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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (204910)	10/1/2006 8:05:08 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, MauriceQ, I agree with you again, sorta...alert the media. The AMA, which protects lousy docs (much like the Catholic Church, the police and the Republican Party which also protect their miscreants) should be held liable for the incompetence and outright negligence of those it protects. If it doesn't want to be held liable, it shouldn't have the power it has. I think it's quite amazing that those who have the most power take the least responsibility for their actions. Institutions and organizations and companies are simply TOO BIG for the human species. We would be better off if we had smaller groups (I think 150 is the magic number) with less power over individuals. I give the human species a few more decades before it just implodes from the sheer weight of corruption, violence and incompetence. I'm just a tad bit more cynical this week than usual. :)

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (204910)	10/1/2006 8:33:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, if medical treatment of human beings was as uncomplicated as distilling gasoline or bottling soft drinks it would be unbearable and unacceptable that people come down with incurable diseases, unfixable injuries, and untreatable ailments (not to mention wearing out and dying). If medicine treatment was a science instead of only an art, how happy we would be. Someday, perhaps, you'll get your wish and we'll all be replaced by robots and other mechanical devices that don't have pesky individuality. No genetic anomalies, no quirks in the DNA, no differences in nature or nurture, no bad choices, no wobbles in the mechanism, only seamless, poreless, antiseptic perfection. Eat too much? They don't eat! Drink too much? They don't drink! Sexually transmitted diseases? They don't have cells to get infected! (Nor nerve cells, nor hormones, but perhaps they can be programmed to feel something like desire and enjoyment, who knows?) Work too hard? They're made to work without stopping! Heaven on earth, at last.