Medical Malpractice

does anyone know where i can find a medical law and ethics article? i need to find a current medical law and ethics article, i did search after search and cannot find anything can anyone help me. thank you so much in advance. actually i have no idea I'm kinda lost i got this paper in school the other day and all it says is to find a current article on medical law and ethic and to summarize it .. and then present it to the class and it asks to state why you chose the article .. thanks guys for helping.

Anyone know of a recent Medical Law related article? So, I'm taking this Medical Law and Ethics class and I need to find an article that relates to the class. I have to write a page paper on it so it has to be interesting enough for me to write that much. Help? :D

i need a Medical law and ethic article can u give me a website that i could find it? ? plz answer fast its a homework due tomorrow

medical law & ethics? Read this article (these are the facts summarized) Need Help identifying the ethical dilema and the opposite viewpoints..please help! An investigation was launched involving two nursing homes in Washtenaw and Oaklnad County, where two women were “subject to severe neglect and abuse.” Maggots were found in the pubic region and one the ladies trachea, which obstructed her airway. Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and the Michigan Protection Advocacy Service are involved; Both agencies issued their reports and the facilities are required to submit a plan of correction. The nursing homes were not named due to Medical Privacy Laws. Abuse is occurring and layers of agencies and regulatory safeguards have failed. Identify the Ethical Dilemma and who is affected by this dilemma: Older people in nursing homes Identify the opposite or conflicting points of view: Your critique of the content of the article; Be concise but make sure to get your point across and set forth your personal view: Conclusion: set forth a strong closing statement:

i need help!!!! i need to get this done!? i have a 20 article portfolio due on the 8th and iw as wondering does anyone have any good sites where i can find articles about medical issues and law and ethics? my instructor already gave us about 7 articles but the rest we have to find on our own and we have to write summaries about them and our opinion about them. Also she wants us to do a bibliography can someone tell me how to do that please

PHR-I: 'The Military repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive' ? A report came out today in Israel from Physicians for Human Rights that says 'The Military repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive' and gives specific examples of the prevention of medical assistance from the trapped and the wounded, severe difficulties for emergency medical evacuation, attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities, and de facto prevention of the chronically ill and gravely wounded from receiving medical care outside Gaza. It also reports 16 medical personnel killed and 25 wounded from the Israeli army's fire, all of them while performing their medical duties. Furthermore, 34 medical facilities were hit by the army, 8 hospitals and 26 primary care clinics - "this in severe violation of directives of international law that forbid attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities in times of fighting." http://www.phr.org.il/phr/article.asp?articleid=702&catid=55&pcat=-1&lang=ENG Does Israel have its own special set of ethics and is this ok with the rest of the world?

Does Israel have its own special set of ethics and should the rest of the world be ok with it? A report came out today in Israel from Physicians for Human Rights that says 'The Military repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive' and gives specific examples of the prevention of medical assistance from the trapped and the wounded, severe difficulties for emergency medical evacuation, attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities, and de facto prevention of the chronically ill and gravely wounded from receiving medical care outside Gaza. It also reports 16 medical personnel killed and 25 wounded from the Israeli army's fire, all of them while performing their medical duties. Furthermore, 34 medical facilities were hit by the army, 8 hospitals and 26 primary care clinics - "this in severe violation of directives of international law that forbid attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities in times of fighting." http://www.phr.org.il/phr/article.asp?articleid=702&catid=55&pcat=-1&lang=ENG Does Israel have its own special set of ethics and if the rest of the world questions this should they all be called anti-semitic? @ha- care to remotely address the issues in the report? or are you still at the ad hominem stage of development? @dandyl- good, now you have only 40 more excuses to come up with for killed and wounded medical personnel and only 34 justifications for firing on hospitals and clinics. This is Physicians for Human Rights (Israeli Jews and Arabs) reporting this - your one anecdote doesn't cover all these cases. I am AMAZED at the mental gymnastics you people go through to contradict the facts. @✡(notice it's not the menorrah?)- the link you supplied doesn't mention the PHR-I report, so I find it un-useful. @mir- the IDF has phenomenal intelligence in Gaza, the envy of the world..... 8 hospitals and 26 primary care clinics shelled.... are you familiar with logic? what's the likely conclusion? @Lupines- at least you address the PHR-I report even if you dismiss it. "8 years and 8 thousand rockets"? You realize that with every month that passes, this number is expanded? It's actually comical- now it's eight thousand rockets and 8 years before longsuffering Israel grudgingly responds. How long until its 60,000 in 60 years? How many Israelis killed by those rockets? How many Palestinian men, women and children killed in the 22-day "ethical" reprisal? Facts are a b*tch. @LG Palesine Exist- nice rant (not really). Care to address the PHR-I report even remotely? @Arieh, from your lips to G-d's ear. Notice how not a SINGLE person that I challenge comes back and makes a comment? Not one. I call them 'hit and run' posters - they just love to hear their own voice but have no interest in learning or in defending their position.

search engine for court cases? i have to choose a court case to write a paper about for my medical law and ethics class. i dont know how to search for court cases! how would be the best way to search for it online to get the ACTUAL court case and not just an article about it?

article of medical malpractice? need to do a summary for my law and ethics class

Help with a paper on indiana laws of negligence and what laws can protect yourself? I am writing a paper for law and ethics about: you are an employee at a medical clinic and you get fired because they feel that you did not follow correct policy with the patient resulting in them being sued. You did everything correct and you feel that the doctor had been negligent in his care of the patient. What kinds of local laws can protect you and help you out in this situation? I have been researching state laws for 2 days and can't find what I need. What should happen to the physician if he in fact was negligent. What proof could you provide to prove you did your job? Do you have the right to ask for your job back? If you could give me any websites or articles or codes of laws that would help me get on the right track. thanks.

Why does Palin need to lie and make stuff up? ? Obama may have only been in the Senate for a few years, but why does Sarah Palin LIE in her convention speech that Obama has not authored "a single major law or even a reform" when that is complete falsehood? I get that she is trying to detract from her own thin record as mayor of Wasilla (pop. 6000), but why does she LIE so much? Doesn't that bother any Republicans? Here is a summary of Obama's record: Co-sponsored with Richard Lugar (R-IN) legislation funding the destruction or securing of "loose" nuclear weapons in other countries. This was a major piece of nonproliferation legislation. Co-sponsored, again with Lugar, the first federal bill dedicated to pandemic flu preparedness, including vaccine research and antiviral stockpiling, in addition to state and local planning and preparedness measures. Sponsored a bill regulating genetic testing, which directed the government to develop special proficiency tests for labs that do genetics work. Co-sponsored, with Hillary Clinton(!), legislation to help hospitals to develop programs for disclosure of medical errors They even co-wrote an article for the New England Journal of Medicine on the subject. Introduced his "health care for hybrids" bill, an energy security bill, various bills on relief for Hurricane Katrina (including aid for kids and a ban on no-bid contracts by FEMA) Introduced legislation, which passed, to create a public database of all federal spending and contracts Introduced legislation trying to raise CAFE standards, i.e. mileage standards for US-produced vehicles Introduced veteran's health care legislation Introduced legislation making certain kinds of voter intimidation illegal Introduced a lobbying reform bill Introduced legislation to revamps ethics oversight, replacing the present Congressional ethics committee with a bipartisan commission of retired judges and members of Congress, and allowing any citizen to report ethics violations. Introduced legislation to suspend and repeal certain tax incentives for the oil and gas industry Introduced a joint resolution clarifying that the use of force against Iran is not authorized by the AUMF Against Iraq, or any other resolution previously adopted Introduced a bill to provide housing assistance for very low-income veterans Introduced a bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuel sold in the US Introduced a bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to establish a Climate Change Education Program Introduced a bill to required accountability for contractors and contract personnel (e.g. Blackwater) under federal contracts Introduced a bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, and the elimination of extreme global poverty I'm not trying to impress you with Obama's record, I KNOW he has only been in the Senate for two years. I'm asking you why Palin keeps LYING about things? She has been telling a lot of untruths about many things. I thought Republicans valued "character"? Thanks for answering my question Dalan 1. That pretty much sums up the Republican thought process on this subject.

