Doctor COMMENTS
Dr. T, M.D., Obstetrician-Gynecologist from Maui, Hawaii states:
I retired from the OB/GYN medical staff of Queens Hospital and Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children where I started practice in 1959, the year Hawaii achieved statehood. They were interesting times without all the fancy monitoring and imaging tools. I have recently been contacted by various and sundry folks about the maternity facilities back then and if I know a Dunham family or the birth of Barack Obama. You know, medical records are confidential. My son is helping me to write this to direct anyone interested to the proper place. If you're not eligible to receive a certified copy of a vital record, you can receive a verification of the existence of it here http://hawaii.gov/health/vital-records/vital-records/elig_vrcc.html Or ask the ladies in medical records of http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/default.aspx or http://www.queens.org/index.html Aloha. Come visit the Aloha State!
S.J., radiology technician of Los Angeles County, California writes:
"I am a registered Democrat who believes in democracy. I believe in a better America. I believe in standing up with conviction for doing what is right for America. I believe in voting for the best person whom also has conviction, and that experience matters.
I believe that sometimes one must cross over their party line, if that is what is in the best interest of this country. Never before have I voted or planned to vote for a Republican presidential candidate until now.
In my opinion, John McCain’s record speaks for itself. He is a good man who loves his country. He is honest and fair; votes bipartisan if it is better for this country. He does not go with the status quo because it might be more popular with others in Washington. How can we not applaud this and embrace this man. On the Democratic side is a man who talks about change, who says he voted against the war yet he was not even in the senate at that time. It’s easy to say you voted one way or another when there is no substance to back it up. What has this man achieved in comparison to McCain? In my opinion, not much. My friends who are Democrats say “you know you’re beginning to sound a lot like a Republican”. In this political climate, I take that as a compliment. Now how’s that for change! In my opinion, this election is not about being a Democrat or Republican or any other political affiliation. It’s about being an American, voting for what is right for America. Voting for the greater good: John McCain for President."
Dr. M.C, M.D., cardiologist from Dayton, Ohio states:
I am a Jewish cantor and also an invasive cardiologist. My family, partners, and members of our synogogue wholeheartedly support the McCain and Palin ticket. They represent our views and we believe they can be trusted to protect the traditions we value that helped make our country great. Although Obama is mulotto, he ignores his Caucasian roots, and is too rogue-ish regarding the history of Israel and the critical role the country plays in our national security. I'm nearing retirement and do not trust Obama's math and accounting, let alone his radical entanglements. He's more concerned about aggrandizing himself than with an honest election. That's cause for deep concern.
Dr. E.P, hand surgeon, from Richmond, Virginia, consulting in Cleveland, Ohio, writes:
"Mr. Obama, I am a surgeon. I know exceedingly well how to use a scalpel to excise disease, eradicate infection and debulk or remove cancer. You are not a surgeon. Your cocaine use, work with terrorists and radicals, and deceptive answers to clear, unambiguous questions would have weeded you out of the rigors of medical and surgical training and licensure. Your ethics and conduct do not qualify you for the high level of trust placed in a doctorwith the skill and privilege of using a scalpel competently. Your reckless plans would cause trauma and suffering of a proportion unparalleled in American history. Your plans are a prescription for disaster like none this country has ever seen; a cancer on American life."
Dr. K. H., ENT, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, states:
"Barack Obama has health care all wrong. To fix the pre-existing skirt insurance companies hide behind to get out of paying claims, Mr. Obama should attack the greedy health insurance companies and their uneducated administrators. Witness the tallest buildings in any city and the high pre-crises stocks of health care giants such as PacificCare, Cigna, Blue Shield, Blue Cross, and Aetna. Ask yourself just who is raking in profits in the health care industry?
I say d-o-n-a-t-e to John McCain for Pres. Give now. Give big. It's critical."
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Dr. George M, from Charlotte, North Carolina writes:
"As a regional AMA leader retired professor, I'm shocked with the stranglehold managed medicine has on health care. The main government intervention needed is a crack down on what illegal decisions to deny health care by non-M.D.'s. They're practicing medicine without a license. When the financial debacle dust settles, laws will probably be found to have been broken. If the enforcement arm would do its job, we wouldn't have such badly broken systems. I'm praying McCain wins. So is my wife, an ICU and O.R. nurse of over 30 years."
WT, DPM, podiatrist from Dayton, Ohio states:
"If you lay a crooked stick next to a straight stick, you can tell which is the crooked stick. Barack Obama is a crooked stick. He has no business misrepresenting to Americans that the government even could run healthcare even if it had the money to do so. Government in medicne is always inept. John McCain is a straight stick".
