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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: BT on June 21, 2008, 01:27:53 AM
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http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/06/michell-obama-.html
Now, check this next bit, ludicrously presented as a sympathetic and positive story of her professional efforts:
In the mostly black neighborhoods around the hospital, Mrs. Obama became the voice of a historically white institution. Behind closed doors, she tried to assuage their frustrations about a place that could seem forbidding.
Like many urban hospitals, the medical center?s emergency room becomes clogged with people who need primary care. So Mrs. Obama trained counselors, mostly local blacks, to hand out referrals to health clinics lest black patients felt they were being shooed away.
She also altered the hospital?s research agenda. When the human papillomavirus vaccine, which can prevent cervical cancer, became available, researchers proposed approaching local school principals about enlisting black teenage girls as research subjects.
Mrs. Obama stopped that. The prospect of white doctors performing a trial with black teenage girls summoned the specter of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment of the mid-20th century, when white doctors let hundreds of black men go untreated to study the disease.
?She?ll talk about the elephant in the room,? said Susan Sher, her boss at the hospital, where Mrs. Obama is on leave from her more-than-$300,000-a-year job.
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Pretty telling, right Lanya?
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Not wanting black teenagers to be used as guinea pigs is hardly the same as wanting them to die of cancer.
Most people in emergency waiting rooms seeking primary care could be attended to more efficiently and rapidly in clinics.
This is just a smear piece.
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What a shame that Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
didn't lead by example following the discovery of his cancer.
He could have gone to Canada, put his name on the list and
waited to be called for his brain surgery.
This way, he could have showed American citizens the
greatness of the nationalized health care he and his
Democratic cohorts are proposing for the rest of us.
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Not wanting black teenagers to be used as guinea pigs is hardly the same as wanting them to die of cancer.
I'm sure Michelle can justify her actions.
Unfortunately wanting the vaccine to be administered on any basis other than mandatory compliance is tantamount to wishing cancer on all women. That is the standard set , last go round.
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I am going to have to agree with Mrs Obama this time , the study would have been insulting .
The study does need to happen though , can a lot of volenteers be found in a mix of neighborhoods?