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To: eddie r gammon who wrote (18792)	2/10/1999 8:59:00 AM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

Yank the jerks into shape ... wish there was something we could do to help. Well, this should give you a chuckle - a few of us are actually making money on shorting POS! -ufb-!!!!!!!!! Keep us up on what is going on. Best Regards, Ice

To: eddie r gammon who wrote (18792)	2/10/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: Earlie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

ERG: My heartfelt prayers are with you and your wife. Having gone the route with my father 18 months ago, I know what it is like. Having also been fairly heavily immersed in research delving into just where we are in dealing with this despicable disease, I have come to the conclusion that the multi billions poured into research haven't provided a lot of progress. I also think that once we do get some breakthroughs, people will look back at the current treatments (radiation and Chemo) in the same way we currently look at the Mediaeval practice of blood-letting. (NG). Good luck, my friend. Best, Earlie

To: eddie r gammon who wrote (18792)	2/10/1999 11:18:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

Hi Eddie, I sympathise with you and your wife. Cancer is a horrible thing, in and of itself. Being jacked around by a bunch of semi-competent medical personnel is a horrible thing, too. Keep your eye on them, that's all the advice I can offer. FWIW, I specialize in medical malpractice, and the thing that scares me the most is the every day petty incompetence in hospitals, they just don't seem to have their act together when it comes to following up on things. I read a lot of hospital records, and see things that makes my hair curl, like a neurologist prescribing anticoagulants for a lady who is already taking anticoagulants. Good neurologist, too, but the records were not complete so she did not know the patient was on anticoagulants. The pharmacy did not give them to her, instead she got an overdose of something else. If I am ever hospitalized, I plan to bring a private duty nurse in with me. That's probably unrealistic, not trying to scare you, but be pro-active, be an informed consumer, keep on them. It's the only way. Here is the web site for the National Institute of Health's clinical trials page: cancertrials.nci.nih.gov