Re: Surgeons in hard hats and hazmat suits help turn school t...

[Guest guest]

Now let me see if I have this one straight. So, 60 surgeons are doing mold

abatement on a building that is then to be used as a clinic for sick elderly?

It's a noble volunteer endeavor, no doubt. But I certainly hope these

surgeons understand about infections from mold in the young, the old and the

immunocompromised...and healthy surgeons. I hope they understand how important

it

is they do a stellar job. I am wishing them the best on this one.

Sharon

In a message dated 10/10/2007 3:31:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

tigerpaw2c@... writes:

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(http://www.katc.com/global/story.asp?s=7190764)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The surgeons wore hard hats. Dust and mold hazed

the air, blackening their hazmat suits and filter masks. Their job

today was to gut a building, not sew up guts.

About 60 members of the American College of Surgeons, surgical

residents, and other people associated in one way or another with

the group's clinical meeting in New Orleans were working to turn a

building damaged by Hurricane Katrina into a medical clinic

[Guest guest]

I really doubt if surgeons are doing anything more than swinging

a few rounds with a sledgehammer for news cameras.

Usually that kind of demolition work ends up being done

by unskilled workers.

Its good that someone is trying to address the problm of dissapearing

public hospitals and declining beds but the band aid solution of building

one or two charity clinics is not going to address the problem, its more

for public relations to prevent other solutions from being put into place.

(such as allowing more medical schools to be built or allowing more

foreign doctors to emigrate so medical care will begin to return to the

cost it used to have relative to people's salaries.

The scarcity of doctors and paying 1/3 of every medical dollar to pay

insurance

administrative costs is driving up our costs.

The rate of uninsured people is rising rapidly. Recently, the rate of people

without dental care has also been skyrocketing. People are dying from

untreated dental abscesses, something which had not happened before

for a long time.

That decline in healthcare effects us all.