Twisted Cross
03-19-2002, 04:36 PM
http://www.lewrockwell.com/elkins/elkins32.html
The Anti-Gun, Anti-Boy Scout AMA
by Jeff Elkins
The American Medical Association having just recently passed a resolution condemning the Boy Scouts’ policy against homosexual scout leaders now have firearms in their crosshairs.
"I believe that this is a battle that we cannot not take on. People have told me that this is a dangerous path to follow. That I am crazy to do it. That I am putting our organization in jeopardy. They say we’ll lose members," incoming AMA chairman, Dr. Richard Corlin bloviated in his inauguration speech at the 100th meeting of the AMA’s House of Delegates.
"There is an epidemic and it’s an American epidemic of handgun violence; The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] must have the budget and the authority to gather the detailed data we need. If this was a virus or a defective car seat or an undercooked hamburger that was killing out children, there would be a massive uproar within a week. Instead our capacity to feel a sense of national shame has been diminished by the pervasiveness and numbing effect of all this violence. As physicians we are accustomed to doing what is right for our patients – and not worrying about our comfort, ease or popularity. Our goal is to cure an epidemic. If removing the scourge of gun violence isn’t bettering the public health – what is?" whined the new AMA El Jefe.
Corlin, 60, a gastroenterologist from Santa Monica, Calif., also plans for the AMA to aggressively lobby Congress to boost CDC funding. He also favors research into whether gun trigger locks work (No, they don’t), ways to reduce accidental shootings (keep your finger off the trigger until you’re on target) and how youngsters obtain illicit weapons (theft or stupid parents).
I hereby nominate Corlin for the annual Golden Sigmoidoscope Award. This prestigious award is presented personally (very personally) on a yearly basis by the by the Chairman of GLADD, The Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists.
OK, I’ll admit I made that award up. And yes, it was cheeky of me. Still, wouldn’t you like to hear that this guy had been medically advised to immediately seek a day-long diagnostic at Proctologists-R-US and that in a related event, all supplies of KY jelly in the USA had mysteriously disappeared?
Prior to proceeding with this badly needed exam, those fine physicians at Proctologists-R-US would have to perform an emergency extraction of Dr. Corlin’s cranium from the examination site.
What the heck’s going on at the AMA anyway? The mental picture most of us generate when we even think about that organization is a bunch of staid old men harumphing at us clueless lay people: "You need to exercise more and switch to a low fat diet. Quit smoking. Now, excuse me, I’m late for my tee-time." Now they’re coming out of the closet for a sodomy merit badge and they want to take our guns besides. Probably to keep us from shooting gay scoutmasters.
"Hate, discrimination and exclusion in any form is a health hazard," whimpered Dr. Thomas Hicks, a Tallahassee, Fla. family practice physician. By an overwhelming voice vote, the policy-making body of the 290,000-member AMA whimpered right along with Hicks in total agreement, putting the AMA stamp of approval on a NAMBLAized Boy Scouts of America.
These guys at the AMA badly need to purchase a ticket on the clue train. As a group, they’re more dangerous (and gaseous) than a battalion of shotgun-wielding beer drinkers in an unventilated duck blind. We have about 700,000 doctors in the US and annually they cause about 120,000 deaths per year. That works out to 0.171 people whacked per year, per doctor. On the record, we have about 80 million gun owners and about 1,500 accidental gun deaths per year. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188. So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Kind of makes you want to have that hernia repair done at Herbie’s Pawn & Gun.
In other action, doctors almost unanimously rejected a proposal that would have set hard and fast limits on what kinds of freebies from pharmaceutical companies were appropriate. Currently, the AMA’s Council on Judicial and Academic Affairs has a guideline that gifts with a retail value of $100 or less pass the ethical smell test, but a mandatory limit had the good doctors up in arms, which probably horrified the anti-gun faction.
"Ethical policy can’t regulate anybody, lots more education on ethics in medicine is needed." said Dr. Edward Hill, a family physician from Tupelo, Miss.
I can’t argue with Dr. Hill. The AMA House of Delegates demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that they skipped Ethics 101 in pre-med.
Maybe some physicians are wising up. The AMA lost more than 3,000 members last year and more than $4 million in membership dues. That’s around $1200.00 annually per doctor in union dues that can be applied to the Lexus lease, country club memberships – or malpractice insurance payments.
