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I cannot speak for the administrative leadership of MD Anderson and their political views and actions. It is a huge Medical Center operating under the University of Texas umbrella and all kinds of government controls.

I have no doubts that there are beaurocrats at the top who are just that and who look for abject political advantage to advance themselves wherever they can. As there are in any big beaurocratic organization operating under similar constraints.

I can say this however. MD Anderson is among the best, if not the best Cancer Research and Treatment Centers in the World. They consistantly rank very high not only in the discoveries they make, but in terms of the percentage of people with very bad cancers whose lives they save...including my own.

Dr. Rhinese (who is the head of the brain and spine tumor department, and who was my neurosurgeon), is a brilliant, personable, and God-fearing man. He and his team and the other fiver surgical teams he put together saved my life.

Plain and simple.

For details, read my chordoma cancer journal I have been keeping which links to a prayer thread here on FR that further documents those events.

As curumstance would have it, I am at MD Anderson right now as I write this, undergoing my next major checkup...and will be making a presentation with Dr. Rhinese tomorrow, where they have asked my to document my experience as a patient as he presents the technical details of what he did. I will be using many of the videos I presnted here on FR regarding my condition, and also freely talking about the faith in God and experiences in that regard that helped us get through.

So, though there are bad appples and rediculous politics in almost any organization, and I can well imagine it happening here and certainly do not agree with the decisions spoken of by this article, despite that, great good is being done at MD Anderson and that good is a result of the good ethics and brilliant work of the Dr.s and heads of department involved.