The power of other people's opinions or bias

I had the opportunity to attend the Time Convention in Auckland, New Zealand today, which was a great opportunity to step out of my normal day and have time to think. I didn’t learn much, but it did remind me about things I know I should be doing, but don’t spend enough time at. I used my Blackberry to take notes which I emailed to myself, as it doesn’t have a notepad or Word application, as my trusty Windows Mobile and Palm handhelds used to.

The final presentation, that I very much enjoyed was from Kevin Billett who, while promoting a 2 day seminar for next week, came up with some thought provoking concepts about taking responsibility for attitudes and accepting experiences that you allow to have control over your life expectations and achievements. This set me to thinking about aspects of my experiences, particularly as a child, that have I have allowed to hold me back in some of my endeavours, but that’s another story.

He raised a topic that has interested me for many years, which is the effect that people’s expectations or opinions about other people, influence them in many ways.

There are countless examples. John’s Hopkins researchers recently found that many physicians had negative attitudes to patients with obesity problems, which negatively affected these patients to the extent that their problems worsened.

There have been many studies that show that a teacher’s expectations of their students, irrespective of any basis on which those expectations were founded, had a significant impact on their results. I recall being told, although I can’t site the source, of a university study that proved this point. If you know of the study, please share it with me.

A group of students of equal ability were split into two groups. The teachers were told that one group was of above average capability and the other were below average potential. The groups were taught the same lessons by the same teachers. Their results were consistent with the information the teachers had been given, those who they said were above average, performed above average and the others under performed.

The world of elite sport is often built around belief that people of the right proportions can become medal winning athletes, even if they have never participated in that sport before. Sir Steve Redgrave has selected people based on height, with a view to having them represent their country in the 2012 Olympics. For rowing, the expectation is that tall people have powerful levers suited to the sport. One would not think that this alone could not be enough, but combine that with the positive expectation that they will become medal winners and history has proven that this can work.

The same occurs in gymnastics, where girls are headhunted at an early age based on being short and enjoying sport. I’ve seen from personal experience that girls who are told they can do things, outperform girls of similar strength and flexibility who are told that they aren’t good enough. What I saw was the same thing, girls over whom coaches had high expectations performed confidently, had less injuries and ended up on elite squads.

Psychology 101 has always featured nature and nurture. In any country where people are to some degree living in communities featuring high proportions of particular minority ethnic groups, there is a tendancy for them to be poorly represented in professions and overly represented in menial work. Students’ expectations in these areas are low, often fostered by teachers who have low expectations of their wards.

I won’t go on with this topic. I would appreciate your opinions and experience. Have you seen this happen first hand?

Bending the Rules of Clinical Trials for the Patient's Sake

Newspaper ad solicits research volunteers

In the current issue of the bioethics journal IRB: Ethics & Human Research, investigators from four different institutions surveyed over 700 clinicians involved in clinical trials and found that 90 percent believed that ignoring certain entry criteria was acceptable if a patient could, in their estimation, benefit from the trial. In addition, over 60 percent of those surveyed also believed that researchers should deviate from study rules if doing so might improve a patient’s care.

While bioethicists and researchers have long suspected that doctors and other clinicians might be committing an occasional protocol infraction, few if any studies have looked at the extent to which such violations occur and how they might compromise research results.” (NYTimes)

I am not a researcher but purely a clinician. I’ve never been in a position to discover whether I would compromise a research protocol to benefit a patient, but I suspect the temptation would be strong (and would limit my ability to deliver good research findings).

"Hue?....Yeah there's a Hue......"

COLLEGE PUMPKINS GONE WILD!!!

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A Dallas City Councilman wants to pass a new city procedure that would require 911 Operators that receive calls for Ambulance or Paramedic assistance to get a credit card number from callers before dispatching assistance.

Yes, it’s true. I can’t make this stuff up.

A possible future call.

Operator: “911 Emergency”

Caller: “Help!! I’m on fire!! Help!!”

Operator: “What card will you be paying with tonight sir?”

Caller: “Aaarrrrgggg!! Help meeeeee!! Aaarrrggggggg”

Operator: ” Sir we take Visa, American Express, Masterc……”

Caller: “Aaaaarrrrggggg…..I’ts….a……V….IIIIII….sssssss…Aaaaaaaarrrgggggggg Help Me Please……Number…..672….aaaaarrrgggg…76…….Oooooowwwwwwwwww….4327…………expires 5/11……Aaaaaaarrrgggggg For the Love of God Please send help!! I’m burning!!!!”

Operator: “Let me repeat that sir….Visa 672764327 Expires 5 of 2011?”

Caller: ” AAAAAArrrrrrggggggggg The Pain!! The Pain!!…..Aaaaarggggggg!!”

Operator: Thank you sir…I have your confirmation code…do you have a pen handy?”

Caller” I’m coming towards the light Mama…aaaaarrrggggg…I’m comin towards the light!…..Aaaaarrrrrgggggg”
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Last night, a friend of mine posted on her FACEBOOK page that she had attended……..a QUILT GUILD Meeting!! Yes, a QUILT GUILD MEETING!!! I know I know….I was just as shocked as you probably are!!

I too thought we had rid the USA of these radical anarchists decades ago. But no, apparently…despite all the strides we have made in our great land, there is still at least one pocket of citizens who so little of the unwritten laws of human decency and respect…..that they formed another dreaded QUILT GUILD. I am so sad that my dear friend has gone to the dark side and joined this group of backwards thinking nutjobs. I shall pray that she comes to her senses quickly and can escape their evil clutches before she becomes a full-blown, gun-waving, Government hating member of THE QUILT GUILD!!
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The Quilters Guild #239 of East Omaha, Nebraska
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A tragic thing happened yesterday evening in a small nearby town. The KWIK STOP burned down. The KWIK STOP, a combination Convenience Store, Gas Station, Fine Dining establishment, and the center of all social interaction for the town, is no more. This morning, hundreds of overweight locals are standing in the street, staring at the smoldering ruins, tears streaming down their faces, wondering where in the world they will get their usual morning 96 ounce soft drink. What a sad, sad scene.
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I must be luckiest dude on the face of the planet! Every day I get about a half-dozen emails from numerous African Princes, Dukes, Counts, and Kings all explaining that I alone have been chosen to share in a great fortune of money that they have recently come into. Lucky Lucky me!!
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Speaking of FACEBOOK, the all-dominating center of the universe as we know it, my Cousin Whitney and I were having an interesting online chat (on FACEBOOK) about one of our favorite subjects, SEINFELD. As huge addicts and fans of the show, we both agreed that the characters on the show would all be having a field day with the current state of our FACEBOOK and TWITTER dominated society. George in particular would be a basket case, always worried about how many FACEBOOK friends he has, jealous that Newman has hundreds more than him, causing George to spend hours online creating fake accounts for people like “Art Vandelay” and “Buck Naked” so that these fake people could become FACEBOOK friends with him. George would, of course, use a High School photo of him with hair on his FACEBOOK page, he would list himself as an Architect, and would be advertising that he is looking for a female soul-mate who has a “pinkish hue” to her cheeks.
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College Cats gone wild!
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For years, I have been trying to convince my wife that we need to retire in Red River, New Mexico….my favorite place on Earth. The wife wants to retire in Austin, Texas….her favorite place on Earth. In her mind, she is the major bread winner of the family, therefore we are destined for old age in Austin. Me, I think that destiny has major plans for us in Red River and I see little subtle hints that lead me down that road of belief. The other day my wife’s retirement account statement from the Teachers Retirement System of Texas arrived in the mail. While the TRS is located in Austin (which my wife takes as a sign from above)…..the actual office is located on RED RIVER STREET!! Hint hint… I say that is a major hint from above that we need to live in Red River. My wife has not budged in the slightest, telling me to look real close at the name of the TRS Administrator that signed her annual statement. The woman’s name: Mya Idiotubbie.
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Today as I was preparing to step into the shower I noticed one those minuscule little “free” body wash and shampoo containers that we all love to swipe from the finer hotels in the world. This tiny little bottle had the “Sheraton” label so happily snapped it up and took it into the shower looking forward to using it instead of the usual cheapo wet-mullet smelling swill I usually use from Wal-Mart. I got in, got my trusted SpongeBob scrubbie, squeezed all the contents of the small bottle onto the scrubbie and commenced happily scrubbing. I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed but for the life of me, I could not work up the slightest bit of a lather. The stuff smelled real good, alot better than wet-mullet, but not a bubble was to be seen anywhere. So, be warned if you stay at a Sheraton. The Sheraton brand Body Lotion is worthless and will not lather up worth a bean!
My wife later informed me that apparently body lotion is meant to be applied AFTER you shower….to dry skin. How the Heck was I supposed to know that? It doesn’t say that on the bottle! Where’s my trusty wet-mullet!!? Why is life so confusing?

