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From: booth@princeton.UUCP (Heather Booth)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: The subject appears to be ME.
Message-ID: <2102@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 17:46:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 20 17:46:14 1986
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In article <525@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:
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>I get a lot of mail.  In fact, my collected mboxes will soon approach 2
>megabytes.  Most is positive, some negative, but only very rarely do I
>get a letter like the following that so offends my sensibilities that I
>feel I have to share it.  In the interest of fairness, I have kept the
>identity of the perpetrator of the letter anonymous, but if he wants to
>step forward and take the blame, I certainly have no objection.  What 
>follows are excerpts from the letter and my (admittedly lengthy and
>self-righteous) responses:

Offends your sensibilities???  That letter just asked the 
reasonable questions any person who doubts doctors and 
American medicine would ask.  The only *possible* insult
was calling you a pawn of the AMA.  You must not read the
net very often, this is the mildest "offensive" letter I've
ever seen.  What your response says to me is that you are
not capable of looking at the holistic vs. traditional
medicine issue impartially.  (And, yes, I too am a heretic.
I don't have faith in doctors.)

Heather Booth