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  • Same-Sex Marriage Vote Not Likely(Connecticut)

    05/11/2007 7:54:26 PM PDT · by Man50D · 14 replies · 411+ views
    The Hartford Courant ^ | May 11, 2007 | Daniela Altimari
    Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, and Rep. Mike Lawlor, D-East Haven, said Friday afternoon they do not intend to push for a vote on same-sex marriage this legislative session, saying the bill does not have enough votes to win. McDonald and Lawlor, co-chairmen of the powerful Judiciary Committee and strong supporters of same-sex marriage, said many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed their support for the measure. However, these lawmakers also asked for more time. Gov. M. Jodi Rell has also stated her opposition to the bill, reiterating it again this week. A significant number of legislators have...
  • U.S. Must be Patient as Operations in Baghdad Move Forward

    03/12/2007 5:00:52 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 218+ views
    WASHINGTON, March 12, 2007 – Although recent operations to secure Baghdad are off to a good start, Americans must be patient in expecting progress, a senior coalition spokesman said in Baghdad today. It will take several months before all additional coalition forces arrive in the Iraqi capital, Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said. Operation Enforcing the Law will take time to implement, Caldwell said during a news conference with Iraqi Brig. Gen. Kassim Atta al-Moussawi, an Iraqi military spokesman. “Two of the five additional United States brigades have arrived and are currently operating inside Baghdad,” Caldwell said. “The third...
  • U.S. Must Be Patient With Iraqi Progress, Top Marine Says

    11/22/2006 3:28:42 PM PST · by SandRat · 6 replies · 532+ views
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2006 -- The Iraqi military is making progress in assuming the security mission in the country, but whether U.S. public opinion will allow the U.S. military to complete the training mission in Iraq is the real question, the Marine Corps commandant said here today. Gen. James T. Conway held a roundtable discussion with the Pentagon press corps. Training Iraqi security forces “is a long, slow process,” Conway said. “Unfortunately, I think the timeline it would take to build a fully capable, competent force – and for us to feel comfortable in stepping away – is longer...
  • Injured GIs Remain Positive, Accept Army 10-Miler Challenge

    10/07/2006 5:25:39 PM PDT · by SandRat · 7 replies · 511+ views
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2006 -- Two Army combat veterans who both lost something dear in the war against terrorism say they are determined to keep on battling, and proving it as they prepare to run the Army 10-Miler race tomorrow. Left to right: Army Spc. James Stuck, Capt. Matthew Scherer and Spc. Joseph Keck meet the press at a Washington, D.C., suburban hotel Oct. 6. Stuck and Keck are Army combat veterans who both lost limbs in the war against terrorism. They will compete in the Missing Parts in Action team that’s competing in the Army-10-Miler race held here...
  • The Myth Of Living Wills, Signing Your Life Away

    08/14/2006 8:26:47 AM PDT · by Daniel T. Zanoza · 7 replies · 402+ views
    RFFM.org ^ | Aug. 12, 2006 | Bill Beckman
    Note from Daniel T. Zanoza: During future weeks, RFFM.org will publish a series of columns which first appeared on the Illinois Right to Life Committee's web site. The articles, edited and written by IRLC's executive director Bill Beckman, will address issues which include the dangers associated with living wills, hospice care and issues dealing with patient's rights. This highly important series will provide readers with information a family must have, in order to make educated decisions regarding the medical care of their loved ones. It is a must read. For more information on alternatives to living wills and other life-affirming...
  • From Iraq to Wilford Hall, nurse, patient meet again

    08/01/2006 5:41:41 PM PDT · by SandRat · 5 replies · 576+ views
    Air Force Links ^ | Master Sgt. Kimberly Spencer
    8/1/2006 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- A wide smile broke across Army Sgt. Joe DeLashmutt's face as he spied Maj. Rebecca Lehr across the Wilford Hall Medical Center dining hall. "That's her!" he told his mom in surprise. She saw him at almost the exact same moment. "I couldn't believe it when I saw him," Major Lehr said. "Joe is one of those patients who wove his way into my heart and will remain there forever." The major had been trying to follow the Army National Guard member's progress since helping to break the news to him...
  • Staff at New Orleans hospital debated euthanizing patients

    10/13/2005 4:54:12 AM PDT · by WmCraven_Wk · 61 replies · 2,075+ views
    www.cnn.com ^ | Thursday, October 13, 2005 | Kathleen Johnston
    NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Three days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, staff members at the city's Memorial Medical Center had repeated discussions about euthanizing patients they thought might not survive the ordeal, according to a doctor and nurse manager who were in the hospital at the time. The Louisiana attorney general's office is investigating allegations that mercy killings occurred and has requested that autopsies be performed on all 45 bodies taken from the hospital after the storm. Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said investigators have told him they think euthanasia may have been committed. "They thought someone was...
  • Woman Files Complaint After Doctor Tells Her She's Obese

