Posted on 12/20/2006 12:31:19 AM PST by kinoxi
Got any proof of that?
But was there no one in line behind her or working security that could have said "Oh no, ma'am, not the baby??????"
I'm just askin' is all...
I don't think this has anything to do with it; maybe she's one of those weird people that don't believe in doctors. Maybe she doesn't have insurance and was worried about the cost. Maybe she just didn't think it was a big deal. Heck, I rolled my pickup truck doing 70 m.p.h. on I-81 and refused medical treatment when the paramedics arrived. Sometimes you just don't need a doctor.
Whether or not she's illegal, I don't think her reluctance to send her child to the doctor is indicative.
Good visual pun!
< homer_simpson> I am merely a vessel through which genius flows. < /homer_simpson>
obvious she didnt read spanish either....but that is what is popular nowadays
The kids born here arent being taught English either....and I believe they can survive quite well now without speaking English in the Southwest.
No, they were telling her to take the baby's shoes off first.
Reminds me of the time in the early 90's when I was working on Capitol Hill and a visitor to the House of Representatives gallery brought his pet monkey with him in his backpack. It was a bit disconcerting that none of the security screeners noticed the little monkey skeleton as his backpack proceeded through the X-ray machine.
"..no normal dose from such a thing is going to leave any sort of symptom that a doctor could diagnose with any kind of equipment .'
Many radiology departments have physicists who determine radiation dosage for therapy,monitor quality control of the equipment and procedures, etc.
My bet is that after examining the child for obvious injuries like radiation burns, they may have run bloodwork and sent the physicist to the airport to examine the machine and check the dosage the baby received.
...and don't forget to tip your waitress.
I was going to make a crack about the TSA personnel being "insensitive" towards the woman and her culture; that perhaps it's perfectly acceptable in some cultures to use baggage screening equipment to examine an infant and that we need to be more open minded. But then I worried that some lurker might take it seriously. And worse, that they'd start a campaign to get the rubber-spined bureaucrats at the TSA to re-write their procedures to allow it!
look on the bright side, maybe this will give the baby super-powers. this baby could end up saving the world!
*rimshot*
Hiiiiyoooooo!
}:-)4
Actually, there is nothing a medical expert (aka doctor) would be able to verify to tell them it is OK. Generally they would simply place them in observation for 30 days to see if all the cells in various organs were being regenerated. Once radiated by X-rays to the point of lethality, they are killed and don't regenerate. Perhaps in the lab, but the machine at the airport isn't that strong. (If it were, all the employees would wear lead smocks and sit behind lead walls.)
So here is the second hit, ...now the hospital is exposed to liability because they gave bad advice. All the grandmother has to do is observe any 'abnormality' in the kid and sue in 30 days, one against the airport security and two against the medical establishment. Twice the liabilities. Great for the plaintiff's attorney.
So now you have to wonder why a doctor would even admit the patient. Did he see the elephant in the emergency room, decide giving it a lollipop, wave his hands over it and bless it as good to go is better than kicking them out? Hard to tell. I suspect the plaintiff could sue for mental distress for having to take the kid to the hospital...go figure.
Total Recall.
I wish ... in more ways than one that R-nold was still making movies.
My grandparents came to this country legally many years ago. They learned English and read two local newspapers in English every day.
Survive yes, but as a member of a permanent underclass. President GWHB wrote that while the schools would teach kids Spanish so that the kids could become busboys and waiters, at night, their parents would teach them English so that they could become doctors and lawyers.
That was then. This is now. It's hard to have as many choices and opportunities if you want to live in this country without speaking a word of English.
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