Nah, I don't want to go there again, but I have noticed that I haven't been getting enough email lately.
;) Dana wrote: > Do we really want to go there again? All I know is that my recent > adventures in beta-medicine have taught me that medicine is like > anything else. There is a conventional wisdom, which, once you dig, is > usually not exactly true. So I am wary of things that everyone agrees > are true. To take an example that does not relate to my own health -- > which I would rather not hash out onlist -- conventional medical > wisdom says that prunebelly syndrome is a hopeless condition and if > your baby has it you may as well abort. Yet I have talked to many many > healthy adults with the syndrome as part of the pro bono work I did > for that group. > > Dana > > > > On 5/4/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Did anyone see the story about the brain damaged fireman who woke up >>after 9 years? >> >>Maybe they shouldn't have let Terry go? >> >>http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-brain04.html >> >>Channeling Linda Richman of SNL fame: >> >>"Sometimes a PVS is not really persistent. Discuss" >> >>THE STORY: >> >>ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Nearly 91/2 years after a firefighter was left >>brain-damaged and mostly mute during a 1995 roof collapse, he did >>something that shocked his doctors: He asked for his wife. >> >>Staffers at the nursing home where Donald Herbert has lived for more >>than seven years raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. >> >>It was the first of many conversations the patient had with his wife and >>four sons Saturday during a 14-hour stretch, Herbert's uncle Simon Manka >>said. >> >>''How long have I been away?'' Herbert asked. ''We told him almost 10 >>years,'' the uncle said. ''He thought it was only three months.'' >> >>''He stayed up 'til early morning talking with his boys and catching up >>on what they've been doing over the last several years,'' firefighter >>Anthony Liberatore said. >> >>Dr. Rose Lynn Sherr of New York University said such a recovery is >>"almost unheard of after 10 years.'' AP >> >>-- >>================================================================= >>Ray Champagne - Senior Application Developer >>CrystalVision Web Site Design and Internet Services >>603.433.9559 >>www.crystalvision.org >>================================================================= >> >>The information contained in this transmission (including any >>attached files) is CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the >>person(s) named above. If you received this transmission in >>error, please delete it from your system and notify us >>immediately. If you are not an intended recipient, please note >>that any use or dissemination of the information contained in this >>transmission (including any attached files) and the copying, >>printing, or retransmission of that information is strictly >>prohibited. You can notify us by return email or by phone at >>603.433.9559. >> >>Thank you. >> >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:156382 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