    08/22/2005 6:54:25 PM PDT · by Ellesu · 115 replies · 5,620+ views
    kcra.com ^ | 08/22/05
    New Hampshire Doctor Outraged By Complaint ROCHESTER, N.H. -- The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating a Rochester doctor because a patient complained that he bluntly told her she needed to lose weight. Dr. Terry Bennett said that he's outraged by what he calls a baseless complaint. A patient was apparently insulted when Bennett told her that she was obese and could only get healthier by losing weight. "It's an epidemic in the United States, and it's croaking us," Bennett said. Bennett said that it's a lecture he gives to many of his overweight patients. "It's your weight, ... and...
  • Not easy being the divison’s PET

    08/06/2005 3:53:15 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 354+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Aug 6, 2005 | Sgt. Stephen D'Alessio
    CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, AR RAMADI, Iraq (August 6, 2005) -- An army Blackhawk helicopter sets gently down in the sand in the dark of night. Navy corpsmen shout over the screeching whirl of the whipping blades to prepare the battle wounded Marines for boarding. Shadowy figures carrying stretchers scurry across the field toward the plane and disappear into the fuselage. The remaining Marines on the ground brace themselves and shield their eyes as the rotor wash blasts sand in all directions. In less than an hour from the time they received their wounds, each Marine will be in safe hands...
  • Black lawmakers urge Blagojevich to block caps (Illinois)

    05/27/2005 9:59:45 AM PDT · by Ravi · 9 replies · 533+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 5/27/05 | Ben Fischer
    SPRINGFIELD -- Black lawmakers lashed out Thursday against a deal struck earlier this week that would limit jury awards in medical malpractice cases, and warned Gov. Blagojevich not to count on their political support if he goes along with it. "Sooner or later, the black community is going to rise, and they're going to have to respond to us," said Sen. Kwame Raoul (D-Chicago). "I hope the governor thinks about that before signing this legislation. We've got an election next year, so the Black Caucus can be effective in that regard." A House committee approved the deal Thursday, and the...
  • 70 Year Old Heart Patient Mugged (Almost)

    05/13/2005 9:06:14 PM PDT · by ConservativeMan55 · 54 replies · 1,326+ views
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    The following is a personal story about something that happened to me and my family. My mom was recently told that she needed to have an extremely dangerous surgery in order to correct an irregular heartbeat. In order to correct this problem, we had to travel to Oklahoma City. We checked into a motel called the "Comfort Inn" My sister and I stayed in one room, and my grandparents stayed in the room right next to ours. My dad stayed at the hospital with my mom the entire time. When we got to the motel we quickly realized that we...
  • Two medical malpractice bills move slowly through the House and Senate (Illinois)

    05/13/2005 10:40:07 AM PDT · by Ravi · 19 replies · 712+ views
    The Southern Illinoisian ^ | 05/13/05 | JIM MUIR
    SPRINGFIELD - Two separate bills, both with caps on pain and suffering, moved slowly through the House and Senate on Thursday as Illinois lawmakers continue to heatedly debate the contentious issue of medical malpractice legislation. The House bill calls for a limit of $250,000 on non-economic damage awards against a physician and a $500,000 limit on awards against hospitals. The Senate bill sets caps at $500,000 for physicians and $1 million on hospitals. State Sen. Dave Luechtefeld, R-Okawville, has said throughout the current legislative session that legislators must approve "meaningful" medical malpractice legislation. He said the House version of the...
  • Capitol uproar on malpractice caps...

    05/12/2005 5:52:45 AM PDT · by Ravi · 16 replies · 619+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 5/12/05 | Christi Parsons and Erica Slife
    SPRINGFIELD -- Even as trial lawyers and unions began furiously lobbying lawmakers to oppose a measure that would cap non-economic damages in doctor malpractice cases at $250,000 for physicians and $500,000 for hospitals, a House committee advanced it Wednesday. But after lawmakers screamed at each other during a debate that lasted for hours in the full House, they ultimately rejected a plan to raise those numbers to $1 million for doctors and $2 million for hospitals. As Democrats pledged to pass some sort of bill capping malpractice awards, doctors pledged to work to strip some of the stricter insurance regulations...
  • Taser used on confused patient

    08/16/2004 12:28:03 PM PDT · by freepatriot32 · 21 replies · 1,062+ views
    south bend tribune ^ | 8 14 04 | PATRICK M. O'CONNELL
    SOUTH BEND -- A man with Alzheimer's disease who was wandering amidst traffic in the middle of a busy street suffered multiple injuries when a South Bend police officer used a Taser on him Friday night while attempting to coax him to safety. Thompson Thewo, 65, suffered deep cuts to his face, a fractured arm and a dislocated elbow after the officer tried to keep him out of the Ironwood Drive and Lincoln Way East intersection. Thewo hurt his face during a fall after he was hit by the first of two Taser probes, then suffered the arm injury when...
  • Man who killed grandson, self suffered from depression