Can anyone find any fallacies in this article? Partial-Birth Abortion Is Ethical Table of Contents: Further Readings Rob Deters is a law student at the University of Wisconsin. "Partial-birth abortion" is the name that anti-abortionists have given to a procedure known as intact dilation and extraction, in which, sixteen weeks into pregnancy, a nonviable fetus is removed from a woman's uterus. Anti-abortionists emphasize that the fetus's skull is collapsed in this procedure, so that it can pass through the woman's undilated cervix. The details of the procedure make many people uncomfortable, but the fact is that all abortions involve the destruction of the fetus—to single out a single type of abortion procedure is arbitrary. The fetus is not a person, and a woman should have the right to abort it, through whatever procedure a doctor recommends. Editor's note: The following viewpoint was written in October 2003. In November 2003, President George W. Bush signed into law the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which prohibits abortion procedures in which a living fetus is intentionally killed while partly or completely outside the body of the mother. Let's be clear. Abortion is not murder. If it were, the Supreme Court would not uphold it as constitutional. If it were, the American Medical Association, whose opinion on health and ethics I hold in high esteem, wouldn't support abortion as a viable medical procedure. Abortion is murder only if you choose to define it as such, but there is no such definition that you can make every rational person believe. All Abortions Destroy the Fetus Partial-birth abortion, or, more accurately, intact dilation and extraction, is a technique by which a non-viable fetus is removed from a woman's uterus. The skull of the fetus is collapsed via a cervical incision and suction rather than crushed with forceps. The other technique used at this stage in a woman's pregnancy is dilation and evacuation, which calls for the dismemberment of the body of the fetus with forceps and its removal from the uterus. No law to ban "partial-birth abortions" prohibits this second procedure, just the first. All abortions are performed with the end result being the destruction of a fetus; it's simply the method that we're discussing. You can scrape, suck, crush or surgically remove fetal tissue from a woman all for the same purpose—to terminate a pregnancy. Why does this technique even exist? Dilation and extraction is simply an option for a doctor to use when a woman is at a very specific point in her pregnancy. At 16 weeks into a pregnancy, a fetal skull is too large to pass through a non-dilated cervix. At 17 weeks, the bones in a fetus begin to calcify, leading to a higher probability of injury to a woman's uterus because of bony fragments. These two techniques are options for a doctor to choose from in order to perform the abortion in the safest way possible. At 24 weeks (the end of the second trimester) abortions are outlawed as a voluntary procedure and are only performed if there is a medical emergency. Bans Are Unconstitutional The argument over dilation and extraction is all about politics, not about a woman's health. There are no studies that show dilation and extraction is a more dangerous procedure or that it leads to problems getting pregnant in the future. In fact, many doctors feel the procedure has many benefits, including fewer instruments used in the uterus, less chance of infection and shorter operating time. Squeamish yet? Of course you are. That's exactly how conservatives want you to feel. They want to use the natural reaction we have to this medical procedure (feeling uncomfortable) to make an argument that just doesn't hold. In fact, it doesn't hold in courts of law very much at all. Previous attempts to limit dilation and extraction have all been struck down. [In 2000] the Supreme Court in Stenberg vs. Carhart ruled that Nebraska's ban on dilation and extraction was unconstitutional. It cited two reasons: there was no exception for the woman's health, and the ban placed an "undue burden" on the woman's right to choose. Although it was a close call (a 5-4 vote), it still didn't pass muster. The current law being discussed in conference committee at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., is little different. Many opponents of the "partial-birth abortion" ban that just passed both the House and the Senate (it's simply being revised) say it will take just a matter of time until the Supreme Court strikes it down just like it did Nebraska's law. This is probably true, but the narrow margin of the previous decision doesn't make this an absolute. [Editor's note: As of December 2004, the Supreme Court had not reviewed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.] Government Intrusion What is really going on here is far more pernicious. "Partial-birth abortion" is a scare campaign. It's a way for conservatives to pounce on a tiny fact, blow it up out of proportion and make politi

what is your reaction about this article as psychology? Give me your comment about this article as many detail as u want? NEW YORK — In a report published in a medical journal this month, two doctors describe a 6-year-old girl with profound, irreversible developmental disability who was given high doses of estrogen to permanently halt her growth so that her parents could continue to care for her at home. The controversial growth-attenuation treatment, which included hysterectomy, was requested by the child's parents and initiated after careful consultation and review by an ethics committee. In their report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Drs. Daniel F. Gunther and Douglas S. Diekema, both at the University of Washington in Seattle, explain the reasoning behind what they hope will generate a healthy debate. Gunther is at the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, and Diekema is at the Center for Pediatric Bioethics. Caring for children with profound developmental disabilities can be difficult and demanding, they note. For children with severe combined neurologic and cognitive impairment who are unable to move without assistance, all the necessities of life — dressing, bathing, transporting — must be provided by caregivers, usually parents, and these tasks become increasing difficult, if not impossible, as the child increases in size. "Achieving permanent growth attenuation while the child is still young and of manageable size would remove one of the major obstacles to family care and might extend the time that parents with the ability, resources, and inclination to care for their child at home might be able to do so," Gunther and Diekema write. The parents of the 6-year-old, both of whom were college-educated professionals, indicated a strong desire to continue caring for their daughter. Despite having the neurologic development no greater than that of an infant, the 6-year-old responds to her parents and two healthy siblings — vocalizing and smiling in response to care and affection — and "clearly is an integral, and much loved, member of the family," the authors note. After extensive evaluation, the combined opinion of a team of specialists is that the child will have no significant neurologic or cognitive improvements. advertisement | ad info Advertisement | ad info Advertisement | ad info The onset of puberty and continued growth caused concern in the parents about how they would care for their daughter long-term, which they clearly wanted to do. They were concerned about having to turn over care to "strangers" and also about the complications that would arise when the child started menstruating. The child is now a little more than a year into growth-attenuating therapy and approaching the end of her growth, Gunther and Diekema report. "As of yet, there have been no treatment complications." The authors feel that growth arresting therapy can be "both ethical and feasible and should be an option available to parents." The authors of a commentary applaud Gunther and Diekema for publishing this case report, although they believe that attempts to attenuate growth are "ill advised." Nonetheless, Dr. Jeffrey P. Brosco from the University of Miami and Dr. Chris Feudtner from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, say that by beginning the debate, this paper helps to "advance our ethical dialogue as we struggle to define our core values in words, laws, and deeds. Only with further research and public discussion will we learn whether attempts to attenuate growth run with or against our fundamental values in caring for children with profound developmental disabilities." give me as much details as you can Plz

Would you choose the gender of your baby? (through ivf)? I just read this article what are your thoughts. -Should we be allowed to choose the sex of our baby? Why or why not? - Personally I dont understand why you need to choose? Is there a medical reason or just preference? I wanted a boy as my first born but would have been equally as happy with a girl. When i get pregnant again im happy with either (a little girl would be wonderful though as i would love a daughter). I wouldnt use ivf to get this though. Victorian women are travelling to Thailand to circumvent IVF sex-choice laws and pick the sex of their babies. Trips costing up to $10,000 are being undertaken by mothers desperate to choose the gender of their babies after the practice was overruled by the Australian Health Ethics Committee in 2004. Doctors face jail in Victoria for assisting with sex selections, despite women attending clinics and asking for assistance. Thailand's medical council does not condone sex selection but several Thai clinics offer the service as a cheaper alternative to the US, where the practice is allowed, the Herald Sun newspaper reported. Melbourne IVF chief executive Dr Lyndon Hale says he refused a number of women seeking assistance in the last year and only directed them to look on the internet for information. "We would tell them (about Thailand)," Dr Hale said. "We would suggest you get on the web and make your own arrangements."

