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  For LDH and Dubla

  by confreg in

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  along....you are obsessed with me arent you... this time it was your fellow antis who clowned.

  and classed the both of you.

  move on.

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  I have a feeling that confreg may be nytelecom1.
  I could be wrong, though.
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  Medical Racism?-By Wolf Blitzer (CNN)

  by Mister Biggs in

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  by wolf blitzer.

  cnn wolf blitzer reports.

  washington (cnn) -- i was fascinated this week by a new study just released by the institute of medicine that shows african americans do not get the same quality health care as whites.

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  I hear you, Lisa.
  When you click on the link, there's a photo of the aunt. So, you would see that the kid was black (not to mention it's a pretty big story here locally).

  I tied that story in for the simple fact that there may be racism involved.

  I told my wife yesterday that for all we know the parents may have asked how much it would cost to have them transport the child to the hospital. When they heard the amount maybe the parents said, "I'm not paying that much money! I'll just take him to the clinic."

  The article doesn't state what race(s) the EMT's were. So it may not even be a race issue. It may just be a sad case of miscommunication and/or misunderstanding. Hopefully, the investigation will lead to the guilty one(s).
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  Medical Racism?-By Wolf Blitzer (CNN)

  by Mister Biggs in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  by wolf blitzer.

  cnn wolf blitzer reports.

  washington (cnn) -- i was fascinated this week by a new study just released by the institute of medicine that shows african americans do not get the same quality health care as whites.

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  I don't know if race had anything to do with it, but in Philly this past Wednesday (maybe Tuesday) a young black male (about 1 or 2) became ill. 911 was called. The paramedics showed up. It is alleged by the parents that the EMT's suggested that the parents take the kid to the hospital themselves because it would save them $350.00 (Yes, in Philly there is a charge for ambulance transport).
  The parents ended up taking him to the clinic and he died shortly thereafter.
  Here's the whole story:

  Sources: Paramedics deny guilt in death
  Pair allegedly tells probers that parents opted to take baby to clinic on their own
  By KITTY CAPARELLA
  [email protected]

  DAVID MAIALETTI / DAILY NEWS
  
  MEDICS TOOK vital signs of 1-year-old Marcus Dunson Tuesday morning and were ready to transport him to the hospital, but his parents decided to take the baby to a nearby clinic, two Fire Department medics told authorities yesterday, sources said.

  Marcus died three hours later, after a 90-minute wait at a nearby clinic, an emergency ride to the hospital and a 27-minute attempt to save his life at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

  "They're lying," Shelly Shaw, the child's aunt, said yesterday of paramedics, after talking with the baby's father, her brother, Martin Luther Dunson, 31, last night. "They didn't take a pulse. They didn't do anything for his son. They're trying to cover up for what they created.

  "They [the Dunsons] were told to go to the clinic," she added. "They never touched my nephew; they never looked at my nephew. If they did, they would have seen he was dehydrated.

  "We called 911, expecting help."

  Two divergent views of Marcus' last hours emerged yesterday, one day after family members alleged that city medics had advised the child's parents to drive their son to a clinic to save the $350 transport fee.

  The Police Department's homicide unit and the Fire Department are jointly investigating the "suspicious death."

  Jeff Moran, spokesman for the medical examiner's office, said additional tests were under way after an autopsy on the child yesterday proved inconclusive. It could be a few weeks before the exact cause of death is known.

  The two medics, a male and a female with a combined experience of seven years, have been taken off the street during the investigation, said Michael Lauder, of the Firefighters Union Local 22.

  "It's horrible and sad. The two [medics] are heartbroken over the situation," he added.

  A relative of the baby said yesterday that a doctor at Children's Hospital told the family that the baby had a collapsed lung and an infection.

  Asked if the family would sue the city, another relative, Dunson's sister-in-law Karen Riggs, replied: "Most definitely."

  "We're in touch with attorneys," she said, after learning two attorneys were ready to have a conference call with the family.

  But the family wanted to wait until after the funeral, set for 9 a.m. Monday at Terry's Funeral Home at 4203 Haverford Ave., a relative said. The family chose a platinum-colored coffin with a blue lining for Marcus.

  Fire Commissioner Harold Hairston, Mayor Street and Managing Director Estelle Richman would not comment on the case.

