Sunday, July 08, 2007

Doctor Jihad: ideology trumps all


Mohammed Asha, MD, Jihad brain surgeon


7 Doctors Tied to British Plots -Mark Lander & Sarah Lyall

The seven men are physicians, while the lone woman is a laboratory technician. [T]he prospect of highly educated professionals as terror suspects is chilling...
[New York Times]


2 Held in a British Plot Looked to U.S. -Alan Cowill & Scott Shanet

Two of the medical doctors arrested in bungled car bomb attacks inquired about practicing medicine in the United States.

Word that two of the doctors implicated in the British attacks had asked about working in the United States, sent tremors through the American medical community...
[New York Times]

4 comments:

LHwrites said...

This is not the direction Healthcare Reform is supposed to take.

Bruce said...

You should know, as Healthcare is your area of expertise.

I look forward to reading your review of Moore's new film critiquing the US Healthcare system on your blog:
heres-to-your-health-america.blogspot.com

LHwrites said...

I like Michael Moore; many of his his views and what he tries to accomplish, but I do not share his belief that a Single payer System is the panacea for America. In fact, my fear is if the number one market for healthcare and the number one innovator of new treatments were to become government run----healthcare progress across the globe would grind to a halt. And that is just the beginning. When the same payer is also responsible for paying for a large part of your retirement, through Social Security, with its own funding issues, it is a much cheaper proposition, rather than costly medical care, and then monthly payments for years, to just let you die. If I ever get to blogging again, or published, I will offer other ways besides single payer that can fix the mess.

LHwrites said...

PS-Thanks for the plug!