(I asked this b4 more ppl online now more views)- SELECTING YOUR BABIES GENDER IVF? I just read this article what are your thoughts. -Should we be allowed to choose the sex of our baby? Why or why not? - Personally I dont understand why you need to choose? Is there a medical reason or just preference? I wanted a boy as my first born but would have been equally as happy with a girl. When i get pregnant again im happy with either (a little girl would be wonderful though as i would love a daughter). I wouldnt use ivf to get this though. Victorian women are travelling to Thailand to circumvent IVF sex-choice laws and pick the sex of their babies. Trips costing up to $10,000 are being undertaken by mothers desperate to choose the gender of their babies after the practice was overruled by the Australian Health Ethics Committee in 2004. Doctors face jail in Victoria for assisting with sex selections, despite women attending clinics and asking for assistance. Thailand's medical council does not condone sex selection but several Thai clinics offer the service as a cheaper alternative to the US, where the practice is allowed, the Herald Sun newspaper reported. Melbourne IVF chief executive Dr Lyndon Hale says he refused a number of women seeking assistance in the last year and only directed them to look on the internet for information. "We would tell them (about Thailand)," Dr Hale said. "We would suggest you get on the web and make your own arrangements."

Does Israel have its own special set of ethics and should the rest of the world be ok with it? A report came out today in Israel from Physicians for Human Rights that says 'The Military repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive' and gives specific examples of the prevention of medical assistance from the trapped and the wounded, severe difficulties for emergency medical evacuation, attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities, and de facto prevention of the chronically ill and gravely wounded from receiving medical care outside Gaza. It also reports 16 medical personnel killed and 25 wounded from the Israeli army's fire, all of them while performing their medical duties. Furthermore, 34 medical facilities were hit by the army, 8 hospitals and 26 primary care clinics - "this in severe violation of directives of international law that forbid attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities in times of fighting." http://www.phr.org.il/phr/article.asp?articleid=702&catid=55&pcat=-1&lang=ENG Does Israel have its own special set of ethics and if the rest of the world questions this should they all be called anti-semitic?

This Christmas, I Jan Brewer am bringing death to Arizonians who need organ transplants. How about you? Arizona's 'Brewercare' Budget Cuts of Lifesaving Organ Transplants Criticized ContributorNetwork William Browning William Browning – Fri Dec 3, 5:49 pm ET Contribute content like this. Start here. An article in the New York Times and subsequent blogosphere attacks are bringing to light Arizona's budget cuts and fiscal responsibility. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer made the decision to cut part of the state's Medicaid package in January and the legislature enacted the cuts in March. The cuts to Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) amounted to taking 315,000 Arizona residents off the rolls in order to save $1.4 billion in the next two years according to the Phoenix Business Journal. Arizona faced a $1.5 billion deficit in funding so Brewer and the legislature cut lifesaving organ transplant surgery for some patients. [ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ] Because some of these organ transplant patients have died due to a lack of money for the procedure, the phrase "death by budget cut" has become the rallying cry for those opposed to Brewer's cuts. The Faces of Organ Transplants The situation for some Arizona residents is literally heartbreaking. Francisco Felix was ready to have a new liver and had a donor organ waiting for him but his funding ran out. Now he has to raise $200,000 and wait for another compatible liver. Felix is 32 and has four children. Mark Price was finally given the green light to get a bone marrow transplant but the day a donor was found was the same day the budget cuts were enacted. Price died two months later and his family is calling for changes to the Medicaid system. Arizona television station KSAZ states Price was 37 and a father of six. An anonymous donor came up with the money for his transplant but it came too late--Price died from complications due to chemotherapy treating his leukemia. NPR reports on Randy Shepherd who needs a heart transplant because he suffers from cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart muscle as it deteriorates over time. If he doesn't get an entirely new heart it will eventually give out. Shepherd is 36 and has three kids. Radical Budget Solutions Arizona says it will save $4.5 million this year alone because of the cuts to their organ transplant system. How can Arizona come up with some extra cash? Here are a couple of ideas. Instead of trying to force immigrants out of Arizona by possibly having them arrested with the controversial immigration law, why not offer them amnesty? If they become citizens then they pay taxes. If they pay taxes then there will be fewer budget cuts. Saving the lives of your state's taxpayers should be a priority. Healthy citizens work hard and make more taxable income. It only make sense the more lives you save the more taxes they pay. After all, these taxpayers are responsible for paying salaries of the very elected officials who cut funding for their lifesaving operations. Instead of cutting services to the poor, try cutting the salaries of the top earners in state government. The chief investment officer of the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) makes $280,000 per year as the highest paid state employee. The administrator of the same agency makes $205,000. In all, 676 state employees make over $100,000 in Arizona. Jan Brewer herself makes $95,000 amongst the 125 employees in the governor's office. Many medical ethics experts and doctors in Arizona have condemned the budget cuts even though they understand the need to save money. The blogosphere and social networks have called Arizona's cuts "Brewercare." Keith Olbermann on MSNBC is featuring two possible organ donor recipients on his show and will be asking viewers for donations to help. Olbermann has called Brewer's budget cuts a "death panel" much like Sarah Palin and Tea Party's assertion of President Obama's Oh! and merry Christmas everyone.

How do you feel about the death panel republicans have implemented in Arizona? Arizona's 'Brewercare' Budget Cuts of Lifesaving Organ Transplants Criticized ContributorNetwork William Browning William Browning – Fri Dec 3, 5:49 pm ET Contribute content like this. Start here. An article in the New York Times and subsequent blogosphere attacks are bringing to light Arizona's budget cuts and fiscal responsibility. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer made the decision to cut part of the state's Medicaid package in January and the legislature enacted the cuts in March. The cuts to Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) amounted to taking 315,000 Arizona residents off the rolls in order to save $1.4 billion in the next two years according to the Phoenix Business Journal. Arizona faced a $1.5 billion deficit in funding so Brewer and the legislature cut lifesaving organ transplant surgery for some patients. [ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ] Because some of these organ transplant patients have died due to a lack of money for the procedure, the phrase "death by budget cut" has become the rallying cry for those opposed to Brewer's cuts. The Faces of Organ Transplants The situation for some Arizona residents is literally heartbreaking. Francisco Felix was ready to have a new liver and had a donor organ waiting for him but his funding ran out. Now he has to raise $200,000 and wait for another compatible liver. Felix is 32 and has four children. Mark Price was finally given the green light to get a bone marrow transplant but the day a donor was found was the same day the budget cuts were enacted. Price died two months later and his family is calling for changes to the Medicaid system. Arizona television station KSAZ states Price was 37 and a father of six. An anonymous donor came up with the money for his transplant but it came too late--Price died from complications due to chemotherapy treating his leukemia. NPR reports on Randy Shepherd who needs a heart transplant because he suffers from cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart muscle as it deteriorates over time. If he doesn't get an entirely new heart it will eventually give out. Shepherd is 36 and has three kids. Radical Budget Solutions Arizona says it will save $4.5 million this year alone because of the cuts to their organ transplant system. How can Arizona come up with some extra cash? Here are a couple of ideas. Instead of trying to force immigrants out of Arizona by possibly having them arrested with the controversial immigration law, why not offer them amnesty? If they become citizens then they pay taxes. If they pay taxes then there will be fewer budget cuts. Saving the lives of your state's taxpayers should be a priority. Healthy citizens work hard and make more taxable income. It only make sense the more lives you save the more taxes they pay. After all, these taxpayers are responsible for paying salaries of the very elected officials who cut funding for their lifesaving operations. Instead of cutting services to the poor, try cutting the salaries of the top earners in state government. The chief investment officer of the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) makes $280,000 per year as the highest paid state employee. The administrator of the same agency makes $205,000. In all, 676 state employees make over $100,000 in Arizona. Jan Brewer herself makes $95,000 amongst the 125 employees in the governor's office. Many medical ethics experts and doctors in Arizona have condemned the budget cuts even though they understand the need to save money. The blogosphere and social networks have called Arizona's cuts "Brewercare." Keith Olbermann on MSNBC is featuring two possible organ donor recipients on his show and will be asking viewers for donations to help. Olbermann has called Brewer's budget cuts a "death panel" much like Sarah Palin and Tea Party's assertion of President Obama's health care reform bill. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20101203/pl_ac/7331750_arizonas_brewercare_budget_cuts_of_lifesaving_organ_transplants_criticized