Our state needs voters everywhere to tell our Ohio DA and congressmen to flush out and stop voter fraud. The frauds are robbing the rest of us of our right to have our voices heard.
Dr. Hal F, III, family physician, rural Missouri writes:
"I'm sorry to say Mr. Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth to convince as many voters as he can to win this election. Also, Senator John McCain's plan for people to own their own health insurance policy is a brilliant solution to employee fear about relocating or changing their place of work. Patients who own their own plans eleminate risk for pre existing condition denials."
JS, DDS, "Smile Maker", from Las Vegas, Nevada wrote:
"Our Dental Association endorses John McCain and Sarah Palin. We support patients having choices in the coverage features and dentists. Obama indeed seems to have Blind Ambition. We cheered when the ACORN offices were raided. The whole story about ACORN pressure to register only those who agree to vote for Obama will hopefully come out. Other Democratic groups also have been coercing Obama support that should be disclosed as well."
Dr. Robert M, pediatrician from Scranton, Pennsylvania exclaims:
We closed the office and attended the rally for McCain with Sarah Palin last week. It was a life-changing experience! Joe Biden ignores his humble roots here, having left for the good life at age 10 and rarely waving back. I'm third generation physician. We made maximum donations for myself, wife and each of the kids in our large family. We're proud to also donate heavily to our community and schools. I practiced in London for 3 years where everyone takes a 2 hr tea mid-day break, do long operations in shifts, and leave at a certain time whether the work's done or not. When have you seen medicine & surgery in Great Britain make breakthroughs? Get off your chair, pitch in and get McCain and Palin elected . . . . .. . or we all lose. The time is now!
J.T., M.D., pulmonologist from Atlanta, Georgia points out:
I'm an intensivist and find it hippocritical that Al Gore and now Barack Obama speak of preventive medicine when Obama has been a long time chain smoker and Gore reaped wealth from the tobacco industry. That even after his sister died of smoking-caused small cell lung CA at age 46. Maybe smoking contributes to global warming! Obama ought to be speaking out against smoking since 80 cents of every health care dollar spent in this country goes to smoking caused diseases. My grandkids say, "hokey pokey, me no smokey. If me smokey, then me chokey. If me chokey, then me croaky. Hokey pokey, me no smokey." Gore should donate his tobacco money to help smoking victims. Obama should stop smoking (he's seen sneaking on the side.)
Mary O, D.O., family practice, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida writes:
It is my deep fear and concern that universal health care will further open the flood gates illegal immigrants to flock to our overloaded system in Florida. As members of the helping professions, our medical community runs free clinics and share the burden of uninsured care through our offices, teaching programs and E.R.'s. Incidentally, our family plumber took umbrage at Obama's comments to the plumber about "spreading the wealth around" but was further upset about Obama's add-on comment to "be sure those behind you have a chance at success, too." That's insane, since who ever is working for a plumber learns skills and has the same chance to go out and set up his own business, work hard and succeed. Plus our plumber has a Profit Sharing Plan for his employees Obama fails to consider. I apologize for digressing, but Obama's slap in the face compelled mention."
Dr. D. F, cardiology, Maricopy County, Arizona, states:
I'm in organizaed medicine at several levels in Arizona, home grown, and on the clinical faculty for the U of Az Health Sciences Center. We support McCain's plans for a health insurance sum and portable insurance. Our group long ago sponsored individual plans for our employees or gave them the cost if they preferred. Many have large group insurance through spouses and another plan would only mean coordinating benefits. When they leave, they can take over the premiums themselves to avoid gaps or pre-existing condition exclusions.
My colleagues and I are baffled how anyone cannot inherently trust John McCain. He endured what would break most men. He's honest to a fault. We've re-elected him several times by landslides. John McCain is a passionate leader who listens and weighs all sides before leading in a productive direction. .We don't see him as angry, but when deserved he displays righteous indignation, which he should.
I'll tell you what, if John McCain says he's going to do something, he'll do it or die trying. That's the honest to God truth.
Dr. C. J., M.D., surgical subspecialist, from Newport Beach California writes:
" Health care and insurance needs REFORM, but not more government red tape and the lower standards of socialized medicine. Let health professionals do what we've been highly trained to do, without being strangled by bureaucratic red tape. LET PEOPLE CHOOSE. In my 20 years of experience as a surgeon in all sectors of medicine, I've found that patients make sound choices for themselves and their families when they have good options available to them."
Dr. M. Y., radiologist, from Los Angeles, California points out:
"Obama's campaign has put out some very misleading information that misinforms the voters about Senator John McCain's prudent and feasible health plan. The Obama argument that McCain will tax health insurance benefits is a ridiculous twist of the overall gains and advantages to employees. Mr. Obama's plans are not good medicine."
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