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To: LindyBill who wrote (1936)	11/2/2002 8:22:31 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

We belong to the Kaiser HMO. They probably don't know it, but I won a very, very large judgment against them. I use different iterations of my names for personal and professional purposes. Kaiser is very good if you are what seems to be called now "proactive" about your health care. They do let things fall through the cracks. My big judgment involved combined treatment of Hodgkins disease with radiation and Bleomycin. It should have been sequential, but it was administered concurrently. Unfortunately, concurrent administraton of Bleomycin and radiation potentiates the effects of radiation, and my client's lungs and major vessels of the heart were, as one of our expert witnesses testified, "fried." Unfortunately, there is a lot of medicine for doctors to know, and they don't always know it. If the doctor, or his patient, had taken the simple route of consulting the PDR, available online or at your local library, they would have realized this was not recommended. Be careful out there. Don't expect your doctors to be wise and all-knowing.