The Week In Review: Fec Shows Me Some Love, Wanting To Meet The Gabbards, Speaking Up For Mary Jo, And My E-Mail To The White House

I wanted last Sunday's post (featuring the letter of one of my former parents, Ellen Byrum Morgan, to then-Randolph Hospital Chairman-of-the Board, Ted Matney) to waft through the ether for a while before I bumped it.

I think it's one of the best posts I've ever put up that succinctly explains what was done to me in Asheboro - inasmuch as it can be succinctly explained. I'm sorry to challenge your short attention span Mr. Cone-of-the-Cones, but sometimes 100 words just doesn't cut it.

Other letters from parents will be posted shortly (with little or no commentary). It's time to really understand how the N.C. Medical Board and JCAHO and the Feds utterly failed to fulfill the so-called "missions" they blather-on about (i.e. all that hot air about protecting patients and taxpayers) . . . how they failed do anything approaching the right thing in terms of intervention against Randolph Hospital's monopolistic/retaliatory bully tactics and outright lies.

I very much appreciate Fec's link to that post. And it looks like he'll be having some fun with Guidestar. Good for him!

Moving on along, I am very happy that Greg Gabbard may shortly see real justice for his daughter, Jennifer. The man has been like a lion protecting his cub. I'd dearly love to see some of the good-ole-boy scumbags who did Greg's girl wrong lose their jobs and/or go to jail.

Speaking of lions, and mindful of my Mama's longstanding admonition not to speak ill of the dead, I've resisted the urge to post on the death of Ted Kennedy. But I am utterly appalled he will be buried at Arlington. Keeping it simple, I thought I'd just repeat what I said at Fec's (in a post entitled "Scared Women"). After all, Mary Jo Kopechne is unavailable for comment:

Jackie was a class act. Bobby had his moments. Ted left a young woman alone to die in a car that he drove off a bridge.

Reports say Mary Jo was found in a portion of the car where an air bubble would have formed - and probably lived for an hour or two in the pitch black cold water before losing consciousness and drowning.

Do “ya think” she was scared?

Okay. That wraps up the week for me. Except for my e-mail to the White House . . . sent in a fit of snit after reading an article about Obama wanting physicians to support his peculiar brand of healthcare reform.

First-off, Mr. President, I did my time in "the village", and I think that after the medico-legal cluster-screw I endured in my own hometown . . . courtesy of GROSS ADMINISTRATIVE NEGLIGENCE on the part of the National Health Service Corps and US/NC Departments of Health & Human Services, I've EARNED the right to be "skeptical" . . . and second, I don't care if you do wrap it all up in Teddy Kennedy's alcohol-soaked shroud, I don't see physicians universally embracing indentured servitude to perpetual entitlement (inasmuch as we're not already ensnarled in it).

The e-mail is in red here because I expect it's not very "progressive""

Someone in this White House needs to wake up and STOP pandering to special interests and people who want everything for nothing.

And OBTW, if you want doctors behind you on reform, maybe you need to start TALKING to them, instead of taking them for granted and treating them like DIRT (ala the insurance companies and hospitals that think we're a "dime a dozen" - while the corporate suits rake their fat salaries/benefits/parachutes off the top).

Oversight in the "non-profit" sector is a joke and has been for years!

Someone in this White House needs to go to www.drjshousecalls.blogspot and START READING - about the horrific experience of a Pediatrician who did the public service thing in her own hometown (back in the day of Bill & Hill's "village"), and has paid dearly for standing up to threats and doing the right thing by a patient.

The mighty Federal government did not have her back - and let her be hung out to dry. They could not be bothered.

Government oversight in healthcare is a joke. Yet you-all want to give it more to do.

It's INSANE!

Hey, "ya think" I'm on the Secret Service watch list yet?

8/29 Update: Speaking of the Clintonian "village", former resident idiot, Erskin Bowles made headlines this weekend - with a mandate to UNC administrators to cull their blood-money-sucking, top-heavy ranks. Of course, I couldn't let that pass without comment:

"Bowles wrote entirely in capital letters for emphasis"

THATS GREAT ERSKINE! NOW IF YOU COULD JUST PERSUADE SOME OF YOUR GOOD PALS IN THE PRIVATE "NON-PROFIT" SECTOR (ALA THE BIG "NON-PROFIT" HOSPITALS AND BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD) TO MOUNT UP ON THE ACCOUNTABLITIY/TRANSPARENCY HORSE AND DO THE SAME THING!

MAYBE YOU COULD PERSUADE THOSE DEM FRIENDS OF YOURS - YOU KNOW, THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN RUNNING RALEIGH FOR AGES - TO START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE GROSS ABUSES OF PUBLIC TRUST NOW GOING ON IN THE "CHARITABLE" (ESPECIALLY THE MEDICAL) SECTOR.

OF COURSE, THAT MIGHT MEAN THEY HAVE TO TURN ON SOME OF THEIR "FRIENDS".

WE LOWLY PLEBES IN "THE VILLAGE" ARE TIRED OF GETTING FLEECED!!!