Posted on 07/30/2007 6:12:33 PM PDT by Coleus
LOL!!!
Whattamarooon!! The written porition of the bio wraps with this bit of corporate boardroom smoochie-smoochie lobbed, en flagrante, toward the Kaiser-Permanente Marekting Department.
I actually know this surgeon—we were friends. He was a student where I was a surgery resident. He may have been a muslim at some point, but was not at all a practicing muslim (like many Iranians in this country). His family fled Iran around the time the Shah was overthrown.
When I saw this story, I was flabergasted. This is not like him at all. I seriously doubt he did any of this.
But then again, I haven’t spoken to him in 8 years.
Well, perhaps he’s not a practicing Muslim. I was just speculating.
The pressure is on doctors who do transplants to get the organs for their patients, and they may be tempted to cut corners and rob one patient to help another. It’s a dangerous temptation that opened up when they started redefining the meaning of death with terms like “brain death,” “persistent vegetative state,” and so forth.
I have a colateral relation who is married to an Iranian doctor, and I don’t believe he is a practicing Muslim, either, although I have really not seen much of them in a long time.
Yes, in the circumstances it all sounds a bit embarrassing, doesn’t it. I’m surprised they left the web page up.
I’m confused.
I thought transplant surgeons only had contact with patients after they’d been declared brain dead.
What was this even doing around the patient in the first place?
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