Yet another huge car bombing in Pakistan today. Business as usual for that Country. But what can you expect from a country where QUILT GUILDS are allowed to operate without restrictions? Before you know it, that chaos will all find it’s way to our shores…..

The smack bang absolute middle of study week.

Its a bit exciting when “Anatomy & Physiology made Incredibly Easy!” is actually too easy. I wish I’d found this book in the library last semester but I’m pretty pleased with myself that I don’t need it this time. Can’t believe how far I’ve come from reading children’s anatomy books + pulling my hair out over all the big words.

That said, I still read Robbins with a dictionary.*

For a bit of a laugh here is an excerpt from the announcement made on our blackboard site regarding our Health + Community component of the exams:

“as a minimum, you should study the material from PBL tutorials, lectures and the supplied reference materials. However, we encourage students to going beyond this with a view to doing better and ultimately preparing more thoroughly better for the years ahead in the course and as doctors.”

Facebook status updates are having a field day with this. The current favourite is the use of the phrase “more thoroughly better”.

Er. Not that I’m on Facebook or anything…

That is, when I’m not using Robbins as a booster seat to sit more thoroughly better at my desk.

Luck of the Draw

“I’m not going to have to check your prostate today, but I will need to check you for a hernia.  So if you could drop your pants for me.”

“Damn it” I thought as the doctor cupped my balls.

“Alright, now turn your head and cough.”

“Huh?”

“Turn your head and cough please,” the doctor repeated.

I repeated “Huh?”

I wanted to make eye contact with him while my nuts were in his latex playground.  If he was going to make me feel awkward, I would up the ante, if for no other reason than for giggles I would enjoy later.

“This is how I check you for a hernia,” said the doc losing patience.  “Please just turn your head and cough.”

I finally obliged.

“Thank you” he said with a hint of facetiousness.

“No, thank you” I replied with a sinister smile on my face.

Without making eye contact, the doctor wrote some stuff down, told me to get dressed, and said he would be right back.  I reassembled my wardrobe, sat down, and started flipping through an issue of Field and Stream.  For some reason, I always start at the back of magazines and work my way forward.  I think it’s a disease, but nowadays what isn’t?  As I start flipping forward, I come across page 80 that has a big picture of a salmon making its way upstream.  In the background, which also happens to be further upstream, there is a large, out of focus bear hungrily waiting.

“Poor fool” I thought.  “You should have just stayed in the ocean instead of following your moron herd back to the spawning waters.  Everybody thinks you’re unique because you swim against the current, but your still an ignorant fool being led to death.”

As I completed this thought, the doctor reentered.

“Well Mr. Almand, everything looks to be O.K.  I’m going to write you a prescription for your insomnia.  It’s a little white pill you need to take just before bed.  Now, it may make you drowsy for a while, even after 8 hours of sleep.  So when you wake up, you need to take another pill to offset that.  It’s a mild stimulant.  However, this pill might give you tremors, so you will also need to take an anxiety pill to prevent this…”

As the doctor continued I thought, “Lucky, god damn salmon.”

and he makes me go awww

Im presenting my research paper to the Neurosurgical unit meeting this thursday and this is what Mr D wrote to me

“Dear Kai,
This scrubs up very nicely. When you present, do not read out the slides. have a spoken text planned which is different to the text on the slides. Otherwise, very boring. Remember : you are presenting to friends.
do not get too nervous.”

Aww. haha he considers us friends, isnt that sweet? kp53 says i have a serious case of man-crush hahahaha. But seriously, where else would you find a doctor, a neurosurgeon no less, who is as sweet and kind and lovely as he? Im really going to miss all of them when i leave. sigh sigh sigh.

Abortion Kills More Black Americans Than the Seven Leading Causes of Death Combined, Says CDC Data

Even more than hate crimes?

(CNSNews.com) – Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available.

Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC. During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined. These were the seven leading causes of death for black Americans that year.

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Black Panthers Aren’t Racists

"Public Option" Back From The Dead

The “public option”, the mechanism for socializing medical care in the good ol’ Nanny States of America, is back on the table in the Senate. The “public option” is the means by which the US government will use to gradually usurp and devour medical insurance companies until nothing is left but the socialist utopia of “single payer plan”.

Kill the “public option”. Kill it with fire.

Senate Majority Leader Reid Leaning Toward ‘Public Option’ for Insurance – Prescriptions Blog – NYTimes.com.

After more than a week of deliberations, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is leaning toward including a government-run insurance plan in a health care bill he will soon take to the Senate floor, Democratic senators said Thursday.

Mr. Reid’s intentions, which are subject to change, reflect a calculated gamble that all members of his party would vote for the public insurance plan if it included some mechanism for states to opt out.

Mr. Reid and other Senate Democratic leaders were headed to the White House late Thursday afternoon for a hastily called meeting, where Mr. Reid was expected to ask President Obama to help secure the needed votes.

Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Are...

Bayers Heroin

A bottle of Bayer’s heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as
a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough

Coca Wine, anyone?

Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment.

Mariani Wine

Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of it’s time. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.

Maltine

Produced by Maltine Manufacturing Company of  NewYork. It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal… Children should take half a glass.

A Paper Weight:

A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne ( Mannheim, Germany ). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.

Opium for Asthma:

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Cocaine tablets (1900)

All stage actors, singers teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance. Great to “smooth” the voice.

Cocaine drops for toothache

Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children happy!

Opium for the new-born

I’m sure this would make them sleep well

(not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!)
No wonder they were called The Good Old Days!!

Altace - Key Information and Altace Side Effects

Some of the medicines we take are used to improve our health conditions, while they may have some negative effects on our body unless used wisely.

For certain strong medicines that are used to monitor cardiac activity, which need a relatively intensive research and proven safe before being prescribed. For example, a good knowledge of the properties on Altace drug helps patients to maximize their effects and better treatment.

What You Should Know

For those who are pregnant, here is one of the most important pieces of information you should know Altace. Although it is common for mothers to be victims of the relatively high blood pressure, Altace should not be used for treatment and is not the solution. Taking Altace may cause severe malformations in the fetus.