This Christmas, I Jan Brewer am bringing death to Arizonians who need organ transplants. How about you? Arizona's 'Brewercare' Budget Cuts of Lifesaving Organ Transplants Criticized ContributorNetwork William Browning William Browning – Fri Dec 3, 5:49 pm ET Contribute content like this. Start here. An article in the New York Times and subsequent blogosphere attacks are bringing to light Arizona's budget cuts and fiscal responsibility. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer made the decision to cut part of the state's Medicaid package in January and the legislature enacted the cuts in March. The cuts to Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) amounted to taking 315,000 Arizona residents off the rolls in order to save $1.4 billion in the next two years according to the Phoenix Business Journal. Arizona faced a $1.5 billion deficit in funding so Brewer and the legislature cut lifesaving organ transplant surgery for some patients. [ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ] Because some of these organ transplant patients have died due to a lack of money for the procedure, the phrase "death by budget cut" has become the rallying cry for those opposed to Brewer's cuts. The Faces of Organ Transplants The situation for some Arizona residents is literally heartbreaking. Francisco Felix was ready to have a new liver and had a donor organ waiting for him but his funding ran out. Now he has to raise $200,000 and wait for another compatible liver. Felix is 32 and has four children. Mark Price was finally given the green light to get a bone marrow transplant but the day a donor was found was the same day the budget cuts were enacted. Price died two months later and his family is calling for changes to the Medicaid system. Arizona television station KSAZ states Price was 37 and a father of six. An anonymous donor came up with the money for his transplant but it came too late--Price died from complications due to chemotherapy treating his leukemia. NPR reports on Randy Shepherd who needs a heart transplant because he suffers from cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart muscle as it deteriorates over time. If he doesn't get an entirely new heart it will eventually give out. Shepherd is 36 and has three kids. Radical Budget Solutions Arizona says it will save $4.5 million this year alone because of the cuts to their organ transplant system. How can Arizona come up with some extra cash? Here are a couple of ideas. Instead of trying to force immigrants out of Arizona by possibly having them arrested with the controversial immigration law, why not offer them amnesty? If they become citizens then they pay taxes. If they pay taxes then there will be fewer budget cuts. Saving the lives of your state's taxpayers should be a priority. Healthy citizens work hard and make more taxable income. It only make sense the more lives you save the more taxes they pay. After all, these taxpayers are responsible for paying salaries of the very elected officials who cut funding for their lifesaving operations. Instead of cutting services to the poor, try cutting the salaries of the top earners in state government. The chief investment officer of the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) makes $280,000 per year as the highest paid state employee. The administrator of the same agency makes $205,000. In all, 676 state employees make over $100,000 in Arizona. Jan Brewer herself makes $95,000 amongst the 125 employees in the governor's office. Many medical ethics experts and doctors in Arizona have condemned the budget cuts even though they understand the need to save money. The blogosphere and social networks have called Arizona's cuts "Brewercare." Keith Olbermann on MSNBC is featuring two possible organ donor recipients on his show and will be asking viewers for donations to help. Olbermann has called Brewer's budget cuts a "death panel" much like Sarah Palin and Tea Party's assertion of President Obama's health care reform bill.

Have a question about medical schooling...? I am currently attending a local college to earn my degree in the medical field. In my Medical Law & Ethics class, the professor wants us to find a newspaper article about any legal/ethical topic. Now my problem...none of my local newspapers have any articles that catch my attention, so my question..more of a request...that everyone gives me their local newspaper's website so I can search them too! Please do this for me!!! Thanks to everyone who answers!!!!!!

