The list, ping
This brings to mind last weeks Million Med March. Last Thursday a group of doctors and other health care workers met in DC to protest Obamacare, and I wondered what came of it. Here’s a story from the Las Vegas Review Journal, http://www.lvrj.com/news/doctors-warn-of-trouble-63234567.html
I went to the list of physicians and became suspicious on the first name -
Dr. Paul Davis (Perryville, AK)
I knew there to be a Perryville Alaska, but really doubted that there would be a physician in residence there. Folks, it is a little fishing village out toward the Aleutian chain. It is not a suburb or bedroom community where a doctor might live and work elsewhere~ -
As of the census of 2000, there were 107 people, 33 households, and 23 families residing in Perryville Alaska
I did find a Dr. Paul Davis practicing in Arkansas. Some staffer erred by assuming that the state abbreviation for Arkansas was AK when in fact it is AR, appropriately used for the third physician on the list.
Dr. Hershey Garner (Fayetteville, AR)
It is convenient that there was one and one only physician for each state. These attendees were cherry-picked.
But I really fault the staffers who would have been given the assignment of finding a physician from each state and get them to come to a photo-op in the Rose Garden.
Like so many other statements that come out of the mouth of Obi Wan Nairobi, upon examination they are empty and without value.
This lack of attention to detail just reeks of the arrogance of this bunch.
just get a bunch of doctors here. We wil take pictures, put it out on the media and claim that these folks know best.
An extra doctor from Arkansas got a free ride to DC, kept his mouth shut when they claimed he was from Alaska, and they tried to ram the phrase "A doctor from each of the 50 states" down our throats. They might as well have said "A doctor from each of the 58 states" for all the good it did.