If you are pregnant during treatment Altace, should stop taking the drug immediately and consult your doctor immediately.

Interference with other drugs altace

After some extensive medical research, it is now known that Altace, a blood pressure lowering drugs may interfere with certain medications and supplements.

Supplements based on lithium salt substitutes are likely to interfere with Altace.

Also, consult your doctor if you need to take anti-inflammatories such as aspirin, diclofenac, ibuprofen, etc. You should also check endomethacin other details on the label of Altace.

Due to the risk of dehydration, you should not take Altace with diuretics, which are better known as water pills.

Altace Side Effects

Gastrointestinal side effects are more commonly known as the intake of Altace.

Plus:

- Perhaps prone to nausea and vomiting during the first days of taking Altace

- Skin rash and mild cough may occur during initial treatment.

- He feels drowsy and excessive sleepiness.

In any case, if the above side effects persist or worsen further, you should consult your doctor or pharmacist immediately and stop taking Altace for the moment.

House Renovado

Hace aproximadamente un mes empezó la transmisión de la sexta temporada de una de las series estadounidenses más exitosas de los últimos años, “Dr. House”.  La que viene cargada de nuevos elementos y cambios dramáticos en sus personajes.
En la retina de muchos quedó la imagen del último capítulo de la temporada anterior de la serie, cuando el irónico médico ingresa a un psiquiátrico a causa de las alucinaciones que le produce su fiel compañero, el vicodín.

La sexta temporada viene marcada por un cambio profundo en la personalidad del protagonista, Gregory House, quien tras pasar un tiempo en el psiquiátrico debe enfrentarse nuevamente al mundo de la medicina, pero esta vez completamente “limpio”. Además debe decidir si puede o debe volver a ejercer como el cabecilla del departamento de diagnósticos del Hospital Princeton.

Un aspecto importante que se desarrollará a lo largo de la temporada es si el ególatra House logrará mantenerse alejado de las tentaciones por las que la mayoría de los adictos pasa.

En esta temporada se abordan aspectos nuevos en la vida de House, como el dejar de vivir solo para ser compañero de vivienda con su mejor amigo, el oncólogo James Wilson y el aprender a acercarse a las personas, todo esto con la ayuda de un terapeuta que lo guiará.

Durante esta temporada Chase y Cameron pasarán por diversas situaciones que los pondrán al límite, entre ellas está el decidir si deben salvarle la vida a un dictador que tiene planeado una masacre de inocentes. Lamentablemente, la carismática doctora Cameron dejará la serie durante el transcurso de la ciclo.

Gregory está condenado de alguna forma a ejercer la medicina, es su máximo vicio, incluso más que el vicodín, pues por el momento puede vivir sin el fármaco, pero su vida se convierte en nada si es que no puede ser aquel  médico cretino  que goza al burlarse de sus pacientes y demostrándoles a sus subalternos qué tan real es su mítica frase “everybody lies”.

La serie se empezará a transmitir en Chile durante noviembre a través del canal por cable Universal.

What Happens Happens (Part 5)

What Happens Happens (Part 5)

Introductory Thought

“Nothing has changed. [...] the plague still rages.  Sickness everywhere -millions dying. [...] A plague virus (genetically engineered and released).  First people sickened, but they lived, and then the first mutant victims appeared.  Inside mutant victims the plague mutated, accelerating, turning deadly. Mutants were blamed, but they were innocent” (Spoken by Forge, X-Men: The Animated Series, Time Fugitives Part 1).

Them vs Us

Chancellor and Ministers [in Germany] are to be protected after Spiegel sources with [a] special vaccine against pig flu. An official of Ministries and subordinate authorities likewise. [This particular vaccine] does not contain disputed additives – contrary to the vaccine for the remainder of the population.

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In summary of the above news article, there are two vaccines, one for the masses which contains chemical poisons and another for their ’servant’ overlords that does not contain the chemical poisons.

Really, this news doesn’t surprise me.  The vaccine will be the pandemic.  All those people who are taking swine flu shots on television news shows are probably taking these “safe” vaccines (or probably just saline solution), along with the politicians people put their faith in, to convince the people that the vaccine they will be getting will be just as “safe”.

Articles Used

Protection from pig flu_ Chancellor and Ministers are to receive – Spiegel online – messages to special vaccine – science

Our brains are the original energy savers

“Hippocampal mossy fibers” may sound like abnormal skin growths on a rare African mammal (to me at least) but they are actually axons of granule cells in the hippocampus which deal with different types of bevaviour such as spatial learning.

The region is also where scientists have discovered the brain’s ability to be energy efficient, detailed in a paper given a high rating by two of our F1000 Biology Faculty Members.

Environmentalists may not be initally be excited by the brain’s power saving nature but the potential is there for the concepts gained to be applied to tech products, as soon as someone with the medical and tech smarts can make the link.

It got me thinking (and I often branch off onto tangents so try to stay with me), what function of the body would be a brilliant thing to replicate? The brain is an obvious one and I won’t even consider genitalia as an answer but what other organs/systems could be reproduced in technological form to make daily life easier?

Similar to the brain’s energy saving ability, the body’s heating and cooling system would be a perfect one.  Airconditioning units may be getting more environmentally-friendly and better at regulating room temperature but as good as our office A/C system is, after about half an hour it leaves me either too hot or too cold.

A quick Google search comes up with thousands of personal heating and cooling products but despite the marketing hype, there’s still nothing out there that really replicates the body’s ability to adapt to the weather conditions.

Over to you

Headache Relief

The weather is quickly changing which causes a headache dilemma for many. There are so many headache medicines out there your headache could become worse while you stand in the aisle trying to make a decision on which product to buy.

Tylenol doesn’t work as well as we wish it did; it’s just not strong enough. IB Profin may work, but it’s bad on your kidneys, which can be worrisome. But, if you want to buy medicine that actually works, definitely reach for the box of Bufferin. This buggered aspirin is stronger than regular aspirin causing your headache to quickly disappear without the harsh effects on your innocent kidneys. In regular and extra strength. Say bye-bye to headache woes.

Posted by Patience

Kids under 10 may need 2 swine flu vaccine doses

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE (AP) – 3 hours ago

Test results of its swine flu vaccine suggest that children under 10 may need two shots to be fully protected, vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur said Wednesday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the news is not surprising, since this age group needs two doses of regular seasonal flu vaccine for full immunity to develop.

The new Sanofi results back up what government tests are showing, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. For younger children, the protection from one shot is “modest but not sufficient to allow for one dose to do the trick,” he said.

Sanofi is the only company licensed in the United States to make vaccine for children as young as 6 months old. The company tested two strengths of the vaccine, given as two shots 21 days apart. The vaccine was tested in 474 children ages 6 months through 9 years old.

Only half of children 6 months to 3 years old had enough protection after one shot of the higher strength vaccine, as did three-fourths of children 3 to 9 years old, Sanofi reported.

For adults, one shot of the higher strength vaccine appears to be enough, Sanofi reported earlier.

Another option for people without medical problems is FluMist, a nasal spray vaccine. It is approved for healthy people 2 to 49 years old. The nasal spray accounts for most of the vaccine available now, although shots are starting to make their way to states. Pregnant women and young children are among the groups most urged to seek the vaccine as soon as it is available.

On the Net:

• CDC swine flu update: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Magical medicineman

Mahapatra was an angel. We revered him because he had a cure for every disease.