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I respect them as I have met some, but I am glad that I never asked for their names. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Wrongful Termination with possible illegal implications at Sam's Club 6625 at San Fernando California 91340 William Gregory Lang or Bill Lang wants to transfer to a Sam's Club in Colorado as soon as possible. Mr Lang used to be trusted by Max Rafael Waller who made the mistake of telling him everything before the Termination on Monday, 23 April 2007. Mr Lang is a decent and the Waller Family will pray for everyone that is against Max Rafael Waller Team Lead Ambrosio Galvan also knows a lot of dirty secrets at Sam's Club 6625, but is nervous about losing his job if he sides with Max Rafael Waller Sam's Club PD-57 was NOT adhere to by Club Manager Fidel Jacobo and Membership Manager Esperanza Lopez. No documentation of any complaints and the San Fernando Police Department or the Los Angeles Police Department ever showed for a "Work Place Violence." Please show proof since one complaint and one video tape does NOT establish workplace violence. Neither Mr Jacobo or Ms Lopez wanted to sign the papers of any meeting between two managers and Max Rafael Waller for Legal Documentation. No meetings to address any potentail problems at the Tire and Battery Center were brought up by the Team Lead or Management. The Waller Family will pray for everyone that is against Max Rafael Waller formerly Assoc ID 0035 and Operator 007 proudly serving since Tuesday, 13 November 1990 - Monday, 23 April 2007 and only needed about nine years to do a minimal of twenty-five years to retire from Wal Mart Stores, Inc. He was one hundred percent vested in Profit Sharing and had a one month vacation allocated per year. No meetings to address any potentail problems at the Tire and Battery Center were brought up by the Team Lead or Management. As of Monday, 9 April 2007, the people of the Tire Shop are playing pranks and making it appear as if Max Rafael Waller is becoming forgetful such as the misplacement of tools and personal safety gear. The suspects are Erick Miron and Mark Castro. Esperanza Lopez was told and never had a meeting to discuss the topics brought to her attention by Max Rafael Waller. Manager Esperanza Lopez was asked to verify this by reviewing the Surveillance video tapes and the request was not honored. Esperanza Lopez, Memebership Manager, was told about the pranks about two weeks ago but no meeting to difuse or address serious matters was conducted. Miguel P Herrera might had spread misinformation but is only a suspect. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= HOW IT ALL BEGAN Sam's Club 6625 12920 Foothill Blvd San Fernando California 91340 Phone:1-818-365-7710 Fax:1-818-365-0690 December 2006 Mehmet Ekinci {A Hatchet Man and sent to "clean House" is no longer there but in Fresno according to Mr Jason Fastner} said that he was replacing everyone in the tire shop or its proper title: Tire and Battery Center according to Jeff Lopez{no longer work there} and Mark Castro{has recanted}and Bill Lang heard indirectly but will deny it. Max Rafael Waller studied all of Wal-Mart policies and found that if that his remark {INTIMIDATION} could be verified then he would get a coaching for making such a remark. The others are scared to tell the truth. Sam's Club 6625 Fidel Jacobo has POSSIBLY EVERYBODY at Sam's Club gathering information given out by Max Rafael Waller and will reward them by promotion and/or a payraise along with illegal surveillance that GROSSLY violates Global Ethics Compliance that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc claims to uphold. They will say they are understaff and this is baseless. Fidel Jacobo might be spreading misinformation through the tire shop boss, Bill Lang. Fidel Jacobo has received a lot of Anti-Union training Bill told Max if the associates do not follow rules let that be the problem of management. Bill Lang is a Team Lead and so he is required to enforce all rules even IF he disagrees. Los Angeles Times C2 Thursday, April 5, 2007 in the Business Section the title is Wal-Mart defend its monitoring If it is proven then it is a gross violoation of the Global Ethics that Wal Mart Stores, Inc agreed to comply when they signed it around 2003 Will Wal Mart Stores, Inc allow inspection of all internal complaints that have violated Global Ethics or stonewall like the White House and the Valerie Plame situation ? The secret for Wal-Mart not getting caught of Fear and intimidation is simple: a lot of unwritten rules so there is no evidence. A lot of non-managers associates will respond by saying they see or know nothing of improper treatment. They will also have selective memory. The Legal Division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc is preparing countercharges and some will be Invasion of Privacy, Defamation of Character, Character Assassination, Destroying Reputation, Intent , Injurious to morale , etcetera, but the biggest will be that this site is ONLY generalizations and especially baseless with no legally verifiable facts. Will the Legal Division have legitimate countercharges ? Yes, but I chose no to type all them and have them ready for a lawyer for effective defense and so it is their problem to figure them out. Duress and Graymail may be part of the defense of Max Rafael Waller along with the usual Freedom of Exprssion afforded by the US Constitution Graymail can be used against US Federal Government and possibly local Law Enforcement. Will Wal-Mart succeed in having Max Rafael Waller discredited by a Psychological Evaluation thereby stigmatizing him as a man with grands delusions ? Is Samuel Robson Walton of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc part of this ? Ensuring that legal cases proving that the rules to ensure to easy terminate people are not made aware? Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has a persistent Legal Divsion that rivals the US Federal Government and has many victories on its belt. It can be verified just ask the New York Times for confirmation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Disingenuous and Duplicitous Legal Division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc To give the Appearance that Max Rafael Waller is causing great harm to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club they have labeled Interview Questions and "Privileged & Confidential" and the Sam's Club University title is More Than A Gut Feeling Participant's Guide A list of interview questions should be deemed Innocuous that is not be Injurious to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club. The so called witnesses are Mr. Fastener and Mr. Lang of Sam's Club 6625. They are so desperate that they will act as like the Valerie Plame case. A print out of this document conveniently did not have a date nor time printed as to give an appearance that is so sensitive. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc WILL improve and better their ways of operating, but it will NOT be easy. They are NOT as horrible as people claim. There is an old saying have friend close to you, BUT have your enemies even closer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam's Club 6625 are doing this tactic as of Wednesday, 4 April 2007 and some members as well. One African-American tried to talk about the union, but Max's reply "You started inserting the talk about the union and so you want to find out what is going on in my head. You wearing clothes so raggedy that your testicles are showing. If you were FBI you would be in trouble for indecent exposure." He left. TACTICS USED BY SAM'S CLUB 6625 / WAL MART STORES, INC Others Associates and one Caucasian-American named Jarrod tried to be his friend. Jarrod in the past ignore him while his friend that came along with him came from another Sam's Club and they enjoy Good Cop and Bad Cop. When enough approaches to friendship have been ignored Sam's Club 6625 will say "Hey everyone tried to befriend Max, but he sent them all away and this shows that he lacks social skills or has some problems and he will not allow us to help in whatever way we can" Can you say Hyena and Benedict Arnold Wal-Mart are excellent at discrediting people through what they have done in over 10 years. They shed Crocodile tears for associates with the courage of not being intimidated. ANOTHER TACTIC OF SAM'S CLUB 6625 / WAL MART STORES, INC Wal-Mart Stores, Inc will protect their Public Relations and Image AT ANY COST INCLUDING MAKING A PACT Loyal Customers, "grateful" associates, and their vendors and suppliers. Members will complain to get Max Rafael Waller and Sam's Club 6625 management will do it without hesitation. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc WILL improve and better their ways of operating, but it will NOT be easy. They are NOT as horrible as people claim. Sam's Club 6625 are doing this tactic as of Wednesday, 4 April 2007 and some members as well. One African-American tried to talk about the union, but Max's reply "You started inserting the talk about the union and so you want to find out what is going on in my head. You wearing clothes so raggedy that your testicles are showing. If you were FBI you would be in trouble for indecent exposure." He left. INTIAL ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT WITH A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION A possible misdiagnosis and initial attempt to discredit through a Psychological Evaluation by Scott Wang MD from Providence Holy Cross Medical Center 15301 Rinaldi St Mission Hills CA 91345 Telephone: 1-818-365-8051 Dr Scott Wang's name could not be found at their website http://www.providence.org/losangeles/facilities/providence_holy_cross/default.htmand he is the one who possibly suggested a Psychiatric Evaluation so a result to Wal-Mart's desire could be used to start discrediting Max Rafael Waller An old white man with a Kaiser Permanente badge and from a Psychiatric Evaluation team from Kaiser never left a business card or a phone number for communication. He looked like an actor from Law and Order portraying a Psychiatrist and impersonation IS illegal and punishable by law. On Sunday, 1 April 2007 Dr Paul R Hladon Kaiser Permanente 13652 Cantara St Panorama City CA 91402 Telephone: 1-818-375-2377 Dr Paul R Hladon reluctantly gave Max two prescriptions: Azithromycin 250MG {Take two tablets daily for seven days} and Ciprofloxacin HCL 500MG{Take one tablet orally two times a day for fourteen days} Only two X-Rays and no blood test done, so how did Dr Hladon know what to prescribe ? He took the medicine and instructions as given. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FBI are also exploiting fear and they have the BSU as their asset. Bill Lang has casually spoken about death and intimidation about how Max will get fired with one more coaching which comes from the FBI and Wal-Mart's Homeoffice in Bentonville Arkansas 72716. Possible causes Max Rafael Waller's fear of possibly dying. Around Wednesday, 21 March 2007 he dragged the rotting carcass of a dog so children would not touch it. It was in front on the Pepsi Bottling Plant in San Fernando California 91340 and its entrance is on Dronfield Ave. He MIGHT have breathed some Bacteria, Germs or other Biological Agents and maybe some Botulism. Also Desiccating{drying} Bacteria. Esther Topete was watering the front lawn at 11261 Sproule Ave, Pacoima California 91331 and was scared. Max picked up a headless Squirrel that had a foul stench and maggots and placed in the garbage bin. Psychiatric Evaluation(S) is a legal tool to discredit a critic so if they can find that a individual(s) has mental problems or unable to cope with life's problem the discrediting tactic will work. A stigma of mental problem is almost impossible to overcome. Being labeled with poor mental health has been used to successfully discredit a critic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTIVITIES BY THE FBI Group Stalking will be denied resulting with the accusser(s) being prejudged or viewed as someone with Visual Hallucinations,additionally, Electromagnetic Harassment or Electromagnetic Pulses will be denied resulting with the accusser(s)being prejudged or viewed as someone with Auditory Hallucinations. Both can be used when someone is driving or walking but when someone is trying to sleep the Electromagnetic Harassment will be used to disrupt sleep and with lack of sleep people's behavior is altered significantly and people end up with the impressions that they cannot handle stress. Electromagnetic Harassment is used to break the will of people who dare to dissent. The FBI has a complete profile of Max Rafael Waller and two weak areas are Anger and Anxiety, so they will create a situation that will end with him having a Fatal Heart Attack and/or Fatal Stroke. The FBI will to DO Sleep Deprivation/disruption AGAINST MAX RAFAEL WALLER. The collaborators of US Law Enforcement are the neighbors around Sproule Ave and Pierce St area Will the FBI be creative and imaginative with this information along with the profile to discredit Max Rafael Waller ? The neighbors around the corner of Sproule Ave and Pierce