The Anti-Gun, Anti-Boy Scout AMA
by Jeff Elkins
The American Medical Association having just recently passed a resolution condemning the Boy Scouts’ policy against homosexual scout leaders now have firearms in their crosshairs.
"I believe that this is a battle that we cannot not take on. People have told me that this is a dangerous path to follow. That I am crazy to do it. That I am putting our organization in jeopardy. They say we’ll lose members," incoming AMA chairman, Dr. Richard Corlin bloviated in his inauguration speech at the 100th meeting of the AMA’s House of Delegates.
"There is an epidemic and it’s an American epidemic of handgun violence; The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] must have the budget and the authority to gather the detailed data we need. If this was a virus or a defective car seat or an undercooked hamburger that was killing out children, there would be a massive uproar within a week. Instead our capacity to feel a sense of national shame has been diminished by the pervasiveness and numbing effect of all this violence. As physicians we are accustomed to doing what is right for our patients – and not worrying about our comfort, ease or popularity. Our goal is to cure an epidemic. If removing the scourge of gun violence isn’t bettering the public health – what is?" whined the new AMA El Jefe.
Corlin, 60, a gastroenterologist from Santa Monica, Calif., also plans for the AMA to aggressively lobby Congress to boost CDC funding. He also favors research into whether gun trigger locks work (No, they don’t), ways to reduce accidental shootings (keep your finger off the trigger until you’re on target) and how youngsters obtain illicit weapons (theft or stupid parents).
I hereby nominate Corlin for the annual Golden Sigmoidoscope Award. This prestigious award is presented personally (very personally) on a yearly basis by the by the Chairman of GLADD, The Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists.
OK, I’ll admit I made that award up. And yes, it was cheeky of me. Still, wouldn’t you like to hear that this guy had been medically advised to immediately seek a day-long diagnostic at Proctologists-R-US and that in a related event, all supplies of KY jelly in the USA had mysteriously disappeared?
Prior to proceeding with this badly needed exam, those fine physicians at Proctologists-R-US would have to perform an emergency extraction of Dr. Corlin’s cranium from the examination site.
What the heck’s going on at the AMA anyway? The mental picture most of us generate when we even think about that organization is a bunch of staid old men harumphing at us clueless lay people: "You need to exercise more and switch to a low fat diet. Quit smoking. Now, excuse me, I’m late for my tee-time." Now they’re coming out of the closet for a sodomy merit badge and they want to take our guns besides. Probably to keep us from shooting gay scoutmasters.
"Hate, discrimination and exclusion in any form is a health hazard," whimpered Dr. Thomas Hicks, a Tallahassee, Fla. family practice physician. By an overwhelming voice vote, the policy-making body of the 290,000-member AMA whimpered right along with Hicks in total agreement, putting the AMA stamp of approval on a NAMBLAized Boy Scouts of America.
These guys at the AMA badly need to purchase a ticket on the clue train. As a group, they’re more dangerous (and gaseous) than a battalion of shotgun-wielding beer drinkers in an unventilated duck blind. We have about 700,000 doctors in the US and annually they cause about 120,000 deaths per year. That works out to 0.171 people whacked per year, per doctor. On the record, we have about 80 million gun owners and about 1,500 accidental gun deaths per year. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188. So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Kind of makes you want to have that hernia repair done at Herbie’s Pawn & Gun.
In other action, doctors almost unanimously rejected a proposal that would have set hard and fast limits on what kinds of freebies from pharmaceutical companies were appropriate. Currently, the AMA’s Council on Judicial and Academic Affairs has a guideline that gifts with a retail value of $100 or less pass the ethical smell test, but a mandatory limit had the good doctors up in arms, which probably horrified the anti-gun faction.
"Ethical policy can’t regulate anybody, lots more education on ethics in medicine is needed." said Dr. Edward Hill, a family physician from Tupelo, Miss.
I can’t argue with Dr. Hill. The AMA House of Delegates demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that they skipped Ethics 101 in pre-med.
Maybe some physicians are wising up. The AMA lost more than 3,000 members last year and more than $4 million in membership dues. That’s around $1200.00 annually per doctor in union dues that can be applied to the Lexus lease, country club memberships – or malpractice insurance payments.