Our family knew him as Compounderbabu, so did the whole of Royda, the little Orissa village where I grew up. He operated out of a plain tin-roof white-washed structure that for some unexplained reason was built on an elevated foundation.

You’d have to climb steps to reach Compounderbabu’s cramped room with green curtains strung up on springs atop the windows. The healer sat at a stark wooden table that showed signs of ageing surrounded by wooden cabinets and almirahs. Behind his chair, covered in green towel, multi-coloured bottles lined the racks.

Some of these containers had powders. Others strange colourless disinfectants, liquids and spirits. Crooked scissors, surgical knives, gauze, cotton wool and forceps were thrown on a white tray kept on an aluminum-top stool beside his table — most unlikely that these were ever sterilised. This was Compounderbabu’s arsenal — all he was equipped with to fight the assault of killer diseases.

The stone-age, rusty equipment and rudimentary medicines notwithstanding, Mahapatra was a wizard with a cure. If you went to him with an aching stomach, he would smile and say: No worries. I have a mixture for you. Two spoons and you’d be ready for a marathon.

This curious pungent and sweet concoction healed half the world’s ailments. We believed it had magical qualities. Stomach ache, malaria, ulcers — what wouldn’t it cure? Down with a stubborn fever that refuses to leave you? Try Compounderbabu’s mysterious white tablet without a name. On the seventh day, you always broke into a sweat and the fever melted away with it.

He was super at detecting malaria and never needed a blood test (there was no such facility in 100 km anyway) to diagnose it. So, if you went to him rattling and shivering, he immediately administered quinine. No questions asked.

But most importantly, in the evenings Mahapatra religiously made a round of all his patients—visiting villagers, miners and managers. As a medicine man, he was extremely physical, stroking your hair, holding your hand and comforting you. His kind, bright eyes looked at patients through a pair of heavy lenses. Always cheerful, his one-liner even for the man on the deathbed was: “Seven days. You’ll be fit.”

More than any drug, the most potent medicine in Compounderbabu’s square leather box was hope. And his infectious smile. He was particularly fond of a story. Of a man who had been attacked by a bear. The lumbering animal, high on mahua (an intoxicating fruit that grew in abundance in the forests) had scooped up this chap’s scalp exposing his gooey brain and the skull barely clung on to the head by a slender piece of skin.

The doughty man dodged the bear and ran several km to reach Mahapatra at his clinic. “I made this guy sit, gave him a glass of water, delicately put the scalp back in place and stitched it up. Then I patted him on the back and he walked home,” he’d recall with pride.

I always found this story fascinating. Man, this guy had guts and a drive to survive! Given Royda’s inhospitable terrain, Compounderbabu’s story seemed to have a grain of truth.

Mahapatra cured me of a pretty severe bout of chickenpox, meticulously nursing the angry, itchy rashes on my skin for hours. With soft hands, he bathed me in one of his mixtures, fed me and sat by my bedside telling me stories I don’t remember and calmed my revolt at being denied the right to step out of my room.

Then, one day, Compounderbabu was gone. The company had appointed a full doctor to man the health centre and had no need of a paramedic. The story went like this. One morning Mahapatra walked into his clinic and saw this strapping young doctor sitting at his desk.

Compounderbabu wished him a very good morning and handed him the keys to the cabinets, excused himself, packed his bags and left. To this day, he remains the best healer I have ever known – friendly, kind and encouraging life.

The latent misery

I have not written in a while. I would have to remember how to put one word after another.

No matter how many excuses I tried to make, that I’m being robbed off an ambition and leading to another, the truth is that I failed. And I’m a dropout. Even when it’s in a condition where I can’t help and I can’t explain why.

It has been quite a tormenting thought as I predicted. It would haunt me till the day I find the answer to life’s challenges and how it unfolds itself.

But until that day, I’ll still be depressed every time I explain about the rather wasted 3 years of my failing life. No matter how hard I try to live a new life with new ambitions, the ghost of my past will still haunt me and I’ll still be miserable. And I still feel miserable.

And hopeless.

Like a failed progeny with another perfect sibling to compare with. One day, it will come out that way. The ugly truth that they would have to lie their way to explain to me when I’m wasted and drunk and babbling every strain of misery in me.

And when that day comes, they will be worried again.

Yes, their eyes will be opened again.

-Nate

Cialis Soft

Generic Cialis Soft is the medication that combines two main features crucial for addressing male impotency (male erectile dysfunction): secured acting and lasting effect. You can consume the medication at any time of the day and be prepared for the right moment to act.
What is this medicine?
TADALAFIL chewable tablets are used to treat erection problems in men. The soft tablets act faster than ordinary oral tabs and the effect is kept as long as from regular pill.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
eye or vision problems, including a rare inherited eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa
heart disease, angina, a history of heart attack, irregular heart beats, or other heart problems
high or low blood pressure
kidney or liver disease
stroke
an unusual or allergic reaction to tadalafil, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
breast-feeding
How should I use this medicine?
Cialis Soft Tabs are taken as needed 15min before sexual activity. Because Cialis Soft Tabs are chewed, the effects typically start much sooner than orally consumed medicines. You should not take this dose more than once per day. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once. NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
What may interact with this medicine?
Do not take this medicine with any of the following medications:
nitrates like amyl nitrite, isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate, nitroglycerin
This medicine may also interact with the following medications:
certain drugs for high blood pressure
certain drugs for the treatment of HIV infection or AIDS
certain drugs used for fungal or yeast infections, like fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, and voriconazole
certain drugs used for seizures like carbamazepine, phenytoin, and phenobarbital
grapefruit juice
macrolide antibiotics like clarithromycin, erythromycin, troleandomycin
medicines for prostate problems
rifabutin, rifampin or rifapentine
This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
What should I watch for while using this medicine?
If you notice any changes in your vision while taking this drug, call your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible. Stop using this medicine and call your health care provider right away if you have a loss of sight in one or both eyes. Contact you doctor or health care professional right away if the erection lasts longer than 4 hours or if it becomes painful. This may be a sign of serious problem and must be treated right away to prevent permanent damage. If you experience symptoms of nausea, dizziness, chest pain or arm pain upon initiation of sexual activity after taking this medicine, you should refrain from further activity and call your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible. Do not drink alcohol to excess (examples, 5 glasses of wine or 5 shots of whiskey) when taking this medicine. When taken in excess, alcohol can increase your chances of getting a headache or getting dizzy, increasing your heart rate or lowering your blood pressure. Using this medicine does not protect you or your partner against HIV infection (the virus that causes AIDS) or other sexually transmitted diseases.
What side effects may I notice from this medicine?
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
breathing problems
changes in hearing
chest pain
fast, irregular heartbeat
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
back pain
dizziness
flushing
headache
indigestion
muscle aches
stuffy or runny nose
This list may not describe all possible side effects.
Where should I keep my medicine?
Keep out of the reach of children. Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F). Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
What is the shelf life of the pills?
The expiry date is mentioned on each blister. It is different for different batches. The shelf life is 2 years from the date of manufacture and would differ from batch to batch depending on when they were manufactured.
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I'm All Hopped Up On Acai Berry Juice

My mom always gave us NyQuil or DayQuil when me or my brothers had sore throats or colds, and we sniffled all over the place in order to get some chicken noodle soup while watching daytime television instead of going to school. My grandpa once recommended a shot of whiskey. Even though I was 7 at the time. I’m pretty sure he was serious too.

After getting worn down from the ACL music festival this past weekend and rolling around in the dillo dirt/mud which caused an outbreak of rashes across Austin (dillo dermatitis?), and sitting next to several associates with the Bubonic Plague Redux it appears the deck is stacked. I now have a sore throat and some drainage.