St in Pacoima California 91331 are collaborating by playing a lot of bass on their speakers and technically their noise is considered Electro-Magnetic Pulses, EMP, since the speakers have magnets energized or powered by electricity. This is why it is vital for them to have people found to be mentally unstable by the legal use of Psychological Evaluation. The FBI will discredit Max Rafael Waller by ALL NECESSARY MEANS as they other Americans like a serial killer Biological and Psychological war along with Electronic from their world famous Behavioral Science Unit or BSU The FBI might HAVE an unofficial pact with Organized Crime and they have been intercepting phone calls and ended phone calls with the help of Time-Warner Cable US Law Enforcement have all of the Internet activities and had yet to find any evidence to charge someone of potentially being an Internet Predator and Pedophile. Sadly the owners of the house at 11261 Sproule Ave, Pacoima CA 91331 are family members and do NOT want to get involved. Su much for family unity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surveillance, Psychotronics and (Gang)Stalking Operations The Xiandos web site is http://xiandos.info/Surveillance,_Psychotronics_and_(Gang-)Stalking_Operations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FBI will cite National Security and not allow the reviews of any US Federal Black Operations. Any damaging evidence destroyed or manipulated before it is declassified. An example is how LTC Oliver North and Fawn Hall destroyed documents about Iran Contra. The Electronic equipment emit Electromagnetic Waves. There is something called Electromagnetic Spectrum that range from low energy to high level energy. Electromagnetic Spectrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ALSTool/EMSpec/EMSpec2.html The Frequencies of the Human Body The Human Body is has certain frequencies with certain organs like the heart and brain have a specific frequency and the emitter or transmitter can be adjusted to slowly damage them and leading to any illness. They will target the respiratory organs, digestive organs, the heart, the brain, and the reproductive organsby trying to matching their frequency range. The result will be mental problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following is something the FBI do not want Americans to be aware of and Electronic Terrorist Activities is one of the Covert Operations. Please visit http://www.mdspec.com to find about transmissions of Electromagnetic Waves from Low Energy to High Energy. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES can cause cancers and tumors to the Human Body with a continous exposure and the FBI know this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-103793 The following is a from Privacy International Freedom of information has suffered other setbacks under the Bush Adminsitration. The September 11 attacks provided justification for the withdrawal of a number of types of government information on the web. The Bush Administration had already been accused of being the most secretive government in many decades. On October 12, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a policy memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act that encourages government officials to deny access to information. At the same time, other "sensitive" information such as the locations of nuclear power plants, chemical hazard risk management plans, pipeline maps, and reports related to other hazards were removed from government agency Web sites on the grounds of national security. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To verify the FBI's LACK OF COOPERATION Please call 1-310-477-6565 and if they respond only with FBI keep on pressing with the question "May I please have your name." If they refuse then ask "Please cite the guidline or policy that states that you do not have to give me you name" The FBI might HAVE an unofficial pact with Organized Crime and they have been intercepting phone calls and ended phone calls with the help of Time-Warner Cable The routine patrols by the Los Angeles Police Department has been NOTICEABLE ABSENT from Dronfield St and Pierce St along Dronfield St all the way to Dronfield St and Arroyo St that Max Rafael Waller walks this route The FBI, MySpace, and Yahoo are master of allowing "technical glitches and other excuses" and this is an example of an almost Orwellian Society. MySpace, Yahoo, MSN, along with others protect White Supremacist willingly! Yahoo,MSN,and Google HAVE betrayed dissenters in China and ARE betraying people in the United States of America, so we live in an almost Orwellian Society. Yahoo will not going to allow irrelevant answers to any topic at their forum and forget that people are smart and will ignore them, thus Yahoo should not censor even moronic ranting. Allow Yahoo users ignore and continue, moreover, Yahoo records their IP Address so what is the problem? MySpace might censor people. You want an example? I am writing about topics not related to the heading. Please read my comments on the headline; Music. What I wrote there is tangential! Max Rafael Waller used to give too much personal information and others that should had NEVER been revealed and might have been used to discredit him or end up with bad publicity. Especially to Bill Lang His brother would say to give to much info and you need to be discreet and Max's mother also agrees. Do not be surprised when they use Cease and Desist for Legal Intimidation that has worked. Will the Legal Division have legitimate countercharges ? Yes, but I chose no to type all them and have them ready for a lawyer for effective defense and so it is their problem to figure them out. Duress and Graymail may be part of the defense of Max Rafael Waller along with the usual Freedom of Exprssion afforded by the US Constitution Graymail can be used against US Federal Government and possibly local Law Enforcement. The US Courts protect men with Power and Wealth. Wal-Mart rivals the propaganda of Joseph Goebbel and hides the truth so easily with over 30 years of practice and refining. The deafeated Thomas M Coughlin has almost 30 years of Wal-Mart's dirt. The New York Times do NOT fear Wal-Mart and in fact I hope they investigate everything stated here Some people are giving the impression that they are from OSHA, Occupational Safety Hazard Agency. Report them because they are breaking the law(s). Samuel Robson Walton and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc somewhat fear the investigative reporting prowess of the New York Times The Code of Silence is not just strictly applicable to Law Enforcement! Public education and priorities will save the United States of America Ensuring that legal cases proving that the rules to ensure to easy terminate people are not made aware? Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has a persistent Legal Divsion that rivals the US Federal Government and has many victories on its belt. It can be verified just ask the New York Times for confirmation. Wal Mart Stores, Inc violate their own Global Ethics policies. Their Global Ethics Office have stated that they only handle Age Discrimination. Read the United Nations Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/principle10.html http://www.unglobalcompact.org/Issues/transparency_anticorruption/index.html http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/anticorruption/iccfccd/index.html?cookies=no Institute for Global Ethics http://www.globalethics.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No evidence has been found to justify surveillance and justify tactics used by the US Homeland Security and local Law Enforcement. PLEASE show all of the information gathered ! Who are involved: the Los Angeles Police Department, the San Fernando Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a lot of associates from Sam's Club 6625 and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The US Air Force Covert Units from Edwards Air Force Base Helicopters from are doing the bidding of the FBI and sending Electromagnetic Waves or Signals You can tell them because the are dark gray with no identifying numbers NOT even the typical US Air Force Max Rafael Waller is a proud Life Member of the Air Force Association Please visit the AFA at http://www.afa.org and Chapter 121 or the Doolittle Chapter. Please visit http://www.myspace.com/uss_america {erased by the FBI}, and http://72.14.253.104/custom?q=cache:STCxJMuHTxQJ:www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/stealth.pdf+Covert+%2B+Edwards+%2B+Air+Force+%2B+Base&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us This is the Code of Silence at its WORST. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is something the FBI do not want Americans to be aware of and Electronic Terrorist Activities is one of the Covert Operations. Please visit http://www.mdspec.com to find about transmissions of Electromagnetic Waves from Low Energy to High Energy. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES can cause cancers and tumors to the Human Body with a continous exposure and the FBI know this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-103793 The following is a from Privacy International Freedom of information has suffered other setbacks under the Bush Adminsitration. The September 11 attacks provided justification for the withdrawal of a number of types of government information on the web. The Bush Administration had already been accused of being the most secretive government in many decades. On October 12, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a policy memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act that encourages government officials to deny access to information. At the same time, other "sensitive" information such as the locations of nuclear power plants, chemical hazard risk management plans, pipeline maps, and reports related to other hazards were removed from government agency Web sites on the grounds of national security. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To verify the FBI's LACK OF COOPERATION Please call 1-310-477-6565 and if they respond only with FBI keep on pressing with the question "May I please have your name." If they refuse then ask "Please cite the guidline or policy that states that you do not have to give me you name" Censorship on the internet The FBI, MySpace, and Yahoo are master of allowing "technical glitches and other excuses" and this is an example of an almost Orwellian Society. MySpace, Yahoo, MSN, along with others protect White Supremacist willingly! Yahoo,MSN,and Google HAVE betrayed dissenters in China and ARE betraying people in the United States of America, so we live in an almost Orwellian Society. Yahoo will not going to allow irrelevant answers to any topic at their forum and forget that people are smart and will ignore them, thus Yahoo should not censor even moronic ranting. Allow Yahoo users ignore and continue, moreover, Yahoo records their IP Address so what is the problem? MySpace might censor people. You want an example? I am writing about topics not related to the heading. Please read my comments on the headline; Music. What I wrote there is tangential! The FBI{twice} were given via e-mail, max_rafael_waller@hotmail.com, the following pertaining to Max Rafael Waller; Social Security Account Number, Driver's License Number with expiration date, Home and Work Address with their telephone numbers. The rules of grammar, writing, are not the same as those for speaking. ===================================================== Dr Robert Louis Pritchard of Los Angeles Valley College is credible with integrity and a consumate professional. Dr Pritchard will be teaching US Constitutional Law in the fall of 2007. PLEASE TAKE HIM AND BECOME AN INTELLIGENT THINKER! ===================================================== MySpace is ensure that the name Max Rafael Waller is not found on their MySpace search "powered" meaning paid by you guessed it! mainly Google. ===================================================== Max Rafael Waller is a PROUD Life Member of the Air Force Association{US Air Force} and the US Naval Institute. A former N.J.R.O.T.C. cadet at San Fernando Senior High School and alumn of Les Prestigians ~ Class of 1983. US ARMY 1984-1988 Active duty ===================================================== US President Dwight David Eisenhower told the truth about the US Military-Industrial Complex. General of the Army Eisenhower was a great military man but found out that fellow Republicans did not have to obey his orders. President Ronalnd Wilson Reagan is dead, but President George Herbert Walker Bush is still alive. Do you think the President George Walker Bush would bust his dad to save his legacy ? Heroes Theodore Roosevelt and James Earl Carter, Jr or Jimmy Carter. Earl Warren was a great progressive Republican Governor of the State of California and one of the best Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The US Constitution has been on a steady decline with the Warren Burger US Supreme Court that began around 1969. Employment Lawyers Be patient or visit http://www.myspace.com/max_rafael_waller and make your own conclusion !

