On or about: 01-10-08  09:56, Cindy Haglund did engage Allen Prunty
regarding, but not limited to: do they really help ?

 CH> Aside: Have any of you read this? It scares me! I hope it's not too
 CH> common! An article in the paper cited how many surgeons found to have
 CH> been 'on drugs' while operating, are not dismissed from practice!

Just like exposing pilots who nipped from their gin before reporting to
work, did that stop you from flying? Best the problem be identified, and
fixed. The Japanese say, "Fix the problem, not the blame." Now, I
doubt the problem is as widespread as Father Badtouch being moved all over
the world to deflect blame/present more opportunities for blame, so I say
great, the problem has been discovered. Take a grain of salt with it, that
I doubt we need to be as concerned as the article suggest we should be. A
sensational article will always sell more papers than a realistic one.

 CH> How's that for a legit reason to fear and loathe hospitals. I've read
 CH> elsewhere that the most frequent abusers of drugs like pain killers
 CH> are those in the professions where access is easiest.

Surgeons, the last I heard, were humans too.

 CH> ... A bird in hand is safer than one overhead.

A bird in the hand, has an easier target to hit.


... Those who sling mud, lose ground.

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