I’m not a huge fan of popping pills or medicine, so I’m just downing a few Lone Star beers (Drinking Anything Else is Treason), lemonade, and lots of acai berry juice. The longevity and good health into the golden years that is supposed to be possible through the intake of the magical juice has me assuming that the rapid ingestion will result in this cold getting kicked in the shins and making an early exit.

I’ll update you on this medical research study which I am not being compensated for nor am I being monitored for adverse effects.

An Open Letter to My Congressman

Dear Congressman Tonko:

When you were an assemblyman you were one of the best. Whenever there was an issue facing the city of Schenectady you always took the lead and spoke out on behalf of those in need.

That’s the kind of Congressman we know you are too. That’s why we’re praying you’ll vote no to all this health care takeover insanity that has everyone so afraid.

Yes we need reform but this is too much too fast. Let’s start with allowing companies to sell across state lines. Or how how about keeping down insanely high hospital costs, ($100 for an Advil?) and frivolous lawsuits.

Thank you for reading this, you and your family are in our prayers.

LarryK12309

Immune Boosting Herbs talk @ Holistic Moms Network meeting

 

herbs

Tonight I had the pleasure of presenting about the use of herbs to fight colds and flus, particularly with regard to the treatment of small children. The presentation was delivered to a local chapter of the Holistic Moms Network. It’s fun presenting to the choir, more or less, as this group is made up of parents who are interested in holistic health & living in all respects. And such a lovely group of people, dads and moms alike!

We were able to talk about the energetics of foods and herbs, the use of preventative versus acute herbal remedies, and dosages for small children & infants. I am again reminded of how wonderful it is to share knowledge and information about our botanical allies, and of course giving such talks only reinforces that for me. I was reading a bog post on ProBlogger this morning about weighing the cost-benefit of speaking at events for free. In other words, what’s in it for the business? For some people, attending a far away conference to speak without compensation means that they have to figure out why the trip would be worthwhile, whether through contacts, networking, or business sales. I definitely identify with that when I think about my ‘day job’ in Public Health. I also make decisions like that when it comes to my business, Lilith’s Apothecary. But when it comes to herbal medicine, if I can afford it, I am more than happy to participate in any way I can. It’s true that I do indeed have an herbal bath and body business of sorts, but I don’t educate about herbs because I want to sell products. In fact, I hardly even indicated that I have a business tonight. Instead, I want others to learn how to make the products for themselves! Sure, I can make it for you if you don’t have the time or desire (i.e. I can’t sew, so someone has to sew things for me!), but if you want to make your own herbal syrup, by all means! Let’s do it. And doing it together is so much fun.

Holistic Moms Network
NJ/Philadelphia Chapter
Collingswood, NJ 
Thanks for having me!

Other posts that may be of interest:
What to do about H1N1: 5 Tips
Nervous About Swine Flu? Look to Herbal Medicine for Immune Boosting
DIY Remedies for the Cold Season Part I
DIY Remedies for the Cold Season Part II
Herbal Facial Steams for the Cold and Flu Season

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Jane says

Do you know Jane?

‘Jane’ was the name of the underground abortion service in Chicago in the late sixties and early seventies; it wound down after the Roe decision in 1973.

As told by Laura Kaplan (who was a part of Jane) in The Story of Jane, a number of women in the Chicago area put together a not-for-profit and completely illegal service, one which they eventually expanded to include pap smears and female health education. Although a few members were eventually busted (somewhat by mistake), they operated for years with the knowledge both of police and various ‘legit’ medical professionals.

That such an underground service existed is not a surprise. What is stunning, however, is how completely fucking radical these women were. They initially relied upon various sympathetic and/or mercenary doctors to perform the abortions, but eventually learned how to do them themselves.

You got that? These women received training from a guy who received training from a doctor—and went ahead and performed not only D&Cs, but also vacuum aspiration, and, eventually, second-trimester abortions.

I’m as pro-choice as they come, but even I blanched when I read that. Fucking hell, I thought, second-trimester abortions done in apartments and hotel rooms?!

But they were good. One woman did die—a death which led some members to drop out, and to a great deal of turmoil for those who remained—but her death was almost certainly the result of an infection caused by  abortion attempts performed elsewhere. Upon realizing the extent of her infection, Jane members told her to go immediately go to the hospital; she waited more than a day, then died at the hospital.

Kaplan describes the meeting following the woman’s death:

As details of the story were recounted, a numbness spread throughout the room. They had founded the service to save women from dying and now the very thing they were trying to prevent had happened.

That was the whole point of Jane, to save women; even more, to give them a way to save themselves.

It wasn’t simply about making safe, inexpensive abortions available to women, it was also about women—both Jane members and those who used their service—taking responsibility for their own lives. Jane set up training for their members, and provided counseling for the women who came to them. They didn’t have moral qualms about abortion itself, but they were careful to ask anyone who seemed uncertain if she really wanted to go through with it. The decision, and the responsibility, lay with the woman herself.

Kaplan is not a deft storyteller, but she is an honest one. She details the egos and tensions, the difficulties of involvement with an underground organization, the conflicts with other women’s liberation organizations, and all the varieties of risk taken by Jane and the women they helped. All of these women shared desperation: the women (’participants’, not patients) who came to Jane for help, and the members of Jane themselves, to help all who asked for it.

It was, in fact, that desperation to save women from unsafe abortions that led Jane to take over the operation itself, and to end up inducing 2nd-trimester miscarriages. If we don’t do it, they worried, what will happen to all these women?

There’s so much more to The Story of Jane. I used it in my ‘Women and Politics’ course I taught this past summer as a way not only to foreground reproductive issues, but also the issue of underground, anarchist, or DIY politics. Does underground work affect politics above the ground, or does DIY simply let the above-grounders off the hook? Or is the effect on ‘normal’ politics less the issue than the creation of one’s own politics?

I’m still chewing over those larger political issues. But when it comes to abortion, I wonder if Jane didn’t have the right idea. I’m a big fan of Planned Parenthood (see my links list), but they are at the forefront of putting abortion and contraception firmly within the medical sphere, i.e., within the sphere of specialization and  licensure and, most importantly, women-as-patients.

Jane insisted that abortion was something that women participated in, not that it was something done on or to them. This is your body, they repeated over and over and over, this is your life. In this context, the notion that women should have some idea of their own genitalia—a kind of mirror-empowerment which, honestly, always kind of put me off—seems less woo than utterly practical. How can you take care of yourself if you don’t know what you look like?

I know, there are both hospital-based and free-standing women’s clinics, not a few of which are also interested in patient or client education. And, frankly, autoclaves and medical education seem to me very good things.

But what about responsibility and liberation and solidarity? What of a woman’s (or any) emancipatory movement premised upon the simple declaration that you can and must free yourself? Jane was not encouraging women to bust out into chaos, but to recognize themselves as full human beings, and to inculcate a sense of responsibility not only to themselves but to those around around them.

With liberty and justice for all. Pretty fucking radical, huh?

Caligiuri Lab Investigates Genetics of Cancer

Dr. Michael Caligiuri, director of Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and CEO of The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, discussed some of his cancer clinical trials and findings.

Dr. Caligiuri’s research lab focuses on research in leukemia, lymphoma and the human immune system. His studies currently include developing a vaccine to prevent lymphoma in organ transplant patients, studying natural killer cell biology, and working to target genetic defects in leukemia and lymphoma for curative therapies.  Although most of this research incorporates cancer patients, a good amount of the results can be applied to non-cancer patients–transplant patients, for example.