help with a summary? Last Rites for Indian Dead by Suzan Shown Harjo What if museums, universities, and government agencies could put your dead relatives on display or keep them in boxes to be cut up and otherwise studied? What if you believed that the spirits of the dead could not rest until their human remains were placed in a sacred area? The ordinary American would say there ought to be a law—and there is, for ordinary Americans. The problem for American Indians is that there are too many laws of the kind that make us the archeological property of the United States and too few of the kind that protect us from such insults. Some of my own Cheyenne relatives’ skulls are in the Smithsonian Institution today, along with those of at least 4,500 other Indian people who were violated in the 1800s by the U.S. Army for an “Indian Crania Study.” It wasn’t enough that these unarmed Cheyenne people were mowed down by the cavalry at the infamous Sand Creek massacre; many were decapitated and their heads shipped to Washington as freight. (The Army Medical Museum’s collection is now in the Smithsonian.) Some had been exhumed° only hours after being buried. Imagine their grieving families’ reaction on finding their loved ones disinterred° and headless. Some targets of the Army’s study were killed in noncombat situations and beheaded immediately. The officer’s account of the decapitation of the Apache chief Mangas Coloradas in 1863 shows the pseudoscientific nature of the exercise. “I weighed the brain and measured the skull,” the good doctor wrote, “and found that while the skull was smaller, the brain was larger than that of Daniel Webster.” These journal accounts exist in excruciating detail, yet missing are any records of overall comparisons, conclusions, or final reports of the Army study. Since it is unlike the Army not to leave a paper trail, one must wonder about the motive for its collection. The total Indian body count in the Smithsonian collection is more than 19,000, and it is not the largest in the country. It is not inconceivable that the 1.5 million of us living today are outnumbered by our dead stored in museums, educational institutions, federal agencies, state historical societies, and private collections. The Indian people are further dehumanized by being exhibited alongside the mastodons and dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. Where we have buried our dead in peace, more often than not the sites have been desecrated. For more than two hundred years, relic-hunting has been a popular pursuit. Lately, the market in Indian artifacts has brought this abhorrent activity to a fever pitch in some areas. And when scavengers come upon Indian burial sites, everything found becomes fair game, including sacred burial offerings, teeth, and skeletal remains.One unusually well-publicized example of Indian grave desecration occurred two years ago in a western Kentucky field known as Slack Farm, the site of an Indian village five centuries ago. Ten men—one with a business card stating “Have Shovel, Will Travel”—paid the landowner $10,000 to lease digging rights between planting seasons. They dug extensively on the forty-acre farm, rummaging through an estimated 650 graves, collecting burial goods, tools, and ceremonial items. Skeletons were strewn about like litter. What motivates people to do something like this? Financial gain is the first answer. Indian relic-collecting has become a multimillion-dollar industry. The price tag on a bead necklace can easily top $1,000; rare pieces fetch tens of thousands. And it is not just collectors of the macabre° who pay for skeletal remains. Scientists say that these deceased Indians are needed for research that someday could benefit the health and welfare of living Indians. But just how many dead Indians must they examine? Nineteen thousand? There is doubt as to whether permanent curation of our dead really benefits Indians. Dr. Emery A. Johnson, former assistant Surgeon General, recently observed, “I am not aware of any current medical diagnostic or treatment procedure that has been derived from research on such skeletal remains. Nor am I aware of any during the thirty-four years that I have been involved in American Indian . . . health care.” Indian remains are still being collected for racial biological studies. While the intentions may be honorable, the ethics of using human remains this way without the full consent of relatives must be questioned. Some relief for Indian people has come on the state level. Almost half of the states, including California, have passed laws protecting Indian burial sites and restricting the sale of Indian bones, burial offerings, and other sacred items. Rep. Charles E. Bennett (D-Fla.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have introduced bills that are a good start in invoking the federal government’s protection. However, no legislation has attacked the problem headon by imposing stiff penalties at the marketplace, or by changing laws that make dead Indians the nation’s property. Some universities—notably Stanford, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Seattle—have returned, or agreed to return, Indian human remains; it is fitting that institutions of higher education should lead the way.Congress is now deciding what to do with the government’s extensive collection of Indian human remains and associated funerary objects. The secretary of the Smithsonian, Robert McC. Adams, has been valiantly° attempting to apply modern ethics to yesterday’s excesses. This week, he announced that the Smithsonian would conduct an inventory and return all Indian skeletal remains that could be identified with specific tribes or living kin. But there remains a reluctance generally among collectors of Indian remains to take action of a scope that would have a quantitative impact and a healing quality. If they will not act on their own—and it is highly unlikely that they will—then Congress must act. The country must recognize that the bodies of dead American Indian people are not artifacts to be bought and sold as collector’s items. It is not appropriate to store tens of thousands of our ancestors for possible future research. They are our family. They deserve to be returned to their sacred burial grounds and given a chance to rest. The plunder of our people’s graves has gone on too long. Let us rebury our dead and remove this shameful past from America’s future. 0 comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) __________________________________________ Recently Dugg Stories The Covers Project The Covers Project began as a simple idea to help listeners discover new music by showcasing covers of famous songs. Users can search for their favorite artists and listen to different renditions of their songs online. 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What Makes AMERICA so GREAT???? This is not my own work....but this article is written so well that all I can do is pass it on to the rest of you...Although there are many great things about America, that were left out of this article.....its still a fantastic piece of literature GOD BLESS AMERICA.......AND ALL THAT STAND WITH HER! 10 things to celebrate - Why I'm an anti-anti-American By Dinesh D'Souza http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/c/a/2003/06/29/IN290713.DTL America is under attack as never before -- not only from terrorists but also from people who provide a justification for terrorism. Islamic fundamentalists declare America the Great Satan. Europeans rail against American capitalism and American culture. South American activists denounce the United States for "neocolonialism" and oppression. Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country. But in this country itself, there are those who blame America for most of the evils in the world. On the political left, many fault the United States for a history of slavery, and for continuing inequality and racism. Even on the right, traditionally the home of patriotism, we hear influential figures say that America has become so decadent that we are "slouching towards Gomorrah." If these critics are right, then America should be destroyed. And who can dispute some of their particulars? This country did have a history of slavery and racism continues to exist. There is much in our culture that is vulgar and decadent. But the critics are wrong about America, because they are missing the big picture. In their indignation over the sins of America, they ignore what is unique and good about American civilization. As an immigrant who has chosen to become an American citizen, I feel especially qualified to say what is special about America. Having grown up in a different society -- in my case, Bombay, India -- I am not only able to identify aspects of America that are invisible to the natives, but I am acutely conscious of the daily blessings that I enjoy in America. Here, then, is my list of the 10 great things about America. -- America provides an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy. Rich people live well everywhere. But what distinguishes America is that it provides an impressively high standard of living for the "common man." We now live in a country where construction workers regularly pay $4 for a nonfat latte, where maids drive nice cars and where plumbers take their families on vacation to Europe. Indeed, newcomers to the United States are struck by the amenities enjoyed by "poor" people. This fact was dramatized in the 1980s when CBS television broadcast a documentary, "People Like Us," intended to show the miseries of the poor during an ongoing recession. The Soviet Union also broadcast the documentary, with a view to embarrassing the Reagan administration. But by the testimony of former Soviet leaders, it had the opposite effect. Ordinary people across the Soviet Union saw that the poorest Americans have TV sets, microwave ovens and cars. They arrived at the same perception that I witnessed in an acquaintance of mine from Bombay who has been unsuccessfully trying to move to the United States. I asked him, "Why are you so eager to come to America?" He replied, "I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat." -- America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country, including the countries of Europe. America is the only country that has created a population of "self-made