I shudder to read that a story that began breaking a few days ago may
indeed be true.  I wonder also, after the troubles that Tenet Health
has been having with the SEC, and allegations of fraud (including the
fraudulent, heavy overbilling of patients), why the news media has to
handle the creator, founder and author of this scandal or breaking
scandal, Tenet Health, with kid gloves.

Tenet Health's prepared statement pledge of cooperation with the
attorney general of Lousiana thus is most likely not the worth the
paper it has been printed on - I might add, just as the expensive
slow growth labs that Shoskes does on CP/CPPS patients at a Tenet
Health hospital today or right next to one is likely not worth much
more than that either.

Returning briefly to the news story at hand, Tenet Health is taking the
stance of defending its heroic staff for working to save lives in 115
degree heat.  Seems that Tenet Health may not have found the funds for
some backup for what parts of the hospital would absolutely continue to
be in use until everyone was safely out of there, in terms of battery
operated cooling fans, or whatever.  I am getting in a little over my
head here.  The problem most likely was not, at the heart of the
matter, with staff, but as the news story at MSNBC says, with
physicians and administrators.  Turning any part of the investigation
to this hospital chain, or even allowing them to take part, is
paramount to turning the entire henhouse or part of it to the fox for
guard duty.

Nice that Tenet Health has frequently double billed patients for any
work done at all.  The bill was high enough at Baylor here in Houston,
for this pointless work, totally obsoleted by the most recent advances
in research on this condition, whatever grounds for there continuing to
be an infectious component to it, but who has heard of medical research
assigning primary etiology to what is coming out of the wash as no
better than components?  More, or a concise summary of this question
than I benightedly posted before on that topic, in my next post.

For the bill at Baylor to have gone double for me there may have had me
applying to be euthanized myself, especially if that were to continue
for the long term, as in 90 percent of cases, such combination of
diagnosis and treatment simply does not work.

No, I did not seriously consider making the heading for this post,
'Hurricane Katrina and Dr Shoskes.'  It is not even tempting to do so.
Shoskes has supplemented the work he is now doing in Ft Lauderdale
before with good research, and to the best of everyone's knowledge
here, he is not putting is patients to sleep, as much as he may be
unwittingly or not putting a certain amount of medical research to
sleep by taking the shortcut that medicine has been doing for this
ailment or series of a good five or six this past half of a generation
or so.  The real research, that will take loads of money and years to
bring up conclusive results, as to a potential real cure, comprehensive
therapies for at least one or two conditions out of however many,
perhaps or for real, gets shortchanged.

Read for yourself what follows below, and for further entertaining
reading there today, the news of the New York Times attacking its own
staff, for finally blowing the whistle - Judy Miller in the
Libby/Rove/Plame scandal.   And we all thought that this entire scandal
was about the First Amendment rights of two journalists including
Miller as Nightline, on the televised media affiliate of the New York
Times would have had us believe the other night.  Koppel could not have
announced his upcoming retirement soon enough. Call it further making a
martyr out of who they were before defining, then supposedly defending
as one.  If Miller is so corrupt as they say now, they sure went out of
their way before to defend her as being something else entirely.
Since, for the purposes of this newsgroup, that is a little too much of
a sidebar, I close right here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9699709/