Dentistry: Part 1

Dentistry is quite a mystery to me.

Until about a year ago, I had no idea it was mercury that is so commonly used to fill our cavities. Mercury can be found is what is called an Amalgam Filling, which is composed of “elemental mercury, silver, tin, copper and possibly other metallic elements,” according to the American Dental Association. It is the most common filling used today, and according to the ADA, also one of the most researched and tested. What that means, I’m not sure. Did the ADA research and test its durability, its safety, or both? What were the conclusions of their studies? I can’t say, but I know the amalgam filling is neither durable nor safe.

Lets take a look at what the World Health Organization has to say about exposure to elemental mercury, the type of mercury being used in these fillings:

“Following exposure to mercury vapor the element is found in blood as physically dissolved elemental mercury. Within a few minutes, the mercury is oxidized to mercuric mercury in the erythrocytes, a reaction catalyzed by the enzyme catalase. Thus, following short term exposure to mercury vapor, the maximum concentration of mercury in erythrocytes is seen after less than one hour, whereas plasma levels peak after about ten hours. Before oxidation, [elemental mercury] readily crosses cell membranes, including the blood-brain and placental barriers. Following oxidation, [its] ions (or complexes) are distributed in the body via blood. The kidneys and the brain are the main targets for deposition of mercury following exposure to mercury vapor; absorbed inorganic mercury salts are mainly deposited in the kidneys.”

I suspect the only place to make the debate about mercury fillings worth having is whether or not the fillings do indeed make their way into our system. The ADA states that although concern has risen over the amalgam’s mercury content, ”the mercury in amalgam combines with other metals to render it stable and safe for use in filling teeth.” As someone who was very susceptible to cavities as a child and has had at least 8 of these fillings, I know this information to be inaccurate. Amalgam fillings are slowly (over the course of years) ground away into vapor as you chew, and thus consumed along with food or breathed into the lungs. But don’t take my word for it: according to this article, the FDA has already admitted this phenomenon. And yet, the FDA says that mercury fillings aren’t harmful (read: the FDA says that the most toxic metal on earth making its way into your body isn’t harmful.) Amazing, isn’t it?

The World Health Organization has admitted the dental amalgam as a major source of mercury contamination in the human body. No matter what kind of silver amalgam filling you receive, they are all 50% Mercury.  According to a 1991 study by the W.H.O.,they release 3-17 micrograms of Mercury into the bloodstream everyday. The safe level established by the EPA for Mercury exposure is 10 micrograms/day.  Many countries in Europe (as well as Canada)  have already banned the use of mercury in dental fillings. (The number of countries varies with the source, but the common countries include  Germany, Austria, Norway and Sweden.)

Can we please just agree that putting one of the most toxic elements in our mouth isn’t safe?

list of new posts from September 20 to 30, 2009

list of new articles

494.  Qualitative shift from statehood to a nation: Lebanon; (September 21, 2009)

 

495.    The nerve center for world economic recovery: Middle East; (September 21, 2009)

 

496.  For when is Barak Obama to settle on a clear perspective? (September 23, 2009)

 

497.  Are you hearing voices? (September 24, 2009)

 

498.  I burned down Noah’s cargo; (September 25, 2009)

 

499.  I am seeing double; (September 26, 2009)

 

500.  Al Qaeda: Zawahiri versus Al Liby strategies; (September 27, 2009)

 

501.  Any cures for seeing double? (September 30, 2009)

Susan from Glendale: (EVERYONE IN AMERICA SHOULD HEAR THIS CALL)

You hear this, Barack Hussein Obama? You hear this, FEDS?
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Susan in Glendale, California:
Her Passion Speaks for Millions
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Everyone in America should hear this call.
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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: All right, Susan in Glendale, California, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Rush, it’s a huge honor for me to speak to you, and I hope I can keep my — my voice level, because I am so passionate. I am as passionate as you are about this country. I’m a conservative. I’ve listened to you for 25 years. I’m married. I have seven kids. And when you were telling me about how all of the shenanigans that they’re going to do in the Senate to pass two different Senate bills then slam ‘em together, attach them to some House bill about TARP, and then jam it through and jam it down our throats, I got furious. And then I listened to what you said about the Michigan mom who was watching some kids before they went to school and how the Michigan state came down on her accusing her of running an illegal day care, and you’re right: What they’re going to do is they’re going to threaten our health and they’re going to threaten the health of our children. If I don’t comply with their health care, I’m not going to be able to get my children the medicine they need.

RUSH: No, it’s not — whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It’s not if you don’t comply with their health care. It’s if you’re a good citizen in support of the liberals running the country.

CALLER: Yes, sir. And I’m not. I’m a conservative. You know what? I’m 45. I might fall and break my hip in the next ten years. They’re going to have to give me a shot because they’re not going to want me to be healed and they’re going to do this to my children. It’s like you said. They are the party of abortion. They are the party of euthanasia. They are trying to wipe out senior citizens who are maybe not as useful to the Democrat National Committee as they should be, we’re not contributing enough to them. And I am outraged and furious. And my question to you — because I’m a political nobody; I’m just out here on the Left Coast in la-la land watching all the liberals run our California state bankrupt — is: “What can we do, legally, morally, to take this country back?” I want people to stand up, and I want them to vote these criminals, these pedophiles out of office.

I want them to take back the state of California and make it a Golden State, and I want them to take back Washington. But we’re little people, and we marched two million of us down to Washington and the press — ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC — not one of them shows pictures on the news, not one of them will report anything. In fact, they cover it up! I’ve talked to so many people on the phone, just neighbors who are liberal and some of them are conservative, both sides, and I tell them these things. “Go to Fox News. Look at this.” No one sees the truth. But the travesty of all of this — part of this is politics as normal, independent, it’s two party. We’re going to fight and tussle over what’s right and wrong and, you know, we’re going to win some, lose some. But the damning thing today is that the press, the press is betraying us and we have no way — us, we be the little political moms, nobodies. I’m a mother, and I have no one to listen to, to go to on the news, except for you and Fox.

Tell us what we can do in 2010, other than voting for Sarah Palin. Which I will do. But I need to know because I don’t have much hope. I sure don’t have hope from Obama. I need hope from Rush and I want you to please tell us what we can do, because this is the life of my children. They’re on the line. They can put me out to pasture, but, yes, they’ve got me over a barrel. Because I will do anything to save the lives of my children, even if it means I’ve gotta kiss some big Democrat’s rear end to get the health care for my baby, I’ll have to do it, and that sickens me because they’re my employees. I’m paying their salaries. I’m paying for their fancy office of doctors down where you were talking about at the House of Representatives and the Senate. They just get to walk in and pay $503 and they get all the health care that they need for $503, specialists flown in.

The pharmacy right there on their hour! Probably open 24 hours a day. Nobody has to wait. They get that because I’m paying for it. I’m paying for it! It’s coming out of my children’s allowances, my grocery money. They are getting it, and they’re taking it without listening, without representing us – like you said, the small R. I’m not being represented. I’ve called Boxer’s office. I’ve called Adam Schiff who is my so-called representative. They are very polite to little people on the phone but the people who are running this country don’t listen to us. There are millions of us and we are all furious. And no one, no one is even reporting what is being said! And I’m watching my country that I love, that my father fought for in World War II, that my father-in-law was wounded and got the Purple Heart for — and I’m watching it just being taken, just like candy from a baby.