tycoons." Only in America could Pierre Omidyar, whose parents are Iranian and who grew up in Paris, have started a company like eBay. Only in America could Vinod Khosla, the son of an Indian army officer, become a leading venture capitalist, the shaper of the technology industry, and a billionaire to boot. Admittedly tycoons are not typical, but no country has created a better ladder than America for people to ascend from modest circumstances to success. -- Work and trade are respectable in America. Historically most cultures have despised the merchant and the laborer, regarding the former as vile and corrupt and the latter as degraded and vulgar. Some cultures, such as that of ancient Greece and medieval Islam, even held that it is better to acquire things through plunder than through trade or contract labor. But the American founders altered this moral hierarchy. They established a society in which the life of the businessman, and of the people who worked for him, would be a noble calling. In the American view, there is nothing vile or degraded about serving your customers either as a CEO or as a waiter. The ordinary life of production and supporting a family is more highly valued in the United States than in any other country. America is the only country in the world where we call the waiter "sir," as if he were a knight. -- America has achieved greater social equality than any other society. True, there are large inequalities of income and wealth in America. In purely economic terms, Europe is more egalitarian. But Americans are socially more equal than any other people, and this is unaffected by economic disparities. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this egalitarianism a century and a half ago and it is, if anything, more prevalent today. For all his riches, Bill Gates could not approach the typical American and say, "Here's a $100 bill. I'll give it to you if you kiss my feet." Most likely, the person would tell Gates to go to hell! The American view is that the rich guy may have more money, but he isn't in any fundamental sense better than anyone else. -- People live longer, fuller lives in America. Although protesters rail against the American version of technological capitalism at trade meetings around the world, in reality the American system has given citizens many more years of life, and the means to live more intensely and actively. In 1900, the life expectancy in America was around 50 years; today, it is more than 75 years. Advances in medicine and agriculture are mainly responsible for the change. This extension of the life span means more years to enjoy life, more free time to devote to a good cause, and more occasions to do things with the grandchildren. In many countries, people who are old seem to have nothing to do: they just wait to die. In America the old are incredibly vigorous, and people in their seventies pursue the pleasures of life, including remarriage and sexual gratification, with a zeal that I find unnerving. -- In America the destiny of the young is not given to them, but created by them. Not long ago, I asked myself, "What would my life have been like if I had never come to the United States?" If I had remained in India, I would probably have lived my whole life within a five-mile radius of where I was born. I would undoubtedly have married a woman of my identical religious and socioeconomic background. I would almost certainly have become a medical doctor, or an engineer, or a computer programmer. I would have socialized entirely within my ethic community. I would have a whole set of opinions that could be predicted in advance; indeed, they would not be very different from what my father believed, or his father before him. In sum, my destiny would to a large degree have been given to me. In America, I have seen my life take a radically different course. In college I became interested in literature and politics, and I resolved to make a career as a writer. I married a woman whose ancestry is English, French, Scotch-Irish, German and American Indian. In my twenties I found myself working as a policy analyst in the White House, even though I was not an American citizen. No other country, I am sure, would have permitted a foreigner to work in its inner citadel of government. In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist. This notion of being the architect of your own destiny is the incredibly powerful idea that is behind the worldwide appeal of America. Young people especially find irresistible the prospect of authoring the narrative of their own lives. -- America has gone further than any other society in establishing equality of rights. There is nothing distinctively American about slavery or bigotry. Slavery has existed in virtually every culture, and xenophobia, prejudice and discrimination are worldwide phenomena. Western civilization is the only civilization to mount a principled campaign against slavery; no country expended more treasure and blood to get rid of slavery than the United States. While racism remains a problem, this country has made strenuous efforts to eradicate discrimination, even to the extent of enacting policies that give legal preference in university admissions, jobs, and government contracts to members of minority groups. Such policies remain controversial, but the point is that it is extremely unlikely that a racist society would have permitted such policies in the first place. And surely African Americans like Jesse Jackson are vastly better off living in America than they would be if they were to live in, say, Ethiopia or Somalia. -- America has found a solution to the problem of religious and ethnic conflict that continues to divide and terrorize much of the world. Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians, all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other's homes in so many places in the world? The American answer is twofold. First, separate the spheres of religion and government so that no religion is given official preference but all are free to practice their faith as they wish. Second, do not extend rights to racial or ethnic groups but only to individuals; in this way, all are equal in the eyes of the law, opportunity is open to anyone who can take advantage of it, and everybody who embraces the American way of life can "become American." Of course there are exceptions to these core principles, even in America. Racial preferences are one such exception, which explains why they are controversial. But in general, America is the only country in the world that extends full membership to outsiders. The typical American could come to India, live for 40 years, and take Indian citizenship. But he could not "become Indian." He wouldn't see himself that way, nor would most Indians see him that way. In America, by contrast, hundreds of millions have come from far-flung shores and over time they, or at least their children, have in a profound and full sense "become American." -- America has the kindest, gentlest foreign policy of any great power in world history. Critics of the United States are likely to react to this truth with sputtering outrage. They will point to long-standing American support for a Latin or Middle Eastern despot, or the unjust internment of the Japanese during World War II, or America's reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime. However one feels about these particular cases, let us concede to the critics the point that America is not always in the right. What the critics leave out is the other side of the ledger. Twice in the 20th century, the United States saved the world -- first from the Nazi threat, then from Soviet totalitarianism. What would have been the world's fate if America had not existed? After destroying Germany and Japan in World War II, the United States proceeded to rebuild both countries, and today they are American allies. Now we are doing the same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Consider, too, how magnanimous the United States has been to the former Soviet Union after its victory in the Cold War. For the most part America is an abstaining superpower; it shows no real interest in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world. (Imagine how the Soviets would have acted if they had won the Cold War.) On occasion the United States intervenes to overthrow a tyrannical regime or to halt massive human rights abuses in another country, but it never stays to rule that country. In Grenada, Haiti and Bosnia, the United States got in and then it got out. Moreover, when America does get into a war, as in Iraq, its troops are supremely careful to avoid targeting civilians and to minimize collateral damage. Even as America bombed the Taliban infrastructure and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped food to avert hardship and starvation of Afghan civilians. What other country does these things? -- America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth. This point seems counterintuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty. Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best. The millions of Americans who live decent, praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen. By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil. There is no modesty in this, because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue, it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. Thus a free society like America's is not merely more prosperous, more varied, more peaceful, and more tolerant -- it is also morally superior to the theocratic and authoritarian regimes that America's enemies advocate. "To make us love our country," Edmund Burke once said, "our country ought to be lovely." Burke's point is that we should love our country not just because it is ours, but also because it is good. America is far from perfect, and there is lots of room for improvement. In spite of its flaws, however, American life as it is lived today is the best life that our world has to offer. Ultimately America is worthy of our love and sacrifice because, more than any other society, it makes possible the good life, and the life that is good. Dinesh D'Souza's "What's So Great About America" has just been published in paperback by Penguin Books. He is the Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. E-mail: thedsouzas@aol.com.