  However, sources close to the investigation told the Daily News yesterday that upon arrival at the couple's Mantua home shortly at 10:24 a.m. Tuesday, the medics were told that the baby had been sick for two days. The child's mother, Lisa Dunson, 34, said she had given him Tylenol and informed medics that the baby's fever had broken.

  When a medic put his hand on the baby to check his temperature and take his pulse, the baby had a "normal pulse and respiration," one source said. "He was sucking on a pacifier."

  Another source said that medics were not equipped with thermometers. "They go by touch," the source said.

  The child was being dressed to be taken to the hospital by the medics, according to two sources.

  A medic asked if the parents had spoken to their family doctor. The mother said no, a source said. The father wanted to take the baby to the emergency room.

  The parents discussed whether to go to the emergency room or to the clinic, and decided to go to the clinic, the medics told authorities. The medic asked if they had a car, the source added.

  The Dunson family disputes the medics' account, saying that they had been told to take the child to the clinic and that they would save the $350 fee charged.

  But a source close to the probe said that medics insisted the fee had never been raised as a prerequisite for transport.

  Another source said that the city asks medics to routinely obtain the Social Security number and insurance data for billing purposes.

  The parents then took the baby to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Healthcare, called PCOM, on Lancaster Avenue near Aspen Street, where they waited 90 minutes.

  A PCOM spokeswoman said a pediatrician saw the child and called 911 for transportation to Children's Hospital. "We are saddened by his death," the PCOM spokeswoman added.

  Medic 26 was dispatched at 12:41 p.m. and arrived at the clinic four minutes later, said Homicide Capt. Thomas Lippo. At 1:08 p.m., Medic 26 arrived at Children's, where doctors tried to save the baby.

  In the next 27 minutes as relatives arrived, a social worker twice reported to the family: The baby had a pulse and heart rate, and later, both had grown "faint," said Mia Sowers, Martin Dunson's sister, who works at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

  Doctors said the baby had "a collapsed lung and an infection," when he died, she added. The family asked for an autopsy, but doctors already planned to do one.

  "They let us go in and kiss the baby goodbye. An [Episcopal] priest gave the baby last rites," Sowers added. "You couldn't tell he passed. He had a gorgeous, gorgeous smile. He didn't look like a sick baby."

  Lisa wanted to take her baby home, and cried, "My baby, my baby!" when the lifeless child was pried from her arms, said Shelly Shaw.

  "This was their last child. He was a bundle of joy to them," she added. He adored his brothers and sisters: Martin Jr. 13; Alisa, 10; Marlisa, 7, and Melissa, 3.

  Only 12 days earlier - Marcus' first birthday - the baby played, laughed, pulled on relatives' hair and was taking his first steps, relatives said.

  Capt. Lippo said that about 3 p.m. Tuesday, Lisa Dunson's sister came to the 16th police district and reported to Sgt. Walter King about the child's death.

  Police Officer Robert Devlin was dispatched to the Dunson house at 40th and Brown, followed by Sgt. Scot Murphy. Devlin took a statement from Martin Dunson, prompting the police investigation.

  At a press conference yesterday, Lippo said detectives had not interviewed the medics or the parents.

  The Dunsons were high school sweethearts at University City High. He has worked at Crescent Iron Works at 49th and Grays Ferry since his 1985 graduation, while his wife is a homemaker who volunteers at Belmont Elementary School at 41st Street and Brown.

  The distraught couple did not talk directly with the media.

  "It's devastating," said Martin's sister Sylvia Dunson, 41.

  "The doctor told Lisa that Marcus had a cold but 'let it run its course' last week," added Sylvia, who baby-sat the child last week. "That's all we thought it was, a little cold."

  An official with the city firefighters union, which also represents city paramedics, had difficulty believing the family's claims.

  "You're supposed to evaluate the child, take the pulse, blood pressure, all those things. It's hard for me to believe the medics didn't touch the baby. When something like this happens, people are always shifting blame. But the bottom line is, if my kid is that sick, I'd take him to the hospital."
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  Medical Racism?-By Wolf Blitzer (CNN)

  by Mister Biggs in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  by wolf blitzer.

  cnn wolf blitzer reports.

  washington (cnn) -- i was fascinated this week by a new study just released by the institute of medicine that shows african americans do not get the same quality health care as whites.

