be faulted for not putting two and two together. But he was >>> 100 percent correct in suggesting that Bush's problem cannot be "a >>> learning disability, a reading problem, [or] dyslexia," because >>> patients with those problems have always had them. Slowly developing >>> cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, can >>> represent only one diagnosis, and that is "presenile dementia"! >>> Presenile dementia is best described to nonmedical persons as a >>> fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly >>> earlier in life, well before what is usually considered old age. It >>> runs about the same course as typical senile dementias, such as >>> classical Alzheimer's-to incapacitation and, eventually, death, as >>> with President Ronald Reagan, but at a relatively earlier age. >>> President Bush's "mangled" words are a demonstration of what >>> physicians call "confabulation," and are almost specific to the dia! > gnosis of a true dementia. Bush should immediately be given the > advantage of a considered professional diagnosis, and started on drugs > that offer the possibility of retarding the slow but inexorable course > of the disease. >>> >>> Joseph M. Price, M.D. >>> Carsonville, Mich. >>> >>> he whole of James Fallows's article on Bush and Kerry's debate >>> styles was interesting, but one comment jumped out at me: "[Bush] >>> has rarely been interested in the details of any policy matter, >>> believing that he 'has people' who can master the subject for him." >>> What further proof is needed that Bush's policy decisions are based >>> on whatever his "people" choose to tell him? Naturally they will >>> tell him whatever (and only whatever) supports their own agendas. >>> >>> Although, as Mary Beth Rogers says in the Fallows article, his >>> "ability to stick to his message and repeat it" might be >>> "remarkable," it implies to me that he doesn't know enough to answer >>> questions that go beyond the text he has been given by his "people." >>> I suspect that his "widely noted lack of eloquence" is due to his >>> understandable insecurity. If the ideas he is expressing are not his >>> ideas, based on his own knowledge and decision-making, then he can >>> only repeat by rote what he has rehearsed. >>> >>> Bush's lack of interest in details gives unprecedented power to his >>> advisers (read "puppeteers")-in this case the extremists of the >>> military/industrial/religious-right coalition who are currently >>> running the White House, the country, and, if they have their way, >>> the world. We need an independent thinker in the Oval Office. >>> >>> Anne Carpenter >>> Fair Haven, N.J. >>> > > ---- > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named > "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see > <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. > ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
