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From: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
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Subject: Re: VA Hospitals
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Date: 24 Oct 90 04:33:03 GMT
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To: dmimi@uncecs.edu (Mimi Clifford)

 MC> I'd rather have a surgeon who is REALLY GOOD with a knife and
 MC> diagnosis and who is an sob as a person than one who is the
 MC> opposite, for example.  Same with audiologists, orthopods,

 MC> biggest problem, of course, is how to find out if a particular
 MC> individual is good or not, and I don't know the answer to that

Mimi, time was when one trusted any health professional until he/she
proved unworthy of the trust.  Now just the opposite is true.  One
distrusts them all until they demonstrate they are trustworthy.  The
horror stories abound, and not only in the VA facilities.

... Caveat Emptor!

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