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  By Wolf Blitzer
  CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports

  WASHINGTON (CNN) -- I was fascinated this week by a new study just released by the Institute of Medicine that shows African Americans do not get the same quality health care as whites. That, by itself, was not surprising since I had always assumed that was a result in large part of economics. Black Americans, by and large, don't make as much money as white Americans. What was surprising was that the report concluded money -- by itself -- was not the reason for the disparity. "We looked at the evidence," Dr. Sandra Fryhofer of Emory University's Medical School and one of the authors of the report told me." And it showed overwhelmingly that disparities in health care exist, and even when the insurance status, the income, the age, and the severity of the disease is the same."

  That raises the obvious question: Is it a result of racism?

  Dr. Fryhofer, a former president of the American College of Physicians, says there are multiple reasons behind this sad fact. Race, she acknowledges, is one factor. "I wish we could say it was just one thing, but there are probably some racial undertones here that are probably unconscious." She says there's some "unconscious stereotyping and prejudice going on, things that people didn't even realize that they are doing."

  The results for African Americans and other minorities can be disastrous. The study shows that blacks receive lower quality care across the board and suffer higher death rates from HIV/AIDS, cancer, and heart disease. It also found blacks with advanced prostrate cancer are referred for surgical castration twice as often as whites.

  Dr. Fryhofer noted that the same was the case with African-Americans with diabetes. "They were almost four times more likely to have an amputation," she said. "And they were also less likely to receive a transplant and less likely to be put on dialysis."

  She continued: "When minority patients went to the emergency room, they were one and a half times more likely not to be given authorization to be seen as compared to white patients."

  "So this is a wakeup call to America, a wakeup call to health professionals, to everyone in the health care field that we have got to look within ourselves," she said. "We got to even the playing field so everyone gets the kind of health care that they deserve...We shouldn't argue about whether or not the disparities exist. The evidence shows that they do."

  The doctors and researchers involved in the study say they hope the immediate benefit from their work will be an increased awareness of the problem, especially within the minority communities. Let's hope that they are right.

  http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/index.html
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  New Jobs

  by joelbear in

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  just thought i'd update yall on my job situation.

  i have accepted two part time jobs; one with a banking trade association and one with home depot.

  i started my training at home depot last night.

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  Congratulations, Joel!
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  Wacko Jacko = Michael the Archangel??????????

  by TheApostleAK in

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  from the encyclopedia of heresies and heretics by leonard george.. under the section on jw's.... some members have seriously considered the possibility that popular singer michael jackson (who was once a jw himself) is the archangel michael in (very effective) disguise, preparing to inaugurate the end of history.

  really??????????????????????????????????

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  Aw, man!
  And all this time I thought it was Kelsey Grammer.
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  Wordly people, df'ing, my experience

  by flower in

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  the bryant tragedy has really been stuck in my head and heart this week as i'm sure it has been for all of us.

  it occured to me though that there may be some here or lurking that do not understand what made robert do what he did.

  there may be some who think that his was an isolated incidence of severe untreated mental illness and have nothing to do with his being disfellowshiped.

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  {{{{{{{flower}}}}}}}}
  Knowing you persoanlly (or at least having dinner with you and e-mailing you), I feel more love toward you now more than ever.
  I had no idea how bad it got for you.
  You always will have my shoulder to lean on.
  Biggs
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  Southeastern Pennsylvania, etc. Lurkers...

  by Mister Biggs in

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  ...or anyone else from this general area who is lurking, please e-mail me.

  let's get to know each other.. .

  if you weren't my son i'd hug you.

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  tatoogrl333-
  Yes, Pittburgh is the correct state. LOL!
  Are there many ex-JW's in your area?
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  Arrested for going kingdumb and dumber hall!

  by D wiltshire in

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  arrested for going kingdumb hall!.

  last night (3/21) the mountain view (ca) police arrested me.. this happened as i was attending the sunnyvale congregation service meeting.. i was dfd last july and was told by the elders the conditions for reinstatement were meeting attendance, repentance along with not speaking to anyone or anyone speaking to me (shunning at its finest).

  (btw, i was dfd for apostasy).

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  I like both of you but you both deserve The Hose.
  Calm down.
  

  Spoons?!? Can I assume that the potatoes will be mashed tonight?
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  Southeastern Pennsylvania, etc. Lurkers...

  by Mister Biggs in

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  ...or anyone else from this general area who is lurking, please e-mail me.

  let's get to know each other.. .

  if you weren't my son i'd hug you.

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  ^BUMP^ (for those that missed it)