“Oh, we’ll help you. We’ll give you health care. Here’s a lollipop. Go away,” and nobody’s doing anything. I’m sorry to be so angry, but I need hope, and I need to know how to counteract these shenanigans. This is not what we put people in government for is to run little, bitty side bills, smash ‘em together, and then vote ‘em under the carpet into a different health care bill that is languishing in some committee that they haven’t voted on. That’s dirty politics and it shouldn’t be happening. It should up-and-down votes. And you’re right. The 63 new judges coming on, that’s going to cement — that’s going to absolutely cement — their ability to write law instead of legislate. They can just send it to the judges. The judges will rubber stamp it. We’ll have liberal judges, we’ll just write the law. Never mind conservatism. Never mind reading what the law actually says. I look at this, and I see this happening every day.

I’m listening to you, and I’m to the point where I don’t even know if I should listen anymore because I’m so passionate and I’m so furious to watch all this and to hear it all happening, and I feel so powerless for the first time in my life. I’m glad Mrs. Obama is proud of her country for the first time in her life. I, as a mother, as a nobody I am ashamed of my government for the first time in my life — and I need to know how to combat this, especially in 2010. What can I do today, now, to help, to revitalize these namby-pamby liberal Republican RINOs in our Senate and in our government who are just voting to get along and “I want to get reelected.” That’s nonsense. They’re not standing up for what is good and clean and right. They’re not standing up for our Constitution. They should be all thrown out, every last one of them — and I don’t know how to mobilize people, but you do, Rush. You do! You have the power. And with great gifts, God gives great responsibility. And I beg you please, please give us hope and lead us. Because this cannot stand. They cannot keep doing this. This is wrong.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: We still have Susan on the line from Glendale, California, and Susan, I was under no inclination to interrupt you or stop you, even when we got to the segment end.

CALLER: I apologize.

RUSH: No, don’t apologize, just the exact opposite. You summarized my first hour in ten minutes.

CALLER: Well, I like to listen to you, you’re great, and you always give us the facts.

RUSH: But you asked me what you could do.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: One thing you have to realize, you just did it. The passion and the emotion that you brought without one stutter –

CALLER: Well –

RUSH: You didn’t lose your train of thought. There was not one stutter. And I guarantee you the people in this, the largest radio audience in the country, are all out there standing up and cheering on their feet.

CALLER: You know what, Rush? I did it without a teleprompter! Or notes! So there.

RUSH: Or a writer. You didn’t have a ghostwriter.

CALLER: No, I didn’t. I have a three-year-old son, but he can’t do this. But I didn’t use a teleprompter, and I know what I’m saying, which is, I’m sorry, perhaps more than I can say for some of the people who are running our country. And it insults my intelligence. I walked away from a very good job at a law firm, I’m educated, I have a law degree, and I did it because I was promoted by God to be a mother of seven. I’m giving everything I’ve got to them. And the one thing I cannot give them, absent help from good people all over this country, I can’t give them the American way of life. I can’t give them freedom. I can’t give them that. I can teach them and that’s all I can do. But everybody’s got to stand up, and, you know what? Why don’t you make 2010 the worst nightmare ever for the Democrats. Pick up the phone, call Sarah Palin, and you two run, run in 2010. Rush and Sarah. Do it. They would go nuts. I know you couldn’t do your show every day. And I know there are not enough Democrat women like Pelosi in the Senate to give you your 30 minutes of aerobic activity because there’s no boobs to ogle like you were telling about that German study finding that ten minutes of breast ogling helps men, but we’ll get you a treadmill in there, I’m sure the White House will have a treadmill, it’s got a basketball court now and other things and an organic garden. We’ll get you set up, we’ll keep you healthy, maybe once you judge the Miss America contest, maybe you could do that every year, and that would give you a good cardiovascular burst. And you could go ahead and run the country for four years. But we gotta do something.

RUSH: Well, one thing I want to tell you here is, you are not alone. I know you feel it, you said it –

CALLER: I do.

RUSH: – you feel you’re just a little person out there on the left coast and you’re overwhelmed by all this, but I think you should try to understand that the majority of people who pay attention to stuff in this country are with you on this. Their frustration is identical to yours.

CALLER: Yes, but they don’t know how to mobilize to do it, to stop it. We’re going to have this health care bill rammed down our throats before the election.

RUSH: Wait a second, now. I think they do. People have been mobilizing on their own. That’s one of the great things about all the tea parties and the other things going on, is there’s not an identifiable leader saying, “Go here, do that, I want you to show up.”

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: People are doing it on their own, of their own volition, their own emotion, because they’re just like you –

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: – they don’t want to lose the country, they don’t want to see it taken over, they don’t want to see it destroyed this way, especially for their children and grandchildren, and there are more of you than you know. Now, this health care thing, you talk about 2010. If they’re able to ram this through in the next couple of weeks or the next couple of months –

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: — 2010 is going to be nothing but punishment.

CALLER: I hope so.

RUSH: Now, the one thing to keep in mind here, the one thing to keep in mind is — I’m actually wrong. I need to take that back. This bill is not going to be implemented until 2013.

CALLER: Right. Right.

RUSH: So 2010 is crucial. That’s where the real change is going to come, and that’s throwing these Democrats out, as many as possible.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Now, there are two things that I want to say to you here. The reason that 2013 is the year is because everybody in charge of this plan, from Obama to Reid and Pelosi, all the Democrats know full well there’s going to be a revolt.

CALLER: Yes. I know they know this. They’re just trying to lock it in anyway.

RUSH: Well, no –

CALLER: – because they want to secure their power.

RUSH: But 2012 is Obama’s reelection year, 2013 it gets implemented. If it got implemented before 2012 Obama would be beaten in a landslide –

CALLER: That’s right.

RUSH: — and he still may be, ACORN notwithstanding.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: The second thing here about all of these things that are happening, and you feel powerless to do anything about it, I think what’s happening throughout the country is an illustration that people are not powerless. This passion, this emotion that you represent here today that is felt by millions will have and is going to have an outlet. These techniques, the things that are being tried by the Democrats here are so against the decency and grain of the vast majority of the people in this country –

CALLER: That’s what’s offensive.

RUSH: — they’re not going to put up with it.

CALLER: I know. That’s what’s offensive –

RUSH: They aren’t going to put up with it.

CALLER: It’s not just politics as usual. It’s not, “Okay, we win some and we lose some.” This is underhanded, dirty dealing, “Okay, we’re going to vote for one bill, but we’re going to switch it, we’re going to edit it out.” It’s like a computer, you just zap it out and stick something in, but the vote doesn’t get edited. It’s virtual bills. We just get to change it. It’s outrageous. If I did this in a job, I would be fired. And yet they keep doing it and we’ve got to hold them accountable.

RUSH: And trust me, believe me, they will be.

CALLER: I know you’re right. That’s why I listen to you every day I can.

RUSH: I will tell you when it’s time to panic. And it isn’t time to panic. Panic doesn’t lead to productive action.

CALLER: True.

RUSH: I’ll tell you when it’s time. What you’re feeling right now is not even panic.

CALLER: No, it’s rage. It’s outrage.

RUSH: You are outraged and you want a positive channel for it.

CALLER: Yes, I do. I want a positive way to effect and reclaim this country and to protect my children and to give them a good life.

RUSH: Here’s the second thing that I want to warn everybody against with all this passion. Because in this mix you and I haven’t discussed the Republican Party, have we?

