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Old 09-15-2002, 06:21 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Some Magnificent People!

I like to listen to NPR when I'm working in the garage, and I heard a story that just made my day.

There's this health care facility in a low-income area in Kansas that puts consideration for humans before profits. People who are ill are treated without regard for their ability to pay for treatment...

These Doctors make $11.00 an hour, (about $30 G's/year) same pay as the janitor at the facility...when they could easily work a few blocks away and make $150 G's...but that's not the real consideration for them.

The REAL consideration is the satisfaction they get at the end of a day, knowing they've made some small dent in reducing the quantity of human suffering around them.

There's lots of heroes around, from the single mother doggedly working away to make sure her kids get a decent upbringing, to the Firemen who went into the Towers when instinct told everybody to get out....you just don't often hear about highly-trained Professionals, taking the benefits of that training to actually contribute to our society, instead of simply robbing it blind.

And this woman, and her associates, man, these are heroes as good as heroes can be!

Here's more

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Old 09-15-2002, 06:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Thumbs up dude!!! That is way cool. Love hearing about stuff like that.
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Old 09-15-2002, 06:37 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Yeah, but we provide free service too, and WE have many Professionals here!!!

Harder

BTW, I'm not referring to myself as a Pro!!! Cuz' ya'll know I'm not one!!!
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Old 09-15-2002, 06:50 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Yeah, but we provide free service too, and WE have many Professionals here!!! ---sharder8
Yep! That's why I figured ya'll would get off on this one!
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Old 09-15-2002, 06:55 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Interesting.

Think they'll errrr.....look at epidemic?
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Old 09-15-2002, 07:45 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I have heard alot about this being from Kansas and from what I heard as of to date it is not set up very well and the docs are ones that couldn't keep a practice open on their own. I don't have personal experience with them so I can say for sure how well they are. The concept is great and I wish it was more wide spread like into the smaller towns. I have a friend who needs to see a doc really bad and wont go because of $$$ she doesn't have and no free clinic here in my town to help her out.
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Old 09-15-2002, 08:12 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I have heard alot about this being from Kansas and from what I heard as of to date it is not set up very well and the docs are ones that couldn't keep a practice open on their own.---MDS
I would be interested to hear from what sources you have gotten this info from, MDS.

Not that I'm attacking you or anything, but rather, I have observed firsthand how a revolutionary (in this case Dr, Lee) is attacked by GREEDHEADS who naturally, wish to keep the status quo. And they've got the money to get the media to cast doubts upon those revolutionaries, and cause ordinary people to have doubts. It's just "black P.R."

In fact, yeah, your statement may be correct: The interviewer asked her if her type of practice was $$$ viable (in the face of the "Managed Care" greedheads,) and she replied that, basically, "according to a new study, patients respond to cohesive and co-commitant care, and heal better that those in the 'manged care' system." (Note: not an exact quote)

Now look at what she's actually saying: She totally misses the point about whether or not the HMO industry gives a flying **** whether or not patients get better, or die. (And they don't! It's all dollars to those creeps)

What her statement reveals is a total commitment to healing the sick!

So does Dr. Lee have a blind spot about business matters? Well, maybe she does....but I just don't think that's the point about what she's doing.

And that's why I admire her and her colleagues so much.
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Old 09-16-2002, 10:19 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Here's an obituary of someone who served people very well: "The $5 Doctor of Brooklyn". (The New York Times, registration required but free)
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Old 09-16-2002, 11:09 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Cool link, Theo!

Yeah, 92 years old, and lovingly remembered...

I liked the story of the robber who tried to stick him up, but on recognizing the Dr., the robber instead gave him $10 towards his evening's date with "an attractive woman"....HAH!
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Interesting. I wonder when they will get sued and put out of business?

I guess I am a pessimist!!!
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