    08/06/2004 8:15:30 PM PDT · by ValerieUSA · 4 replies · 353+ views
    The Seattle Times ^ | August 6, 2004 | Christopher Schwarzen and Jennifer Sullivan
    MONROE — A man who last night shot and killed his 5-year-old grandson before turning the gun on himself suffered from depression and previously alluded to hurting himself, Monroe Police Chief Tim Quenzer said. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as Roy Bryan Hetherwick, 58, and the boy as Roy Brennan Hetherwick, 5. According to Hetherwick's wife, Quenzer said, Hetherwick took medication for depression but had never talked of injuring the child. In a release issued this afternoon, Monroe police said officers responded to the house on July 2, when they found Hetherwick "despondent and feeling suicidal."...
  • American Family Voices | Title: "Circus"

    07/24/2004 8:25:05 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 3 replies · 601+ views
    Rhetoric ANNOUNCER: “Step right up, step right up. Watch the amazing George Bush take three sides of an issue. Gasp as he takes credit for bills he opposed. Gawk in amazement as you listen to George Bush flip-flop on the Patients Bill of Rights.”PRESIDENT BUSH:  “That’s not true, I do support a national Patients’ Bill of Rights. As a matter of fact, I brought Republicans and Democrats together to do just that in the state of Texas, to get a Patients’ Bill of Rights through.”ANNOUNCER:  “The amazing George Bush actually vetoed the Patients’ Bill of Rights. Then it became...
  • Rural Nevada Doctor Faces License Revocation for Treating Chronic Pain Patients

    02/24/2004 3:43:38 AM PST · by Prospero · 13 replies · 636+ views
    Chronic Pain Action Information Network ^ | 2/24/2003 | Dr. Bruce W. Wilkin
    Dr. Bruce W. Wilkin, a rural physician in Nevada, has recently been in the news. He is one of thousands of physicians who are facing legal challenges for his professional treatment of patients in pain.CPAIN.ORG has been provided with this Press Release in which Dr. Wilkin tells his side of the story.RURAL NEVADA DOCTOR FACES  THREATENED LICENSE REVOCATION FOR TREATING CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS February 19, 2004 Deputy Attorney General, Richard J. Legarza, legal counsel for the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, has filed 19 unspecified charges of malpractice against Bruce W. Wilkin, M.D., a 64 year-old physician who has...
  • The healing powers of God: a new, old concept

    01/09/2004 8:42:42 AM PST · by the_devils_advocate_666 · 9 replies · 173+ views
    The Dominion Post ^ | January 9, 2004 | George R. Plagenz
    The day may be coming when you will call your doctor in the middle of the night with an ailment and he will tell you, ''Say two prayers and call me in the morning.'' Doctors who believe in the power of prayer are increasing. The cover story in a recent issue of Newsweek magazine carried the headline ''God and Health: Is Religion Good Medicine? Why Science is Starting to Believe.'' In the Nov. 10 article, Newsweek's Claudia Kalb wrote that many of today's doctors are beginning to ''embrace the God they banished from the clinic long ago in favor of...
  • Saddam Gone. Be Patient: Think of Post-War Germany.

    12/14/2003 5:49:38 PM PST · by forty_years · 4 replies · 351+ views
    www.netwmd.com ^ | December 14, 2003 | Andrew L. Jaffee
    Saddam was captured this morning. No doubt there's been a sigh of relief in Washington. But most importantly, the majority of Iraqis must be feeling more safe and secure. Is it necessary to remind eveyone of why Iraqis would feel relief in light of Saddam's legacy? An estimated 300,000 dead Iraqis lay in some 260 mass graves, 40 of which have been confirmed to date. Saddam's rule meant torture chambers, dropping posion gas on civilians, starting an 8-year war with Iran which claimed a million lives, etc. Imagine if Hitler would've been running around in post-war Germany. Kind of unsettling,...
  • The Patient Is Bleeding Us Dry But Shows Few Signs Of Getting Better

    09/24/2003 5:50:48 PM PDT · by blam · 9 replies · 293+ views
    The patient is bleeding us dry but shows few signs of getting better (Filed: 25/09/2003) Labour vowed to save the NHS - but it is proving an expensive promise. In the fourth part of our investigation into the state of public services Celia Hall gives the money-hungry beast a check-up. During almost 20 years in opposition, there was one issue on which Labour could rely for voter support: the National Health Service. It had been the party in power when the NHS was established in 1948 and felt that it possessed proprietorial rights. As demands for health care grew, Labour...