CALLER: No, we haven’t.

RUSH: Well, let’s do that for just a second, because it’s crucial. While your rage, your outrage is properly directed at the architects of this disaster, the Democrat Party, at the same time, we don’t really see a lot of rage from our own elected representatives, do we? This is one of the reasons why –

CALLER: This is why we’re mad, ’cause they’re not outraged.

RUSH: That’s right.

CALLER: They don’t say anything, they don’t do anything.

RUSH: If you can call this radio show and in ten minutes, without one stutter, lay out the very dire threats that face this country, why in the hell can’t professional politicians stand up and say the same thing and take action to stop it?

CALLER: Amen.

RUSH: And that’s really the level of your frustration.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Now, here’s where this is going to lead. If we’re not careful, this is going to lead people to start saying, “We need a third party.”

CALLER: No. No, no, no, no.

RUSH: Wait, hear me out. It’s going to lead to people say, “Both parties are the same, there’s no difference, Republicans and Democrats.” What we have to focus on here is taking back the Republican Party. I think there is enough rage right now, and if it sustains itself, and it will, Obama’s not going to stop any of this garbage, and the Democrats are not going to stop, so it will sustain itself.

CALLER: And we have to take back the party and revitalize it –

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: – with true conservatives.

RUSH: Exactly. That’s what has to happen. But at some point just voting against people is not enough.

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: It will be enough in 2010. But who we gonna elect in place of them? Where are the candidates going to come from?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: I’m talking particularly now the House and the Senate. I mean you talked about the RINOs in the Senate, and there are a lot of them, and they’re scared to death of the media in Washington, they’re scared to death of being called racists, they’re scared to death of having happen to them what happens to Sarah Palin. They’re scared to death of having happen to them what happened to Joe Wilson. So they’ve got their own fear they have to overcome. They don’t understand that they’ve got an army of people. Even after all the campaign contributions Joe Wilson got, they still don’t see there’s an army of people willing to back ‘em up if they would just lead. There’s an army of people ready to follow ‘em.

CALLER: I gave Joe Wilson money. The minute he said it, the very night that he said “you lie,” I sent that guy money. And when he refused to apologize for a second time, when he’d already apologized personally to President Obama, and when he refused to do it again for the House and Senate, I sent him more money.

RUSH: ‘Kin’ A!

CALLER: And that’s what we gotta do. We gotta back the people who are being leaders, and then we gotta kick out the ones who aren’t. But we can’t do a third party, we can’t do a tea party because we’ll be locked in with the Democrats, they’ll run the show because we’ll keep splitting the vote for 30 years.

RUSH: ‘Kin’ A! Exactly right. That’s going to lead to permanent victory for Democrats.

CALLER: I know! How do you tell people this? How do you say, “Whatever you do, vote conservative and get the Republican Party back.”

RUSH: Okay, we’re always going to have Perotistas.

CALLER: Yes, I remember him.

RUSH: All you gotta say to them, “Have you ever heard of Bill Clinton?”

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: You ever heard of Bill Clinton?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: That’s something coming in the future, but this notion that both parties are the same and we gotta throw ‘em all out, unrealistic, they’re not the same, there’s no way that any Republican would be offering any of the things the Democrats are offering right now.

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: There is simply no way.

CALLER: But there is no room for cowards in government.

RUSH: Not right now. The country’s at stake.

CALLER: If you’re going to be in government you gotta play –

RUSH: The country is at stake. You’re right, this is not about the traditional back-and-forth, the policy arguments, and we come to an agreement at the end of the day, we compromise and so forth. This is about the future of the country. So I understand your frustration. Believe me, I feel it, too. You’re asking me what you can do. We’re all asking ourselves that. You know, what can we do? People are marching; people are showing up in public; calling all these people’s offices. I think it’s a waste of your time, by the way, to call Boxer. I think right now if you’re going to call anybody, call Harry Reid’s office. I don’t care whether they talk to you or not, flood ‘em, shut ‘em down, e-mail, faxes, just shut ‘em down, call Harry Reid’s Nevada’s office, he’s worried about 2010 reelection. Harry Reid is about to have happen to him what happened to Tom Daschle. You call Harry Reid, don’t waste your time on Pelosi. Call Steny Hoyer. Call some of the Blue Dogs and moderates and so forth, because, I’ll tell you, these people, their political futures are up for grabs as well, the Blue Dog Democrats in the House.

But Harry Reid, you know, he’s the guy that’s the architect, along with Obama, of the shenanigans going on in the Senate right now. And, by the way, she spelled it out perfectly. If you didn’t hear the first hour, she gave you the summary of it pretty well, how they’re planning to attach two Senate health care bills to a House bill that the Senate has not yet acted on, on taxing bonuses. They’re basically going to attach a hybrid health care bill to the Senate version of the tax on bonuses bill and send that back to the House and have them vote on that with health care, single payer, public option health care being an amendment to a bill on taxing bonuses. And then they send that right up to Obama. Now, Susan, that’s not guaranteed. For this to happen, Pelosi and the House have to go along with whatever Harry Reid sends ‘em and not amend it and not add to it or take away from it, and you know, by the time the Congressional Black Caucus and some of the wacko leftists in the House get a look at the Senate bill, if it doesn’t have all the giveaways in it that they want, it could get screwed up. But this is the attempt going on, and this is how it would be done with 51 votes instead of 60, which is required in the Senate.

All of this is a tantamount admission that the American people don’t want it; it’s a tantamount admission they can’t pass it with public support and what that means is that they are scheming against the American people. The enemy of this government is not Moammar Khadafy; the enemy of this government is not Ahmadinejad; the enemy of this country is not Osama Bin Laden; the enemy of this country is the American people. The enemy of the Democrat Party right now in getting what they want is the American people, and that’s who they’re scheming against. And you know that, too, and that’s why you’re outraged. This is not supposed to be a banana republic. This is supposed to be a representative republic with a small R, and they’re obliterating it. They’ve been working at this for 50 years or more. Their dreams have come true. But they are overreaching and they’re getting so much public opposition now that they’re trying to figure out how to get past it and get done what they want and still maintain their power. I gotta go, Susan. Thanks for a great call.

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RUSH: Internal message here to Koko up at the website. Koko, I want you to put the audio and transcript of Susan from Glendale on the free side of the website tonight. She said, “I can’t rally the nation.” Susan, you just did. My e-mail’s going nuts in here. “Thank you for letting her go on without interrupting her. Nobody else would do that.” That’s because I am a highly trained broadcast professional. … Teresa in Ithaca, New York, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Rush, what a pleasure it is to talk to you. I’ve been listening to you since day one, and it is absolutely a pleasure this afternoon to get through. I just wanted to thank you. I understand you’ve gotten many, many e-mails already for letting Susan speak her mind because her heartfelt sentiments are just echoing across the country, and it’s nice to hear somebody who is so eloquent in what she had to say and to also understand her frustration because so many of us are feeling the same way.

RUSH: Exactly right. And it would be great if every Republican member of Congress and the Senate could hear that call. We might find a way to make that happen, but it will be on the free side at RushLimbaugh.com when we update this afternoon.

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She hits it RIGHT ON THE HEAD. We’re not all morons. It’s a shame, because you wish we were. BHussein got elected by a whole shitload of morons; but there were some good apples in the mix that voted for him not realizing that elections have consequences. Sean Hannity told me that one time. “Elections have consequences. Don’t take any election for granted.” He was right.