Actually, he quotes a section on prayer in the public schools and a caption under a picture.

“In this edition of the text, the authors drive the point home with a photograph of students holding hands and praying outside a school. The caption reads: ‘The Supreme Court will not let this happen inside a public school.’”

Which is fairly damning, considering how ridiculously false that is.

mix that in with DEA assholishness, and you’ve got a lot of untreated pain going around.

“first, do no harm.” then, bitch about whiny patients. i think docs need to change their mindset: docs refer to a patient telling them their symptoms as a “complaint”. (“patient complains of allegedly unbearable pain”.)

that tells you something right there.

And, pain is the most undertreated medical problem in this country and ignorance like this will just make it even worse! Addiction among chronic pain patients is also minimal in most studies (less that 1%). The decision to use these drugs or even THC as a reason not to transplant, is just really strange, to me! The toxicity levels of those drugs don’t even approach the toxicity of the anti-rejection drugs. Arrogance or ignorance, take your choice! I don’t understand it at all!

Now the textbook in question may be biased, but the only significant quote he provides from it, “It is a foolish politician who today opposes environmentalism. And that creates a problem because not all environmental issues are equally deserving of support. Take the case of global warming” doesn’t seem particularly heinous to me. Beyond that, all we get is individual words in scare quotes.

I was also bothered by his attempted well poisoning (“James Q. Wilson, a well-known conservative academic, and John J. DiIulio, a political scientist and former head of President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives”). So convservatives are categorically not permitted to write textbooks? Meanwhile, a group that includes explicitly political organizations like Friends of the Earth and People for the American Way is a valid judge of educational suitability?

Again, the textbook may be bad, but that’s not a judgement I’m willing to make purely on this student’s arguement.

Sitting on the ledge – Respect mah authorith!!!!!

Pris – I don’t know why you think you can’t take pain medication before a transplant? Of course you can! The various maladies associated with end stage liver failure are very painful. It sounds like to me that the transplant committee is making a political judgement and not a medical one.

#10 buzz
…Well, if we are speaking theoretically, I doubt that a terrorist who has the ‘ticking’ bomb would be any happier than someone waterboarded for the amusement of the person doing the waterboarding. I would imagine the decision making skills wouldn’t have to be too terribly intricate.

I personally don’t give a rip what happens to the guy who really has a ticking bomb, but I pity all those poor folks who the government speculates might have one, but don’t.

Jones said he was compelled to show ID and was handed the $628 ticket – a sum he can ill afford, because student loans from the British Columbia government saddle him with almost $30,000 in debt.

Does the BC gov’t force students to take out loans?

“I personally think I would be equally unhappy being tortured for legitimate national security reasons as I would be if it were just for the sake of humiliation. In any case, I don’t have much faith in the decision-making skills of those who get to make the distinction.”

Well, if we are speaking theoretically, I doubt that a terrorist who has the ‘ticking’ bomb would be any happier than someone waterboarded for the amusement of the person doing the waterboarding. I would imagine the decision making skills wouldn’t have to be too terribly intricate. One one side you have someone who has set plans in motion that will kill people, and the other side you have someone who is bored and looking to kill some time.

While I can think of any number of good reasons not to torture people, the idea that the person tortured might not be happy is pretty much a given.

Take a photo, got to jail. Lovely. Stalin is smiling.

#1 pris
There is a scarcity of organs for transplant use.

And therein lies the root of the problem.

There is a scarcity of organs for transplant use. Centers want the best outcomes so they develop tough criteria. Transplant surgery is difficult- you exchange one problem for another.

No easy answers. Allocation is difficult as I said.