WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ED HULETT wrote:
 -=>> ED HULETT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 EH>> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ALL wrote:
 -=>>> JOHN MASSEY wrote to BOB ACKLEY <=-

 JM>>> "Bob Ackley -> Bob Sakowski" 
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 JM>>> news:16741$CROSSFIRE{at}JamNNTPd...
 BA>>> Replying to a message of Bob Sakowski to Ross Cassell:

 >>>>> Getting hit by a policecar and having a stroke, no
 >>>>> emergency room  would have denied him treatment.

 WC>> You people still don't get it do you? 

 WC>> I *know* no hospital would refuse me.
 WC>> I've Medicare A+B in any case.

 WC>> I've seen indigent people run up 3/4 million dollar
 WC>> hospital bills and never blink an eye nor attempt
 WC>> too pay cent one.

 WC>> I have not.

 EH>> You never had a spinal injury or a stroke either.

 WC>> None of the injuries I sustained would have been helped in the least
 WC>> by running to a hospital.

 EH>> How do you know this?

 WC> I knew.

How? Do you have any idea what a stroke feels like?

 WC> It's been since confirmed when I got hit the second time
 WC> when attempting to rejoin the work force
 WC> by going to school at Abilities of Florida.

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!

 WC> I went to orthopedic surgeon Charles Finn in my efforts to stay in
 WC> school and return to work.

Sure you did.

 WC> Several people here maintain archives on or so they say.
 WC> Perhaps you could enlist their help in fleshing out the details?

What on earth would an archive tell me?

 WC>> The spinal injury is permanent and unfixable.

 EH>> How do you know this?

 WC> Orthopedic surgeons Charles Finn and West.
 WC> As well as knowing several others suffering from equally
 WC> permanent spinal disability.

Uh huh, like you went to an orthopedist.

 WC> Jon G. was an exception, a very rare exception.
 WC> He underwent 4 spinal surgeries only the last of which was
 WC> successful and cost a mere $406,000 dollars.

You are full of these little anecdotal stories. Who knows for sure if they
are based on anything but pure imagination.

 WC> Jon was in the first experimental group to try this new procedure.
 WC> It's still a new procedure.
 WC> Jon still sees his orthopedic surgeon every six months so
 WC> they can appraise the effectiveness of the procedure over time.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

 WC> It involves titanium braces beteen the vertibra overcovered
 WC> with bone grafts.
 WC> This maintains the room for the nerves to pass through relieving
 WC> the stenosis which causes the loss of the ability to walk.

Thank you Dr. Churnside.

 WC>> The stroke was relatively mild and had no followup.

 EH>> How do you know this?

 WC> I can speak and communicate.

That is no proof of you having a stroke.

 WC>> So other than running up an enormous hospital bill, sleeping in clean
 WC>> sheets changed out every day, watching cable T.V. and checking
 WC>> out the nurses just exactly do you people imagine
 WC>> would have been the gain?

 EH>> If you would have suffered a spinal injury that reduced your height by
 EH>> 2.5 inches, you'd know.

 EH>> If you actually had a stroke, you'd know.

 WC>> So you reduce your salt intake, drop some weight and never
 WC>> ever think about touching alcohol.

 EH>> Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

 WC> I'm so happy you are having such a good time.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

 WC>> Any of you Harvard Medical school graduates have anything to add?

 EH>> You're the one making medical diagnoses.

 WC> Based upon factual first hand information and confirmed by
 WC> medical board orthopedic surgeons.

Hahahahaha!!!

Sure it is.

 WC> May I be so bold as to inquire of that with which you arrive
 WC> at your medical diagnoses?

I made no medical diagnoses.

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