From: jhcpdowd@worldnet.att.net (jd)

There are individuals like that. However, I think in the main, there are
very bright, devoted,
caring people who dedicate their lives to making a difference.

[Su_Texas writes:  Before I met university professors at medical
schools, I assumed they were good people with good intentions.  After
meeting them now, I've found that many have just gotten drunk on power,
have dumbed-down to a basic/primitive emotional (needy & greedy) state,
& have become addicted/junkies to the Hypocrit Highs, ... to acting like
jerks & doing harm, & having the power to get away with it.  Very few
showed any intelligence or good morals.]

Remember that there is lots of peer review, and professors have to get
and keep tenure.

[Su_Texas writes:  The medical school in Shreveport LA, neurology dept,
was the worst I've encountered so far.  The head of the dept said, that
it was OK for one of his doctors (RZ) to physically attack & assault me
for over an hour & fifteen minutes (in March 2001), as I screamed &
cried & no one help me, ... because he said that RZ had graduated Johns
Hopkins, was head of a synagogue, was a powerful man, & was entitled to
do anything he wanted.  He also said that he had the power to see I'd
get hurt, if I reported RZ to the police (& as he described it: "try to
ruin things for him" & his dept), & that I'd lose everything I had.  And
he said that RZ didn't assault all women patients, that he did help
some, so it was OK.  ???  Somehow, I just don't trust the peer review
system, or any system that would aid & abet such sick & sadistic
predators as these two doctors, these university professors.  I did
report the assault & threats, but the campus police refused to
investigate, & the DA's office refused to order an investigation or
prosecute.]

The ones who are just out for their own greed and money get weeded out.

[Su_Texas writes:  The medical system & some universities (esp. in Texas
& Louisiana) seem to have failed to the point, where the weeding out is
Not happening, no matter how serious the crimes & meanness by doctors, &
their outright murders.]

Do some people love the money? Sure. Do they just put out bogus crap to
get it? They can't.

[Su_Texas writes:  The medical system is so flawed, failed & dishonest,
that I do believe that bunches of bogus cr*p are being put out often,
esp. by universities for the $$$ from corporations.  It's proved a very
frightening & frustrating mess.]

Susan,  Su_Texas  my opinions

Gene wrote:

I hope no one is trying to say that the surgeons are doing research on
the drugs, however, or that medical oncologists and pharmacists are
engaging in experimental surgery. <G>

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Hi Gene,

Me bad.  Me bad.  :)

To the best of my understanding, the university I was reading about
(Baylor, Methodist Hospital, Houston TX), has a surgeon as the head of
its breast center, & of the research (including the meds) being done
there.  Of course, his team includes oncologists.  

I'm trying to find a reason to like or trust them again, & to see if
they could have any useful or helpful information, ... that is, to see
what their special interests are, from which corporations they get
outside funding, ... & how this might buy (bias & prejudice) their
judgement, pursuit of research, & research results.  

I'm desperate for information & good referral (which I can't get), & am
so very, very tired & discouraged.

So far, it doesn't look good, & looks as if AstraZ___? (Arimidex?) has
paid them.  I'll have to check that article again though, & read every
word to be sure.

For universities to do this, appears to be a conflict of interest, which
can prove harmful & deadly to the patients who seek care there.

So far, I can't get information or referral to good basic medical care,
cancer treatment after-care, or alternative cancer care, ... from the
medical community here in East Texas.  

M D Anderson is much the same.  Just chemo & rads, the estrogen-blocking
drugs, & then nothing, ... aka (basically) '"We've screwed & robbed you,
destroyed your health, & are now abandoning you.  So why can't you crawl
off & suffer to death quietly, like all the others? (smirk) Give up.
Don't try."

It's tough.

I remember to have hope & keep trying, no matter what.

Susan, Su_Texas  my opinions