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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (615)	9/12/2000 4:18:32 PM
From: Dr. David Gleitman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Hi Elvanadakid: Had a friend of mine working as a surgical PA at one of the VA's. Part of her responsibilities was overseeing/teaching surgery to the 3rd year vascular residents. One thing interesting about VA hospitals. Since it is under Federal jurisdiction, it does not have to comply with state regulations, scope of practice laws, etc... Speaking of TV shows, did you notice that one year we had Kojak (Telly Sevallas), Kodiak (another cop show), and Kolchak (the night stalker). Part of the success formula in fabricating (read copying) TV shows is that all cops must have a hard consonant sound for the last name, have a supervisory sargent/leutenant/captain that is always on his case calling him an unguided missle of sorts and is always wrong, which makes me wonder why the guy got promoted to that level in the first place. Did you also notice that at the end of each show, the bad guy takes 10 shots (6 for revolver) at the cop and always misses him, while the good guy takes only one shot and takes down the perp, never killing him, just wounding him non violently enough so that he can be handcuffed to walk away (no blood of course). Then the police cars come with their sirens blairing, although no one ever called them and they were never told where to go to get to that location in the first place. Ladies and gentlemen, I have just described the formula for just about every TV cop show that ever existed! Now for soap operas. Did you ever notice that no matter how young the guy is on a soap opera, they always have wrinkles on their forehead. No matter how young they are. They are probably hired based upon the number of wrinkles that they manifest. Now for women, the opposite holds true. Now matter how old the woman, she NEVER has wrinkles on her forehead! Now to discuss TV newscasters and how they take "handsome" lessons from the pro's.... Just being manic, facing another margin call. trying to roll my calls... David