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From: Jay.Croft@p0.f147.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jay Croft)
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Subject: Re: question RE signers and signing
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Date: 25 Jan 91 16:48:54 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Unfortunately, deaf people will never receive medical care equal to
that received by hearing people until the system is in the hands of
deaf people.  That won't happen, of course.

Last fall I was scheduled for surgery.  The hospital had a special
insert in its patient handbook for H-I people.  The hospital
advertised four TDD numbers.

I tried three of them, and none of them were answered.  The fourth
was in the emergency room.  When I later visited the ER I was
informed that the TDD was "broken."

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